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THE ANNUAL ACCOUNTS OF THE COLLATION 
 OF THE MSS. OF THE SEPTUAGINT VERSION 
 
THE 
 
 U 
 
 FIRST ANNUAL ACCOUNT 
 
 9-F / 
 
 THE COLLATION OF THE MSS. 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SEPTUAGINT-VERSION. 
 
 TO WHICH IS PREFIXED 
 
 4 T R A C T. 
 ^Y ROBERT HOLMES, B,D. 
 
 PROFESSOR. OF POETRY IN THE , UNIVERSITY OF 03£F0RD; 
 RECTOR or STA^JTON, 
 AND LATE FEIXOW OF NEW COLLEGE.. ■ 
 
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 As the Collation of all the MSS. of the 
 Septuagint-Verfion, and the Publication 
 of their Various Readings, is a work of great 
 extent, and therefpre,, requires able literary 
 affirtance both ^t |)pme ;and abroad, it cfen 
 only be condui^ed upon the . fqpport which 
 it may pleale the Publick to give it. Dp- 
 firous, then, of taking the opinion of the 
 learned Publicfc upop ^he expediency. of fuch 
 a vvork, and of afcerjaining what jencpurage-r 
 ment and fupport .w^uld be ^iyi^n tp the pdrfon 
 who (hould un^effa|ie jt, I.fulj^itted/firft'iofi 
 all to the Delegates, of tl^e.Clareqdon-Pfdfs 
 the following Propofal. 
 
 I T appears tP' be SL prevailing opiiiion 
 among the learned in Sacred Criticifm, that 
 the prefent meains of determining the genuine 
 tenour of the Scriptural Text would be much 
 enlarged j if the MSS. of the Septuagint-Ver- 
 fion were collated, as thofe of the Hebrew 
 Original have been, and the Collations pub- 
 liftied in one view. 
 
 The reafonablenefs of this opinion depends 
 
 upon confiderations, with which it may be 
 
 ' A pre- 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 prefumed that the Publick is already ac- 
 quainted. 
 
 1. Upon the Antiquity of the Septaagint- 
 Verfion. For as this Verfion was made long 
 before the contiing of Chrift, the copies, 
 which the Seventy had in their hands, were 
 neceffarily more pure and perfe6t than any 
 later tranfcripts. 
 
 2. Upon the Authority of the Septuagint- 
 Verfion. For as this Verfion was admitted 
 and long ufed fingly by the Jewilh Church, it 
 flands vouched and fandtioned as a true and 
 faithful Verfion of the- Sacred Text, 
 
 3. Upon the beneficial effeds which have 
 been actually found for a courfe of time, and 
 particularly of late, to refult from a critical 
 application . of this Verfion to the Hebrew 
 Original. By the help of the Pachomian MS. 
 interpolations in the Prophetical Text have 
 been detedted, mutilations of it difcovered, 
 and loft readings fupplied, fo frequently, that 
 beneficial confequences of the fame kind may 
 be juftly expeded from a fimilar application, 
 of other Septuagint-MSS. to other parts of 
 Scripture. 
 
 4. Upon 
 
 . ( 3 ) 
 
 4. Upon this circumftancc~ alfo'; that Edi- 
 tors of the Septuagfnt have fbmetimes ventured 
 to adjuft the Greek Verfion to the Hebrevir 
 Text and to the New-Teftament Citations,' as 
 they feverally flood at the' time, although it 
 might be, as it has fi nee appeared to be the 
 cafe, that neither the Hebrew nor New Tef- 
 tament-Text were free from corruptions. 
 
 For thefe and other rcafons which may be 
 and have been'afllgned, it has been the hope 
 of thofe who are moft verfed in Biblical Cri- 
 ticifm, that the Publick would be difpofed to 
 encourage 
 
 A COLLATION OF ALL THE MSS. 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SEPTUAG I NT- VERSION. 
 
 With a view to fuch a work, I fubmit 
 with much refpedt the prefent Propofal ; and 
 if it fliall be favoured with that countenance 
 andfupport which may enable me to carry on 
 the undertaking, I will enter upon it without 
 delay, and proceed with afliduity and faithful- 
 nefs in fulfilling my engagement to complete it. 
 
 The 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 Theijhing^. thjit, app^^r to me rqquifite in 
 
 i^ Tl?af, all jyiSS. IjnQVvn or ^i/goverable at 
 l^op[X9^i;;^.ljiro^^,,iif pfior to the Jpvention of 
 Printing, (hpuld be carefully coated with 
 (fj).^ printed X^^^ > and ?(\] p^rti?ularitie5 in 
 which thsy 4iffer frpi^a it djftind^ly noted, 
 
 2. That printed l^'^itions and Verfions made 
 from all, or part? of That by the Seventy ; and 
 Citations from [^ byEcclefiaftical Writers (with 
 9 diilinftion a$ to thofe who wrote before the 
 time of Aquila or after it) (hould alfo be col- 
 lated with the fame printed Text, and all their 
 variations from it refpedively afcertained. 
 
 3. That thefe materials, when collected, 
 fhould be all reduced to one plain view, and 
 printed either under the Text with which the 
 feveral Collations have been made, as by Dr. 
 Kennicott j or without the Text, as by De- 
 Rofli. 
 
 4. That references (hould be made to MSS. 
 by Numbers ; to Verfions by Name j to Ci- 
 tations of Writers by Name, Place, and Edi- 
 tion. 
 
 5. That 
 
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 ; 5; That aj^ account in Latin (hould be 
 given of MSS. collated -, containing fuch de- 
 fcriptions of them, in afll particulars, as may 
 ?p*ble the readeV to judge of the date and au- 
 thority of each M^VrefpedlivelyV and fpecify- 
 ing the Number py which it will invariably be 
 referred to. j' 
 
 This difpofitiin of materials will place the 
 fa^ in all afl3g^able refpecits before the read- 
 er; and leave the ufe and application of the 
 whole in any c^fe entirely to himfelf. Thus 
 the work would be equally ferviceable to the 
 learned of all defcriptions, who are friends 
 to the Sacred V9lume. 
 
 Upon thefe principles, and with a diredt 
 view to thefe requifites, it is intended at pre- 
 fent to proceed in the work. 
 
 1 ' ^ I 
 
 On confideration of this Propofal, the De- 
 legates were pleafed to make the fubfequent 
 Orders ; 
 
 - Oxford, Delegates' Room, Mar. 4. 1788. 
 
 THE Delegates of the Prefs, in the Uni- 
 verfity of Oxford, this day met, were pleafed 
 to promote Mr. Holmes's intended Collation 
 by the following. Orders $ 
 
 That 
 
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 , Hiat this Delegacy do allow to Mr. Holmes 
 |ihe fum of forty pounds annually, for three 
 j years next immediately enfuing (renewable as 
 joccafion rhay require) towards encouraging his 
 ' propofed Collation of the MSS. of the Septua- 
 gint-Verfion. 
 
 That one fuch annual furn be now paid by 
 the Vice-chancellor j and continued at the be* 
 ginning of every year, upon Mr. Holmes's ex- 
 hibiting his Collations for the year preceding 
 to the Board : and alfo on condition, that Mr, 
 Holmes (hall depofit his Collations in the Bod- 
 kian Library, fubjea to his ufe of them when 
 necellary, to be there preferved ; and, when 
 the whole is finiflied, to be printed at the 
 lUniverfity-Prefs, at the expence and for the 
 I benefit of Mr. Holmes or his affigns, if he 
 j ftiall live to compleat the Collations. In cafe 
 j of the Collations being left imperfeft, the fame 
 j to be at the difcretion of the Delegates j they 
 i undertaking to promote the finilliing them, to 
 I the beft of their power j and to publifh them 
 i when finifhed, allowing to Mr. Holmes's af- 
 jfigns a juft proportipn of the profits. 
 
 ' Supported fo far, I took the next ftep, that 
 : feemed proper, of extending the application to 
 
 other 
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 Other Unxverfities J- and.Lthe .nounificent Sub- 
 icriptioiis of iCanibridge,. Dublin^ ar>d Glaf- 
 gow» bora ample teftimony to the favourable 
 opinion which thofe refpedtable and learned 
 Bodies entertained of the work. 
 
 Upon fuch honourable :. encouragement, ' I 
 came, with greater confidence, to prefent in 
 the laft place my Pollicitation to the Publick 
 at large >; and the; fuccefsj with which it has 
 been attended, has exceededjin this early ftage 
 ofj the, bufinefsj' any expectations I could have 
 ventured to form. With a due fenf&of £o dif- 
 tinguifhed a mark of publick favour, I em- 
 brace this, opportunity of repeating my very 
 thankful acknowledgments to every Friend and 
 Patron of the ^undertaking.— The lift of Sub- 
 fcrjbers, as it ftands.at, prefent, is prefixed to 
 theAccount.r- , • i ^u , 
 
 J.! 
 
 Iritrufted, then,', as I have' been by the 
 Publick with the conduft and execution of 
 this work, I hold it my duty, at the time 
 of my producing the Collations made in each 
 year before the Delegates of ^he, Clarendon-- 
 Prefs, to prefent the Publick alfo with an 
 Account of the progrefs made j of the intel- 
 ligence that may have been received refpeding 
 MSS. in foreign countries, and of the perfons 
 
 employed 
 
 "•T 
 
"^pwn* 
 
 r 
 
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 employed in collating them j; and of every 
 I other matter of confequence .relating to the 
 ] work, and to the application of the publick 
 iSubfcription. • :■. ■ ■-;- -;..i 
 
 By fuch a view as this, the learned will be 
 better enabled to judge from time to time of 
 the nature and circumftances of the undertak- 
 ing; of the competency of the perfons afting 
 in it i of the pecuniary, fupplies requifite for 
 carrying it on with all propdr expedition; 
 and of the probable time when it may ' be 
 completed. , .. , . (!.■,' 
 
 i , ; •••• • , 'i ■■ . ■''■ ■■■- ■■■,'■ 
 
 \ But before I proceed to the main purpofe of 
 Ithis Firft Account, it may not be unaccept- 
 able to the learned reader, if I .fliould Sub- 
 mit to him at more length, than I did in the 
 Propofal, fome obfervations together i with fe- 
 ledl examples, tending to ihew the credit and 
 importance of the Septuagint- Verfion, and fo 
 to juftify in fome degree that encouragement 
 with which this undertaking has been favour- 
 ed already,, and, if it may be, to procure, it 
 additional fupport. 
 
 SECTION 
 
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 S E C T I N I. 
 
 Concerning the teptuagint-Verfion—dnd its re- 
 lation to the Hebrew. — injiances of its agree- 
 ment with the Samaritan P^ent at euch— general 
 reJkSlion on that agreement. 
 
 THE Greek Verfion of the Seventy was in 
 fadt the very inftrument which the Pro- 
 vidence of God ufed in the converfion of both 
 Jews and Gentiles to the paith of Chrift j and 
 the Chriftians of early times had either that Ver- 
 fion, or Tranflations made from it, for their 
 {landing Bible. It {hould feem therefore, that 
 the Septuagint- Verfion, confidered even in this,^ 
 light only, is entitled not only to the refpedt 
 but even to the veneration of Chriftians, and 
 confcquently deferveS all efforts, on their part, 
 to preferve or reinftate it in that purity, which 
 it formerly pofleflfed. 
 
 However, the common eftimation of this 
 Verfion is rather founded upon the relation it 
 bears to the Hebrew Original. And indeed it 
 appears, upon this ground, a treafure of un- 
 queftionable value. For without depreciating 
 
 B the 
 
 '■ r 
 
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 the authority and preeminence of the Original 
 Text as fuch, and without any miiplaced pre- 
 ference of the Septuagint-Verfion, the judicious 
 reader of Scripture may apply it with great 
 advantage as an occafional witnefs in what 
 places and how far the Scriptural Text, as 
 it ftands before us, differs from that flate in 
 which the Copies, from which the Seventy 
 tranflated, prefented it to them. 
 
 This point ftands adually verified by that 
 critical application of the Septuagint-Verfion 
 to this purpofe, which has been made already 
 by many eminent hands. Of the examples, 
 which they have given, I have feledled fome, and 
 fhall fubrait them to the prefent confideration 
 of the learned reader ; and they will, I truft, 
 carry with tliem ftrong evidence in fupport of 
 what is here aflerted, I fhall not however 
 lay them before him without this prefatory 
 caution; that, utterly difclaiming any inten- 
 tion of contending for the Greek Text to the 
 prejudice and degradation of the Hebrew, I 
 endeavour only to fhew that the Septuagint- 
 Verfion, if tak-en thxoughout all its parts in 
 conjundion with the Original Text,^ is of all 
 the auxiliary means, that we pofTefs, the mofl 
 likely to add ftrength and clearnefs to that 
 light, in which fo important an object, as the 
 
 genuine 
 
 ( " ) 
 
 genuine and original tenour of Scripture, ought 
 of right to be prefented^ to every Chriflian 
 reader'. 
 
 ■^he places, in w|^ich tkc Hebrew and Sa- 
 maritan Pentateuj:!?^ nosy ^i^f," are extremely 
 numerous. In morp than g^oo of 'tHefe places, 
 as they^arp enumerated" in "t^V catalogue" of 
 Mr. Whiflon, th|e Sep^tia^lni-yerfion accords 
 with the Samaritap, ' "^-. . ... , 
 
 This reprefeptation coniprifes a multitude of 
 inft^nces, alj of tl^emjmbre'orlefs/concurring to 
 fhew tI?efaji;hi^ulne]s'jpif,the'Greek'^T^^^ For 
 particular examination, I'fhall' fpecify the fub- 
 fequent places, reprefenting the Hebrew ac- 
 cording to our En^lifh Verfion ; and the Sa- 
 maritan according to Mr. Whiflon's tranflation. 
 
 iv. 8. Heb. " And Cain .t^Jke;d with Abel 
 his brother: ai?d it canje to p'3fs''''&c/ ' ' 
 
 Here the JeWs left a blank with a mark 
 aifix,ed ; .^d tpp .aytl^ors of the Mafora at this 
 pla-ce note I^^at.\l^?|-e>i;e|^hr6u^li6ut their He- 
 brew Text twenty-eigh't fuchTmperfed' verfes. 
 
 Sept. K*) «7r6 Kdiv "sr^W " aCsA tov i^th(pov ewT<^. 
 M^S-cofiiv ilf TO Tii^or Kcu iyima &c. 
 
 B 2 Sam. 
 
 L 
 
( 
 
 12 
 
 ) 
 
 Sam. And Cain /aid unto Abel his brother, 
 t-et us go into the field-, and it came to pafs &c. 
 
 The Englifh tranflation, *« talked with," 
 inftead of, Jaid unto, feems of itfelf to im- 
 ply that the tranflators fufpeded an omiflion. 
 In the infertion of the words here attributed 
 to Cain, the Septuagint-Verfion is fupported, 
 not only by the Samaritan copy, but alfo by 
 the Syriack Verfion, and by two Jewifh Tar- 
 gums ; all three made from the Hebrew itfelf: 
 by the citation qf Phijo, Trad^. Quod Dete- 
 nus infidietur Potiori, p, 155 : by that of Cle-r 
 mens Romanus, cap. 4 ; by the old Latin Ver- 
 non, Tertqll. gdv. Jud. §. c : and by the Vql' 
 gar liatin, 
 
 xli. 16. Heb. " God {hall give Pharaoh an 
 anfwer of peace." 
 
 Sept. " Knv Tov 3'iS ovK ATroKotS'Tja-iTcij to- a-atTv\fm 
 
 Sam. Without God. there fhall not an an- 
 fwer of peace be givei^ to Pharaoh. 
 Compare Gen. xl. 8. 
 
 xliii. ?3i 
 
 ( »3 ) 
 
 xliii. 28. Heb. "He is yet alive. And they 
 bowed down their headsj and made obeifance." 
 
 Sept. ^Ert ^' y^ HTTiVy ivXoyri^'^vof 9 ay^puwos 
 
 kniivOf ru QiM' Kj KV^pcCVTiff &C. 
 
 Sam. he is yet alive. • jind he /aid, let that 
 man be blejfed of God : and they bowed &c. 
 
 Exod, 
 
 xii. 40. Heb. ^' Now the fojourning of the 
 children of Ifrael, who dwelt ;n Egypti w^s 
 four hundred ^nd thirty years." 
 
 , Sept. 'n JSe KctToUtia-is rm ifuv 'l(r^«t^A, '^v xetTUKij- 
 auv iv yj ^\ywrT(a Hxti ly y>) %avet,oi,v, dint) xa/ oj Tin- 
 Tifis auTuv, gT(j TiT^ctKoa-icb T^ianonu. MS. Ox. 
 
 Sam. Now the -fojourning of the children 
 of Ifrael, and of their fathers, which they fo- 
 journed in the land of Canaan, and in the land 
 of Egypt, was 430 years. 
 
 The children of Ifrael fojdurned in Egypt 
 during a period only of 215 years; and their 
 fathers^ fojourned in Canaan during a previous 
 period alfo of 21 5 years J and thefpecified fum of 
 430 years will not be completed, unlefs both 
 thefe periods are laid together, as the Verfion 
 pf the Seventy implies they were. That the 
 
 . He- 
 
( 1+ ) 
 
 Hebrew Text originally ftopd gofrefpondent to 
 their reprefeqtation, appear? from the Samari- 
 tan J and, as Dr. Owen has obferved, from 
 the Targum of I. Beh Uziel j and from a 
 printed book, (651 Coll. Kennicott) which 
 actually prefented an Heb;:ew reading anfwer- 
 ing to the Sept. Greek, k^I h yji XoLmctv. And 
 it is to be obferved further, that St, Paul, 
 Ep. Galat. iii, 17, reprefents the Law as 430 
 years pofterior to the Covenant made with 
 Abraham. When that Patriarch quitted Jia- 
 ran to fojourn in a ftrange country, then it 
 was that the Covenant with him took place j 
 and the Law was given almoft immediately 
 after the Exodus from Egypt. The interme-- 
 diate years were 430. See Exod. xii, 41. 
 
