Madrid, University Library, No. 32 ; second volume of a mag- nificent Bible, in Visigothic hand [ix or x], containing Proverbs- Apocalj-pse. The ornamentation occasionally resembles the Codex Cavensis\ the Pauline Epp. are headed by the Canons of Priscillian and the proitmium Vereyrini ; see Berger, p. 15.
Codex ^-Emilianeus, at Madrid, Uoyal Academy of Histor>', F. 1S6. Bible [x], incomplete, and commencing in the middle of the Psalter; in the NT Laod. is written bv the second hand, id the margin. The first hand resembles Caien^Sy though it is somewhat larger ; the writer's name is given as Quisius. The MS formerly belonged to the Abbey of St. -tlmilianus (St. Millan de laCogolla), between Burgos and Logroiio; see Berger, p. 16.
Leon, Catliedral Archives, 6; second volume of a Bible [x], beginning at Isaiah ; the NT has the Canons of Priscillian and the proa: mi um Per^^/n'niafterthe Acts, and containsLaod. The writing resembles Canensis, but is somewhat larger ; the names of two scribes — Vimara, a presbyter, and John, a deacon — are given ; see Berger, p. 17.
Codex Gnthicus Legxonensis, presen-ed in the Church of San Isidro at Leon; Bible (x], folio, date-l a.d. 960, and written by the notarius Sanctio. The MS has belonged to the Church of San Isidro since the 12th cent., and wascoUalefl for Cardinal Caraffa by Fr. Tmgillo, bp. of Leon, for the Sixtine revision, and by him called the Codex Gothicus. The collation is preserved in the Vatican (Lat. 4S59). There are a large number of Old Latin variants in the margin, especially in the OT ; and Tobit and Judith are in the Old Latin throughout ; see Berger, p. 18 ; he has printed the Old Latin variants in the Bk. of Job in Notice* et ext raits des MS de la B. N. etc., tome xxxiv. 2«partie, p. 20 f. (Paris. 1S93).
Codex Complutengis (i.e. belonging to Complutum = Alcal4), Madrid, University Library, 31. Bible [ix or x), interesting text ; Ruth is Old Latin, agreeing closely with quotations in Ambrose ; the 4th book of Esdras is also preser\'ed in an interest- ing text, with variant readings in the margin ; Esther, Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Mac, are also in an Old Latin version. In the NT the text is Vulg.ite, but with Spanish characteristics; Laodiceans follows llebreirs. Ruth and parts of Maccabees have been published by Berger in the Sotiees et extraiUt mentioned above, pp. 8-12, 33-33 ; see also his Ui^toire, p. 22.
Paris, Bibl. Nat., I^t. 6. Bible in four vols, folio [x.], from the Abbey of Rosas in Catalonia. Tobit and Judith are preserved not only in the Vulgate, but also in the Old Latin ; and there are interesting Old Latin and other variants in the margins of the Acts, while Ac 11M2!^ is entirely Old Latin; see Berger, p. 24. Wordsworth's R in Acts.
III. Italian Texts transcribed w Britapt. — (a) Northum' brian MSS. — Codex Ainiatinus of the whole Bible, in the Laurentian Library- at Florence (beginning of viU]. One of tha three Pandects written, either at VVearmouth or Jarrow, by order of the Abbot Ceolfrid. lie took it as a present to the pope on his last Journey to Rome in a.d. 715, but died before he reached the Holy City, and his followers carried on the volume and offered it to the chair of St. Peter. The date and origin of the MS have been thus fixed by the successful deciphering of an erased inscription on the first leaf; see the PalaBographiiral Society's Facsimiles, \L pis. 66, 66, and Studia Biiflica, it p. 2^1
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(Oxford, 1S90). Later, the MS was placed In the Monastic Librar)' at Monte Amiata, whence it was sent to Rome for use in the Sixtine revision. Finally, it was placed in the Jlediceo- laurentian Library at Florence. The NT wa« published in full by Tischcndorf (Lcipzii;, ISaO ; second ed. with a few euu-nda- ^ions. I».^i4); and in 1S73 Heyse and Tischendort edited the BU/lia Hacra Lat. Vctfrin Text. Uieronymo interprele, printing the CUmentiiie text of the OT, but dividing it accordin;,' to the ''X)la and comniftta' of am, giving a collation of its variant reading, and printing; in full tne capitula to the various books, which are found in Ainiatinus, hut not in the Clementine Vul- gTitc : Laij'arde has published Wisdom and Sirach, see vol. iti.
The text of the MS in the NT, and especially in the Go.spcls, ia a verv pure Vulijato tvpe on the whole, though with the characte'ristic.s of British >iSS in it; see the Oxford \'ii/:iate, i. pp. 7il», 71<y-~3i. In the OT it is also good, but in Ecclesi- astes and Ecclesiaaticus Old Latin elements have crept in ; see Berber, p. 3j. Tischendorf's om, Wordsworth's A.
Durham Cathedral Library, A. ii. 18 ; Gospels [vii or viii), said to have been written by Bcde, and may very possibly have come from Jarrow. The text is very close to thatof AmKilitnis, but where it varies Aniiatinus is usually the better. Bentlcy's K, Wordsworth's A (in St. John only ; in the other Gospels it is not cited).
Do., A. ii. 17 ; St. John. St. Mark, and St. Luke, mcomplete [viii], with another fragment of St. Luke, 213S-23M; large uncial hand, and both text and handwriting closely resemble Amiatinus, though the orthography is occasionally different ; see Berger, p. 3ii.