[418] See Binterim, Gesch. d. d. Prov.- u. Diöz.-Konzilien, ii. 273 seqq.; iii. 517 seqq.
[419] The disagreement arose from the fact that the ancient missals (Sacramentorum libri), only mentioned the month without specifying the week when the Ember fasts were to be observed. See Berno of Reichenau (Migne, Patr. Lat., cxlii. 1097), whose small treatise, composed between 1020 and 1031, deals with the question.
[420] Micrologus, c. 24.
[421] Servius, Comm. on Virgil., Bucol. Eccl., 3, 77.
[422] See examples in Usener, 305 A. 22, 306-345.
[423] Obid., Fasti, 4, 905 seqq., and Fasti Prænest., Corp. Inser. Lat. i. 392. For the “Robigaliæ” see Marquardt-Mommsen, Staatsverwaltung, iii. 574.
[424] Vigilii, Epist. ad Simpl. i.; Migne, Patr. Lat., xiii. 550.
[425] Avitus, Hom. de Rogat. Migne, Patr. Lat., lix. 289. Gregor. Tur., Hist. Franc, 2, 34.
[426] This fact is mentioned by both the biographers of Gregory, Joan. Diac. i. 41-43, and Paul. Diac. c. 10, as well as by Amalarius 4, 24, and Beleth c. 122, etc., but all draw their information from Gregor. Tur., Hist. France, 10, 1. See Baillet ix, 2, 87-103, who also makes use of the designations “Litaniæ Gallicanæ” and “Litaniæ Romanæ.”
[427] These words come from a letter without an address in the appendix to the Register of Gregory the Great. Migne, lxxvii. 1329.