 '( ^5 ) 
 
 of Origen,^the cdfr'refporid^nt 'Hebrew. not be- 
 ing in his copy, ^though in 'the Samarjtaii. 
 
 Levitic. ., - 
 
 - iv. >29,iHeb. ^'In^the^ place Dfthe-burjit- 
 
 ofFering." 
 
 Sept. £f Tu viTra, ov <r<piit^ii(n to. oXoKOLVTufictia. 
 
 Sam. -In the, place, where they Jl/iy the burnt- 
 offering. 
 
 Ml . I.I I IP^fP^P^H^p.*- 
 
 V. 6. Heb. ** Concerning his fin." 
 
 Sept. Trtgj Tjjf ekfidfTla^ auTw, fjs yifuteu^ Koi 
 
 Sam. Concerning hia &n^w&ic& he hatb.Jin- 
 ned; and it Jhall be forgiven him. 
 
 I xl. 17. Heb. '* In the fecond year, on the 
 ■ firft day of the month." 
 
 Sept. Tu ^iVTifi^ ini, IhcTrpfUJOf^ivay nun^v e^ Ai- 
 
 Sam. In the fecond year, from the. coming out 
 ' df Egypt, on the firft day of the month. 
 
 • The Greek wprds, which lie within brackets, 
 
 • ft^nd in theColb?rtinMS, und,?r.lihePl?elus 
 
 of 
 
 xvii. 4. Heb.' "And- briflgeth it not unta 
 the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, 
 to offer an offering unto the Lord before the 
 tabernacle of the Lord" — 
 
 ■Sept. ^iyr) T B-vfOLv '? irxrivyif ^ fiAfrvfta fMi myy.y\, 
 
 ^iKTov ik OTftijv ivcoS'U;' KUj OS kv •c(pa,h\i^a, -Kaj ivri 
 Ttiv S-v^ay TYii (r«.rfvtis toiJ /M,pTveiii ^^ iviyK^ cwtc,'\ 4)Vs 
 TTfrmyKai ^cUpov &c. 
 
 Sam. 
 
 i_- 
 
— " 'ii nnn i a>«i i m iiwi #i>i) i i' i 
 
 ( i6 ) 
 
 Sam. And bringeth it not unto the door o( 
 the tabernacle of the congregation, that he 
 may make it a bumt-ofefing, cr peace-offerings to 
 the Lord, for your acceptance, for an odour of a 
 fweetfmeU: and he that flays it without, and 
 does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of 
 the congregation to offer it &c. 
 
 The Greek words, that lie within brackets, 
 Hand in the Colbertitl MS. under the Obelus 
 of Origen, the correfpondent Hebrew not be- 
 ing in his copy, though in the Samaritan. 
 
 Numb. . rt f " 
 
 iv. 14. Heb. ** And put to the ftaves ot it. 
 
 Sept. «>a) <5i6^e*A»<r< ToW kvA(pof(ii mtS' Kd) Af 
 
 ' Sam. And put to the ftaves of it : and they 
 Jhall take a cloth of fear let ; and they jh all cover 
 the laver, and its bafe; and they pall put tt for 
 a covering of badgers-fkins ; and they pall put 
 them upon thejiaff'. 
 
 ( -'V ) 
 
 Deuteron. 
 
 xviii. 5. Hejj. «f jTo^ai?! t(?/nioifter; in th« 
 name of the Lord, him and his fons for ever." 
 
 Sept. ToiftfMBti.iviiimlLnfiis tovBiS; 'f\AiTijiyiai s(^ 
 
 8aiTi.,..T6 Itand bifohi the Lord thy God; to 
 minijler to him, and to blefs in his hafnei him 
 and his fons for ever. 
 
 xxvii. 26. Het. ** Curfed fee lie that con - 
 firrneth not the words or {his la,w to ^6 tliem." 
 
 iv -srcuri TOis /^iyoif tS ySji>t' rihi 'Bfil^TOi aih^i. 
 
 The Apoftpl'caJ gij^tion, Ep, Qalat. 3. 10. 
 ftands thus,: 'tktKAT»pa,TOf jras os pyx-jifj-fiindiv ^«,(r( 
 
 From. the reafoning 9f;Jdftiri, Di«l.-/;pag.' -345. 
 Ed;;TJbiTlb. it feems.thart be read .wwiri in iiis 
 Greek copy, upon which, word the ^argument 
 of the Apoftle depends. 
 
 siEctr9'N 
 
 L 
 
 
( i8 ) 
 
 S E C T ION 
 
 II. 
 
 RefleBion upon the preceding - examples — of the 
 Septuagint-Ferfion, as to its differences from 
 the Samaritan and Hebrew Pentateuchs — that 
 
 ,- it is not left unfupported in thofe differences, 
 Jhewn by examples. 
 
 UPON all the preceding examples feverally 
 confidered, the Biblical Scholar might not 
 perhaps come to the fame determination. But, 
 however this may be, what I am to obferve is, 
 that fince the Hebrew and Samaritan Penta- 
 teuchs originally agreed, and the Septuagint- 
 Verfion is fupported in fo many places by the 
 Samaritan Text, there is reafon to think that 
 the Seventy in their Greek reprefented the Sa- 
 cred Code as it flood in the Hebrew copies 
 from which they tranflated, with all the fide- 
 lity and accuracy in their power; and therefore 
 that their teftimony as to the ftate of it in their 
 time is of very great weight. 
 
 To give this prefumption additional ftrength, 
 it may be obferved further, as to places in 
 which thq Septuagint-Verfion is not corref- 
 
 pondent 
 
 '( 19 -) 
 
 poiident with either the Hebrew or the Samsi- 
 ritan; that even in thofe places^ the Verfipn is 
 not left unfupported" by kuthorities " and rea- 
 fons of fufficient,cf edibility. ^ i .,,..,. i . 
 
 C~1 
 
 V] - 
 
 This may alio be verified by, examples. 
 
 GeneC -., ; ;, .;,,,, .;,-,,; ,rj.>: .:. i ■ ' ■' 
 ,,viii.i4. Ifeb..;*f.And the, ark refted in the 
 feventh month, pn, the feYenteqnth day of the 
 month, upon the mountains of Ararat." 
 
 • Sept. K*i 'iKciQ-KnV'^ Kt^TOS-iV'fMJVtTa i<oaOfM, 
 
 I Jt was not till after the end of 150 days thaf 
 the .waters were abated; fee ver. 3. compared 
 with Ch. vii, ver. 24. But if the reader com- 
 putes 30 days in e^ch month, h?. will find that 
 the 150"' day, was t^e J7''' day of the feventh 
 month. According, theuj, to,jthe,fiebrew, the 
 ark refted upop, Ararat pn that .very day, to 
 which the ab^tem,ent_of the waters is repre- 
 fented as fubfcquent. j If the. reader computes 
 lefs tl^an 30 days in each niontlj,' he will fipd 
 the inconfiftency much greater. But the Text, 
 as it ftood in the-copy-from- which the Sep- 
 tuagint tranflated, reprefented the ark to have 
 f^efted upon Ararat .Jeajj ay ^^ aft?rjthp waters be- 
 8ai?li;o',abatc. '^'^Z7'^ "■ '"'■ '^;/' . ' 
 ' ' C 2 The 
 
 1 
 
( ?p ) 
 
 ^he E^po/i,, i()5^. y^.rs.jL 9^0^ from %_^locjd tp 
 the bi,i;^h o;f" Ab/J^Uni^, 29.2 y^ars. 
 
 The Samaritan reckons from the Creation 
 to the Flood, 1307 years; from the Flood to 
 the birth of Abraham, 942 years. ' 
 
 The Septuagint reckon from the Creation to 
 the Flood '2 2 56 years; from the Flood to the 
 birth of Abraham, 1072 years. 
 
 ^' The (fJ^cfjnpl^gy pf the. ?eptijagint is 
 fuppojjt^fj^ .al9i?ft. all, together, by. thq h^ftpry 
 of .Jofephus :r— it is n^ore confiftent with it- 
 felf ; more fuitable to the order of nature j and 
 more analPeouf to the knqwn circumftances of 
 the tim,es;^it \yas, moreover, the chronology, 
 which, the primitiye. Church adopted both in 
 the eaft and v^eft. Se^ this, chronology vin- 
 dicated in all its particulars, by Dr. Brett, 
 Effay, ppg. 7, &Ci by^ Ch. Hayes, Efq^. Differ- 
 tation on the Septuaeint-Chronolpgy, §,2, 3, 4; 
 and by Mr. Jackfon, Chronological Antiqui- 
 ties, Vol. L.pag. 36 — 92." Dr. Owen. 
 
 Ntjmb. 
 
 X. 5. According to the Septuagint- Greek in 
 this place, thfi,ijgnal.of«.inarjch.VKas to be given 
 
 to 
 
 ^9 t]?j^ e^ftesn q,n^,tcr, pf tjie IjftaeKtiih camp 
 b,y,;;th?l:i^ft. f9<iW<?l,;ft^ t,l?fi .trapipet i to ; the 
 Ibii^herft quarter,, hy ;th? fec;9»4^.i tq the. weft- 
 ^fn^^i^tei;, b,y;ti^e ^Hi.apd Jftt^iq northern 
 
 'fvvq figpala. qftty,. pijt^ of fQttE,^ ajid : two 
 qya^ters of tljie, ,c9g^p 9p,]y, pwt of fpur,^ are 
 i3[>^tipp.e,4i »!>, 1t.h«; tl<i?t)r^»/; a/i^d; S^mwtan co- 
 pies; and it i,^ j;e;p^fIf.^bJe, t)ia^.,the, weftern 
 ^q4 iy?,^thern qugrtjers- a^e qnyf^ec^; ia the, fqr- 
 vc^Ty^ anjd i\^p., weftqup^ ^n^fquthfiifl in, the . 1 attexi. 
 They feeip, t^heni tp,yip|di,<?qfi(iiyreDt evidence 
 that an omiffion has taken place in the tran- 
 fcript of th& one^a& well. a& o£ the. other; and 
 juftify a prefumption that the Septuagint- 
 Qj-:^ek, ti;uly ^prefcqt§ the; ojcigipal, Scripture 
 iathAs p^flage., 
 
 Deuteron, . 1 ' 
 
 3(xxiik 4.3V: ^ept. YjLi :7rfi(r)wmr.a,T'eiia;M aiivwTntVr 
 
 In^ theiHeboswi there is; no paflagei correfr 
 pondenb withi thiSi But.Juftin Mart;. Dial, 
 cum Tfryph:. p. 4^1 4.. Ed. Thirib, andlthe Apoii- 
 tqlicaL Writer to the, Hebrews, i. .6. citev the 
 claufeiword foe word as.it ftands, in. thiajjjlaflp 
 ofthqiSeptuaglntHVerfipDif aodrnaifucbdaAife 
 
 occurs 
 
( 22 ) 
 
 occurs elfewhere 'in Scripture. *' It may be 
 Taid perhaps, that the Apoftle quoted the fore- 
 going words from' Pfalmxcvi. 7. according to 
 the Septuagiht i' changing only 'the ^er/o« of 
 of the verbt and inferting the antecedent inftead 
 'of the relative: Now though I am not certain 
 that the Apoftles ever ufed fuch liberties, yet 
 I might poflibly 'come into this opinion, could 
 I by any means account for the infertion of 
 the words in the- Greek oi Deuteronomy , but 
 •from the correfpondine Hebrew being then ex- 
 tant in the tranflator's copy." Dr. Owen, 
 
 xxxiii. 6. Sept. Edd.Compl.Ald. Alex. Zjjra 
 
 No mention is here made of Simeon in the 
 Hebrew and Samaritan copies; but it feems 
 fcarcely credible, that Mofes, in blefling the 
 tribes of Ifrael feverally and exprefsly, (hould 
 name eleven of them, but omit the mention of 
 Simeon. In Numb. i. 23. Reuben and Simeon 
 are named together, as head? of their refpeftive 
 tribes, in the, very order in which the Sep- 
 tuagint-Verfionhere places them J and to the 
 tribe of Simeon a very diftingui/hed fuperio- 
 
 rity, 
 
 !■' 
 
 (i; 33 ), 
 
 rity,,^s to n\in[\ber,: above/ .^hat.jQf Reubeii is 
 there iat^ribu.ted. ;;-./: 
 
 ,'.i:nc- 
 
 ' , , I I ! , I !'^ 
 
 From' the' preceding examples^ firft, of the 
 agreement between the Septuagiht-Veriion and 
 the Samaritan in differences from the Hebrew;, 
 and, fecondly; lof the fupport that Verfion' has 
 in its differences from 1 both- of them j it ap- 
 pears that the. Se'ptuagint-V'erfion ftands iii the 
 light of an indifpenfable requifite and auxiliary 
 in every critical endeavour to afcertain how the 
 Sacred Text flood even in- thieMofaical Scrip- 
 
 tures. 
 
 SECTION 
 
 — 7, 1 
 
 III. 
 
 0/ t/>e Septuagmt-Verjon, as'toihofe books of 
 Scripture which have no" Samaritan counter' 
 parts—ofpajfagesin the Greek under theObe-^ 
 lus and Aprtjk — of the ufe and authority of 
 the Septuagint-Verfon in places where Heb, 
 
 ■ MSS. give no help. , .;■ 
 
 THE books of Scripture, fubfequept to 
 the, Pentateiich, have^not any Smnaritan 
 counterparts; and t^e, impprtance.of thq,Sepr 
 tuagint-Verfion, with refped: to them, jCecuis 
 for that very reafon the greater. 
 
 No 
 
^- No one ksaft fty,- upon' cefl4in' ^gftJunds, 
 thus flood the original Text ihd not othfef- 
 wife, either at the time when the Sfeptuagint- 
 Verfion Was begun* or at: 'any. time befoi^ it 
 was finifliedii fince all Hebrew copies of. that 
 ancient date are irretrievably, loft. Whati then, 
 are! the means ftili left of enabling us^ as 'far 
 as may ; be, to afoertain: hoW the Saci-ed Text 
 flood at fo early, a titne ? Only thefe j , . ; . ; • ; 
 
 .'J ;;: ■; 
 
 >,ii,^ Such Hebrew copies, . as have been, de- 
 livered down to us by the Jews themfelves. 
 
 2. That Greek Verfion - of the Hebrew 
 Text, which, was completed by learned Jews 
 more thart a century and a half before the 
 coming of Chrifl; and till near a century 
 after his coming was owned and revered b^y 
 the Jew's, as a true arid faithful repreferitation 
 of their Sacred books," arid' by themi was con- 
 veyed down to us. -' V, 
 
 Of that afliftance, which accrues from' an 
 examination of the Hebrew copies, the Bib- 
 lical'reader his^h6Wiri a greSt degree,- and is 
 likely, to have fobriin' a gftdtehy the rtquifite 
 poffeflion j but fuch further help, as- the! Sep- 
 tuagint*Verfion' maygivci- he- cannot yeit fd 
 
 fully commandv - -■ ' - 
 
 Yet 
 
 ( 25 I 
 
 .itpty .even as, that V.tTfipn, ftaqds now, it is 
 atlpog^hjcnovyni-jhattpaflages of the Greek 
 Texf, ; which .were.fuppofed.nevpr;to have had 
 any, cqrr.efpQrident Hebrewxand jwpre therefore 
 marked vvith the ObeluSi as if. added by tha 
 Seventy without authority, either were omitted 
 in; Greek MSS.. or ; flill had their correfpon- 
 dent /fexl in Hebrevy, MSS. .It is kaown alfo,. 
 that paflliges of the Hebrew Text, which wer© 
 fuppofed to have been left untranflated by the 
 Seventy, and of. which the Greek tranflation 
 was therefore fupplied from other Greek .Ver-. 
 fions under the AOeri/k, either then had corrcf- 
 pondent Greek in fomeMSS. of the.Septuagint- 
 YerOon, pr were themfelves wantfcg in MSS. 
 of the Hebrew. 
 
 .Examples, in thefe feveral cafes, occur in the 
 Difquifitions of Dr. Owen upon the Edition. 
 of JoOiua by Mafius, and upon the Hexapla of. 
 Origen. , , 
 
 Such appearances make it, I apprehend, a 
 reafpnable concfufion, that in every critical 
 decifion as tO:the integrity of the Sacred Text, 
 efpeci^lly in thofe bopks which have.no Samari- 
 tan cpuntcrpatts, the collated. Hebrew and the. 
 Septuagint-Verfipn arp.both of them indifpen^. 
 fable means to the end; and ought to be cm- 
 
 ^ ployed 
 
1 1 
 
 ( 26 ) 
 
 ployed in conjundtion, by all who feel it either 
 their duty or inclination to form no judgement 
 upon Scripture, but on the moft full and per- 
 fect grounds, that the Providence of God may 
 have left them. 
 
 • When the Septuagint-Greek, known to be 
 fuch upon full and valid grounds, correfponds 
 with Hebrew readings recovered from MSS. 
 newly collated; or when paflages that are omit- 
 ted in MSS. of the Greek are alfo omitted in 
 MSS. of the Hebrew ; the ftrength of evidence 
 refulting from fuch concurrences will generally 
 enable the learned reader to come to a fatis- 
 fadory determination as to the genuine text of 
 Scripture. And that cafes of fuch coincideuce- 
 might yet more frequently and more evidently 
 appear than they do at prefent, the reftoration 
 of the Septuagint-Verfion to the utmoft degree 
 of integrity attainable feems to be an objedl, de- 
 ferving the fupport of all thofe who refpe(5l and 
 would forward the intereft of Sacred Learning. 
 
