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128 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
Hero.
'
Incipit laiis hironis etc....prius faciebas. Expliciunt epistole
sancti martiris ignatii secundi aniwc/ne episcopi sed et gesta passionis
ems et laus hironis discipiili
et successoris eius.^
Polycarp.
(4)
The Epistle of
'
Epistola policarpi martiris smimeoriim episcopi discipiili
sancti johajinis incipit. Policarpus et qui cum eo...amen. Explicit
epistola sancti policarpi episcopi et martiris.^ This MS is ascribed to
the 1 2th century in the Catalogue: 'in folio sur beau velin', *manuscrit
de 145 feuillets en belle minuscule.' I have myself inspected it,
and collated it for the end of Polycarp's Epistle.
3. Paris. Bibl. Nat. 1639 (formerly Colbert. 1039), parchment, fol.
double columns, described in the Catal. Cod. MSS Bibl. Reg. iii. p. 162,
where it is assigned to the 12th century. On the fly
leaf is written
'
Hunc solemneni librum dedit huic monasterio beate marie magister joha7ines
de burgundia etc' As in the Troyes ms, the Ignatian Epistles
follow upon S. Augustine's Commentary on the Galatians : fol. 177 a...
'
cum spiritu vestro fratres. amen. Explicit explanatio sancti augustini
super epistolam ad galathas. Incipit scriptum ignatii episcopi et martyris
discipuli iohannis evangeliste. Ad mariam etc' It contains the
same Ignatian matter; (i) The twelve Epistles, (2) The Martyrology
etc., (3) The Praise of Hero, (4)
The Epistle of Polycarp. The last
however is followed by ' Passio saicti aygtilfi abbatis sociorumque ejus,'
which ends the volume.
Cotelier in his edition of the Apostolic Fathers gives collations
from a ms belonging to the collection of Thuanus (de Thou). This
MS is included in the catalogue of de Thou's library, Catal. Bibl.
Thiian. 11. p. 457 (Paris. 1679, and Hamburg 1704),
from which it
appears that the contents of the volume were exactly the same as
in Paris. 1639, though these contents are very heterogeneous, commencing
with Rufinus' translation of Origen on the Romans and ending
with the Passion of S. Aygulf
I infer therefore that this must
be the same ms, and that it
passed into the Colbert collection with
de Thou's mss generally, whence it was transferred to the Royal Library.
I have already (p. 116) pointed out Whiston's mistake about the ms of
Thuanus.
4. Bruxellensis 5510. So numbered in the Catal. des MSS de
la Bibl. Roy. des Dues de Bourgogne, where it is assigned
to the
first third of the 12th century (xi^). The Ignatian matter (including
the Epistle to Polycarp) is exactly the same as in the two preceding
mss (the catalogue gives
it
imperfectly), and coincides in all essential
respects.
Bruxellensis
5.
703 ;
see the Catal. des MSS etc., as before.