[398] See [Appendix No. ix].
[399] Cabrol (Etude sur la Peregr. Silv., 167 et seqq.) gives a survey of the lections then in use.
[400] Printed by Bianchini, Opera Anast., i. Migne, Patr. Lat., cxxvii. 994. Duchesne, Lib. Pont., I. cxlvi.
[401] Binterim’s statement (Denkw., v. 2, 133-152) is out of date. The article “Fastenzeiten” by Heuser in the Kirchenlexikon, iv., 2nd ed., must be supplemented by the investigations of Dom G. Morin in the Révue Bénédictine, 1897, 336-347—“L’Origine des Quatre-Temps.”
[402] Leo M., Sermo, 19 (18), c. 2.: “Per totius anni circulum distributa sunt (jejunia), ut lex abstinentiæ omnibus sit adscripta temporibus. Siquidem jejunium vernum in quadragesima, æstivum in pentecoste, autumnale in mense septimo, hiemale in hoc qui est decimus celebretur.”
[403] Leo M., Sermo, 16 (15), c. 1, 2; Sermo, 12 (11), c. 3.
[404] Morin (op. cit. 345) quotes passages from the Leonine and Gelasian sacramentaries. See Migne, lv. 153 et seqq.
[405] Concerning the “feriæ conceptivæ” and “sementivæ” of the Romans, see Marquardt-Mommsen, Staatsverwaltung, iii. 198 seqq.
[406] Liber Pont., Callistus: “Hic constituit jejunium die sabbati ter in anno fieri, frumenti, vini et olei secundum prophetiam.” Ed. Duchesne, i. 141.
[407] Leo I., Sermo, 19, c. 2; Sacram. Leon., 101, No. xxvii. Migne, Patr. Lat., liv. 186; lv. 105.