 But it muft be confidered, that Hebrew 
 MSS. may fometimes afford but little help, 
 even in places of Scripture, which the Verfion 
 of the Seventy reprefents in fuch a manner, 
 as to imply that the reading in their ancient 
 
 ancient 
 
 ( 27 ) 
 
 Hebrew Text of thofe places differed from 
 that which our later copies prefent to us. ; 
 
 When paffages, as they ftand in the Hebrew 
 and the Greek, are not cprreipondent; it muft 
 be the bufinefs of critical ability, proceeding 
 upon juft and confideratp principles, and upon 
 the beft and fulleft evidence, to determine how 
 the Scripture Text in thofe places flood. How 
 far truft and dependance may, in fuch cafes; 
 be placed upon the Septuagint-Verfion, will 
 then become a very important queftion. The 
 learned reader may in fome degree judge of 
 that queftion from the fpbfequent examples, 
 
 Jofhua. • ^ 
 
 XV. Between the 59'" and 60'" verfes the Sep- 
 tuagint interpofe a claufe, which has not any cor- 
 refpondent Hebrew in the copies of thefe times. 
 
 ivama,, kou ul KUf^at olvtuv. 
 
 Here Bethlehem, the birthplace of Chrift, 
 is placed in the diftrift of the tribe of Judah. 
 Jerom on Micah v. i. expreffes his doubt whe- 
 ther the Jews erafed this claufe from the Text, 
 
 D 2 left 
 
 L 
 
 ■ 1 
 
( 28 ) 
 
 left it might appear from thence that Chrift was 
 born of the tribe of Judah ; or whether it was 
 added by the Seventy, After due confideration 
 of all circumftances, the judipioijs reader will 
 determine for himfe}f, whether it is moft 
 likely that fo much was jnferted into the Ver- 
 fion without authority, or that the correfpon- 
 dent Hebrew was extant in the copy fron> 
 which the Septuagint tranllated, bqt has finf? 
 their time cjifappeared. 
 
 I Kings. 
 
 xii. 20. Heb. ^\ There was none that fol-r 
 lowed the houfe flf David, but the tribe of 
 Judah only." 
 
 Sept. K«t< iy, ^v OTriircii o'lKH Aotvi^" •zs'afiP a-K^TTTfiii 
 
 This latter tranflation implies that two'tribes, 
 out of twelve, did not revolt from Rehoboam. 
 With the Septuagint-Greek.the reader will 
 compare the prophecy delivered by Ahijah to 
 Jeroboam, i Kings xi. 35. ^' I will take , the 
 kingdom out of his fon's hand, (i. e. Reho- 
 boam's) '* and will give it unto thee, even teq 
 tribes." The accomplishment of that prophecy 
 is marked in the fequel of the hiftpry. " Rehor 
 
 bpan^ 
 
 ( '29 ) 
 
 boam-^affembled all the houfe of Judgh, witb 
 the tribe of Benjamin^ — to fight againft the houfe 
 .of Ifrael, to bring the Ifingdopi again to Reho- 
 boam." I Kings xii. 21. And upon this the 
 divine .command, not to go up, nor fight, was 
 delivered to all the houfe of Judah and Benja^ 
 piin. I Kings xii. 23, 24. It feems, then, fron:> 
 the Hebrew itfelf, that ten tribes only re- 
 volted from Rehoboam, and that he con- 
 tinued to reign over the reniainihg tvio {^io 
 p-KfiTTT^a,, I Kings xi, 32, 36. Sept.) vi^. tbofe of 
 Judah and Benjanjin. 
 
 1 Chron. 
 
 i. 36. " The fons of Eliphazj Teman, and 
 Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Tim-r 
 na, and Amalek." 
 
 Sept. Tio) 'EA<<p«^, QeufMVf Koj 'Clfikf, 2<a^*^, 
 }c<uroba,y,, xct) Keve^ (Ald..^em) 0*^*^e jj-TraAr- 
 
 ' According to the Hebrew in thiVplace, Tim-r 
 na was the fon of Eliphaz, and the brother 
 of Amalek. But the Greek reading implies 
 that the Text, as it lay before the Seventy, was 
 not fo inconfiftent, as it is npw, with the Hct 
 brew Text, Genef. xxxvi. 11, 12. «« And the 
 fons of Elipha? \yere Tera^n, Omar, ^epho, 
 
 and 
 
 i-.. 
 
 • 1 
 
( 3° ) 
 
 and Gattam, and Kenaz. And Timna was 
 concubine to Elipbaz Efau's Ton ^ and fhe bare 
 to Eliphaz Amalek." 
 
 1 Chron. 
 
 xviii. 6. Heb. " Then David put iq 
 
 Syria-Damafpus," ' 
 
 The word loft out of the Text in this place 
 Teems to have been extant in the copy from 
 which the Greek Verfion was made; 
 
 Sept. Ka/ iB-iTO Aav]^ (fPOTPAN tv Zv^U rn Kct,Tx, 
 Aai^aa-Koy, 
 
 Thus 2 Sam. viii. 6. •* Then David put^<?r- 
 rlfom in Syria of Damafcus." In both places 
 the Septuagint-tranflation is word for word the 
 (ame. 
 
 2 Chron. 
 
 xxii. 2. Heb. " Forty and two years old 
 was Ahaziah when he began to reign. 
 
 Jehoram, the father of Ahaziah; was thirty- 
 two years old when he began his reign, accord- 
 ing to the Hebrew, z Kings viii. 17, and 
 2 Chron, xxi. 20. In the reprefentation, then, 
 
 either 
 
 ( 31 ) 
 
 either as to Jehoram or as to Ahaziah, there 
 muft be a numeral niiftake. ' \ 
 
 :n {:■■'.,. 
 
 Sept. 2 Chron. xxii. 2. uv 'truv ■ iinca-r xcii 000 
 'OXiO^Kti 'on j€oKr/Aeu5-e. Ed. Wechcl. ^ 
 
 This Verfion reprefents the Text, jn. this 
 place, as having been confiftent \yith the He- 
 brew itfelf at 2 Kings viii. 20. " Two and 
 twenty years old was Ahaziah when he. began 
 to reign. *^ And in this very place of 2 Chrpn. 
 xxii. 2. the Syriack Verfion, made from the 
 old Hebrew, agrees with that of the Sep- 
 tuagint. 
 
 Pfalm. 
 
 xiv. 3. Heb. according to our Bibte tranf- 
 lation, •* They are all gone afide, they are al- 
 together become filthy j there is none that 
 doeth good, no, not one." 
 
 Sept. Pfalm xiii. "zs-avTis i^iK^vav, a,fia, ^x^uuB'tj- 
 ouv, ovK e?-' ixrotuv %^»)?"otijt<*, ovk is'tv icils mof Ta,<pos 
 a,HCi)yf/.t]/cs Aa^uy? ovtut, Tcui yXua-a-Oiii cunuv koohi- 
 iauvy 'Cos a,cnr\om utto -m x^^ dvTuy' ui to <ro[AX ei>pa,s 
 Kcci 'zs-tKfiia.f yif^u, o^«f ol irohs ctvruv. «t%e«/ cuf^a,' 
 Tvnptfif^atf Kelt Tct^cuTTUfiicc tv Tcus oooti etirruv, x.a/. 
 oj^o/ i\^r\vyii ix, iyvurav* ovK sV* Oo^os @i9 i.7riv(MTi 'uit 
 
 The 
 
 li 
 
( 32 ) 
 
 The paflage^ as it (lands in the Septdagjri^- 
 Vcrfion, is cited at length by Juftin, with only i 
 verbal variation or two. Dialog, p. 190. Ed. 
 Thirlb. And one Heb. MS. infpeded by Lin- 
 danus and Lueas Brugenfis, if not another col- 
 lated by Dr. Kennicott, contained all the verfes 
 together, as the Septuagint have placed them. 
 They flood together in the old Italick Vcrfion; 
 and fo paffed into the Galilean Pfalter, and into 
 the Tranflation in our Englifti Prayer-book, 
 which was made, as Dr. Hody fuppoies, from 
 it. And in Ep. Rom. iii. ii. St. Paul has 
 cited the whole paflage in the very words of 
 the Septuagint. 
 
 r 
 
 Pfalm. 
 
 cxlv. between 13"' and 14''' verfes, in the 
 Hebrew, the Septuagint infert, 
 
 Pfalm cxliv. ttjtW Kv^tos iv 7ru.<ri toIs Koyoi? avToZi 
 
 This claufe ftands here in the Verfions from 
 the Greek of the Seventy, and is cited in the 
 Apoftolical Conftitutions. And in fubfervience 
 to that alphabetical principle upon which the 
 Pfalm is conftrudled as to 21 of its verfes, it 
 originally confided, we may be fure, of 22, 
 
 each 
 
 ( 33 ) 
 
 each of them cbmm"encing under its refpedlve 
 Hebrew Ictteri'and had in this very place a tex- 
 tual verfe beginning with the fourteenth letter 
 of the Hebrew alphabet. At the foot of the page 
 in Cod. Heb. 142, ' Dr.'Keiinicott found two 
 Hebrew hemifticks, ' correfpbndent with the 
 Septuagint-Greek, and in the firft of them i 
 was the initial letter j'an^ an ihfcrtion, to the 
 fame purport with that made by the Seventy,' 
 ftands in. the Syriack Verfion of the old He- 
 brew. And as Jerom*^ has 'given a paraphrafe 
 of the verfe, and as four MSS._ pi his latin 
 tranflation from! the Hebfevv contained it, are 
 we not to conclude vvith Dr. Kennicott, Diflert. 
 Gen. p. 42, that Jerom found the .verfe in 
 Hebrew copies that vire'rie extant in his time? 
 
 Ifaiah, 
 
 xxxvii. 21,22, /iJVKhereaS-thou haft prayed 
 to me againft Sennacherib King of Aflyria, this 
 is the wprd whi^ch the JLord hath fpoken con- 
 cerning him." 
 
 .;.By.the ufc pf the word,: whereas, our tran- 
 flators applied fpme remedy to the obvious im- 
 perfeftion of the fentpnce. Their tranflation 
 ought in ftrid:nef8ta-have been;," What thbtt 
 haft prayed &c. 
 
 -:X-: E Sept, 
 
 t' 1 
 
( 3* ) 
 
 Sept. '^ttxaa-ti. a. yr^op-tiu^a "J^os jM.«, Tnfi 'S^mcL■x]/\j^^i^:^ 
 
 The Hebrew word^correfppndentwijh ih^ 
 GreeJ^ word, ^^over*, has been foupd in|prlined 
 in onf. ]\fS. though not by the fifft I^an4 j it 
 vyas alfo if^ that old Hebrew^ qopy frpm, which 
 the Syriack Verfior^ was made.. 
 
 lix. 20, lieb. /* And un^o tliem that turn 
 from tranfgreffion in J.acob." 
 
 Sept;. K*) *53-fl?-/ie\|/e< *«€e/*f *7ro \aku'o. 
 
 St. Paul cites the claufe, Ep. Rom. xi. it. 
 in the words of the Septuagint. 
 
 IxvimS. Heb. "For I btow their works 
 and their thoughts." 
 
 Our tranllatorshave fupplled the verb, which 
 they did not find in the Hebrew Text. 
 
 Sept. K«y« T* t^ya, ivruit ka) T9V Xoyta-fAov ivruv* 
 
 The 
 
 ( ^5 V 
 
 Thfc Syriack' Verfioh'froni 'tKfc 'old ■ Hcb?cw 
 cbfifefp'onds with' the Veprerchiailbd 'dF th>: Sep- 
 tuagint in this place. 
 
 .;ija^-..' 
 
 Ezekiel. " ~ ' ' ' ' 
 
 ri. 2o. Hcb, *! Thither Was tfetir Spirit to 
 
 go^^^ 
 
 {■•-■ 
 
 ' ' Sept. otrilt ■ this trlaafe i .;kfid thiJ Sytkcii 
 ¥erfion from the old Ifebrew'emit^ It alio. 
 
 viij, ?. Heb,, *• Then I ,bel),t^d, . ap4 Ip a 
 likenefs ; ^^ . the ^ ^ppegr.aqce, [ qf , F.i;ijp ,; , frorxx 
 the appearance of ui§ loins ev^n downward) 
 iire." 
 
 Thus the antecedent ^nd jelattve ftand in 
 the T$xt, a^ W£4ka? mih^. tr»oflJ!,tion. . 
 
 Sept. Kct< toov, xat \o^ eiioiafui ANAPOi;, awo vi( 
 i<r(p6of iurpG x<ti iug KOtju "snJo, . : i - ^ .- . i . . . 
 
 Hofea, 
 
 xii. 9. He1j. ^^ Kii^t iidt am the Lord thy 
 Cod from the land of Egypt will yet: make 
 |hee;tbdwieU',:'J.;..f.-.: "; A ' " 
 
 li E 2 Our 
 
 -l-r-^-F ;j., , 
 
( 36 ) 
 
 . Our tranflators have fupplied the words, 
 i^at (zw,tQ remedy that defed^ which they.found 
 in the Text. ' , , ji^:.! : i- : : 
 
 Sept. 'Eya_^iJKjJ^t6g^^^^^iio;^a.)/^yetyov as hi yiis 
 
 A]yV^Tti, tTt KATOIKIU CTi &C. , 
 
 • ' The. Syriack-Verfio'n' and' Chaldee Para- 
 phrafe wer? made before this defedt had takeri 
 place in the Text, for they alfo fupply, *• who 
 brought .thee.up." ;: , 
 
 /■/ 
 
 Amos. 
 
 ix, 12. Heb. « That they may poflefs the 
 remnant' of Edom, and of all the heathen, 
 which are called by my name, -faith the Lord 
 that doeth this." ; - 
 
 Sept. 'Ottcos kv \KQi\TtiTiiXTiv o\ «<«r<*Afl/^« Tuv a,v- 
 
 XtjTAi Tc -ovoff,ei }cn Itt- okVTovf, xiysi ]f.vj)ios "sriiuv 
 TavTct,^ Alex. MS. 
 
 Ad. Apoft. 
 
 XV. 17. ''oTTUf kv iK^*iT^(ruTiv &c. with no other 
 difference but the addition of 'is-avt* at the end. 
 
 Malachi. .-...., .■■■'■■■,•■. • 
 
 i. 6. Heb. " A ion honoureth his father, 
 
 and 
 
 ( 37 :) 
 
 and a fervant'bi^'mafter : iftheii I be a father, 
 •Wbere'is minehonburPahdifvI be a maftcr, 
 where Js my- ifear'?*'!'-''f'"' '^'-'^ il-^:.. :.--r 
 ;.,, ,,;i ■^■' J-'Ii ,kL>:''. ^ ' '■-'•••v !'' '•' /■ ■'"^ 
 . Sept.: 'ricf,i'^a,t,u fmr^fet.-iMy^i^os^ rovlKvpuv.^i^ii 
 4)fl?}j^^VeT«wv (MSS. .Eachoni..'iBarberin:) Kdl e* 
 -zFATyif '(ff4ti tyv.aris'riy ^ Jo|<»:/tty;^x«u tl twftis 't'/^ 
 
 -.;. . '., ,', !:...;:> :;ci \-.ri L'/-t; ; vlir 1! ;;.'; I '■'■ 
 Here the Judicious, reader, wilV'Upqn.cpnfiy 
 dera,tion determine/ whether , the,.Greek Ver- 
 fion does ,n,9t bear .teftimony. , ,tp jhe Ipfs of a 
 verb from the~ Text. Chald. fupplies, astthe 
 Septuagint have done. 
 
 '/■ 
 
 iii. 5. Hel).vV< Againft falfe fwearers." 
 
 Sept. tv) TUf oj^vyovTcts Tu oyofieiri ftn tTr) "^vSh. 
 
 With the Septuagint- Verfion, as to the ad- 
 ditional part here, the Talm. of Babylon and 
 15 Heb. MSB. and three Editions agree. 
 
 Upon the whole it appears, not only that the 
 Seventy interpreters reprefented the whole Sa- 
 cred Text, then (landing in their Copy, as far 
 
 as 
 
 1 
 
( 38 ) 
 
 as they und?rA:qo4 it, wit;l3,aH the e3t^(Stn€fs'ii| 
 their power }, but alfo, that thje aqcicntpp^y-si 
 from which they tranflated, ftoo(i de^r.ipf 
 defeds of various kinds, that are found 
 in the later copies from which the pre- 
 ferit Saniaritan and Hebrew Text were pfint?^ 
 ed : and that of confequence their Vcrfion is^ 
 in all its parts, a voucher of very great weight 
 and authority i and may be expe.aed. in pjo- 
 portion to its own integrity, to carry tffeOt in 
 notifying the genuine reading of Scripture, 
 bath where it remains and where it has difap* 
 peared. '.'•'" 
 
 SECTION IV. 
 
 ^liaf the Septuqgitti-JTerfion U like^ ts be render-'* 
 ed of greater ufe and effeSt by the prefent un- 
 ■dertaking, jJoewn by various 4^rifiderations arnf 
 ,exampks, 
 
 THE probabEity, that a Cdllatidn of the 
 MSS". of the Septuagint-Verfion, will ren- 
 der it of greater ufe and effed:, thah it has at pre- 
 fent, in a critical application of it to the prigifial 
 Text, is a point of which the reader may form 
 fome ertimate irom |b6 iubf^ijuent confide^ 
 -rations^ 
 
 17 
 
 (( 3^ )} 
 
 Jf' Collations alrcadjr before the Publkt are 
 femetifnes imperfe(fl£ it may be expedtedthat ai 
 rewind of rfieMSS; which have been collated, will 
 render thofe MSS. ihore extenfively ufeful, by 
 bringing to light readings of the Creek Tcxt^ 
 which theyi were not before known to contain. 
 Dr. Grabe has ftiewn that Mr, Selden's Colla- 
 tion of the Cottonian MS. in the London-P©- 
 lyglott was imperfefti;. and; his own Collation^ 
 of that MS. may' in- fome few inftances be. 
 ameridcd from one that was In the poficflion. of ^ 
 5ifliop, Tanner. Andi in the Collation of the 
 Oxford MS. ; already^ publiihed alfo„ omiffion 
 or mifreprefentation is^fometlmesmade of read«> 
 ings as material as any; and> the cafe is the 
 fame with that Collation of the MS. of Voflius, 
 which ftands prefixed to the Edition of the* 
 Septuagint by Mill: ■ ' , 
 
 If there are many MSS. of the Septuagint- 
 Verfion which have not been, as yet, collated 
 at all or only. in part, it fhould feem that any 
 judgement we may form at prefentconcerning 
 the Text of the Seventy, muft ftand upon par- 
 tial andinfufficient groundjand cannot be fully 
 depended upon, till the feveral reprefentations 
 of that Text in thofe MSS. have been com- 
 pletely examined; 
 
 If. 
 
