[283] _Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis_, by St. Isidore of Seville (died 636). The book in question is a dialogue between Homo, bewailing his sinfulness, and Ratio, teaching him aright. [284] St. Ephraem Syrus (died _c._ 373), a voluminous writer. [285] _Liber Prognosticorum futuri saeculi_, by Julian of Toledo, died 690. [286] An English writer, born at Hexham, 1109, Abbot of Rievaulx, died 1166. He wrote many historical and theological works, the latter in the style of St. Bernard. [287] _De Eruditione Didascalica_, by Hugh of St. Victor, in six books. It is a kind of encyclopædia of sciences, and obtained for its compiler the title of Didascalus or Teacher. [288] St. Prosper, of Aquitaine, born _c._ 403. [289] A monk of Burton named Martin is mentioned in the time of Abbot Bernard (1160–75) in the Burton Chartulary. [290] Briennius, monk and subprior, of Burton, in the time of Abbot Robert (1150–77), is mentioned in the Burton Chartulary. [291] St. Ivo of Chartres, died 1115. [292] _i.e._, _Leviticus_ with notes. [293] Radbertus was Abbot of Corbie, near Amiens, from 844 to 851. The book which is here named was one of the early arguments in favour of “transubstantiation.” [294] _i.e._, Account Book. [295] Geoffrey was Abbot of Burton from 1114 to 1150. His life of St. Modwen is mentioned _supra_, p. 220. [296] By St. Jerome. [297] Joannes Eleemosynarius, or Misericors, Patriarch of Alexandria, 609–616; the original patron saint of the Hospitallers. [298] “The quires or gatherings of which the book was formed generally consisted, in the earliest examples, of four sheets folded to make eight leaves” (_Encyclopædia Britannica_, xviij, 144), hence “quaternio” or quarto. [299] St. Martha the Egyptian. [300] _Historia Apostolica ex Luca expressa_, a poem in Latin hexameters, which is described as bad in style and treatment, filled with far-fetched metaphors and wearisome digressions. Arator lived in the middle of the sixth century and his poem is dedicated in flattering terms to Pope Vigilius. [301] See Note 17 _supra_. [302] See Note 23 _supra_. [303] _i.e._, Chapter Books. [304] St. Caesarius of Chalons, died 542. He wrote a large number of “sermons,” which show a wide knowledge of the Bible and are eminently practical. [305] _Villicus Iniquitatis_--the unjust Steward (cf. St. Luke xvj. 8, Vulgate). [306] See Note 9 _supra_.