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MANUSCRIPTS AND VERSIONS. 72,
added ' Here endeth (what is) of Ignatius.' This ms ' has no date, but
belonged to the collection acquired by Moses of Nisibis in a.d. 931' for
the monastery of S. Mary Deipara, 'and was written apparently
about three or four centuries earlier.' Wright however ascribes it to the
9th century. It was procured for the British Museum by M. Pacho in
1847, ^^"^cr Cureton had published his first edition.
These mss, which I have designated 2i, S^, Ss, appear in Cureton's
notation as a, ^, y, respectively. The text of this version is edited
below (in. p. 75 sq) by Prof. W. Wright, who has collated the three
MSS anew and given their various readings. A translation is also appended,
III.
p. 86 sq.
MIDDLE FORM.
The Latin version of this recension was published
first
by Ussher
{Polycarpi et Ignatii Epistolae etc, Oxon. 1644) from two mss discovered
in England the
; original Greek two years later by Isaac Voss
{Episiolae Geiinnne S. Ignatii Martyris, Amstelod. 1646) from a Medicean
ms, with the exception of the Epistle to the Romans, which was
published afterwards by Ruinart {Acta Martyruvi Since/'a, Paris 1689)
from a Colbert ms. The Armenian version was first printed at Constantinople
in 1783. The fragments of the Syriac version are included
in Cureton's Corpus Ignatiatium (p. 197 sq), though Cureton himself
failed to perceive that they were taken (as I shall show presently) from
a complete version in this language, and supposed
that the collections
of extracts in which they occur were translated immediately from the
Greek. The important fragment from the Copto-thebaic version
was made use of for the first time in the former edition of my work.
(i)
Greek [G].
I. Laur. PI. Ivii. Cod. 7 (described in Bandini's Catal. MSS Grace.
Bibl. Laurent. 11. p. 345 sq), the famous Medicean ms at Florence, from
which Voss published the editio princeps of this recension. The Ignatian
Epistles occupy from fol. 242 a— 252 b. They commence toy