 ■ '— --w-*-*-^*— .- 
 
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•9' 
 
 ( 40 ) 
 
 r If, according to the {landing ©pinion of the 
 learned in the laft and prefent century, the 
 §eptuagint-Text is not prefented pure and per- 
 feft ,in any fingle copy, but rather lies dif- 
 perfed in all the copies with more or lefs of 
 pniiflion and interpolation in each j there feems 
 to be fo much the greater reafon for fuppofing, 
 that a general examination of the exifting co- 
 pies muft be, of all affignable means, the moft 
 lil^ely to bring again to light what may have 
 been omitted, and to deleft any incidental in- 
 termixtures ; and confequently to point out, 
 \yith the greateft precifion attainable, the ge- 
 nuine tenour of the Verfion. 
 
 If the Septuagint-MSS, now exifting, are 
 not all tranfcribed from the fame copy only 
 but from many, and for the moft part ex- 
 prefs different and fome v^ry ancient arche- 
 types ;. this circumftancc alfo will encourage an 
 expedlatioh, that rnoft MSS. will prefent fin- 
 gularities of reading, that may fupply in fome 
 places that light and affiftance, which other 
 MSS. do not afford, Few> if any, of the 
 Septuagint-MSS, now remaining, feem to be 
 tranfcripts of the fame archetypal copy. The 
 Pachomian, Arundelian, Barberinian, and New- , 
 College MSS. contain the Prophetical Text, 
 and remarkably agree with each other. They 
 
 have. 
 
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 halvie hb^elyer Jrtt^iai- reading,' ^ote ' Wliich 
 it itiay^bfe iiiFerredth^i''hbtWitIiftaildinx their 
 
 freqiidnt boihciid^hcfe,- they iic ill fepttfeiitativis 
 bf V6ry diffcr^nt'ctJpifeS.iv Pof'eJc'^tiible; ■' ' 
 
 ; ' f J , ■ ' ' ' " ,.'-;■' - , * " ' • ' 
 
 . ' . - .1 . . ■ . ; t . 1 , , , . I . . y 
 
 Ifaiah. '■''■'■' ■■'''. 
 
 Vi. 2. iictnila,^v7^i■cv rb 'v^ia-a7re» cLiA'uv, MS. 
 Arundel. — }it,at,T%)ia.K'u7rTo\iToi,7rfo<ra-^(^ Uvtuv. JVISS. 
 Pachom. and ISfew Coll. -^Ms. 'Barberin,, as 
 it feems from the reprerei^tdtlbii of febs, agrees 
 with the Vatican Text in 'this pUce. 
 
 - So ch. viii; 7. Tramv.ativr'.^ccr, MSS'. Pa- 
 chom. and Ne\V.Coll. w+-)biit sriirAv is wdnting 
 in MBS. Atundel. arid Barberin. - - .^- ■■ 
 
 And ch. ix. 1,1. 1^)'to opH'-ztav, xa,) iTn 'lipiia-a,- 
 A^/« iTr' Avrov, MS. Pachom. fmgly j ^nd in 'tKe 
 fanie chapter and verfe, l^^^eof 'lyJW/ lyiS^/'jPa- 
 chom. and New Coll. --but Wa, is wanting in 
 MSS. Arundel, and jBarberin. 
 
 Again ch. x. i: y^a,<ponu ya^. Tram ,yf»(p4~ 
 (tih M8. New Coll. Angly.-.^' yp<i(p. y, ^cv^p^ y^. 
 MS. Arundel.— y/,. y. TrovtipUv yo. MSS. Pachom. 
 and Barberin. 
 
 r , 
 
 Other examples of fuch pe^culiarity of read- 
 ing might alfo be colleded from moft of the 
 Septuagint-MSS hitherto collated. 
 
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f*' 
 
 ( +2 ) ■ 
 
 What has been ftated in this fedion the judi- 
 cious reader will confiderj and will, I truft, be 
 difpofed to think that the real and integral text 
 of the Seventy is then likely to (hew itfelf moft 
 difcernibly, when the feveral written and printed 
 copies of it, together with the Verfions and Ci- 
 tations from it, jointly contribute their light. 
 
 But that the ground, on which he deter- 
 mines in this matter, may be as full as it is yet 
 in my power to make it, I have collected fome 
 readings from MSS. newly collated, and fhall 
 lay them before him. An attentive comparifon 
 of them with either his own Englifti Bible or 
 the printed and collated Hebrew, and with the 
 Vatican Septuagint, may perhaps better enable 
 him to eftimate what prpbabijity there is that 
 the Septuagint- Verfion will be rendered of 
 more' ufe by a general collation of its MSS. 
 
 Genef. 
 
 V. 22. e^Jjire <^e '^vux ("■st* to yiv)iyi<mi &c. MS. 
 Florcnt. 
 
 xi. 13. K*/ «^»j<re Kct'ivSj^Wrt.roi' rpioiKavTcc 'mice, iTtj 
 &c. MS. Florent. 
 
 — 24. K«) tttITi N*%^§ S'MKoa-KX. iT>l &C, MS. 
 
 Glafg. —25. 
 
 r; 
 
 iL,. 
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 — 25. K*i t^tiTt Heuxfi^f, fUTct TO yimrcu avrit 
 rovedifct, ^vo iccu (iKoa-i K(U tKctrov rnf. MS. Florent. 
 
 — 32. K^ eyewjTo jTrtfflti *M^^/'«f'',®*pM*''^X«^ 
 
 fAV TTiVT^KOVTA KCU ^teCKOO-M eTt). MS. FlorCnt. i V. . 
 XXxi. 31. 'ATTOKft^tif ^e'lAKU^oiJ'^i TU Aci^AV.tt- 
 
 TTcc yapf f^vfTTon ct^tMs tos S^vyetTipcts am a>7r ifAa naf 
 'STAna. TO, ifioi' imyvud-i ri i^t "zretf ifioi tuv <ruv, koj 
 \a,Qi' xcu iiK iTTiyyu "sra,^ avtu ovB'tv' y.cu umv let" 
 KuQ, iroi,f u (M ivm Toxis B-iif'o'iii oil ^njtTctt tmnUv 
 TUV eiA\^uv rifiuv ova YiSk &c. MS. Florent. 
 
 xliii. 3. ^tifM^TVfcbTO avB- f Ci)7ros ?i.iyuv rifely. .Ox- 
 ford. MS.. In whicli, , as alfo in the Florentine 
 MS. Awgioj- Ttis yiis arc wanting. ,;. 
 
 , xlix. 10. ius.ekf eXS-»i«,<*5To*«r*f. MS. Florent. 
 
 So the Seventy tranflated this place, . as Juftia 
 
 afferts, Dial. p. 395. Ed. Thirlb. — So Arab. 
 
 Veriibn MS. Laudi Ufque dum veniat, cui 
 
 tranfit. '"■'■'■''' ■' ' ■■ -' ' ■' '■ ' 
 
 ;- T I I 
 
 Exod. " 
 
 viii. 6.' K*< J»wCi6<*V5i} €*rp*;^ef, are want- 
 ing in MS. Florent. 
 
 ix. 4, iv Tu Kctipa tnHiiUf are wanting in the 
 Oxford and Florentine MSS. 
 
 xi. 10. iv yl\ eLiyvjTTUt are wanting in MS. 
 Florcnt, 
 
 F 2 
 
 Ruth 
 
 — ,-.-(, — .-. 
 
«!*<■• <roAA8** * }icti om "i'^tTtfi^sfiTi cut^. MS, 
 Arundel.- " 
 
 iii. f 8'. eii)? AC TiXiO"^ crrilA,ifiOV TO' '^f\ft,cU THTO, MS. 
 
 Arundel'. 
 
 Arundel. ■ .,.:•'■:;;'.• ■-!■ ■ -■:-•:-;;.>;•• ^ .-.v. 
 
 - 1_8.- t^yt fctr^yo^''civ.^^s M-nlis,- Kcu^ imi.- Sp 
 
 Viit: biir xt^fTTjs aW'wantm'g' ifr M9. Aruridel'.- - 
 
 UTToo^vocj 'srciircts tus iv^ii. MS. Arundel, 
 
 - 25. 'zs'^QTviyciyciv kvThi iv^viov, MS. Arundel., . 
 
 iu, 1 1.. Kcu a,7frfh$-oy df roy. c'tK^v alircZ, MS. 
 Arundel. 
 
 — ■.36. iv. a(at^i.a,oipyvf)iif,icai li/.<ifXCiLpt,.'Kiyosvj7ro(,- 
 ^d^pt^j/ov iVAVTtov TUt kfa,Tmv-(rii tou' <pccysiy>-eipTiV Kv- 
 fja, MS.. A;r;undel, 
 
 iii. 19. Keij ovK iTTiffiv (tTTo sTcivTuy Tuv hxyuv av- 
 TiZ QvM iv fifA,ci, MS. Arundel, 
 
 V. 4^ 
 
 ( n ) 
 
 v.. 4, eb^^frii^im sa^J J*, e/i«!r^oVS"«« rm ^(jkS-f^uy, 
 
 -. 9 . yiyireit x,^p' l^v^iiS tv t>j •areA« iv. irMy^ f^iyctf- 
 Av) (r<po^iici. MS. Arundel, 
 
 vi, 5. <^&!(reTe T«iJ Kw'iw Qia 'lr^<»^A oo^v. MS, 
 AfH-ndel. 
 
 vii. 16. tveewiTo 'a(^ IkcivS iviavTov kat mctvTcy,. 
 MS. Arundel. , , ,, 
 
 ix. 7. t/ e%o^ev. In the Margin. of MS, Arun- 
 del. By a later hand."-, ,. ' - 
 
 -!-- 21. 'hfiivatnToZvcutKfOTtpii rKWT^a pc, rcav 
 ^(»f 9r«e.r^i<if rev Betiwctpv. MS. Arundel, 
 
 I ■ WW 
 
 Ifaiah, V ; , . 
 
 . 1 n . '- ■• , ■ . I ■ '1,1 
 
 xxvi. 10, is-iTrctvTAi yu,^ xiXivo'^ct, MSS. Pa- 
 chom. A£iuidel» and New CoU. 
 
 xxix. lb, )Ukjji,fJi.wru "tws 009'cihftis if^av xa) tui/ 
 ap^oyTuii iniuv, xct) rat^ !sif6(^Tm vfiav tusi ceuvTuy to, 
 KfVTTFot^ M^.^tfP&chom, ^nd New Coll, 
 
 XXX, 8. (iiQxioy'iyxcipei'^tvttvret/oTiTcfZTebtisfia.^- 
 TVftoy iy iubifa. MS. New Coll. 
 
 p— 18. KjiTJjf Kximf o.0eW xi^^y, neu ttoZ Kctret' 
 
 j^. 
 
( 46 ) 
 
 A«\|/sr« T*iv ^oPav vfim ; MctKciptoi &c. MS. of the 
 Univerfity of Dublin, in Uncial letters. 
 
 — 33. ^vhcC KOjOf^tVA, TTVf KCU ^\a> 'Ziro?^\ci, MS. 
 
 Dubl. 
 
 xxxi. 3. KOTTiii^iiTiv 01 (ioriSSvns xcu "zina-eiTai 
 ' ^otjB'i^tv^^, Kcu 0,1^0, a,Tro>\5naj -zs-ocvTis. MS. 
 Dubl. 
 
 — 4. Xiuv Kcu <rK.vfA,v(^. MS. Dubl. 
 
 xxxi. 5. ih\oi,<riTa,t >i "zs-feiQ^a-iTeti ii a-ujii. MS. 
 Pachom. — vTri^Q^a-iToci. M5. New Coll. 
 
 MS. Dubl. -T kjMLfUAv. MS. Pachom. 
 
 ^XXvii. 4. ov£iSi^»v iv Xoyois ois yjKiia-i. MS. Dubl. 
 
 — 9. xcu ijxovriv (ia,(riXtvs 'Acravjiluv on l^xBi 
 QapciKoi, (iarthivf 'AiS'iOTruv '2<r«A;opx^a-<t< avtov, MSS. 
 
 Dubl. Pachom. Arundel, and New Coll. 
 
 — 24. Tu ^A^B'et Tuv kffjucLTuv fta tyco &c. MSS . 
 
 Dubl. Pachom. Arundel, and New Coll. 
 
 — 3 I . xa,) la-ovTcit ol KctTct\iXii/x.[Atvot iv Tv\ laadia 
 
 t'n ^iciiPivPiv, Ko,). MSS. Pachom. Arundel, and 
 New Coll. 
 
 — 33. ovoi ov |U.^ e7r<€ctA>i iTr' ^vr^c /3gAof. MS. 
 
 Dubl. 
 
 There 
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 There is a Coptic Verfion from the Septua- 
 gint in the King's Library at Paris ; this is a 
 fummary account of the ftate of it, as to the 
 book of Deuteronomy. 
 
 It differs from the Greek Verfion, in ch. i. 
 3, 4.— xi. 7, 17, 31, 36. — iv. 33, 40, 49.— 
 V. 14. — vi. 17. — vii. I, 8. — viji. j8. — xi. 24. 
 — xiii. 8. 
 
 It agrees with the Alexandrine MS. ch. ii. 
 4. — iii. 6, 21. — V. 8. — vii. 8. — ix. 11, 16, 17. 
 — X. 22.— xiv. 13, 15, 18, 23.' — XV. 14, 17. 
 — xvii. 20. — xix. 21. — xxiii. 14. — xxiv. 
 13. — xxix. 15. — xxxi. 30. — xxxii. 43. 
 
 It agrees with the Oxford MS. ch. ?:ii. 2. — 
 xiii. 14. — xvi. 21. 
 
 It agrees with Vat. Ed. ch. xiv. 13, 14, 15. 
 
 It agrees with the Hebrew, ch. ix. 14. — 
 xiii. 5. — xiv. 6, 21, 22. — xvi. 5, 17. (Gr. 16), 
 i8, 20. — xviii. 5, 12. — XX. 13. — xxiv. 8. — 
 xxv. 3. — xxviii. 61. — xxxii. 19, 43. 
 
 It omits what the Greek Verfion has ch. ix. 
 13. — xii. I. — xiv. 1 8. — xvii. 10, 
 
 It has, what has no correfpondent Hebrew, 
 
 but 
 
( 48 ) 
 
 but is extant in the Greek. Ch. ix. i8.- 
 17. — xxix. 3. 
 
 -xxin. 
 
 It tranfpofcs, concurrently with the Greek 
 Vcrfion, ch. xxiii. 25, 24. 
 
 It has peculiar readi-ngs, ch. xvii. 3, 9, 10, 
 18. — xviii. 5.— r-xix. 18. — xx. 16, 20. — xxi. 
 17. — xxii. 8. — xxiv. 9. — xxvii. 8. — xxviii, 
 47. — xxix. 24. — xxxiii. 13. — and illuftrates 
 and correfts the Greek, ch. xxxii. 33. 
 
 Thus faj: I have ventured, firft, to ftate and 
 exemplify the utility and weight of the Septu- 
 agint-Verfion in queftions refpedting the Text 
 of Scripture i and laftly, to fct forth the proba- 
 bility that, under the effed; of the prefent work, 
 this Verfion is likely to become a flill more 
 fignal auxiliary, and more conducive to the 
 great ends of afcertaining the integrity of the 
 Sacred Text where it fubfifts inviolate, and 
 of facilitating its recovery where it may be 
 impaired. 
 
 It has been faid, indeed, that the Text of Scrip- 
 ture is fufficiently pure for all valuable ends ; 
 and that if the corruptions, which are found to 
 
 have 
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 have taken place in it, fliould be recfiovedi there 
 will not enfue any beneficial influence upon the 
 faith or manners of men, nor any injurious 
 one,if they remain. This opinion feems hardly 
 l-econcileable with part experience i let ' me, 
 hqwever, only put the following queftion. 
 Are we to prefume that the Spirit of God has 
 wrought fo far in vain, as to l^aVe it a cafe- of 
 indifference whether the Scriptural Text does 
 or does not continue exadly fuch, and as pure, 
 and as eonfiftent with itfelf in every part, as 
 He delivered it ?' Ought we not rather to pre- 
 fume that our Wifdom will mofl appear, and 
 our Duty be beft fulfilled, in prefervJng or rein- 
 ftating, to the bed of our power, that felfsame 
 ftatc and univerfal confonancy in the Book of 
 Scripture, which God, in fupreme Wifdom and 
 in fupreme Authority, originally gave it ? 
 
 Satisfied as to the anfvyer which ought ta 
 be returned to this queftion, I am exertingmy 
 utmofl efforts to put the Septuagint-Verfion 
 into the beft condition poffible for doing that 
 elTential fervicc to the written Word qf God, 
 which there feems fp much reafon to think it 
 will do 3 ^d that I may have life and means to 
 accomplifh this-purpofe, I hope for His blef- 
 fing and the afTiftance of men. 
 
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 THE COLLATION 
 
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 SEPTUAGINT-MSS. 
 
 AT THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR. 
 MARCH lotl^ 17;^. 
 
