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MANUSCRIPTS AND VERSIONS. 109
patristic mss belonging to this Borgian collection, has been transferred
to the Library of the Museo Nazionale at Naples, where I transcribed it.
The portions of the Ignatian Epistles contained in it are (
i )
Hero § 7
HoXvKapTTia irapiOifXTjv v'/tds to the end, followed by (2) Smyr7ucans
from the beginning as far as § 6 •n-ctj/coi'Tos r/ Sm/'wvtos'. They are written
on two loose leaves, or four continuous pages marked e, c, h. '^,
The MS is a 4to with double columns, clearly written. The initial letters
are occasionally very rudely illuminated and the «^'s are generally
coloured. The marks over the n are capriciously inserted or omitted.
Of the date I cannot venture to ex'press an opinion, where Zoega
is
silent. The four pages missing at the beginning,
*>/ ^/ ^/ "t^-, must
have contained the earlier part of the Epistle to Hero, and can hardly
have contained anything else. The Epistle to the Smyrnaeans
is distinctly
numbered the second. Thus the epistles in this Thebaic ms
were arranged in an order different from any which is found in the mss
of other versions and recensions. The ms affords no clue for determining
how many of the Ignatian Epistles
For the present edition I have compared my own text with Ciasca's
and corrected some errors. In other cases, where we differed, I have
this version included.
felt justified in adhering to my own reading as against his. For the
last word which is mutilated in the ms, I read eqo&[e], where he has
eqop['2s.]. My deciphering of the MS in this case agrees with the Greek
Sn/'wvTos, and I have had no opportunity, since my transcript was
made, of comparing it with the original.
3-
LONG FORM.
Besides the original Greek of this recension, a Latin version
exists, omitting however the letter of Mary to Ignatius. This Latin
version was first printed together with the works of Dionysius the
Areopagite by Faber J. Stapulensis, Tgnatii Undecim Epistole (Paris 1498).
The letter of Mary of Cassobola to Ignatius did not appear in this
edition. The twelve letters complete were published by Symphorianus
Champerius (Colon. 1536). The editio princeps of the Greek is that of
1
Moesinger {Suppl. Corp. Ign. p. 30) error is not explained by anything in the
speaksof the Epistle to the' Antiochenes' passage of Cureton (C. /. p. 362 sq) to
as existing in this Coptic version. His which he refers.