My intention is by no means to provide an exhaustive account of the whole process of transmission and transformation of the Descriptio. Within the Lateran archive, this process continued down to the eighteenth century. Rather, I hope that my presentation will suffice to explain and expound the investigation carried out in this book regarding the translatio of the temple. The list follows the arrangement of different versions of the Descriptio (see also Appendix 2).

I. Rome

ARCHIVIO CAPITOLARE LATERANENSE, ROME

ACL, MS A 70: composite of different texts and different scribes, twelfth– fourteenth centuries (includes a revision of the first version, and second and third versions of the Descriptio).

ACL, MS A 33: 1522–1523 (includes a fourth version of the Descriptio).

ACL, MS A 69: copy of A 70, end of the sixteenth century.

OTHER MANUSCRIPTS PRESERVED IN ROME

Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, MS 2044 (Sess 290): end of the sixteenth century.

Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, MS B 51 n. 3: different scribes, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (includes John the Deacon's version of the Descriptio, copied during the papacy of Pius II (1458–1564)).

II. Northern France/Belgium Group 1

Cambrai, Bibliotheque Municipale, MS 802: northern France (belonged to the abbey of St Sepulchre in Cambrai in the thirteenth century), second half of the twelfth century.

Reims, Bibliotheque Municipale, MS 378: St Thierry, Reims, twelfth century (contains mainly texts by St Ambrose and St Jerome, apart from the Descriptio).

Valenciennes, Bibliotheque Municipale, MS 40 (54): St Amand, twelfth century (contains fifty psalm commentaries, the trial of Abelard, Constantinopolitanum, some writings of St Augustine, and the Descriptio).

Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, MS 220 (II.1109): St Aulne, twelfth century (contains an exposition of Leviticus by Radulphus Flaviacensis and the Descriptio).

III. Northern France Group 2

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Reg. lat. 712: St Quentin, between 1181 and 1185.

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, MS lat. 2287: St Amand, twelfth century (contains mainly letters of St Gregory and the Descriptio).

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, MS lat. 5129: St Amand, thirteenth century.

Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, MS lat. 15669: Paris, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, several fascicles written by different scribes (contains a version of the Descriptio (followed by De septem miraculi mundi), copied ‘by the hand of Jacobus de Padua’ (master of theology, d. c. 1353) from an ‘old book of St Amand’).