 
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 His Gr^ce, The Piimate of Ireland — 10 lO o 
 
 flis Grace, Dr. Fowler, A-Bp of Dublin — |p 10 
 
 His Grace, Dr. Ag*r> A-Bp of Cafhell — lo lo o 
 
 Right Rev. Dr^Porteus,LdBp of London — jo 10 
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 Kight Rev. Dr. Bagot;'Ld Bp of Norwich — 
 Right Rev. Dr. Small well, Ld Bp of Oxford — 
 Right Rev. Dr. Cleaver, Ld Bp of Chefter — 
 Rfght Rev. Dr. Watfon, Ld Bp of LandafF — 
 Right Rev. Dr. Prettyman, Ld Bp of Lincoln — 
 Right Rev; Dr. Thoma*, Ld Bp of Rochefter — 
 Hon, and Right Rev. Dr. Yorke, Ld Bp of Ely 
 Right Rev. Dr. Douglas, Ld Bp of Carlifle — 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Cornwallis, Ld Bp of 
 Litchfield and Coveijtry — — 
 
 Right Rev. Dr. Newcome, Ld Bp of Waterford 
 Right Rev. Dr. Woodward, Ld Bp of Cloyne 
 Right Rev. Dr. Law, Ld Bp of Killala — 
 
 R%ht Rev. Dr. Percy, Ld Bp of Dromorc -»• 
 
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 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Durham — 
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 Rev. The Provoft of Queen's College 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Bouchier . — __ 
 
 Rev. Mr. Burgefs . , , , 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Egerton _ 
 
 Rev. Dr. Gabriel . , 
 
 Rev. Mr. Gauntlett . 
 
 Rev. Mr. Gift)orne .^ 
 
 Rev. Dr. GolTet . _ 
 
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 -Rev, Mr, Heathcote 
 
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 ( 57 ) 
 
 STAT E 
 
 OF THE COLLATION, &c. 
 
 ABOUT the end of May laft, the Sub- 
 fcription to this undertaking was fuch 
 as to give me aflurance of being enabled to ful- 
 fil engagements, into which it would be ne- 
 ceflary for me to enter, in order to carry it on. 
 
 Accordingly, my applications for afliftance 
 both at honie and abroad were then begun; and 
 the Methodus, for the diredlion ofthofe who 
 might be employed in collating for the work, 
 was drawn up and, printed. 
 
 Mr. Harper and. Pr. Woide, with a klnd- 
 nefs that deferves rny very grateful acknow- 
 ledgments,, undertook, notwithftancjiing the 
 continual engagements attending the concern 
 which both of them have with the Britifli Mu- 
 feum, • to collate the MSS. of the Pfalms, 
 which are preferved in it. And Dr. Owen. 
 - •' - -H . > fhewcd 
 
 J^ 
 
( 58 ) 
 
 (hewed himfelf fo much a friend to the under- 
 taking and to me, as to take upon himfelf the 
 collation of Philo. To tliera, and to Dr. Geddes, 
 I confider myfelf under obligations for various 
 favours of great value to this work. 
 
 During my (lay in London till the end of June 
 my afliftant-reader was with me j and we pro- 
 ceeded in collating the Arundelian MS. in the 
 Bfitifti Mufeum ; and the variations of it from 
 the Vatican Text were found to be exceedingly 
 numerous. When the Mufeum was (hut, my 
 time was employed upon other collations. 
 
 On returning to Oxford, I entered upon the 
 collation of a MS. containing the eight iirfl; 
 books of Scripture, belonging to Univerfity-Col- 
 lege,and continued it tillitwas(ini(hed: and after 
 that collated the Colbertin MS. a copy of, which 
 there is in Dr. Grabe's papers. And as faft as the 
 collations of the Voifian, Pachomian, Dublin, 
 and Arundelian MSS. were tranfcribed, I col- 
 lated the feveral tranfcripts throughout with the 
 copies from which they were taken. Thefe 
 collations, and the neceffary correfpondence, 
 have made my own immediate employment. 
 
 Early in Auguft, the collation of a MS. 
 in the Medicean Library at Florence was be- 
 ^un; and on the i6'\ of Oftober, Mr. Morres 
 
 of 
 
 • 
 
 ( 5? ) 
 
 of Brazenofe- College, with whom, as ail 
 Adiftant-CoUator^' I had made an engagement 
 at an annual falary, entered upon the collation 
 of other MSS, in Oxford; and by him, wjth 
 the adiftance of a reader whom T had 'alfo en- 
 gaged for him, ih^ collation of ^hena ha^ bpea 
 continued to this time wi^h great diligence ^nd 
 ability. 
 
 In the meanwhile, an Account of the work 
 now in hand, vvith a 'View of the plan bf Its 
 execution, had been inferted'in the literary 
 Journal of Florence j and the, learned in Italy, 
 and efpeciajly in the feveral, l^t)raries of that 
 country, had been very earneftly folHcited "to 
 favour it with their fupport, 'aqd Co fend no- 
 tices of all MSS. depofited in theijr rpfpedivj^ 
 libraries, and to undertake collatiojis of them. 
 The fuccefs of this general application fooa 
 appearing, the Methodus was trandated into 
 Italian, and put into theliands of thdfe^ who bad 
 confen ted to collate' !MSS.'' ■"■'■''■ ' ^ 
 
 I (hall now enumerate .the feveral Places and 
 Libraries one by one, in w"hich anylthihg, ref- 
 pedting this work, has been done oris now 
 doiag, and (hall give a .Cal;alog\ie of M,SS. 
 whenever I am able. 
 
 H 2 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
f^r 
 
 ( 60 ) 
 FLORElSrCE. 
 
 Medicean Library. ., 
 , In this library are ttje, following MSS. 
 
 'I. Codex, fignat. i.'Plutci v. membrana- 
 ceus, vere infignis, maximae molls, Saeculi x. 
 Continetlibros, Genef. Exod. Levitic. Numer; 
 Deuterpn. Jo(h. Judic. Huth. Regum quatuor. 
 I^aralip. duo. Efdras duo. N?enii?e>. Maccha* 
 baeorum primum, 
 
 ■2. Codex, fignat. ix. Plutei v. membran. 
 S?BC. XI, Continet Prophetas Majores. 
 
 - 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Codices, fignati v. xvin, 
 XXIII. XXXIII. XXXIV. XXXIX. . Plutei v. Saeculi 
 X. et XI. Continent Pfalmos, et Cantica Pro-, 
 phetarum. 
 
 9. Codex, fignat, xxv. Plutei v. Saec. xv, 
 Continet Pfalmos, et Cantica Prophetarum, 
 
 10. Cpdex, fignat. xxxviii. Plutei v. Sae-^ 
 culi XI. Continet odto primes libros V. T. 
 
 11. Codex, fignat. xxx. Plutei vii. Sxc, 
 XIV. Continet Job. Proverb. Ecclef. Sapient, 
 Eccliim. 
 
 J2. Codex, fignat, xxvij, Pluta vin. Saec. 
 
 X. Con- 
 
 ( 6. ) 
 
 X. Continet Job'. Proverb.'- Ecclef, Cantica 
 Canticorum. ^ . 
 
 13. Codex, fignat. VIII, Plutei X. S^c. xi. 
 Continet Prophetas Majores .^t.Minores. 
 
 14. Codex, fignat. iv. Plutei xr. Sasc. jci^ 
 Copiipet Prophetas Majores et Minores. 
 
 .On. the 16'''. of Auguft laft, the colla- 
 tion of the firft of thefe MSS. was entered 
 upon by Angel us Maria Bandini,' librarian to 
 the, Grand Duke of Tufcany; and by letter 
 from him, dated the third pf January laft, it 
 appeared that the collation had then advanced 
 nearly through half the MS ; and when that 
 is finiftigd, h? wijl proceed to collate the 
 r?ft. 
 
 Having this occafion to mention his name, 
 I am bound to notify my great obligations' to 
 him, for the fervices he has rendered to the 
 vi^ork in many ways, by the applications he has 
 made at moft places in Italy, by the friends, 
 and the afljftants, h§ has procured it; and 
 by rendering himfelf in all refpedls an inftru^ 
 mcnt of the bigheft value and confequence to 
 
 me. 
 
 •^mmmimim 
 
 PARMA. 
 
 1 
 
( ^^ ) 
 
 P^A H M A, 
 
 Royal Library. 
 
 In this there is'^one MS. hitherto, I appre- 
 hend, not known. It contains qnly the book 
 of Job. 
 
 John Bertiai-d De-Roffi, Profeflbr of Orien- 
 tal languages. iri the Univerfity, to whom the 
 learned are highly indebted for the great affift- 
 ance he h.as already given to Sacred Criticifm, 
 has' (hewn' him felffuch a friend to theprefent 
 trtdeavour to aflift it further, as to promife that 
 he would tike care that the Collation of this 
 MS. 'ihaU" be made for this work. 
 
 TURIN. 
 
 Royal Library. 
 
 Of, theMSS. in^hisXibrary, an account 
 may be feen in the Catalogue, printed at Tu- 
 rin, 1749. The collation of thefe.MSS. feven 
 in number, the farpe Profeflbr De-Rofli has 
 been fo kind as to take the care of, and has 
 undertaken for the execution- of it under the 
 diredion of The Abbot Calufius, a Patrician 
 • - - of 
 
 t « ) 
 
 oif Turin, and very telebratid for bis knowledge 
 of the Oriental ^anguages. " 
 
 ■ 1,^, 1' I 
 
 ES T E. 
 Ducal Library. 
 
 The MSS. here, contain only **'Pfalmos et 
 Libros Sapiehtiales.^* ,: 
 
 Hieronymus TirabofcHius, -the iceldbi^ted 
 Author of The Literary Hiftory of fltJily, land 
 Prff (eft of .the Library^ undertoqk . ^on the 
 eighth of September- la^rthat the collation pf 
 the MSS. under his charge ^ould be ipade. 
 The time fixed by himfor .enrtring upoA it, 
 was at the expiration of the autumnal ' holi- 
 days. By letter fTombim,sdated December 
 22% it appeared that The Abbot GabftF.dus, 
 with an afliftant, were then going on with 
 the collation, under his own infpeftion. 
 
 FErK.RARA. 
 
 Library of The CarmeUta Calceati S". Pauli. 
 
 Here are three 'MSS. h^rd of now, I appre- 
 hend, for the firft time. 
 
 I. Codex, 
 
 ± 
 
{ 64 ) 
 
 1 . Codex; dubbftis Voluminibus magnis, 
 
 fcriptus, ut videbatur, in charta papyraceS 
 
 ^gyptiaca. In primo Volumine continentur, 
 
 Pentateuchus. Jof. Jud. Ruth. Regum libri 4. 
 
 Paralip. duo. Efdr* duo. Tobias. Judith. Eft- 
 
 her. In Volumine fecundoj Job. Proverb. 
 
 Ecc'lus. Ifai. Jerem. Ezek. Dan. Prophetaemi- 
 
 nores. Macchab. libri duo. Pfalmi, cum mar- 
 
 ginalibus aliquot notis. Ad calcem Voluminis 
 
 fecundi eft adpofita nota anni, ex qua fubduftis 
 
 calcuUs apparet Codicem fuiffe fcriptum Chrifti 
 
 ann9, 734- 
 
 2. Codex, bombycinus, in 4". Continet, 
 Pentateuchum. Jof. Jud. Ruth. Regum quatuor. 
 
 Paralip. duo. Efdrae duo. Macchab. tres. 
 
 Efther. Judith. Tobiam. 
 
 3. Code^, bombycinus in 4'". Continet 
 Pfalmos. 
 
 Intelligence of thefe MSS. was communi- 
 cated by Joachim Pla. Vice-Praefeft of the 
 publick .library at Ferrara. About the end of 
 December an agreement was made with him 
 for the collation of the firft of thefe MSS. at 
 the price of lao^- He undertook to make it 
 himfelf with an Afliftant. By the third of 
 laft January he had fubmitted Specimens ot 
 the collation he was making, and from them 
 
 It 
 
 ( 65 ) 
 
 tt appeared that thehufihefs he had undertaken 
 wouid^be properly donei -When he (hall have 
 finished that" MS. he will proceed with the 
 other twoi ■ - ' '' • -' ' 
 
 ; , RO ME. 
 
 Vatican Library. 
 
 The Bafil-MSS. of which Montfaucon makes 
 fuch favourable mention, were two years fince 
 depofited in this ; library, by the direction of 
 Cardinal Garumpi. A Catalogue of the Sep- 
 tuagint-MSS. in it has been promifed by Jofeph 
 Reggius, Praefed: of the library, to wrhom I 
 am greatly indebted for the very kind afliftance 
 he- has already given this work. It was faid 
 at the time it was promifed, that it could not 
 be drawn up before the. fpring. •:■•':- 
 
 To his Eminence, Francis Xavier de Zelada, 
 Cardinal-Librarian to the Holy Roman See, my 
 moft grateful acknowledgments are due. He 
 has fliewn fo much favour to this work, as not 
 only to confent that the collation of the MSS. 
 in the Vatican Library (hall be made; but alfo 
 to promife that he would himfelf take all the 
 care in his power, that the epilation of them 
 
 I (hould 
 
 i 
 
( 66 ) 
 
 fhpuld b? c;q!?f vted \jvith all ppffible (JilJgencQ. 
 He named JOf EU^s Bajdiu?, who hqs been 
 Greek Sjeci;etai;y in that Ijbrary for thirty years 
 paft, to make the collations intended. A fpe^ 
 cimen of the manner, in which he executed it, 
 having been fubmitted, it is to be prefumed that 
 he will complete the collation, he has under- 
 taken, according ta t4ie method prefcribed to 
 him. Early in December laft he began with 
 a MS. once belonging to Chriftina Queen of 
 Sweden, and containing twenty-five of the 
 hillorical books of, the Old.Teftament, and 
 the Pfalms. It is in large folio, and confifts, of 
 
 Library of Cardinal de Zelada. 
 
 There is in it one very, valuable MS. of the 
 x'^ or xi'* century. It contains the Pfalms, His 
 Eminence has obligingly fignified hispermiflion 
 that it may be collated for this work. This* 
 MS. was not, I apprehend, known of before. 
 
 Library of Biflipp Stephen Borgia, 
 
 Here is alfo one MS. not hitherto known. 
 It came from Conilantinople as a prefent to 
 th? Bifyqp, It was written in the x'* or xi'*^ 
 
 century. 
 
 ( 67 ) 
 
 icentury, with great aceUrac^ and elegante j 
 the name of the writer is fubfcribed thus, 
 %£//) fiax»[i'ni rAKoLvos tS kftoiekx^. It contains the 
 Pfalms, and the Songs of Mofes in the books 
 of EiodUS and Deiittrohorhy -, ahd it exhibits 
 various readings confiderable in nuihl^er, ahd 
 fome very remarkable. It had never been col- 
 lated ; but Biihop Borgia, with a kindnefs 
 and generofity that deferves my very fin- 
 cere thanks, had it collated purpofely for this 
 work, and has prefentcd the collation to it. 
 There will be another reaf&n for mentioning 
 his name prefently, and It will then appear 
 that this favour, gfeat as it is, is hot the only 
 reafon I have to expfefs fifty ftioft grateful ac- 
 knowledgments to him. 
 
 Barber jni-Jjibrarv, 
 There are here three MSB. 
 
 I. Containing the text of the Prophets j it 
 is written in the largei* 4", ahd in a fmall but 
 ancient character ; it confifts of 572 pages ; 
 fome of the firft of them hav^ periihed through 
 time and damp. 
 
 I 3 
 
 2, Con^ 
 
 i 
 
r 
 
 ( 68 ) 
 
 2. Containing the Pfalms, in the. fmaller 
 4*% and confifting of 400 pages j but the firfl: 
 Ten Pfalms are wanting. 
 
 3. Containing the ffalnis, ati4 confifting of 
 470 pages. 
 
 Chjgian. Library. 
 
 In this. are alfo three MSS, 
 
 1. Containing all the books of Scripture 
 from Genefis to the third book of the Macr 
 chabees, in the larger quarto, in a very fmall 
 charafteri and in fome parts of Genelis perifhr 
 cd. : It coiififts of ys^ p^ges, 
 
 2. Containing the whole Prophetical Text ^ 
 it is in folio and ancient, and h^s in the marr 
 gin many notes from Theodotion, Theodotus, 
 Hefychius, and others, It ponfifts of 99Q 
 pages. 
 
 3. Containing the text of Jeremiah, Ezcr 
 kiel, Daniel, and Ifaiah, in larger 4*°. It 
 cpnfifts of 860 pages, but the letters in fome 
 places are perifhed by age. 
 
 An offer has been made by the Abbot Ste- 
 phanopoli, for collating the MSS. in the two 
 
 laft 
 
 ( 69 ) 
 
 laft mentioned libraries 1 but my laft advlcejs 
 did not inform me that the agreement with 
 him was as yet conclude^. 
 
 Casanattan Library, 
 
 Here is one MS. It is of the xii'" century, 
 and formerly belonged to Cardinal John Sal- 
 viati, a very celebrated Greek fcholar in the 
 beginning of the i j'*" century. The charadter 
 is fmall, and has perhhed in fome places. It 
 ponfains the eight firf^ book? pf Scripture, 
 but the firft 22 chapters of the book of Ge- 
 nefis are wanting. Of this MS. a collation 
 was begun about the end of I)ec?mbcr laft, 
 by Jo. Elias Baldius above mentioned, one 
 of the Qreek Secretaries in the Vatican Li- 
 brary. As that library is always ftiut in the 
 afternoon, at fhat time hp proceeds in collat- 
 ing the Cafanattan MS, 
 
 VENICE, 
 
 PucAL Library of the Venetian Senate, 
 
 Of the MSS. preferved in this library an 
 iiccount may be feei^ in the Catalogue, printed 
 
 at 
 
 i 
 
( 7P ) 
 
 at Venice in 1740, by §imon Occhius, iji 
 folio. They are in all 14 MSS. The firft of 
 them is very ancient, written in Uncial letters. 
 The very celebrated James Morelli, keeper of 
 that library, being l;iimfelf unable, on account 
 of the multiplicity of bufinefs conftantly on 
 his hands, to undertake the collation of them, 
 has however, very readily and obligingly con- 
 fented that the collation P^alJ be made by 
 other hands. . 
 
 Library of the Abbot 
 Marcus Aloyfius Canonici, 
 
 There is in this library a MS. containing 
 the eight firfl books of Scripture. It was 
 written ;n a very fmall, and now faint cha- 
 rafter, in the x"* or xi'"* century j and of 
 this MS. the Abbot has very obligingly perr 
 mitted that a collation fhall be piade. 
 
