i'oint editorship of which is entrusted to A. E. {rooke and N. McLean. Its apparatus will em- brace the evidence of all uncial MSS and of a considerable nuiiil)er of cursives selected after investigation, with the view of representing the dillerent types of text ; the Old Latin, Egyptian, Syro-Hexaplar, and Armenian versions; and the quotations from Philo, Josephus, and tiie more important Christian Fathers.
It is clear that the manual and even the larger edition are but a step towards the ideal of a truly critical edition. For the text is that of a single MS with all its faults, while in the manual edition the grossest blunders are corrected only occasion- ally {e.g. Gu 6'- "> Xai^,IOS' XtjO, 32' S6et for valofs ; but not, for instance, 36^' 'UpovaaX^/i for 'lo-pa^X, 37"* iiTopivovTO for itrov-qpfvovTOf etc.). The present wTitcr cannot but repeat his wish (.see Proceedings of the 9th International Oriental Congress held in J-ondon, ii. (1892) p. 5711.) that at all places where the text of the MS, and, in consequence, of the edition, is clearly false, the better readings might be placed on the outer margin. t Tlius the ad- vantages of Grabe's plan would be secured and its di.sad vantages avoided ; we should get at the same time a diplomatic reproduction of the MS, and a hint as to the true reading. The Octatcmh, form- ing the first volume of the larger edition, may be expected, as we are informed (Sw. 189), in the course of a few years.
Knnioss of sisoi.s Books-.— A. OAXoNioiL Book*:— Genesis:— P«i<a(<uc/iu< hebraici el grcece, ed. G. A. Schu- mann, Lips. 1829, 8*. only part i. (Genesis) ; GenfHf firtecc e fide edilioniji Sixtin/r addita ttcripturm diicrepantia e librifi manu teriptig a tte coUatU et ediliitnibus Compiutensi et Atdinaad- euratiMgim* enotata, ed. P. A. do La^arde, Lips. 1808 (of per- marient vahic tor ita Introduction and its accuracy ; collations from ADEFGS, 29, 81, 44, 122, l:iO, 13.1, abc).
Joshaa: — Joauee Imperatoris Iluitoria itluMrata atmte ex- p/^cato ab Andrea Hasio, Antv. I.'i74, tol., with new title-paf^e 1G0» (valuable for Ite UitroduotioQ and Ita use of the Syro- Bexaplario Version).
* Comp. on some faults in the new edition of the works of Philo, which would have been avoided by the UTe of Holmes- Parsons, PhU/jIofiujt, 11*00, p. 260(1. : or Bee Ulysse Robert in bis Preface to the Latin Heptateuch of Lyon (lOfJO, p. xxxiX
f To quote some of the examples pointed out in the paper mentioned —
is 8^1 text vivfiM, which is nonsense, for r«rsz/>^* Mdols*: 1 Ea 4«> min for .irfi ; Ps 77 (78)80 ^yirrra, for lfimri>.< ; Sir 7" 271 421 «d(K^«^i> fur iioL^pw ; Sir 10^ m^iru for Jir/n,, etc
Judges:— Z)« graca LXX inferpretum versume Sj/nteMmtif J. Usserii, Lond. iGS.*), 4', in Ussher'a Works, vol. vii. ; Libef Judicum gee. LXX ititcrpreteti, ed. O. F. Fritische, Turici. I 1867, i' ; P. de La^'ardc, .S''i>tua(iinta.Sludien, i., ISUl (two texts of chs. 1-5): ^^« ^^"oi* o/Jtul'jrs in Greek accordinii to the text of Codex Alexandrimts. edited ... by A. E. Brooke and N. McLean, Camb. 1807. On a promised edition see Q. F. Moore in the ' Internat. Crit. Comin.' on Judneg, p. xlv.
Ruth: — Bv John Drusius, 'ad exemplar complutense,' Franek. 1686, 8*, 1632, «° ; by L. Bos, Jena, 1783, 'secundum exemplar vaticanum.'
Psalms :— The Psalter is that book of the OT which wos and is most used in the Church, e.spccially in the Greek Church. In addition to the 32 editions mentioned in Sw. p. 102, there have come to the knowledge of the present writer editions of 1621, Venice (mentioned by Grabe, Prol. to Psalms, ch. iii. 5 8, as lent to liim by the Bp. of V.\y ; but perhaps this may be a misprint for 1524 ; see British Museum Catalogiu of Bibles, col. 800) ; 1525, Venice ; 1,145, 4 editions from Basle, Paris, Strassburc, Venice; 1648, Basle; 1684, Antwerp; 1606, Paris; 1052, London (different copies, with "^etX-n^ftt^ and YaXri/ne, on the title-paije) ; 1673, Venice; 1700 [s.i. probably in Bucharest]; 1706, in llontfaucon's Collectio nova, i. ; 1740, Blanchini's Pealterium duplex ; 1743, Venice ; 1754, with the Commentary of Euthymius Zigabenus, reprinted 1857 in Mice's Patr. (tt. vol. 128 ; 1786, Paria ; 1798, (Jonstantinople ; 1812, Baber, from Codex A ; 1820, Venice ; 1831 and 1836, London, Bible Societx/, with modem Greek; 1835, Smyrna; 1843, London, Biblia EcclegicE Polyglotta ; 1856, Jerusalem ; 1873, Rome (2 editions).
Job:— From Codex A, by Patrick Toung, in the Catena of Nicetas, 1037, Franeker, 1662 (63).
Proverbs :— 1564, Draconites (Polyglot).
Esther: — Ussher, in his Syntatima, 1665, Works, vol. vii. (the two texts), repeated Leipzig, 1696; O. F. Fritzache, Ziiricb, 1B48, 1840 (two texts).
Hosea:— Pareus, Heidelberg, 1606 ; Fhilippeaux, Paris, 1636.
Joel:— Draconites, 1605.
Amos:— Vater, 1810, Halle.
Jonas: — Munster, 1624 ; Artopoeus, 1643.
Micah:— Draconites, 1566.
Zecharlah:— Draconites, 1666.
Malachi :— Draconites, 1!)64 ; Hutter, 1601.
Isaiah:— S. llunatcr, 1640, Polyglot; J. Curter, 1S80, Pro- copii Cotnmentarii.
Jeremiah:— S. Miinster, 1540; O. L. Spohn, 1794, 1824.
LamentatlODs: — Kyper, 1662, Libri tree dere gramm. Heb. (Polyiilot).
Ezeklel: — *IiCi»*]A nnrm. nut c, Rome, 1840 (important).
Daniel: — (a) The received text: Melanchthon, 1646; Wella, 1716. (bf The LX.X text : Rome, 1772 (Simon do Mofriatris or A. Ricchinio), very important ; repeated Gottingae, 1773, 1774 ; Utrecht, 1776 ; Uahn, Lipsise, 1845 ; new edition by Gozza, 1877 ; this text also in Holmes-Parsons, vol. iv. 1818; Oxf., 1848, 1875 ; Tischendorf, 1860 ; Swetc.