[Footnote 32: With some minute difference, the most learned
critics, Lucas Holstenius, Schelestrate, Ciampini,
Bianchini, Muratori, (Prolegomena ad tom. iii. pars i.,) are
agreed that the Liber Pontificalis was composed and
continued by the apostolic librarians and notaries of the
viiith and ixth centuries; and that the last and smallest
part is the work of Anastasius, whose name it bears. The
style is barbarous, the narrative partial, the details are
trifling - yet it must be read as a curious and authentic
record of the times. The epistles of the popes are
dispersed in the volumes of Councils.]