 Library of St. John and St. Paul. 
 
 Has in it one MS, It contains the Pfalms, 
 
 ( 71 ) 
 
 Library of the Dominicans. 
 
 There is alfo in this one MS. It contains 
 the Pfalms, and was left to the Dominicans 
 by the will of Apoft'ol'us Zenus, who pof- 
 fefled a very choice and celebrated coUedion 
 ojf MSS. and printed books. 
 
 The.fe laft three MSS. were, I believe, before 
 unknown. And one of thofe two in the- li- 
 braries laft-mentioned, formerly belonged to 
 Charlotta, Queen of Cyprus, and is believed 
 to have been written in the xi"" century. 
 
 BOLOGNA. 
 
 Library of the Canons Sti Salvatoris. 
 
 In this are two MSS. 
 
 I. Codex, fignat. olim 51, nunc 720. 
 membran. elegans et integer in i6. Emen- 
 date fcriptus fsculo xi. Continet Pfalmos 
 cum Canticis. 
 
 JL.IBRARY 
 
 2. Codex, 
 
 i 
 
1 I 
 
 ( 72 ) 
 
 2. Codex, Tignatk olim 2, nunc 641. mem- 
 bran, in 4'° fcriptds, ut apparet ex nota ad 
 calcem, anno Domini 1046. Continet Sacrum 
 Textum hoc ordine j Hofeam. tum alios xi 
 mincres Prophetas, (quorum poftremus fie in- 
 fcribitur, M*A*%iW ko.) ciyyiXos) Ifaiam. Jere- 
 miam. Baruch* Thren. Jeremias, et Epifto- 
 1am. Ezekiel. Daniel. 
 
 Johan. Aloyfius Mirigarellius, Abbot of 
 this monaftery, though, on account of his ago 
 and infirmities, he declined collating thefe 
 MSS. in perfon, has obligingly permitted that 
 they fhall be collated for this work. 
 
 Two perfons, moft probably belonging to 
 the College de Propaganda Fide in Rome, 
 have been recommended by Stephen Borgia, 
 the Prelate before mentioned, Secretary to that 
 College, to make the collations of all thefe MSS. 
 preferved in the libraries at Venice and Bologna. 
 The terms in which he fpeaks of them are 
 thefe ; '* they are really learned, and well ac- 
 quainted with MSS. and I am anfwerable for 
 their ability and honefty. I am likewife cer- 
 tain that they will accomplifli their engage- 
 ment with the greateft expedition." It has 
 been accordingly agreed, that the expences of 
 their journey fliall be paid them, with an al- 
 lowance 
 
 ( 73 ) 
 
 lowance of eight pounds monthly for their 
 lodging and maintenance, and . about fixty 
 pounds yearly falar^ to each 01^. them, till they 
 have gone through the MSS. at both the 
 places mentioned. They will, I apprehend, 
 in the courfe of four weeks be cither going, 
 or gone. 
 
 MILAN. 
 
 Ambrosi AN, Library. 
 
 A catalogue of MSS. in it has been fent to 
 Florence,' but is not yet come to my hands. 
 The fuccefs of the application, that was made 
 in order to obtain collations of them, is ftill un- 
 certain. There is at Milan a College of Dodors 
 of the library i and fome reluftance to part 
 with the literary treafures of it has been ex- 
 preffed by Olbrocchius the Prefident, and by 
 Dodor Branca. But Dodtor Bugatus, another 
 of them, having advifed that the application 
 fliould be renewed in a particular way, there 
 is not yet reafon to defpair of its fuccefs. 
 
 Collations of MSS. made any where in 
 Italy, are to be fent by fome few flieets at a 
 
 K 
 
 ■^ time. 
 
 ± 
 
( 74 ) 
 
 time, as they are done,' to Florence, and are 
 to lie there in the ,cuftody of Angelus Maria 
 Bandini, till opportunities occur for his fend- 
 ing them, either together or in occafional par- 
 cels, to this country. , The friends, therefore, 
 whom I have' requefted to obtain for me by 
 application to Lord Hervey, Britifti Envoy at 
 Florence, the leave to have collation-papers 
 included in fuch packets of Difpatches as his 
 Lordfliip may from time to time tranfmit to 
 England, will fee that fuch a favour muft be- 
 come in the enfuing year of this work of the 
 utmoft ufe and importance to it. 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 Royal Library. 
 
 Upon my application for leave to collate the 
 MSS. that are here. Abbe Zone, the Sub- 
 librarian, obligingly anfwered that there would 
 be no objedlion made; and added that he 
 would do the beft he could towards accommo- 
 dating thofe perfons, who might come thither 
 to proceed in the collation. 
 
 Library 
 
 ( 75 ) 
 
 Library of St. Germains. 
 
 To Monfieur Patert, the Librarian, I made 
 my application for pefmifljon to xollate the 
 MSS. under his charge'.; His anfwer was 
 conveyed, to me .by a yery^ pbli^ing letter from 
 himfelf., H5 afTured.me Jhat,,thcre ftiould be 
 no difficulty thrown ifi'tjie way of the bufinefs, 
 whetjier I proceeded upon it in that library in 
 perfon, or by ag^n^V; .JHe cpuld n<?t however 
 name any proper perfons in, Paf is, : who were 
 W^^^Si\?,.?WS^ in collating. ,, ' ,., 
 
 ' ^'- ''■ ■■■■■I y •.:, ,t . ;,! , ;. y-.- . , 
 
 i " '^PHl'i,.^a|re. m^9l^„^ffea it^ accelerating 
 ^\ie vyork in the mpft m^tejial parts of it, if J 
 SP'^li.gQ vj[ith fotne affiilanc?, and ;Carry'on "the 
 f:Qllation^/,fon^e pfj^fe^aqfi^q 'j^SS., during 
 ?¥r,^f^^4fnjg .C^mmerj^jj^pfl, this is ,jny„purpofe, 
 if the Subfcription to ^is undertaking .Oiould 
 enable me to ftand that addition of expence. 
 
 ■'Vif^ ot -.'.B LOv.l Ol r;/,'.' 
 
 ■iii 
 
 • mio;.;t ',• 
 
 
 .Y^..'xi. 
 
 '. : . i i-. ; . J 
 
 i: "ic nciiviV ; ^.Si.i^ tj^-. 
 
 MSS. 
 
 i 
 
( 76 } 
 
 MSS. OF ORiEhitAL VERSIONS, 
 
 • T H E Rev. Mr. Pablus, Maftet of Arts 
 of' the Uhivcrfit)^ of Tubingen in thB''Dutchy 
 of Wirtemberg,' wHo" had'-'lpng ftudied the 
 Oriental languages -and^rthe celelirate'd Pro- 
 feflbr-Sfchnurrer/ fpetit'fbfne months in Oxford 
 laftfu miner,' for the fole purpofe of examining 
 Ofientai MSS. of whfich 'there is'^a very large 
 andValufaible' collfedlioli; in' tKe Bodleian library. 
 Having become acqiiainted with hitn at the 
 Britifh Mufeum, by means of Dr. Woide, I 
 did riot iet that opportunity jjaifs,' which his 
 jjrtiferice'herel laffdndea ;'me; of 'having the 
 Arabitkybrfiong of Scnptiire; in 'thd Bodleian, 
 ihipB^ed; in 'Order V^^'^'^'^^airi which of them 
 were frbm the Sebtud^irit^Greels!, ^iand which 
 
 were not. 
 
 "lO :'<'iii jji i^d: ;.;;■',;.' ot "- n o, 
 
 The information he was fo good as to g^v^ 
 me being in fevcral refpedts either ne:w or cu- 
 rious, I fhall lay it before the reader. 
 
 Bodleian Library. 
 
 _ J. Laud A. 182. Ap Arabick Verfion of the 
 Pentateuch from the Septuagint-Greek, very 
 
 neatly 
 
 ( 77. ) 
 
 neatly written by the Monk Thomas in the 
 year of the Martyrs 1064, that is in the year 
 1347 of the Chriftian iaera, for the ufe of the 
 holy and blpfTed Lady Sophia. 
 
 2. Hgntingt. 84. A Catena on the Pen- 
 tateuch, written in the Arabick language, but 
 in the Syriack characfter, and therefore called 
 Carfhunick. It is grounded on the 3yriack 
 Verfion, that is in eifedl on the Hebreyv,. and 
 not thp Greek. 
 
 3. Arch. A. 155. Another Carfhunick Car 
 tena on the Pentateuch,, according to the Sy- 
 riack verfion. This is the Catena which Mr. 
 puife in his papers has reprefented as ground- 
 ed on the Septuagint-Veriion, 
 
 .) c; 
 
 4. ^arfl^, }7S' Another Carfbunjpk Ca- 
 tena . on tae , Pentateu^h,^ accprdings^tp, the 
 Syriack Vejrfiop. ',.,', 
 
 
 ., ,5, Pocock. 219. AnAffWck Verfiqnof, the 
 ■iPfintaj^uch, frpn>ithe Syf jaqk-Verfipn ift i^qlygl. 
 :pibl. that is.in, effeft frpiji.the Hebrew. It 
 contains ^n Arabick Commentary ; byt the 
 author of it, is not nan^ed. It agreei more 
 
 with 
 
 1 
 
( 78 ) 
 
 with the MS. Arch/ A. 155. than with the 
 other, Huntingt. .84. 
 
 N. B. Upon infpeaion of Genef. 49, 5. it 
 will appear whether a'Verfion be from the 
 Syriack, or not j for in that place the Syriack 
 reading, " inrtrumenta irae," differs from that 
 of all" other Verfions, 
 
 :" 6."-,Serd. Arch, i^.^'olim 68, nunc 42. An 
 AraBick Verfion from' the Syriack in Polygl. 
 Bibl. It contains, Ifaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 
 Daniel, and the twelve minor Prophets. It 
 was -written in' the year 'of the ' Martyrs 1075, 
 that is'in' the yelr 1358 of the Chriftian aera, 
 
 7?.Huntingf. '424^; ,, ', An Ar'alJick Verfion 
 of the Pentateuch, written on paper'. The part 
 from, Genef. i^. i. ,to ch. v. 10. is from the 
 -Septti'i^int-Verfiont^^'ndfdfar tl^e MS. has 
 '-be'en'"'JilI^a'lip by fdtt-Pe'-rateir'harfd ;'. for ni'uch 
 the greateft and oldeft part of theMS! contains 
 a Verfion from the Syriack, that is from Genef. 
 Vi '■ i^d. "f6 Deut'eron . St Jixii, ifz 1 From' thience 
 ■U^lfhe^ eHd''of ''tKV'Pcntateu'dhi'-the- fame later 
 -iiand^as- "filled up'the 'MS; with a Verfion from 
 the SejJtuagint-Gteik.' ' That part 'of a Verfion 
 from 5eptuagint-Greek which is in this MS. 
 
 is 
 
 (, 79 ); 
 
 is not the fame with, that Verfiort, frpm the 
 Septuagint-Greck, which .the MS. .Liui A, 
 182 contains. 
 
 8. Arch. C.4. (3130) An Arabick Verfion 
 made from the Syriack in Polygl. Bibl. 
 
 i ' ! ' , 
 
 9. Huntingt.' 186. bombyc. in 4*°. An 
 Arabick Verfion of the Syriack Pentateuch in 
 Polygl! Bibl. 
 
 '10. Huntingt. I. Is entitled, Gregorii 
 Abulpharagii horreum myfteriorum. The 
 trcatife, with which' this work is concern- 
 ed, ftands firft in order of thofe which the 
 MS. contains, confifting of about 70 pages! 
 He often gives in Syriack the Verfions of the 
 Seventy, and the other interpreters; 
 
 10. II. Laud A. 146, 147. Are, as is al- 
 ready known, Arabick Verfions of the Penta- 
 teuch from the Hexaplar Text of the Seventy. 
 
 The text quoted by Grcgorius Par-Hebrasus 
 in his Commentary, confiflii'ng of -about 80 
 pages, on the whole Bible, is a Syriack Verfion 
 from the Greek-Hexaplar Text.' 
 
 Con- 
 
■"Pf*' 
 
 ( 86 ) 
 
 Concerning Gregorius Par-Hebraeus, fee 
 Herbelot. Biblioth. Orient. 
 
 Thomas of Heraclea, who flourished in the 
 year of Chrift 613, tranflated the Apocryphal 
 books. Of this Verfion no more is printed 
 in Polygl. Bibl. Lond. than the Hiftory of 
 Sufannah, and the Apocryphal part of Daniel, 
 namely^ the hiftory of Bel and the Dragon. 
 
 The Philoxenian Verfion of the O. T. in 
 Syriack, of the year 48 S, is quoted, from 
 Ifaiah ix, 6, in the Syriack MS. now in the 
 Ambrofian library at Milan. It is not known 
 among the learned where this Philoxenian 
 Verfion is to be found. 
 
 The Arabick Verfion of all the Prophets^ 
 except Daniel, in Polygl. Bibl. Lond. is from 
 the Sept. Greek. 
 
 The Arabick Verfion of the Hagiographa 
 and all the hiftorical books, in Polygl. Bibl. 
 Lond. is from Sept. Greek, excepting in the 
 books of Jofliua, Chronicles, and Job. 
 
 The Latin interpretation in Polygl. Bibl. is 
 very frequently wrong. 
 
 The 
 
 ( 8j ) 
 
 C •^■■^ ) 
 The Arabick Verfion of the Pfalms, extant 
 in Juftiniani Pfalterio Odtaplo, is from the 
 Sept. Greek ', but is a different Verfion from 
 that in Polygl. Bibl, Lond, 
 
 Mr. Pauliis has fliewn'himfelf fo rhuch 'tfie 
 friend of this work and myfclf, as to promife 
 me that he will collate wifti the Greek Text 
 fuch Oriental Verfions as are found to be 
 from' the^ Sepi.' d/eek; .The) MSS. • ate J to. be 
 tranfcribed upon tranfparent paper by a hand 
 in this place, who has been much'accuftomed 
 to this employment j and the Trahfcript is to 
 be fent to Mr. Paul us at Tubingen Jor.cpllfiY- 
 tion. When He~ returned thither, .'he''^ok 
 with him Genefis in the MS. Laud 147^ al- 
 ready tranfcribed j and Exodus is noW'Tlying 
 ready to-be forwarded to him. , -i'A ;l'ji-.!;/i 
 
 
 
 ,,..., I / 
 
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 A. 
 
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 CATALOGUE OF MSS. 
 
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 OF THE 
 
 L.T C 
 
 SEPTUAGINT- VERSION. 
 
 pjX.FORD, ■ 
 
 Bodleian Library .,rz — - -r— 
 
 CoUege-Librarie?, , ' - — ■ ' ' 
 
 ^Cambridge. . ; ,; . 
 
 Publick Library. -■ ■ ■» -— — 
 
 College-Libraries — _ ■ « 
 
 London. 
 
 Britifh Mufeum - — 
 
 Eton. 
 
 College-Library — — — — 
 
 Among the MSS. of Charles Theyer Efq. 
 
 Library of Dublin — . 
 
 Library of Glalgow — — — — 
 
 n ! 
 12 
 
 i9 
 
 6 
 
 I? 
 
 FRANCE. 
 
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 F|LANCf.T 
 
 Paris. 
 
 
 King's Library ^ " 
 
 St. Germains-Library — ; — 
 
 — 48- 
 
 15 
 
 LORRAIN. 
 
 f 
 
 1 
 
 ) _- .-. ,■ i , 'If' I. 
 
 — I 
 
 Alsace. 
 
 1 
 
 T.inrarw rsT nAr\no{T A^nrn^if* ^^hi^ 
 
 1 
 
 - -r - ii'i. '■ . •- • 
 
 GERMANY. 
 
 
 yiENNA, ... . 
 
 
 Csfar. Library — 
 
 - 25 
 
 Lei?SIC.. .•.■■;,/.■• ; 
 
 _'.!..' - 
 
 -■r 
 
 ■*'-•-: "^ , 
 
 Bafil. ■ — ' ■ - 
 
 — • " 3 
 
 r ...,., 
 
 r ' i_ 
 
 SPAIN. 
 
 ■ 
 
 Efcurial. Libr. r— ^ — 
 
 — 3 
 
 HOLLAND. 
 
 
 Hague. , — — 
 
 -i — 2 
 
 L 2 HUNGARY. 
 
:W' 
 
 { H ) 
 
 HUNGARY. 
 
 Conorr, 
 
 ' ■ ITALY.'^ 
 
 Rome. 
 
 Library ofLCardiijal (Jp ?.elaf(?i, 
 Library of Stephqi Borgia 
 Vatic. Libr. ■■ 
 
 Barberin. Libr."^ .,, '- ^ M ^ -ir 
 
 Monaftery S".'Bafilii 
 
 Chiggian Libr, — — 
 
 MuTiNA. ' ' ' ■ 
 
 Ducal. Libr, ■ . . i , . 
 
 Bologna. 
 
 Canon. S. Salvator. . .. j. . . 
 
 Florence. 
 
 Medic. Libr. ' 
 
 Parma. - 
 
 Ducal. Libi*. ■' 
 
 Ferrara ^ — ^ . ■ • 
 Efle — . 
 
 •Milan. 
 
 Ambrof. Libr. — »-— 
 
 Turin. 
 
 Royal Libr. n . 
 
 Venice. 
 
 Libr. of The Senate. -p— 
 
 I 
 I 
 
 9 
 
 ■3 
 9 
 3 
 
 J 
 
 Z 
 
 H 
 
 I 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 7 
 
 Libr, 
 
 ( 85 ) 
 
 Libr. of Marcus Aloyfius Canonici 
 Verona..' . i . r -ri— p I, >:,'.] m , , 
 
 Naples. , ' ' 
 
 Libr. of St. John de CarboiJ' 
 Monaftery S*'. Scverini, 
 
 TURKEY. 
 
 Constantinople. 
 Libr. of the Patriarchium. 
 
