Anecdoton

9. There is another, in the library of St. German de Prez, about 500 years old. Montfaucon, having met with it, published it¹ as an anecdoton; not knowing that it was Bruno’s comment. It is not indeed quite so full, nor any thing near so correct as the printed copies : but still it is plainly Bruno’s comment. The title, Tractatus de Fide Catholica.

While on the subject of Olympiodorus, we have a brief word to say in connection with his Scholium on 474 A, which Dr. Thompson conceives to contain an anecdoton from Heraclitus.

[…] strictly speaking, an anecdoton : the greater part of Jerome’s Notes on the Psalter has long been accessible in the Breviarium in Psalmos which appears among his printed works.

I publish here, as elsewhere in this volume, what is not exactly an anecdoton, but a more original form of a writing already known.

The publication has not the stirring interest of an anecdoton, especially an anecdoton like that of the Sinai-Palimpsest or the Hebrew Original of Sirach, but it has a threefold importance — linguistical, biblical, and ecclesiastical.

But inasmuch as my own text was in type before I knew that I had been anticipated in the discovery, and seeing also that the document is one which from its age and character deserves all the attention which students can bestow upon it, I have ventured, with Dr. Mercati’s full consent, to publish the treatise, although no longer an anecdoton, in the pages of the Journal.

The Brussels MS. is certainly an anecdoton. A few passages have been used, quite en passant, by historians of the English Martyrs who could not afford the leisure to do any more or perhaps never had access to the full text and had to be content […]

Mention should also be made of the important edition of Bale’s Index Britanniae Scriptorum, in which the late Miss Mary Bateson was his collaborator, and which appeared as an Anecdoton Oxoniense in 1902.