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MANUSCRIPTS AND VERSIONS. 131
213 a, The correspondence of Ignatius with the Virgin and S. John ; (2)
fol. 214 a, The twelve Epistles introduced by Ignatil duodecim epistole
ad diversos, but without the usual headings to the several epistles ; (3)
The Laus Heronis ; (4) The Epistle of Pol3^carp, with the heading
Epistola policarpi ad philippensem ccdesiam. Its date is approximately
fixed to the 15th century by the fact that one of the treatises is the
Latin version of the Life of Gregory Nazianzen by Gregory the Presbyter,
translated by Ambrosius Camaldulensis who died a.d. 1490 (see Usshcr
Proleg. p. cxxiii). Great stress was laid on this ms by Romanist writers,
because it omits the words ' et Paubis ' in the enumeration of married
saints and worthies in PJiilad. 4. This led Ussher (I. c.) to call attention
to its late date. It was used by Ussher throughout \
Ten of these mss, here numbered 2— 7, 10— 13, are connected
together by the headings of the epistles, which are substantially the
same in all, though somewhat remarkable in themselves; e.g. ad
philippenses de baptismo scripta de endamiio [variously corrupted] per
eupJianium [variously written] Itxtorem naviin ascensurum ; again, ad
Jm-onem diaconum ecdesiae antiocJienae quern ei dominus ostendit sessufuni
in sede ipsius ; again ad ephesios scripta de smyrna de unitate. Probably
also the same phenomena will be found in 8, g also, though here our
information is defective. These headings are given in Dressel's edition as
they appear in Palat. 150, and the other mss only differ in minor points.
Of the fourteen mss enumerated, I have derived my knowledge of
two [i, 11] from Dressel, and of three [7, 8, 9] from the printed catalogue.
The rest I have inspected, though cursorily in some instances,
and have collated for the end of the Epistle of Polycarp.
These are all the Latin mss which I know to be extant. In Montfaucon's
Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum i.
p. 227, no. 422 of tlie ]mss of
Monte Cassino is stated to contain Epistolae D. Ignatii ad Romanos et
Ephesios. I have inspected this ms. It contains (fol. 131) not the two
Epistles mentioned, but only the opening sentences of the Epistle to
the Romans, 'Ignatius qui et...fundatae in dilectione et fide Christi.'
The mistake has arisen from a very careless reading of the title, which
is Divi Ignatii Epistola ad Romanos de Smyrna per Ephesios. Among
the mss at S. Gall again Haenel in his Catal. gives no. 454 Epistolae
S. Ignatii a notis posteriorls aevi. Codex insignis. This ms also I have
seen. It is a fine copy of Adonis Alartyrologinm followed by other
works. Among these is the following Ignatian matter: (i) p. 343 sq
the Bollandist Martyrology, 'Gloriosa incipit passio sancti ignatii episcopi.
1
In one place (p. 7), commenting on codex.' This must be a slip for Magda-
Ephes. 9, Ussher speaks of ' Meitcnensis lencnsis.
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