L’ordre ancien des Octoginta Homiliae du Pseudo-Fulgence d’après les catalogues de Lorsch (I)

Abstract

This article is scheduled to appear in two parts (I-II). The first part here published explores the structure and order of the Pseudo-Fulgentius collection of eighty sermons (PS-FU s), which we propose to call the Octoginta homiliae collection. It first presents the three known manuscripts of the collection: a now lost witness from Lorsch, described in detail in the medieval catalogues of the abbey (= L); the only extant manuscript, Saint-Mihiel, Bibliothèque municipale, Z 20 (= M); the lost manuscript (= R) used by Raynaud for the editio princeps of the collection in 1633, with a discussion of the attribution of the collection to Fulgentius, found in this manuscript. This article then shows that the order of L is more ancient than the liturgical order attested in M and R, and ends with the identification and discussion of specific group of homilies (on footwashing and Easter).