 Patmos, 
 
 Libr. of the Monaftery* 
 
 3 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 I 
 
 I 
 235 
 
March 2^'^ 1780. 
 
 ;..,,. ,^ ) ..;;:■! A c:. A '■ '■'•'. 
 
 ' COLLATIONS, this day exhibited before 
 The Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs, and 
 then depofited in the Bpdleian Library in ie- 
 garate volumes in foho Wi^p^ pal;el)oard-cpvers, 
 are thefe j 
 
 Vol. I ft. Genefis. ' • 
 
 In the MS. of Uniy§rfity-ppjlegc. 
 
 2d. Genefis. 
 
 Xeyiticus. ; ' 
 
 Numeri. . 
 
 Deiiteronom. 
 In the MS. of Voffius at Leyden. 
 
 Exodus. 
 Leviticus. 
 Numeri. 
 In the Colbertin MS. in the Royal Library 
 at Paris. 
 
 Genefis. 
 Exodus. 
 In the MS. of the Univerfity of Glafgow. 
 
 Genefis. 
 
 Exodus, ad xvii, 7. 
 In the MS. of the Medicean Library at Florence. 
 
 Vol. 
 
 r 
 
 t ^ \ 
 
 
 Leviticus,,.,;^,^ ;nijnO 
 ..; . ,vln^tbe ,I^S, ^( ^yftiYCf^ty^CoUeg^.. 
 
 , v;'#.'ieviftaa^^-^""^-^ "'^^ ■^-' 
 
 -In-^fhc«; df'th'e'tXniVeVnfy^&rfelafgow. 
 
 Numeri. 
 
 ■Deiitercyd.'--- ' • -'^--^^^^ . 
 ■ ' trt the MS.To¥Uhiv^tfli^-t3bl!*g9. _ 
 
 ijiji I I ' ' i p ; 
 
 (■'f 
 
 5tn. Jolhua. 
 
 Judic. — — 
 
 In thelitis, of UnjverlityrColl^ge. 
 
 Ruth,;nj..„j ,,.,; . u-~\ i 
 ■A'A i.:Reg,,xi,x.,,iii.:,-T,, ,,-•;;; ■,.;, , f 
 in the MS. of the Univerfity of Glafgow. 
 
 6th. Ruth. _ 
 
 In the Arundelian MS. at the Brit.Mufeum. 
 
 ■--..' . - ' ' . t- ' 
 
 i . -a i .. i . 
 
 Ruth. ;..; . , -. .; 
 In another MS. at the Britifli Mufeum. 
 
 I. Reg. 
 
.ii! 
 
 ( 88 ) 
 I. Reg. ad Cap.-ia 
 
 In the Arundelian MS. at tj^e Brit. IVIufeum. 
 
 Cantica Canticprtttrii' 
 In the Text ofPhilo of earpafuS, a writer 
 as fuppofed of the.fpurth century. 
 
 N.B. His Commentj^ry on the Song of 
 ,, „ Solomon.was. publiflie^; itqm. t^ijC Val- 
 ' licellanand Barberinian MSB. 
 
 . >i'i; :' / ■ 
 
 Pfalmi. ad xxxv^-Pfalm. 
 In fourteen ]VISS. in the Britiih Myfeum. 
 
 Pfalmi cum Canticis. 
 In the MS. of Trinity-College in Opcford. 
 
 7th. Pfalmi cum Canticis. ' 
 In five. MSS;. of Chriftchurch. 
 
 Pfalmi cum Canticis. 
 In the MS. of St. Mary Magdalen-College. 
 
 Pfalmi cum Canticis. 
 In the MS. of Corpus-Chrifti-CoUege. 
 
 8th. Pfalmi cum Canticis. 
 
 In the MS. of Eton-College. 
 
 ( 89,) 
 
 Ifaias. 
 In the Arundelian MS; in the;Britifh Mufeum. 
 
 Ifaias. 
 In the Pachomian MS. in, the Britiflj Mufeum. 
 
 Ifaias^ ■'-''- ' ■'•' i-h.J;:!] 
 In the MS. of the Unlverfity of Dublin. 
 
 9th. Jeremiae Prophetia et Lament, 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 Daniel. i . 
 
 Prophetae Minores, excepto Hofea. 
 In the Pachomian MS. in the British Mufeum. 
 
 loth. Hofea. 
 In the MS. of the Bodleian Library, Laud K. 96. 
 
 Hofea. 
 In the MS. of New College. 
 
 Hofea. 
 In the Pachomian MS. of the Britifli Mufeum. 
 
 Prophetae Minores reliqui. 
 Ifaias. 
 
 Jeremias. ad Cap xi, 12. 
 In the MS. of New College. 
 
 iith. Jeremias. 
 Baruch. 
 
 Ifaias. 
 
 M 
 
 Lament. 
 
 ^■^ ' ' '■iV'^^lf HI 
 
( 90 ) 
 
 l^ament. Jeremis. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 Daniel,. 
 
 fiiftoria Slifa'nniaB. 
 
 Hiftoria Bel. et Drac. 
 , Macch^ Libri.ad 3"' Qip. vii. 25. 
 ,In the MS. of New College. 
 
 COLLATIONS done biit not exhibited 
 before The Delegates of the Clarendon-Prcfs, 
 are thefej 
 
 1. MS. belonging to Bi(hop Borgia. 
 
 2. MS. of the JN^edicean library in the 
 books of Exodus from Cap. 17 to the end. 
 Leviticus. 'Numbers. Deuteron. Jofh. Judges. 
 Ruth. I Sam. 
 
 3. MS. of the Vatican Library, formerly 
 belonging to Queen Chriftina, through a third 
 part. 
 
 4. MS. in the Cafanattan Library at Rome, 
 through a fourth part. 
 
 N. B. The above collations are lying at 
 Florence waiting a conveyance to this 
 country. 
 
 5. Bod- 
 
 r 
 
 ( $^ ) 
 
 5. Bodleian MS. NE. B. 2. 120. collated. 
 
 6. Bodleian MS. Laud C. 88. collated. 
 
 ,7. Bodleian MS. Selden. N° o. -jsgy. is 
 tranfcfe''"' ^'--^i--''' -v ^f m' 
 
 Thefe two collations ' arid -tranfcript have 
 beeri'.clelivered ' 'to my oVd^r" kt^XeiMfk f Wd 
 Ayili B^' fcutV'tHe nki%^me\m'c6iiihs 
 from^th^riie^tb 'lileflrs. -Pnlfci'^ ah'd' Cbo'l^e, 
 bookfellers'.'iri'bifercf.' "'^'^^^ ^•' i" " Uibnoo 
 
 In nineteen MSS. 'no "iaiiore remains to be 
 collated than the book of Baruch'ih dne'Vif 
 them. 
 
 4,. 
 
 '' Fifteen other MSS. are- collated through 
 about a fourth^ part of ea^ j ^^Two other MSS. 
 through more than the^-iiilf ;• and 'Ofle MS- 
 through a 'third" -part,' ri^cxr,-'i.v<r. .r. r 'm:" 
 
( 92 ) 
 
 Oxford, Delegates'-Room, March 25, 1789. 
 
 THE Rev. Mr^ Holmes having thi? day 
 
 exhibited to The Delegates of the Prefs fuch 
 
 qoljatipns; of .thj^i^Septpagint-iyiSlS. as, have 
 
 . been completed in. tlje year pad, according to 
 
 J tjie,,§tate\now 'printed.,; It is,,^h^ opinion of 
 
 'j^ Bpafd thatj.,lie''|ias fo % fulfilled the 
 
 condition upon which the Subfcription to the 
 
 faid collation v/as made; and that a competent 
 
 j^nd,) laudable progref? has already beeji made 
 
 in thewofk.j. :^ ;,,-'.,. 
 
 The Delegates therefore think it incumbent 
 itpon them to recommend.- the. 'prefent annual 
 .account to the- cpofideration of ;the Publick ; 
 hoping that Mr. Holmes vi^ill meet v/ith fuch 
 farther encouragement as will enable him to 
 bring the work to its completion. 
 
 The Account of Exper^ces incurred to 
 this time. 
 
 Advertifements, including thofe of 
 
 this account — 10 4 6 
 
 Pollage of letters, foreign and home, 
 
 fent or received -r— 11 17 9 
 
 Paper, &c. — -— 5181 
 
 Books purchafed, inclviding two copies 
 
 of Vat. Sept. at 6]. 9s. 6d. each 26 19 6 
 
 To Mr. Bandini for collating Medi- 
 
 cean MS, — 40 o o 
 
 To ditto for advertifements in the 
 Journal of Florence, tranflating 
 
 Metbodus, &;c. 
 
 10 o o 
 
 To Jo. Elias ^^Idius for one third 
 
 done of a Vatican MS. 20 o p 
 
 'fo ditto for collating the Cafanattan 
 
 MS. — 25 o o 
 
 To 
 
-w^- 
 
 ( 94 ) 
 
 To the two collators going to Venice 
 . and Bfilpgw* fqj jo.urney, lodging, 
 and maintenance — 50 o o 
 
 To Mr. Cawley, affiftant to Mr. 
 
 Morres J2 10 o 
 
 To Mr. Thomas ^fli/laiy^ to Mr. 
 
 Morres — '■ i 116 
 
 Left in Mr. Bandini's hands to defray 
 
 expenc?;s by,,p,9ftage, ,^c.. ^ jp (if o 
 
 Tranfcript of Arabick MS. in Ge- 
 
 nefis aijidrEXQdiVis, l^aiiid, ,A. .146. 5 S P 
 
 Journeys to London, and refidence 
 . jthere during more than eleven 
 
 weeks in t^e whole, jwijth afliftan^s' 
 . ,boa';^ and .l^%4ni^. '&!%' jthr^e 
 
 weeks, his journeys, &c. 95 4 o 
 
 J*rinting Propofals, Englifli aq(^ 
 , Latin — Methodus — and Ac- 
 count ■ '■ — — 17 '8 4 
 
 ^Gr^tuity to the collator of JBiA)Qp 
 
 Borgia's MS. — " ' " 500 
 
 ^Cojl^ations now lying ..^t-I^eipf^ck ^o p o 
 
 Mr. Morr^es, .^f^]^^nt cpy^tpr, d^r^pj; 
 live, gion tlas to March 1 6th ' 54 3 6 
 
 ( 95 ) 
 
 Mr. Fowle, my own affiftant-reader 
 
 from the 4th of July laft 22 10 o 
 
 N. B. Subfcriptions for the firft year 
 unpaid are 71I. 14s. 
 
 Total expences 
 
 Total Subfcription — 
 
 Expences exceed by . — 
 
 433 12 2 
 423 2 o 
 
 10 10 2 
 
 'Tie Subfcribers, if they approve of the progrefs 
 and prefent Jiate of this loorkt are very re- 
 fpeSifully requejied to make an early depofit of 
 their Subfcriptions for the fecond year » in the 
 hands either of the Editor, or D. Prince and 
 J. Cooke, J. and J. Fletcher, Oxford; or 
 T. Payne and Son, H. White and Son, 
 London ; or Mr. White, bookfeller, Dublin. 
 
 -i-A^ 
 
VA R I A S Le(i5ion(es notaridi et res fcUtt 
 neceflarias defcribendi, a fingulis Co- 
 dicum MStorum et Imprcflbrum Verfionis 
 Septuaginta-Viralis cum Editione, imprefla 
 Romas Anno Domini 1 587, Collatoribus (a 
 Le<5tore fcilicet atque Scriptote) hsec eft ob- 
 iervanda 
 
 METHODtJS. 
 
 ScHED^ Hnt in Folio compadtse; et un^ 
 quaque pagina ad iiniftram manum prseter- 
 minU, altera, quae erit ad d^xtram> dividatur 
 in Columnas duas. Supra in Columna pagi- 
 ng ad dextram prima defcribaturnomen Edi- 
 tionis Romans ; et fubtus, in eadem Colum- 
 na, Caput Biblicum, et Capitis Comma. Et 
 quoniam in Editione Romand non defignan* 
 tur Commata, numerentur ea ex Editione 
 alia quadam quam in confpedtii proponere 
 nbi poflit inter conferendum Scriptor. Supra, 
 in Columna paginae di&x fecunda, defcrix 
 batur item Titulus Libri five MSti five 
 Imprefli confcrendi cum Editione RomanS. 
 Sequitur exemplum ; 
 
 In Editione Roman^. 
 
 Genef. Capite i. 
 Commate. i. 
 
 In Codice MSto. &;c, 
 vel In Editione &c 
 
 k_jL 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 Collalionem delude fufcipiant CoUatores 
 ope conjunfta duo. Et, fi MStus conferen- 
 dus pro ea vice fit exaratus cum divifione li- 
 terarum in verba, tunc ex Collatoribus unus 
 clare ac lente legat Librum Impreffum ; fi 
 contra MStus fit exaratus fine divifione lite- 
 rarum in verba, tunc idem recitet Librum 
 Impreffum' literatim, CoUatorum altcro inte- 
 rea Scriptum Codicem infpiciente. 
 
 DE LECTOR E. 
 
 Illi, qui ledionem aut recitationem didam 
 Libri Imprefil excrcet, cavcndum eft ; 
 
 Primo, de Hexaplaribus five Origenianis no- 
 tis omnibus, fi queedam forte extent in Libro 
 quern legit aut recitat; ac Alterum, qui Codi- 
 cem feu Scriptum feu Impreflum infpicit, ad- 
 moneat, dift^ notas quales fint, quibufque et 
 quot vocibus in eadem linea praemittantur. 
 
 Item, eundem admoneat, fi quas voces in 
 Libro per ipfum lefto aut recitato viderit 
 forma aut majore aut minore, quam reliquae, 
 imprefl'as, aut uncis fi forte inclufas, aut alio 
 quocunque mode infignitas. 
 
 Item, illi cavendum eft fcdulo de literis 
 
 ( 3 ) 
 ac fyllabis ad fonum pronuntiationis ufita- 
 tum confimilibus ; exempli gratis, comme- 
 moret utrum efficiatur fyllaba ex x, vel x, ut 
 in y^Ku,, feu iz^; ex e vel »,, ut in «;^«, feu r^m-, 
 ex « dipthongo vel < fimplici, ut m^div leu 
 ihi ex vel u, ut in yewjVo feu yev.,^^r«i ex 
 ,, vel <, ut in h-)C^fn<riv feu ^nx^^itriv; t% ^ vel 
 r, ut in ze€^.^ feu 2eC^<^; ex k vel y, ut m 
 (3>*Ae>c feu ^dXiy ; &c. &c. 
 
 Item Socium fuum admoneat de divifione 
 Capitum totics quoties fad^ ; de leftione, fi 
 qus fit in Libro lefto aut recitato per .pfum, 
 marginal! ; neque pcrmittat ut quidquam, 
 memoratu dignum, efFugiat atque innomina- 
 turn praetermittatur. , 
 
 DE SCRIPTORE. 
 
 Illi cavendum eft in Scriptione fui qul- 
 cunque in ScHedis faciendi, ut nullibi fcri- 
 bat in brevi ac minuto charaft^re, et cum 
 coardato linearum concurfu : fed contra, ubi- 
 que enucleate et ampU literarum form^, et 
 cum fpatio inter lineas non parce interjeao. 
 
 Item, illi cavendum eft ut accurate exci- 
 piat defcribatque diverfitates Vocum aut Li- 
 terarum omnigenas. inter Codicem Scriptum 
 atque Impreffum intercedentes. 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 Item, ut notet fi literae aut voces inltiales 
 in MStis fint qrnatas et reliquis majorcs. 
 
 Item, fi verba ullibi, evanida prae aetate, 
 ^tramentum de novo acceperint, ut difquirat 
 diligenter, an non fecunda manus intulerit 
 lediones a primis diverfas. Quod fi fiat, no- 
 tanda eft prima ledtio, ubicunque ab Imprefli 
 Codicis Ledtione difFert. Erit ubi, admoto 
 vitro microfcopico, fere deletae literae poflint 
 luculenter erui. 
 
 Item, notandas funt, fi modo occurrant in 
 M^to, infignes difcrepantiae quoad totos Li- 
 bros ; ex. gr. fi tres Libri Poetici (Pfalm. 
 Job. Prov.) fcripti fint more poetico in He- 
 miftichiis, adeo ut dextra columna feriatim 
 habeat primas comoiatum partes^ finiftra co- 
 lumna ultimas. 
 
 Item, notandae flint vocum partes, quae 
 poflit eflie aliquando ut fin^verarum leftio- 
 num veftigia — notandum qooque Jpaiium ali- 
 quod infigne, fi m tnediQ commatum aut alibi 
 inveniatur. 
 
 Item, in omni MSto conferendo, notan- 
 dum quas habeat partes Veteris Teftamenti, 
 et quern feryet ordinein Librorum - — Si ha^ 
 
 ( 5- ) 
 
 beat inter libr.qs, Pentateuchr fpatium. 3 vel 
 4 linearu.m,. vel amplitis fpatium. Notandum, 
 fi frequententur in Codice MSto literge nume- 
 rales, vocum ipfarum loco — Si abbreviationes 
 alicubi ab ufitato compendiaris fcriptionis te- 
 nore defledtant, et fint intricatce j tunc enim 
 defcribendae funt ift^ perinde ao fi effent va- 
 rietates ledtionis — Si alicubi detur tempus five 
 annus in quo, aut nomen librarii a quo, 
 fcriptus fuit Codex j aut nomen hominis aut 
 Monafterii, cujus crat aliquando Codex. No- 
 tandum quoque, quas fint, prster partes Vete- 
 ris Teftamenti, in eodem volumine exfcripta. 
 
 Item, in omnibus agendum fummopere ut 
 notitia Codicis cujufque Scripti numeiis om- 
 nibus quam_ poflit fieri abfolutiflima excerpa- 
 tur. Et fi forma literarum fit aliquo modo 
 fingularis, adjiciendum eft quoque Specimen 
 breve, Scriptionem Codicis exadliflime refe- 
 rens. Et fi Scriptus Codex habeat Accentus, 
 funt ii in Schedis pingendi fie, ut funt in 
 MSto. 
 
