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82 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
johannem evangelistam,' (15) Ignacius johanni evangeliste,' (16)
'
Ignacius sancte marie,' and (17)
'
Ignacio sancta maria'; the whole
'
terminating with 'Expliciunt epistole ignacii
martiris numero decem et
septem.' It will be observed that the Epistle to the Philippians is
wanting in this version.
Ussher does not appear to have used the ms itself for his edition.
In his correspondence with his friend Dr Ward, the Master of Sidney
College, he negociates about procuring a transcript, which at length he
mentions as having been received by his agent (Elrington's Life and
Works of Ussher xv. pp. 482, 504, 540, 542). Ward distinctly says
that ' '
the ms cannot be let out of the college (xv. p. 504) and a
\
Mr Foster of Emmanuel College
is mentioned as a likely person to
transcribe it, having 'taken some pains already in it' {ib.\ The task
however seems ultimately to have been assigned to one Younger, a
scholar and librarian of Gonville and Caius College
'.
A transcript of this ms also exists in the library of Caius Coll.
(ms 445). It is thus described in the Catalogue (p. 212); 'This seems
to be the transcript from MS 395 made for Archbishop Ussher's edition
of Ignatius. It is
very neatly and on the whole accurately written.' Of
its
accuracy I shall have something to say presently ;
but this was certainly
not the transcript which Ussher used. He makes arrangement
for defraying the costs of transcribing {Life and Works xv. pp. 482,
540), and evidently looks on the transcript, when made, as his own
property nor is there ; any reason why
it should have been returned to
the college, where it was least of all wanted.
In fact the transcript which Ussher used is still in the library of
Dublin University, where it is marked D. 3.
11. On the second page
(the first is blank excepting the date) is written in Ussher's handwriting;
'
Hoc Ignatianarum Epistolarum apographum ex Bibliotheca CoUegii
Gunwelli et Caii apud Cantabrigienses descriptum coUatum est a me
cum alio MS membranaceo, ex Bibliotheca D. Richardi Montacutii
Norwicensis episcopi petito.' This manuscript
is written in the same
handwriting with the Caius transcript (445). It contains the same
prefatory instructions with regard to certain symbols which the transcriber
uses, the same marginal notes, and (for the most part) the same
misreadings. On the first, otherwise blank, page
the transcriber dates
^
This may be inferred from the fol- wrighting out Ignatius Epistles and a
lowing extract from the Liber Bursarii Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the
— 1609 1634 of the College, sent to me by Library xiii^. 4''.' This W. Younger is
Prof. Bensly; 'Ad Festum Mich. 1631... described in 1632 as 'prius scholaris et
Item to S'' [i.e. Dominus] Younger for bibliothecarius hujus collegii.'