[498] It is printed in Migne, Patr. Lat., cxxi. 798, from Pamelius Liturgica Lat., Col. Agr. 1571, tit. ii. 70. [See also an article in the Dublin Review, vol. cxv., on “The Earliest Roman Mass-book,” by Mr Edmund Bishop.—Tr.]
[499] Liber Pont., Sergius, No. 86.
[500] In the calendar of Sonnatius of Reims (quoted on [p. 21]), dating from ten or twenty years after Gregory the Great, these three feasts are already mentioned.
[501] There are, however, among the sermons of Peter Chrysologus, three (140, 142, and 143) entitled “de annuntiatione,” but of these No. 140 contains no allusion to a festival of our Blessed Lady, and the two others belong to Christmas.
[502] St Thomassin, 409. See Migne, Patr. Lat., cxxxv. 406. Fulbert, however, speaks of the feast as of recent institution. Sermo, 4. Migne, cxli. 320 seqq.
[503] Migne, Patr. Gr., xcvii. 806 seqq.
[504] So in the passage from the Liber Pontificalis quoted above and in the Kalend. Fronteau. Bede calls it the “Annuntiatio Dominica.” The Greek name for the feast is Εὐαγγελισμός τῆς ἁγίας θεοτόκου.
[505] Chron. Pasch. Olymp., 351, ed. Bonn, i. 713.
[506] Petrus Chrys., Sermo, 140, 142, ed. Migne, Patr. Lat., lii. Among the spurious sermons of Leo the Great is one which is believed to be a translation of a discourse of Proclus, Sermo 15. See the note of Ballerini in Migne, Patr Lat., liv. 508. Proclus, Orat. I. Migne, Patr. Gr., lxv. 679.
[507] Radulfus Glaber, Hist., 3, 3.