FEU-ARDENTIUS'S PREFACE.

Zonaras writes in the life of Basiliscus [14, 2 p. 52 D] that one hundred and twenty thousand books were once deposited and preserved in the library of Constantinople. But the Sant-Andreana—that is, your library—which is open to all and most useful to the Church to which you have entirely consecrated yourself, will be praised by all scholars. Those others were for the most part consigned to flames and were useful to few; from yours, through the arts of printers, there have now been produced for the Christian world the liturgies of James and others 1, an emended Irenaeus 2, and the works of George Pisides 3, Germanus of Constantinople 4, Maximus 5, Prochorus, Theodore, Cyrus, and many others 6; and

1) The Liturgies or Masses of the Holy Fathers, the Apostle James, brother of the Lord; Basil the Great; John Chrysostom; etc., Paris 1560, and Antwerp 1562. 2) Which was published by Feu-Ardentius. See Grabe's Prolegomena to Irenaeus. 3) Which was published by Fed. Morellus in Paris, 1585. The editor says in the Protheoria: "But so that such a pious and chaste poem might more beautifully come into the hands of men, your liberality, Sant-Andreanus, makes it so, while you provide us with ancient examples from the inner chambers of a rich library, whose volumes are denied to no one who wishes to profit both himself and the public." 4) In the aforementioned collection of liturgies, there exists the "Consideration and Mystical Contemplation of Ecclesiastical Matters" by Germanus, Archbishop of Constantinople. 5) In the same place, the Mystagogia of Maximus the Monk. 6) The Divine Liturgy of St. Mark, etc., appeared later in Paris, 1583. In the prefatory letter of that book to Cardinal Sirlet, John of St. Andrew writes this about himself: "Twenty years ago, I caused those other three Liturgies of the Lords James, Basil the Great, and John Chrysostom to be brought to light, by which..."