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MANUSCRIPTS AND VERSIONS. 113
Epistle begins, takes offence at the grammar and alters accordingly.
I have not noticed any reading in Dressel's collation of the Ignatian
Epistles inconsistent with the supposition that it was copied from
Vatic. 859 and, having myself examined the w. : 11. of both mss in
the Epistle of Polycarp, I am confirmed in this view by the minute
differences, which are at once explained by the phenomena of the
older MS. Still it is barely possible that Oitob. 348 was copied not
from Vatic. 859 itself, but from some ms closely allied to it. The
headings to the epistles are simpler than in the older ms, being of the
type Tov avTou irpos /Aayriycrtov lina-Tokr] Tpirr}. Dressel says of Ottob.
348 * Adsunt in margine schoha, adnotationes, correctiones ac conjecturae
haud contemnendae'. He has not remarked that these marginal
notes are chiefly
in the Epistle to the Romans, where they are
merely various readings derived from the text of the Metaphrast.
Elsewhere its corrections of the text of Vatic. 859 are for the most part
very obvious. These marginal notes are in a different hand from the
MS itself
The title
page (fol. I a) has rov aylov upoixdprvpo lyvarlov tov
6eo(f)6pov cTTicTToXat in rubric : then Trpos TpaWrjcrLov; i-jnarToXr} Seure/aa,
with a side note AetVet 7; o.pXV '^'^ Trpos rpaWrja-Lovs cttiotoXi^s /', t^s
Se. TrpwTT/s TO Trav, but the last line rrj's Se n-pwrr]'; to ttolv seems to be
by a different hand. The text begins about two-thirds down fol. i b.
4. Laurent. Plut. vii. Cod. 21, in the Laurentian library at Florence,
described in Bandini Catal. MSS Grace. Bibl. Laurent, i. p. 269. Some
vv. 11. are given from it by Ussher, who designates
it Flor., and a fuller
but still partial collation appears in Dressel [F].
The volume contains
(i) The Epistles of Ignatius and Polycarp (with the Epistle of Barnabas
attached to the latter); (2) Hippolytus de Cotisummatione Mundi, de
Antichristo, and de Secundo Adventu. The ms is ascribed to the 15th
century, but seems to belong rather to the i6th.
The Epistles of Ignatius, Polycarp, and Barnabas in this ms appear
to have been derived (so far as I have observed) immediately from
Ottob. 348. The title page presents exactly the same appearance, except
that the words T17S 8e TrpwT'j^s to Trdv are omitted ;
the fragment of
the Trallians begins with the same words ws ^'
Kar avra ovv irpa6rr]