g. To each epistle of which the commencement is extant is prefixed a table of kepddaa : the whole of that for 1 Timothy (a’-u7), and part of those for Galatians (v-.8’), Hebrews (f’-.a’), and Titus (6'-s’), are preserved. In two instances, chapters ¢ and 6’ of Hebrews, subdivisions are also marked, ad B’ y' in the first case, B’ only in the second: these subdivisions are marked in red (Robinson, p. 66). Thus we have here substantial equivalence between codex H and Zacagni, Nos, xili., xiv.
y. At Col 2! and 3° the letters +’ and 6’, at 2 Ti 24 and 28+ the letters 7 and 6’, at Tit 2? the letter 7’, are legible in the margin, indicating the commencement in the text of the chapters marked by the corresponding numbers in the list. It does not appear that Zacagni’s apparatus anywhere
* The xegédoue are included in the reckoning just made, since the three gatherings on which that reckoning is based contain the zegéacuso for 1 Timothy, reckoned at 22 orixo. z
+See the supplementary notes to M. Omont’s transcript in Robinson, p. 6S.
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definitely promises that the chapters should be marked in the body of the text; but the analogy of the procedure with regard to the OT citations demands it ; and the fact that Zacagni, in his Latin translations of the chapter-tables, inserts through- out the references to our own chapters and verses, seems to show that his MSS do actually mark the commencements in question.
6. The OT quotations in the text are noted in the margin, and are clearly intended to be num- bered through for each epistle. Thus at 1 Co 10% we have wa’ yah. xy (i.e. Ps 23, eleventh quotation in the epistle), and at He 2!26’ Wadu. xa’, 2!31’ Hoatov, 2}6 iq’ "Hoatov (i.e. Ps 21 supplies the ninth, Isaiah the tenth and eleventh quotations for the epistle) ; if at He 1°78 we have only Baowd., Aevrepovoy., yoru.» paru. wd’, this shows that the system is not systematically carried out, and confirms what other indications suggest, namely, that codex H is not an original, but a copy, and not always an accurate copy. ‘To which of Zacagni’s two tables of OT quotations—Nos. iv., v., or Nos. viii., ix. these marginal annotations correspond, there is so far nothing to decide.
e. The number of orlxyou is noted at the end of each chapter-table, and at the end of the text of each epistle. Thus the xed¢daa for 1 Timothy are 22 orliyo, for Titus 8; the text of Hebrews con- tains 703, that of Titus 97. That every 50th orixos was also noted in the margin our authorities do not apparently say; but the Naples codex (see immediately below) proves that Evagrius included that method in his system, and codex H is through its subscription connected clearly enough with Evagrius. In the case of the chapter-tables, as also of all documents such as the prologue, the Martyriwm, and the like, there can be no doubt that the orixos was the line of hexameter length (reckoned equivalent to 16 syllables or 36 letters) : but it is possible that for the text of the epistles, arranged as it was in sense oriyo, these latter
were themselves taken as the basis of calculation. |
The practical difference would not be great, for we have seen (p. 527°, above) that the sense orfxos in codex H averaged about 37 letters.
§. The subscriptions to the individual epistles contain, besides the number of ortxo., similar his- torical data to those given in Zacagni. Thus for Titus: ITavAou daocrédov émirody mpds Tirov ris Kpnrév éxxdnolas mpdrov émloxomov Xetporovnbevra eypdgy dd Nixomédews tis Maxedovias, as in Zacagni (p. 527%, above).
n. The subscription to the whole MS records that ‘I [Evagrius *] wrote for public use this volume of Paul the Apostle in ortyo to the best of my ability, with a view to making reading easier for our brethren... and the book was compared with the copy at Caesarea in the library, written by the hand of the holy Pamphilus.’
(6) We have seen that codex H, to judge from its size, must in all probability have contained prefatory matter before the text and xedddaua of the Epistles ; and some light is thrown upon this question of the apparatus of Evagrian MSS by the only other MS yet known which contains Evagrius’ name, Naples 1. a7; though, as the MS is of later date than Euthalius, it must not be too hastily assumed that all its contents are Evagrian rather than Euthalian. Unfortunately, our knowledge of the details of its text is not yet complete ; but the old Naples catalogue of 1826 (Codices greci MSS regi bibliothecee Borbonici descripti atque illustrati a Salvatore Cyrillo, pp. 13-24) enumerates the fol- lowing contents :—Fol. 1, prologue of Euthalius to the Acts, but without his name; fol. 3, second prologue to the Acts mddac kal mpordda ; memolnrat Ta’ryy—this has now been published in
* As restored by Ehrhard, see above, p. 525,
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the American Journal of Theology (ii. [1898] 353- 387) by Dr. E. von Dobschiitz, who assigns it, apparently on good grounds, to Theodore of Mop- suestia’s commentary ; fol. 7, list of chapters, and summary of OT citations, in Acts; fol. 11, text of Acts; fol. 41, [Euthalian] prologue to the Catholic epistles ; fol. 42, argumenta, lists of chapters, and text of the Catholic epistles; fol. 56, [Euthalian] prologue to the Pauline epistles, followed by the summary of lections (Zacagni, Nos. i. and iii.); fol. 66, argumenta, lists of chapters (Zacagni, Nos. xii. and xiy.), and text of the Pauline epistles, followed by the Martyrium Pauli (Zacagni, No. ii.) and the note Evdypios éypawa (as in codex H, save that the Navigatio Pauli, éxardvrapyos . . . avnvéxOnoar, is intercalated into the middle of it); fol. 122, the opening chapters of the Apocalypse. Thus the name Euthalius seems not to appear anywhere in the MS, while the name Evagrius appears in the note which concludes the Pauline matter. But we further learn from other sources (see Robinson, p. 6) that yet a second note contains the name Evagrius, namely, that which is appended to the summary of lections: in Zacagni, p. 541, this is in the first person, but anonymous; in the Naples MS it runs, ‘I, Evagrius, have distinguished the lections, and have made an accurate sticho- metry for the whole book of the Apostle by marking every 50th ovixos, and have set out the chapters of each lection and the citations contained in it, and also the number of oriyor in the lection.’