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MANUSCRIPTS AND VERSIONS. 75
cean ms, but this is not always intelligently done ; e.g. the transcriber
has misread the contraction eVtcrro. (for eVto-To/Xwi/) at the head of the
first letter and gives tov ayiov lyvariov Ittictkottov crju,upvat06s.
In the
margin of Folyc. 6 the transcriber himself copies the gloss a'pyo (for
SecripTwp) from the Medicean ms. Otherwise the marginal notes are in
a much later (17th cent. ) hand, and on Magn. 8 ouk aTro crtyrys TrpoeX-
Oiiiv there is a reference to a printed copy of the Long recension, eV
avTLypatpia TcrvTrco/AEvo) os icmv avTov Xoyos ov pr^ros
k.t.X. But in fact
the appearance of the two mss shows plainly that the one is a copy of
the other mediately or immediately, and I can hardly understand how
any one who has inspected both can entertain a different opinion. Both
end in the middle of the same word, but with this difference. In the
Medicean, the words dveTriarTaroL ydp darlv tov kl- close the final line of
the final sheet of the ms, pointing obviously to the fact that the
conclusion of the ms has been lost ;
whereas in the Casanatensian they
occur in the middle of a line in the middle of a page, followed by
several blank leaves, showing not less plainly that the ms from which
it was copied ended abruptly. The extreme improbability that two
distinct mss, each by a several accident, should have ended in the
middle of the same word, is so great, that we are forced to the conclusion
that the Casanatensian is a lineal descendant, perhaps an immediate
copy, of the Medicean. Dressel's attempt to overcome these
speaking facts is wholly unintelligible to me. Being a mere transcript
therefore, this ms has no independent value, and in consequence I have
not recorded its readings.
Barber. 7 and Barber. 501 (in the Barberini Library at
Rome) also
contain the Ignatian Epistles transcribed wholly or in part from the
Medicean ms by Lucas Holstenius. The first also gives the Epistles
of Polycarp and Barnabas, and will demand attention hereafter, but
neither has any independent value for the Ignatian letters.
2. Paris. Graec. 145 1 (formerly Colbert. 460),
in the National
Library at Paris. On fol. 109 a begins MAprypioN toy Ar'oy isic) iepo-
MiipTYPOC irNATioy TOY 6eo(})6poY. "Aprt SiaSe^a/AeVou k.t.A.. These
Acts of Martyrdom are printed in the present work (11. p. 477 sq). They
incorporate the Epistle to the Romans, and were first
published by
Ruinart (see above). The Epistle to the Romans begins on fol. ma.
The commencement of the epistle is not marked by any title, illumination,
or even capital letter, but the Avriting is continuous... ilTroTeTa/vrat.
tyvartos o koX deoffjopos k.t.X. The Epistle ends...ti; T^i3 afxij. KaTapTtaa^
TOLvvv K.T.X. This MS may be ascribed to the loth century,
the date
assigned to it in the printed Catalogue. It is written clearly and in