Brit. Mus., Add. Sitio. Gospels iroin che monastery of St. Peter at Beneventum [viii or ix), written in a fine reWved uncial hand ; usually supposed, on the strcn^'th of an inscrip- tion, to have been written for Ato, abbot of St. Vincent de Volterno. near Beneventum. about the mifldle of the Sth cent. Berifer would, however, place it in the 9Lh cent. The text is a combination of British and Continental types ; see Berger, p. 92. SVordsworth quotes its reading^s.
An^'ers: Public Library No. 20. Gospels [ix or x], written in a French hand, but with traces of Irish influence in the orna- mentation ; and the text is Irish : see Berj^er, p. 4S.
Brit. Mus., Rej;. I. A. xviii. Gospels [ix or x], known as the Gospels of iEthelstan, and accordiny to tradition presented by him to St. Au^stine s, Canterbury. Written on the Continent, but with ft good many Irish characteristics in the text ; see Berger, p. 49.
Brit. Mus., Harley 1772. Epp. and Apoc. (viii or ix), in a French hand, but with a good deal of Irish work in the initials and ornamentation ; written, therefore, apparently in France, but partly by an Irish scribe. The text has been carefully corrected, and the readings of the first hand are often quite illegible ; it contains a good many Old Latin and some Spanish readings; Col. is placed a/ter Thess., and .lude and Laod. are both wanting ; see Berger, p. 50. AVordsworth's Z...
Paris, Bibl. Nat.. Lat. 93S2 : Prophets (Jerem.-Oaniel), Saxon handwriting [ix], and a good text. Berger (p. 51) remarks that it is perhaps the onl3' MS of the Prophet* we possess that comes from the British Isles.
Do., Lat. 11,553. The second half of a Bible [ixj, apparently written in the district round Lyons : the S, Germani exein}''ar latumof R. Steph&nus(not (Jermanum latum, as he is sometimes made to call it); it was a St. Germain MS. The text is strangely mixed ; in the OT, Spanisli elements predominate, but the text is good, especially in Pr, Ec, Song of Songs ; in the NT, Mt is Old Lat., and cited among the OL MSS as f/i (see vol. iii. p. 51) ; in the other Gospels there are many OL readings, but the text at bottom is of the class copied in France by Irisli scribes ; Acts, good text, though showing Spanish influence ; Cath. Epp., poor Spanish text; Apoc., good; Pauline Epp., fairly good, but with aome OL readings. See Berger, pp. 65-72. Wordsworth's g, in Mt, G in rest of NT.
Wiirzburg University Library, Mp. th. f. 61. St. Matthew [viii], written in an Anglo-Saxon hand, with interlinear glosses ; mixed text.
Do., Mp. th. f. 12. Epp. of St. Paul [ix], with Irish gl esses ; a well-known MS. The glosses have been often published, see Zimraer, (ilnnifce llibern., Berlin, ISSl ; Wliitley Stokes, Old Irish Glosses of Wiirzburg and Carlsrithe, Austin, Hertford, 1SS7 ; Olden, liolj/ Scr. in Ireland a thousand years ago, Dublin, 1S6S.
Do., Mp. th. f. 69. Epp. of St. Paul [viii], with Irish initials; Col. after Thess.
Oxford, Bod. Laud. Jja,t. 102. Gospels, Saxon hand fearly x]; it formerly belonged to Wiirzburg, and is among the MSS which were bought there at the instance of Abp. Laud, after the sack of the city in 1031 ; mixed text.
Other Wiirzburg MSS worthy of notice, though not possessing Irish characteristics, are: — Mp. th. q. 1 a. Gospels (vii], fine uncial hand ; belonged, according to tradition, to St. Kilian, in whose tomb it is said to have been found. Mp. th. q. 1. Gosj>els [x] ; q. 4 Gospels [xi]; f. 65 Gospels [viii or ix] ; f, 66 Gos- pels (viii or ix]; f . 67 Gospels [vii or viii); eenii-uncial, and with a good many Old Lat. readings in the first hand ; f. 68 Gospels tvi or viij; good text in the first hand, resembling Amiatinus. And lastly, Mp. th. f. max. 1 Bible [xi]; the Pauline Epp.» Laod., and the book of Baruch have been ah- Btracted.
For the Wiirzburg MSS see Schepjw, Die dlttsten Evang. Handschriften dtr Univ. bxbliothek, Wiirzburg, IsST.and Kober- lin, Eine Wiirzb. Evang. Handschr. (Program d. Studienanstalt bei S. Anna in Augsburg, 1891).
V. Typk op Text cuRiiE.NT is LANOircnoc (Berger, pp. 7S-82). — Paris, Bibl. Nat., Lat. 4 and 42; Codex Aniciengist, Bible (ix or x]. The text of the first hand somewhat resembles that of the Vallicellian Bible (see below, p. 889), but a contemporary hand has added a number of corrections (amongst others the * three heavenly witnesses,' 1 Jn 5?), and these often show traces of Spanish influence in the Acts.
Do., Lat. 7. Bible [xi], with fine illuminations ; text coloured by Spanish influence, and in the Acts resembling the corrector of the Cod. Anicitngi€.
Do., Lat. 254 ; Codex Colbertinus of the New Testament [xii or xiii], written in S. of France. The text is Old Latin in the Gospels, and is cited among Old Latin MSS as c (see vol. iii. p. 51); In the rest of the NT the text is Vulgate, and in a later hand, Viith all the characteristics of the S. of I->ance about it.
Brit. Mus., Harlev 4772. 4773 : Bible in two fine volumes [early xiii], the second probably of later date than the first ; written In S. of France, and with text belonging to that region. Paris, Bibl. Nat., Lat. 321: New Testament [early xiii], be-