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MANUSCRIPTS AND VERSIONS.
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The following are the two mss of this version, to which reference
has already been made.
193)'.
I. Caiensis 395 [Lj (see the Catalogue of MSS in Cains College p.
This MS was given to Gonville and Caius College (then called the
College of the Annunciation of the B. V. Mary) by Walter Crome D.D.,
formerly a fellow of the College, 'a.d. 1444 in festo S. Hugonis.' This
fact is recorded on the fly leaf in Crome's own handwriting.
The main part of the volume is taken up with letters and other
writings of S. Ambrose. After these come the Epistles of Dionysius the
Areopagite, and after these again the Epistles of S. Ignatius. These
last are followed by another letter of S. Ambrose, ' Epistola brevissima
sed optima,' which with a few blank leaves at the end concludes the
volume. The whole is in the handwriting of Crome himself, who
records the date at the close of the works of S. Ambrose and before the
commencement of the letters of Dionysius in these words (fol. 164 a) ;
'
Expliciunt epistole Beati Ambrosii Mediolanensis episcopi. scripte
per Crome et finite anno domini millesimo cccc'"°xl primo in festo
sancti Swithuni episcopi sociorumque ejus.' This notice has been overlooked
by previous collators', and baseless conjectures have in consequence
been hazarded respecting the date of the ms^ On fol. 74 also
the writer has given his name '
Crome.'
The Ignatian Epistles commence on fol.
174 a, and occur in the
following order;
(i) Smyrnjeans, (2) Polycarp, (3) Ephesians, (4) Magnesians,
(5) Philadelphians, (6) Trallians, (7) Mary of Cassobola to Ignatius,
(8) Ignatius to Mary of Cassobola, (9) Tarsians, (10) Antiochenes,
(11) Hero, (12) Acts of Martyrdom (numbered as 'epistola duodecima'),
incorporating (13) tiie Epistle to the Romans described as 'epistola
terciadecima.' After this comes a colophon giving a list of the preceding
letters (see below iii. p. 69); and then follow (14) 'Epistola eiusdem ad
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Cureton in several passages [Corp.
Ign. -pp. 2gi, 308, 338) mentions a 'Corpus
Christi MS,' apparently mistaking Jacobson's
notation C. C. ('Codex Caiensis');
for no such MS exists at Corpus Christi
College in either Oxford or Cambridge.
On p. 338 he speaks of 'the two copies
of the... Latin Version belonging to Caius
College Cambridge and Corpus Christi
College Oxford.'
2
This is the case also with Funk,
whose collation (see ni. p. 12) was made
after my own. He still treats the date
as a matter of opinion {Echtheit etc. p.
144, note 5).
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Thus Smith, whose work was published
in 1 709, speaks of this MS as ' ante
quadringentos annos aut circiter, ut ex
characteribus et figuris literarum coniec-
'
turam facere libet, scripto {S. Ignat. Epistolae
prcef.), thus ante-dating
it
by more
than a century and a quarter; and Russel
a few years later (a.d. 1746) describes it
as 'abhinc quingentos annos scriptus'
{Pair. Apost. i. prcef. p. xvii), thus expanding
the error to two centuries.
IGN. I,