In 1603 an unimportant edition appeared at Heidelberg ‘in bibliopolio Commeliniano,’ which claimed to restore to its integrity the mutilated Greek of the Verona edition by the help of MSS at Heidelberg and Augsburg; but the character of the edition is far from corresponding to the promise of the title-page.
A very different work soon followed. In Sir Henry Savile’s great edition of the complete works of Chrysostom (Eton, 1612) the Pauline epistles are to be found in vols. iii. and iv.—in vol. iii. Romans to Ephesians, in vol. iv. Philippians to Philemon. Information about the MSS used must, however, be sought in vol. viii. (the concluding volume) col. 995 tf. The groundwork of Savile’s text through- out was the Verona edition, but he modified it by the help, on each epistle, of some one MS from the libraries of France and Germany. For the Romans he used a codex ‘ Regius’ of Paris—ap- parently Paris gr. 731, see. xi.; for 1 Cor. a MS of New College, Oxford—no doubt cod. Ixxvii. sec. xii. ineunt. ; for 2 Cor. a Paris ‘Medicean’ MS; for Gal. a Paris ‘Regius’ MS; for Eph. an Augs- burg MS—presumably Munich gr. 353, seec. x.; for Phil. a Vienna MS and the copy of a Vatican MS —perhaps Vatic. gr. 551, sec. x.; for the remain- ing seven epistles also an Augsburg MS—perhaps Munich er. 377, sec. x. For the Roman epistle he further gives in an Appendix, vol. viii. cc. 981-988, a collation again of an Augsburg MS—apparently Munich gr. 457, sec. xi. A large number of sug- gestions and emendations are also printed in the margin of the texts. By using more than one manuscript, and still more by drawing on his own critical ingenuity and that of other scholars, Savile was able to make in many ways a very sub- stantial contribution to the improvement of the text of St. Chrysostom ; but the ¢ype of text re-
* Compare the account of the Verona Oecumenius, p. 485, above.
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presented by his new MSS was inferior for the most part to the type represented by the Venice MS employed for the Verona edition.
A new edition was published at Paris in 1636 by the king’s printer, C. Morel, of which volumes iv.-vi. contain the homilies on the Epistles. Morel’s edition does not pretend to do more than follow Savile’s Greek text, incorporating at the same time Latin translations revised by the Jesuit Fronton du Due.
The Benedictine edition of St. Chrysostom was the latest of the vast labours carried through by dom Bernard Montfaucon. Vol. ix. (A.D. 1731) contains the homilies on Romans; vol. x. (A.D. 1732) contains 1 and 2 Cor., Gal.; vol. xi. (A.D. 1784) the remaining epistles. According to the convenient custom of Benedictine editors, a Latin translation faces on each page the Greek text ; but the latter is generally judged to be inferior to the text of Savile. The manuscripts used were exclusively Parisian: on Romans [the numbers of the modern catalogue of M. Omont are substituted, where identification is possible, for those of Mont- faucon] MSS Paris gr. 732, sec. xi., and 734, seec. xiii.; on 1 Cor. MS er. 738, sec. x.; on 2 Cor. MS _coislin 74, szec. x.; on Galatians none; on Eph. MSS coislin 74 (as on 2 Cor.), coislin 75, sec. xi., gr. 1017, see. x.; on Phil. apparently MSS coislin 75 and gr. 1017 (as on Eph.); on Col. MSS gr. 1017 (as on Eph.), gr. 731, seee. xi., gr. 743, seec. xi.; on 1 Thess. apparently gr. 743 (as on Col.), gr. 1017 (as on Eph.), and one other; on 2 Thess. gr. 743 (as on Col.), and a second ‘Colb. 616,’ which may perhaps be gr. 744, sxec. ix.; on 1 Tim. ‘Colb. 616’ (as on 2 Thess.) and gr. 743 (as on Col.) ; on 2'Tim. nothing is said; on Titus gr. 745 (imperfect), sec. xii., and 744 (fragmentary), seec. ix.; on Philemon gr. 745 (as on Tit.) Montfaucon does not appear to have made exhaustive use even of the early MSS of the Paris Library ; the reissue of the Bene- dictine edition, Paris, 1834-1840, takes account of several additional MSS: e.g. for Romans gy. 731, sec. xi.; for 1 Cor. gr. 739, sec. xi., and 740, scec. xi; for 2 Cor. gr. 741, sec. xv.; for Gal. gr. 675, sec. xi., and 1017 (imperfect), seec. x.
Meanwhile, before the appearance of the second Benedictine edition, attention had been called to the importance of Chrysostom’s Homilies for the history of the text of St. Paul, by C. F. Matthei, whose critical edition of the New Testament ap- peared at Riga towards the close of the 18th cent.: part vi. (Romans, Titus, Philemon) in 1782, part vii. (1 and 2 Corinthians) in 1783, part viii. (Gala- tians, Ephesians, Philippians) in 1784, part x. (Hebrews, Colossians) also in 1784, part ix. (1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, together with a ‘Preefatio in omnes D. Pauli epistolas’) in 1785. Matthzi was professor at Moscow, and his MSS of the Homilies were exclusively drawn from the library of the Holy Synod in that city—many or most of them had come originally from Mount Athos : a list of them may be inserted here.
Mosq. xevii.=Matthei (vi, 262) 3, A.D. 917:
tomans.
i Cc. =(vi. 264) 8, sec. x.-xi. : Romans.