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1 1 2 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
ed. Corder.) :
the remaining words from ovv n-paoTrjTO'; onwards are from
the Ignatian Epistle to the Trallians § 4. There is no indication of the
transition from Dionysius to Ignatius in the original ms, but a marginal
note in Greek in a later hand-writing points out the dislocation, to
which attention is also
directed by a drawing of a hand and by a mark
of separation in the text, this mark however being placed not after
(OS 77
Kar avrd (its right place) but after aAXa aXXws, so that the words
ws 7/
Kar avTo. are wrongly assigned to Ignatius. This fact enables us
to trace the parentage of other mss, which I shall describe afterwards.
Thus the Ignatian Epistles are defective at the beginning, the Epistle to
Mary of Cassobola and part of that to the Trallians being wanting'.
The epistles then follow in the usual order as already described. After
the Ignatian Epistles follows the Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
which is blended with the Epistle of Barnabas, just as we have seen
that the Dionysian letter was blended with the Ignatian, the junction
taking place in the same way
in the middle of a sentence. The Epistle
of Barnabas ends on fol. 211b, and after its close is the Armenian note
already mentioned. The rest of fol. 211 b is left blank, and on fol. 212 a
begins the Protevatigelmm J^acobi.
The MS was collated by Dressel, from whom I have taken the various
readings in the Ignatian Epistles. Funk (11. p. xxvii) corrects a few
errors in Dressel's collation, but confirms its general accuracy.
3. Ottobonimius 348, also in the Vatican Library. This MS was
collated by Dressel, who describes it Chartaceus, foliorum quaternariorum
'
min. ineuntis saecuh xiv', and pronounces 'ex uno fonte
cum
Vaticano fluxisse videtur'. Having inspected it myself, I believe it to
be a lineal rather than a collateral descendant of Vatic. 859, and perhaps
a direct copy. The date 'saeculi xiv' is much too early, and xiv
may be a printer's error, as Funk suggests,
for xvi. It contains the
eleven Ignatian Epistles in the same order, followed by the Epistles of
Polycarp and Barnabas welded together in a like manner, the Epistle to
the Trallians being mutilated at the beginning and commencing at the
same place as in the older ms. This is far from convincing in itself; but
there are other indications. The ungrammatical ws 77 ko-t oxto. ovv irpao-
TrfTOS 0/ Fa fie.
859 becomes w 77
kut avrd ovv TrpaoTT/s in OUob. 348,
The natural inference from this fact is that it was copied after the
marginal note to the older ms had been written, and the transcriber,
having been thereby misled as to the point at which the Ignatian
^ Dressel (p. 230) quotes the authority {^v for 6v). This error is inexplicable,
of this and the two mss which I shall They do not any of them commence till
next describe, for a reading in 7rn//. 3
the end of § 4.