The lists may be consulted which have been drawn up by Le Long, Bibliotheca Sacra, ed. 1723, vol. i. p. '234 f.; Vercellone, VaricB lectiones, Romfe, 1860, vol. i. p. Ixxxiii f., ii. p. xvii f.; in the fourth edition of Scrivener's Introduction, vol. ii. p. 67 f., the present writer has drawn out a selected list of 181 manuscripts, mainly of the NT ; Berger {ITistoire de la Vulg. etc. pp. 374- 422) gives a good list of 253 MSS ; and the largest list yet published is that of Dr. Gregory in the third volume of Tischendorf 's iVoyu?» Testamentum Greece, ed. viii. pp. 983-1108, where some 2270 MSS are enumerated ; they are not, however, described with the detail that characterizes M. Berger's list. We have endeavoured here to draw up a list of the more important Vulgate MSS, arranged, according to the type of their text, as sketched out in the history given above. The student can thus, if he wishes, test our theory of the transmission and niodilication of the text by his o«-n collations ; and if he examines other MSS not mentioned in the list, he can determine more easily in which class to place them.
Our list is based mainly on the materials sup- plied by Berger. The reader will bear in mind that the classification can be only approximate, and that there are MSS which it will be difficult to assign exclusively to this or that group ; and indeed the earliest MSS on the list are among those which it is ditticult to class, though we may venture to describe them as earhj Italian texts ; .after them we may place the early Spanish texts, and then the other families in due course. The Roman numerals in square brackets signify the centuries to which the MSS are usually assigned.
I. Earit Italian 'izxn.— Codex Fuldentit of the NT, at the Abbey of Fulila in Prussia [vi] ; written forBp. Victor of Capua, and corrected by him A.D. 541-5-16. The Gospels are arranged in one narrative, based on the order of Tiitian's Diatessaron, but the text has been altered to the Vulgate throughout ; in the Epp. Laodiceans follon's Colossians. Published by E. Kanke (Marburg, 186S). Cited by Tischendorf as /utd, by Wordsworth as F.
The Jlilan Gotpelt; Ambrosian Library, O. 89 Inf. [vi) ; uncials ; the sections and canons in the margin are written in Greek characters, while certain peculiarities of spelling and of reading also suggest that the scribe had a Grasco-Latin MS before him. Defective in parts. Wordsworth's .M in Gospels.
Codex Fonjuliengis, at Cividale, Friuli : Gospels (vi or vii], Matt., Luke, and John are at Cividale in Friuli ; these were published bv Biaiichini, Evanqdiariwn QMadruplex,eic., torn, li. app. p. 473 f. (Koma), 1749). The latter part of Mark (1221-16ii') is at Prague, and was edited by J. Dobrowskv, Fragmfntum Pragemt (Praga, 1778) ; the earlier part is at Venice, but in a wretched conditioo, and illegible. Tischendorf '8 /or and prog, Wordsworth's J.
Codix Perusinug ; part of Lk (11-127, much mutilated), in a lurple MS, Chapter Librarv, Perugia [vi or more probably \ii]. 'ublished by Bianrhini, ^iwin. Quadr. torn. iL ftpp. p. 562 ; Tischendorf 's pe, Wordsworth's P.
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The Harlty Goxpels, Brit. Mua. Harl. 1775 [vi or viij, in | small but beautiful uncial hand, written probably in Italy; the first hand omita the text Jn 5*. Tischendorf's harl \^"ord§. worth's and Bentley's Z.
II. Eahuv Si-Axisn Texts.— Leon, Cathedral Archives 15 [viij , a palimpsest MS, containing 40 leaves of a Dible in 7th cent, hand, i.e.. portions of Ch, Jer, Ezk, 1 Mac, Ac, 2 Co, Col. 1 Jn. The text is Vulgate at base, esnecially in Jer, Ac, and Pauline Epp. ; in other portions mingled with bid I,at. elcmenti and characteristic Spanish inten>oIations ; the * three heavenly witnesses ' occurs 1 Jn 67. See Berger, pp. 8f., 3S4.
The Ashbumiiam Pentateuch, or, more strictly speaking, tht Pentateuch of St. Gatien of Tours: now at Paris, Bibl. Nat., \ouv. acq. Lat. 2334. A splendid ilS, with interesting piutoriil illustrations [vii or beginning of viiij ; uncial writing; a good Vulgate text. The Palaeographical Soc. (i. pi. 234) ascribe the MS to Nortli Italy, but Berger (pp. 11, 12, 410) makes out a strong case, mainly from the nature of the illustrations, for Spaiji.
Codex CaucTWw; Bible [ix probably] written in Spain, prob- ably in Castile or Leon, iji small, round, and beautiful Viai- gothic minuscules, by a scribe Danila ; now in the Benedictine Abbey of Corpo di Cava, near Salerno : a copy of it was made early in this century by the Abbate de Uoss'i, and is in the Vatican (Lat. S4S4X The text is Spanish, and in the Gospels shows signs of being a revision ; occasionally it is mingled with Old Latin elements ; it contains 1 Jn 5" after V^. Before the Pauline Epp. there is the 'Procemium sancti Pere;7rini (tpiacopi,' and the canons of Priscillian ; after the Apocal>'pije tliere is an incomplete Psalterium ez Hebneo ; the Psalter in the body of the MS is Galilean, but with numerous Old Latin marginal variants ; see Berger, pp. 14, 15, 379. Tischendorf's caVf Words- worth's C.
Codex Toletanus ; Bible, Visigothic writing [probably viiiJ, in the Xat. Libr. at Mi^drid. Characteristic Spanish text, with numerous interpolations ; has the text 1 Jn o"* in same place as CavensU, but in the Gospels does not present such a good text as that MS. Collated for the Sivtine revision by Chr. Palo- mares, whose work is preserved in the Vatican (Lat. 9r>08) ; the collation, however, was not used in that revision, as it reached Card. Caraffa too late. It has been published by Bianchini, Vindicix Can. Scr. pp. xlvii-ccxvi (Romae, 1740), and reprinted by Migne, Pat. Lat. torn. xxix. p. 875 f. Tischendorf's (oi, Wordsworth's T ; see Berger, p. 12.