33. Paris, Institut Catholique, Horner's H. This MS was written in 1250, and contains the Gospels complete, both in Bohairic and Arabic. It is on paper, contains 235 ( + 2) leaves, and 2 columns to the page, with 33 lines each. It measures 25 by 17 "5 cm., and contains some beautiful pictures.
(b) of the Snhidic translation : —
Of tiiis there exists only a considerable quantity of shoit fragments (Gregory gives 91). Some are as old as the 5th century. One is still older (No. 48 Rome, Propag. 65).
(c) of the Fayyum translation : —
Gregory gives fragments of 5 Gospel MSS only, one (No. 2), in the possession of Flinders Petrie, of the 4th century. Of (6) and (c) there is as yet neither a comprehensive edition nor a complete study. Further fragments of both are certain to be discovered.
The Ethiopic, Armenian, Georgian, Persian, and Arabic translations may be here passed over.
IV. Latin MSS :—
{a) of the pre-Vulgate (otherwise called 'Old Latin,' or ' Itala') translation(s) : —
a: Vercelli, Cathedral. This MS is of the 4th cent., measures 25-5 by 16 cm., has 2 columns to the page, and 24 lines to the column. The order of the Gospels is Mt., Jn., Lk., Mk., the regular Old Latin order. Much is wanting in Mt 20-27 ; Jn. is slightly defective ; in Lk. much of clis. 1. 11 and 12 has disappeared ; in Mk. chs. 1. 4. 5. 15. 16 have suffered greatly ; a second but ancient hand has supplied Mk 16""^". The text is good, and was, according to tradition, copied by the famous bishop Eusebius of Vercelli, martyred in 371. The book has suffered greatly from neglect and bad treat- ment. Editions by G. A. Irico (Sacrosanctus EvangcUoritin Codex S. Eiisebii Magni, Milan, 1748), J. Bianchini (Evangeliarium QuacJruplex, Rome, 1749; very accurately reprinted in Migne's Patrologia Latina, vol. xii. ), and J. Belsheim (Codex Vercellensis, Christiania, 1894).
b : Verona, Cathedral Library (Biblioteca Capito- lare). The JNIS is of the early part of the 5th cent, (or of the end of the 4th), ancl is written in silver. * Gregory wrongly ' Huntingdon 11.'
The following jjarts are wanting : Mt P"^^ 15^"-^ 231S-27, Jn 7*»-8'-, Lk 19^«-2^^^ Mk IS^i" 132^-162». Edited by Bianchini (see under a) and by J, Belsheim (Codex Veronensis Quattuor Euangelia, Prag, 1904). It was probably a MS like this which was the chief basis of Jerome's revision known as the Vulgate. It is perhaps the best representative of the European Latin versions of the 4th centuiy. There is a photograph of one page in Mon amenta Palceographira Sacra (Turin, 1899).
c : Paris, Bibl. Nat. 254 (Colb. 4051), of the 12th century. Edited by P. Sabatier (Bibliorum Sacro- rum Latincii Versiones Antiquce, vol. iii., Paris, 1751 ; there is also an edition with 'Reims' on the title-page), and by J. Belsheim (Codex Colbertinus Parisiensis, Christiania, 1888). The work of P. Sabatier is still unsuperseded as the most complete repertory of the readings of the Old Latin Bible.
d : This symbol indicates the Latin side of Codex Beza; (D).
e: Palatinus ; all that is left is in Vienna (Kais. Lat. 1185) except one leaf, which is in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (N. 4, 18). The MS is of the 5th cent., and is, with k (see below), rep- resentative of a form of text used in the Roman province of Africa (corresponding to modern Tunis). It is very defective, containing about half of Mt., nearly the whole of Jn. and Lk., and about half of Mark. A copy of the MS made before its present mutilation exists in the Vallicellian Libraiy, Rome, as U. 66. The Vienna part was edited by Tischen- dorf (Evangelium Palatinnm, Leipzig, 1847), the Dublin leaf by T. K. Abbott (Par Palimpsestortim Dublincnsium, etc., London, 1880) ; reports on the copy in the Vallicellian Library were published by H. Linke (Sitzungsberichte der Kbnigl. hayer. Akad. der Wissenschaften [Phil - Philolog. und Hist. Classe], Munich, 1893, Heft 2, pp. 281-287). See also Belsheim (Evangelium Palatinum, Chris- tiania, 1896), and Old-Latin Biblical Texts, vol. ii. (Oxford, 1886), pp. Ixvii-lxxxv, by W. Sanday.
f : Brixianus ; in the Capitular Library of Brescia. It is of the 6th cent., and is written in silver. It lacks the last quarter or so of Mark. It was edited by Bianchini (see under a), and is also printed under the Vulgate in Wordsworth and White's edition (Oxford, 1889-1898), as in the opinion of these editors and Hort the type of text which Jerome used as the basis of his revision. The other view with regard to it, namely, that of Burkitt, is that it is an Old Latin text deeply contaminated with the Vulgate (see JThSt, i. [1899] pp. 129-134). With Burkitt's view the present wnter agrees. If it be correct (see under q), the result is the dis- appearance of Hort's ' Italian ' class altogether.
If^: St. Petersburg, Imperial Library, formerly Corbeiensis 21 (10th cent.) : Matthew.
ff^: Paris, Bibl. Nat. 17225, formerly Corbeiensis 195. It is of the 5th cent. (C. H. Turner in JThSt, vol. vi. [1904-1905] p. 257), not the 7th (Tischen- dorf, Gregory, and the Paris authorities). The following parts of the four Gospels are wanting : Mt P-11'6, Lk 9^-102«-2i ii45_i26-7, Jn W^-\S^ 2022_2i8 Published reports of this MS are incom- plete and inexact. An exact edition is expected from Rev. E. S. Buchanan, who has made a very careful study of the MS, and has already published a translation of its text of some Gospels (e.g. The Latin Gospels in the Second Century, Part I. ' S. John,' Sevenoaks [1904]), and prolegomena (JThSt vii. 99 ttV).