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OLD-LATIN BIBLICAL TEXTS, No. I (g1).

THE reader is requested to correct the following mistakes. For those in the text I am indebted to M. Samuel Berger, who has been good enough to collate afresh the whole amount of matter reprinted from the MS., both in the Introduction and the body of the work. M. Berger has also called attention to some interesting marginalia attached to 185 out of the 316 paragraphs into which the Gospel according to St. John is divided, written in barbarous Latin and having no relation to the text. They are in fact, instances of what is called Sortes Sanctorum, on which he refers to Ducange, s. v., and Chabaneau Rev. des langues romanes, 3d series t. iv. pp. 157 and 264, 1880. They are such sentences as Perfectum opus; Insperata causa perficitur; Quod uerum est dicito; Si mentiris arguent te; Gloria magna; Pro manifestatione; De iuditio quod uerum est si dixeris, libens eris; Ad peregrinatione itineris uenies-which we may compare with the old classical sortes: see Corp. Inscr. Lat. I. nos. 1438-1454 and my Fragments and Specimens of Early Latin, p. 241 foll., Oxford, 1874. Mr. G. M. Youngman copied all these sentences for me in his revision of Walker's collation of St. John, in the spring of 1884. M. Berger suggests that the writer of these sortes also wrote the monogram at the end of the Gospel of St. John (Bulletin Critique, p. 364, 1884).

Page x, line 3 from bottom, read intona eterne.

Page xi, line 18, Haec insunt for Haec sunt.

Page xii, line 3, Habet Apostolus uersus IIII. DCCCC. LXVIIIC*.* Mr. J. Rendel Harris (in the American Journal of Philology, vol. v. p. 94, 1884) has pointed out that we have here a mixture of two readings, one of which gave St. Paul 4968 uersus, the other 5000, and that the final c was a correction probably placed originally over the LXVIII. Cp. the note on fol. 183, 2, below. Page xii, line 10, at the end of 2 Cor. Scribta [de] Macedonia uersus ALXX. Mr. Harris explains the enigma, I think correctly, by supposing that the scribe of the archetype, in representing the Greek stichometry of Euthalius and other writers and the scribes of early Greek MSS. (who give this epistle 590 stichi), mistook the symbol for 90 (O, which is generally, and often degenerates

into) and misread it as 60 (§), which is often like the latter form. The corrector then wrote Xc above it; but, as in the foregoing case, our scribe wrote both text and correction side by side. "The same mistake is repeated in the subscription to the Galatians 'Scribta de urbe Roma uersi CCLXIIIXC.... The proper number of verses to the Galatians is 293.... The same error in reading the sign for go is found in the subscription to Titus, which has 67 verses instead of 97, and in 1 Thess." Mr. Harris proceeds, "The common confusion between H and N has given rise to an error in Philippians, which has 350 verses instead of 208." The result is that with these corrections the stichometry of the MS. is nearly identical with that of Euthalius and early Greek MSS.

Unfortunately none of these totals agrees with either of the two mentioned in the MS. itself, viz. 4968 or 5000. There is therefore something still unexplained. Page xii, line 2 from bottom read mandata ac similitudines.

As to the mutilation of the Pastor at the end of the book Dr. Oscar

von Gebhardt writes Th. Ltzg. p. 595, 1884) that it had probably taken place as early as the XVth century, only at Vis. IV. 3 instead of Vis. III. 8. This he infers from the fragment contained in Cod. Paris. Lat. 5613, which was almost certainly copied from our MS., and which ends at Vis. IV. 3 with the words 'alba autem pars superuenturi seculi.' He adds that Tischendorf possessed a copy of the fragment of Hermas in our MS., which was used by Harnack in 1877 and by himself in 1882.

Page xxi, headline, put a full stop after R. SIMON.

xxii, note 1, The Corbey St. Matthew is now numbered Ov. 3 (D. 326) in the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg.

xxii, note 2, Mr. Belsheim has since reprinted St. James from the MS. itself Der Brief des Jakobus in alter lat. Uebersetzung aus der Zeit vor Hieronymus nach Codex ff Corbeiensis, &c., Christiania, P. T. Malling, 1883. I have also printed it in a more exact form from a collation kindly made by Prof. V. Jernstedt of St. Petersburg, with an essay on its relation to other texts in the volume of Studia Biblica (Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism); by Oxford scholars, to be published early in this year at the University Press (1885). In the same note for Epistles of Barnabas read Epistle.

Page xxxii, note I read vor Hieronymus (for von).

xxxiv, line 22, for v. 72 read v. 47.

XXXV, line 14, for corb. 1. 2 read corb. 2. Corb. I reads sicut nix with the Vulgate and g1. For further criticism of the readings on this and the following page, see Prof. Sanday in the Academy, Sept. 20, 1884, p. 178. Page xlii, line 5 from bottom, read 'Tischendorf and Tregelles in their editions of the Codex Amiatinus. Both of course notice the general question of the punctuation of John i. 3, 4, in dealing with the Greek text.

The sign implies that the Appendix Martianaei Errores also needs

correction.

Page 54, line 7 from bottom, for urbis read nobis.

56 in description of λ (Lat. 250) read foll. 105, binis columnis, as M. Kohler kindly informs me.

Page 64, note 3, add:-As the Greek Testament collations belonging to Walker were bought from his heirs by Trinity College under my Grandfather's mastership (1820-1841), and were not part of the collections left by Dr. Bentley's nephew Richard to the College (see Bentley's Correspondence, p. 807, note to p. 552, l. 5), it is perhaps less likely that they were in Bentley's hands at the time of Walker's death. But the whole matter is obscure.

Pages 68-79, in the headlines of column 1 read Martianaeus (for Martinaeus) and correct the notes on iii. 11, vi. 29, xii. 1, xxiii. 34, xxv. 41, xxvi. 70, in all but one of which (vi. 29) Martianay's reading is correct or partly correct. In vi. 29 read 'quia' in col. 2 instead of om.

Besides Mr. Harris, I have to thank Professor Ernest von Ranke for his notice of the book in Lit. Centralblatt, p. 1410 foll., Oct. 4, 1884; Dr. Hermann Roensch in Hilgenfeld's Zeitschrift; Dr. O. von Gebhardt in the Theologische Literaturzeitung, p. 594 foll., Dec. 13, 1884; Prof. S. Berger in the Paris Bulletin Critique, pp. 361-366, Sept. 15, 1884; Dr. C. R. Gregory in the Guardian, Aug. 1884, p. 1034; my colleague, Dr. W. Sanday, in the Academy, p. 177 f., Sept. 20, 1884, and several others. The encouragement of so many eminent scholars shews that the utility of the series is recognized by those best qualified to express a judgment.

ST. MARY'S ENTRY, OXFORD,

Feb. 23, 1885.

JOHN WORDSWORTH.