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Il6 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
Ottob. 348. At all events it has no independent value and is useless
for all critical purposes.
In his note on Magti. 8 Cotelier ^\Tites 'participium viroarqaavTi,
quod sequitur in codice Thuaneo, quodque agnoscit barbarus interpres'.
He is evidently alluding to a Greek ms ;
and as in his preface he only
mentions using one Greek ms for these epistles and in his margin here
gives vTTocTTria-avTi as the reading of this ms, it may
be assumed that he
is referrinsf to it also in his note. But how comes he to describe it as
belonging to Thuanus (de Thou), when in his preface he states that
Claude Joly was the owner of it Elsewhere, so far as I am aware, he
never designates
it Thnaneus. The difficulty seems not to have occurred
to subsequent editors. Whiston, who in his edition of these
epistles {Primitive Christianity i. p. 102 sq) gives the various readings
of Cotelier's ms throughout, marks it T and calls it 'that of Thuanus'
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So too Cureton and Zahn
ii). designate
it without
misgiving. This ready acquiescence of later editors is
probably due to
the fact that they did not use Cotelier's original work (a.d. 1672) but
one or both of Leclerc's editions of Cotelier (so certainly Zahn p.
xxiii,
note I ;
and for Whiston see Advertisement p. iii), in which Cotelier's
preface, containing an account of the ms, is omitted. I am disposed
to think that 'in codice Thuaneo' is a slip of Cotelier. He elsewhere
frequently gives the readings
of a Latin 'codex Thuaneus' of these
epistles, which I shall describe below, and may accidentally have
substituted the wTong name in this place. It is difficult to see
how the MS of Claude Joly can ever have belonged to the hbrary of
de Thou.
In the catalogue of de Thou's library, published by Quesnel
(Paris 1679) ^ fs^^ years after Cotelier's edition appeared, but before this
library was dispersed, there is no mention of a Greek ms of the Ignatian
Epistles, whereas the Latin ms is duly entered. A '
codex Thuaneus '
therefore could hardly have been in Joly's possession at this time.
It will have appeared from the description that the last four mss
have no independent value, as there is
every
they are lineally descended from Vatic. 859. They may
reason to believe that
therefore be
safely neglected. It would be worse than useless to encumber the
apparatus criticus with their various readings.
7. Nydpriiccianus [gj], the ms from which Gesner printed his edition.
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The editor (prsef. p. 4) says Graecum exemplar manuscriptum nactus
[sum] ex bibliotheca CI. V. piae memoriae D. Gaspari a Nydprugck
von [i.e. Nienburg, or I
Newenburg].' have investigated in all likely
quarters, and cannot find that this MS is still in existence. As it does
not appear to have been seen by any one since Gesner, it may have