 Item, fi ?ut in fcriptione MSri, aut in mar- 
 gine fcriptionis, neque autera in Libro Im- 
 prefi^?, proftent notae aliquas, five Hexaplares 
 five aliae quaedam, eafdem Scriptor cautiflltne 
 eruat, ac in prima Columna Schedanim; def- 
 
 M. 
 
r 
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 cribat ipfa verba, ufque ad finem lineae, (quaj 
 eft in MSto) cui praemittantur j hoc modo, 
 fi in verbis iis confentiant Liber Scriptus ac 
 Impreflus ; 
 
 In Editione Roniana. 
 
 Genef. cap. i. 
 Commat. 8. ttrmfx km 
 
 tyiVlTO TTpai tljAtfA aiv- 
 Tipa, >6 ilTTiV 
 
 In Codice MSto &c. 
 
 habentur in una linea 
 cum N prsemiflb per 
 alium, ut videtur, 
 fcriptorem. 
 
 Si contra in verbis aut Uteris non confenti- 
 ant Liber Scriptus ac Impreflus, hoc modo ; 
 
 In Editione Romana. In Codice MSto &c. 
 Genef, cap. i. 
 Commat. 30. x^^p^" ^'f 
 (ipaa-iv Xj kyivno — 
 
 X,^o^ov 61? (ij)uiriv }{ffj iys- 
 viTo, cum praemiflb 
 his in margine X fed 
 ab alia manu. 
 
 Contra, fi nota Hexaplaris, qua? fit aut 
 efle videatur, proflet in Editione ImprefTa, 
 neque autem in Libro Scripto, defcribat in 
 Columna Schedarum prima notam iftam, una 
 cum vocibus iis ufque ad finem lines (qu2& 
 eft in Libro Edito) quibus difta nota praemit- 
 tatur, et in Columni fecunda inferat hanc no- 
 tationem, *« habentur fine nota," 
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 Si ver6 .intercedat uUa varietas ledionis, 
 defcribat an Columi^a prima ledioncm Editi- 
 onis et MSti leftionem in ColumnS finiftra 
 cum hac notatione ibidem, « fine nota." 
 
 Item in pagina Schedarum finiftri defcri- 
 bat Additionem aut Corredionem, fi quam 
 vident m Margine MSti, notetquc ad quod 
 comma, et ad quas voces, pertineat, et utrum 
 cffe videatur a primi Scriptoris manu aut re- 
 centioris, et ibidem, fciJicet in pagina fini- 
 ftra, notet omne, quodcunque confpexerit in 
 Scripto Codice fcitu .dignurn. 
 
 DE NOTANDA ADDITIONE. 
 
 Si Scriptus Codex ab ImprefTo difcrepet in 
 ADDITIONE Jitcrs unius vel plurium, defcri, 
 bat in Columna primS vocem quam Editio 
 exhibet in fecunda vocem quam MStus ex- 
 liibet, hoc modo; - 
 
 In Editione Romana. [ In Codice MSto &c. 
 Genef. cap. 1. 
 Commat. 1 2. ^ci^ynf^ov—Lap7rc,fisi> — 
 
 ^i in Additione vocis unius vel plurium 
 turn m Columna Schedarum prima deS 
 
( 8 ) 
 
 leftionem Editionis Imprcflas, ef iri Colum- 
 ns finiftra Additionem Script! Codicis, hoc 
 modo J 
 
 In Editione Romana. 
 
 Genef. cap. i. 
 Comm. 2. oxolW iTidvcii-- 
 
 A. , V , 
 
 In Codice MSto &c* 
 
 X' hotZiav a. —— 
 
 y. K. iyima iiTus Kj et.— » 
 
 Si repetatur vox una, vel plures, fie fiat 
 noiatioj 
 
 In Editione Romana. In Codice MSto &c. 
 Genef. Cap. — 
 Commat. — wktos — 
 
 Commat. — t?j- vvxto/\ 
 Kcti — J 
 — — Cap. — 
 Commat.— — totum 
 Comma — 
 
 bis fcriptum. — 
 < bis fcripta — 
 bis fcriptum — ^ 
 
 DE NOTANDA OMISSIONE. 
 
 Si contra Scriptus Codex ab ImprefTo dif- 
 crepet in Omissione, defcribat in Columna 
 Schedarum prima ledionem Editionis, in fe- 
 cunda item ledionem MSti, hoc modo i 
 
 In Editione Romana. 
 Genef. cap. i. 
 Commat. 2. cxSfis v> \ 
 fmm —J 
 
 Cap. — 
 
 Coirim.— ;^^e^*X*yrrt 
 xa,) — 
 
 Genef. Cap. 4. 
 Comm. 23. a i"' A«jits;^j" 
 excIufive,ad2''"'"Ai|ut;)^i 
 inclufive — ' 
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 InCodiccrMSto&c. 
 
 fx^~pct xet) fine 
 Inota'— 
 
 I intermedia defunt 
 omnia. 
 
 Genef. cap. i. 
 Comm.9.>^a.„,^;^ft,llr 
 
 cum fequemibus ad i{ defunt omnia. 
 1 i,t\fct, mcJufive J / 
 
 Si in uno Script! Codicis loco fuerint omif- 
 la aut exciderint verba quamplurima, 20, ,0 
 vel 40, qua2 tamen extent in Libro Impreflb! 
 exprimatur verbum pHmum et ultimum fie 
 omiflum, atque fic fiat notatio; 
 
 In Editione Romana. 
 Genef. cap. — 
 
 Commat.— ayewf in 
 
 hoc commate, ad jtj- 
 
 %va, in capite — com' 
 
 mate — inclufive 
 
 In Codice MSto &c. 
 
 intermedia defunt om- 
 nia feu perierunt 
 
 MSti folia— feu praj 
 vetuftateleginonpof. 
 font—fau&c. 
 B 
 
( 10 ) 
 
 DE NOTANDA TRANSPOSITIONE. 
 
 Si Scriptus Codex ab ImprelTo difcrepct 
 in Tranpofitione Vocis unius vel plurium, fie 
 fiat notatioi 
 
 In Editione Romana. In Codice MSto. &c. 
 
 Genef. Cap. — 
 
 Comm.'-'yvaxrov x*A«-- xaKov yvu^S — 
 
 Et fimiliter in multis vocibus, dcfcripta 
 utrobique Librorum conferendorum ledtione. 
 
 Si fiat Commatum Tranfpofitio, notctur 
 fie; 
 
 In Editione Romana, 
 Genef. cap. — 
 Commat.— — 8> 9.- 
 
 Comm. — 8, 9, lo, 1 1, 
 1 2, &c« 
 
 In Codice MSto &c. 
 tranfpofita 9, 8. — 
 
 tranfpofita fie, 9, 8, 1 1, 
 io» 12. &c. 
 
 Si Tranfpofitio fit Capitum aut Librorum, 
 notanda eft ea quo res poflulet modo. 
 
 Si Scriptor Codicis Imprefll leftionem in 
 Columna Schedarum fecunda, et alteram Co- 
 dicis Scripti in Columna prim^, per errorem, 
 defcripfcrit, corrigat errorem admiflum hac 
 iiotatione ; 
 
 lu Editione Romaoa. 
 Genef. Cop. — 
 
 In Codice MSto &c.' 
 
 nums tYuw 
 
 3 
 
 T^ 
 
 DE yOTANDA VARIATIONE. 
 
 Si Scriptus Codex , ab ImprefTo dilcrepet 
 .in Variatione literarum vel vocqm, fie fiat 
 notatio; .. ,' ' 
 
 In Editione Romana; j 
 Genef. Cap. i." 
 Commat. 10. cv<^r\fi-*Ta, 
 
 Comm.— > liV (pavo'iv 
 rns yns — 
 
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 In Codice MSto— , 
 
 J^-flU ^ctivnv i7r) Ttii ytji 
 fine not^ t-w 
 
 fie, tS ^utos X. fi" jM'T 
 
 ■ iKciXia-iv ctvTcc "Ami* 
 US v|/i;;^. ^wr; tSto oh. 
 
 Cap.- ^ 
 
 Commat, -T—r'/*w-oi».T»)j 
 
 Ttis VVKTOS --r 
 
 Commat.— —^9 'ixv ncet 
 Aerei" ttiro ^ASeift yw- 
 ' X'l" t!,urAVy^ tSro 'cvofio, 
 
 •. '■'' ^" ■' -^ ' :■'■■■ ^ : ■■ 
 
 Si vox cadem legator in uno Commate plu- 
 
 ries, notandum ad •quam ex iis Varietas 
 
 defcripta pertineat, hoe modo ; 
 
 In Editione Romana— -j Iij Codice MSto &c, 
 Genef. Cap.-i- 
 
 Comm 1", vel, 2'"*/ 
 
 vpl, 3'-". y«W »-" fytni 
 
 Atque, (ne quidquam prsetermittatur, quod 
 poffit forte conferre aliquid ad dignofccndum 
 verum MStojrum charailera, aptateni, exem- 
 
 ■IBi^^l. r^lij „ , 
 
 '-• r 
 
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 plaria eorundem kfy^xwra^y &c &c.) notanda 
 quoque funt Variationes ex hoc genere ; 
 In Editione Rbmana. 
 
 Genef. Cap. — 
 Cotntn.— x*T<tXel\|/ej 
 
 In Codice MSto &c. 
 
 UTTiV — eTtTS t— 
 
 DE NOTANDA CORRECTIONE, 
 
 5i Scriptus Codex ab Impreflb difcro- 
 pct in Corre<ftione fadta vocum aut litera- 
 rum, notetur ifta Varietas. Si verba vel li- 
 terae in MSto ita corrigantur, ut prima Scrip- 
 tio fit adhuc ccrta, notandum, ** primo fie 
 — — ," fi fit rpodo probabile quid primo 
 fcriptum fucrit, nqtandum '^ fortalfe — — ." 
 Sequuntur exempla. 
 
 In Editione Ronian^,. 
 Genef. Cap. -- 
 Conimat. ~ i^dosai -- 
 
 Comm.— r yim uvtuv-- 
 
 ■ Gap. -- 
 
 Commat.rr-r' 3''"'* yim 
 
 UVTUV — — 
 
 T-^ Cap. ^ ^ 
 Comm. 4'"". Kccja, ytvis 
 
 In Codice MSto &c. 
 
 'ihdos*o primo forte s- 
 \clos-a, priore rS a mem- 
 bro erafo — 
 
 ym AvTuy,pntt\o fortafle 
 yivos, iyllaba ey fafa. 
 
 yivcf omifilp etvjuy • 
 
 omifTa rr. 
 
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 DE NOTANDA' RASURA. 
 
 , Si Scriptus Codex ' ab Impreflb "difcrepct 
 in Rafuri literae 'ver yocis bhiusaut pliiri- 
 um,'fic fiat notatioj " [ ' ' 
 
 In Editione Roniana, In Codice MSto &c. , 
 Genef. cap. 3. . . i 
 Commat. 19. iJgoTj.— 'Jfu**Tt duabus Uteris 
 
 Commat.— X(tr<t ywcf- 
 Commat. — tJ^ni e— 
 
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 — ^ — Cap. — , 
 Commat. — a yives -» 
 i"", feu 2'° &c. in hoc 
 commate exclufive,ad > 
 yivBs inclufive in com- 
 mate — J 
 — — — Cap. — 
 Commat. — a yivos 
 
 erafis. 
 
 icripta fuper rafuram. 
 
 3 vel 4 vel plurcs litera?, 
 conficiehtes, ut videtur, 
 vocem tiham, inter has 
 voces funt erafse. 
 
 exclufive in commate/ 
 hoc, zdyivos inclufiveC 
 in commate — J 
 
 Commat. — a yeW-j 
 exclufive in commate / 
 hoc, ad yivof inclufive f 
 ffi corpfnate •— ^ 
 
 fcripta funt 10, 20, 30, 
 &c. verba fupra rafu- 
 ram. 
 
 verba i o, 20, &c. con- 
 fcdta ex Uteris 30, 60, 
 5cc. inufitate conilipan- 
 tur. 
 
 verba 30, 40, 50, &c. 
 confeda ex Uteris 90, 
 20, 150, &c. inufitate 
 difiant. 
 
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 Poffit efle, ut praemifla Methodus baud tan- 
 gat ac commonflret omaia, quae tamen inter 
 conferendum fubihde occurrant, et notari me- 
 reantur. Quae vero fint ex ifto genere, ca 
 quidem nequaquam funt prsetermittenda, fed 
 Schedis mandanda dilucide ac vere. Rem a- 
 gunt Collatores con:imuniter mecum» non 
 CriticsB cujufdam faeultatis, fed fidei at que 
 diligentiae j eaque relligione tenemur omnes, 
 ut quidquid fit aliud in Editione Romana, 
 aliud in Exemplaribus cxteris, tarn Scriptis 
 quam Editis, ipfi accurate notemus, aliis au- 
 tem judicandutn relinquamus. Erit nobis ad 
 laudem fatis, id, quod habetur adhuc in facris 
 Uteris inexploratum defideratumque, in pub- 
 licum cduxifle. 
 
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 SECOND ANNUAL ACCOUNT^ 
 
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 BY ROBERT HOLMES, D.D. 
 
 PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, 
 
 RECTOR OF STANTON ST. JOHN, OXON. 
 
 AND LATE FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE, 
 
 OXFORD: 
 
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 LORD BISHOP OF SARUM, 
 
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 VERY GREATLY INDEBTED 
 
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 His Grace The Duke of Leeds, Sec. of State 
 His Grace The Duke of Marlborough — 
 His Grace The Primate of Ireland — 
 His Grace, Dr. Fowler, A-Bp of Dublin 
 His Grace, Dr. Agar, A-Bp of Cafbell 
 
 Right Hon. The Earl of Abingdon 
 
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 Right Hon. Lord Sydney ' 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Sandys ■ 
 
 Right Rev. Dr. Porteus, Ld Bp of London 
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 Right Rev. Dr. Bagot, Ld Bp of Norwich 
 Right Rev. Dr. Smallwell, Ld Bp of Oxford 
 Right Rev. Dr. Cleaver, Ld Bp of Chefter 
 Right Rev. Dr. Watfon, Ld Bp of Landaff 
 Right Rev. Dr. Prettyman, Ld Bp of Lincoln 
 Right Rev. Dr. Thomas, Ld Bp of Rochcfter 
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 Right Rev. Dr. Woodward, Ld Bp of Cloyne 
 Right Rev. Dr. Law, Ld Bp of Killaia 
 Right Rev. Dr. Percy, Ld Bp of Dromore 
 Right Hon. William Pitt, Firft. Lord of the 
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 Right Hon. Will. Grenville, Secretary of State 
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 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Chrift Church 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Weftminfter 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Windfor 
 
 Rev, The Dean and Chapter of Exeter 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Hereford 
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 Rev. The Principal of Magdalen Hall — 
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 Hely Addington, Efq. 
 
 Rev, Mr. Barnes, Ball. Coll. 
 
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 John Blackburne, Efq. - 
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 Rev, Mr. Burgefs, C. C. Coll. 
 
 William Burgh, Efq. - 
 
 Rev. Mr. Cracherode 
 
 John Englifh Dolben, Efq, 
 
 Rev. Mr, Egerton — — 
 
 Rev, Mr. Foley 
 
 Rev. Dr, Gabriel 
 
 Rev. Mr. Gauntlett, Win. Coll. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Gifborne 
 
 Rev. Dr. Goflet 
 
 John Gray, Efq. • 
 
 Rev. Mr. Heathcote — 
 
 Dr. Heberden . 
 
 Rev, Mr, Heberden 
 
 Rev, Dr, Home — 
 
 Rev, Mr, Jeffreys, Win, Coll. 
 .Edward King, Efq. — 
 
 Mr, Lawfon, Manchefter — 
 
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 Rev, Mr, Matthew, Ball, Coll. 
 Rev.- Mr. H. Morgan, Hereford 
 Rev. Mr, Mbrrcs 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Sarraude, Exeter Coll. 
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 Rev. Mr. Travel ; 
 
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 TH E fecond year, fince the cpmmence- 
 ment of the undertaking in which I 
 am engaged, is now concluded. It is therer 
 fore my duty, at this time, to deliver a fe- 
 cond Account of the work, that the advances 
 made in it during the year laft elapfed, and 
 the prefent ftate and circumftances of it, may 
 be made known. 
 
 This is the main part of my obligation ; 
 and upon the difcharge of it I fhall accord- 
 ingly enter, as foon as I have made a thank- 
 ful mention, which is alfo due on my parr, 
 of various favours received. 
 
 I beg leave to prefent my mofl grateful 
 acknowledgments, for the continuance of that 
 Patronage and Subfcription, -with which the 
 work was favoured in the year preceding; and 
 to Thofe Friends of it in particular, who have 
 been pleafed to teftify approbation of my en- 
 deavours hitherto, and to aflift them in fu- 
 ture, by making additions to the amount of 
 their former Subfcriptions j and to Thofe 
 alfo, who have become Subfcribers to the 
 undertaking during, this fecond year. 
 
 A Nor 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 Nor ought I to omit this opportunity of 
 offering my very fincere thanks to the Duke 
 of Leeds, one of his Majefly's principal Secre- 
 cretaries of State ; to the Right Honourable 
 Lord Stormontj and to the Lord Bifhop of 
 Salifbury; whofe letters of introdudlion to 
 the Duke of Dorfet, then his Majefty's Am- 
 baffador at Paris, and to Monfieur Villoiffon, 
 afforded very valuable affiflance to this under- 
 taking. It was in confequence of thofe let- 
 ters, that his Excellency was pleafed to em- 
 ploy his good offices in procuring me, when 
 at Paris, the ufe of the Royal Manufcripts at 
 my lodgings J and that Mr. Villoiffon alfo 
 was fo kind as to follicit that liberty for an 
 Affiflant-CoUator, as well as for myfelf. To 
 all thefe diflinguifhed Perfonages I feel my- 
 felf under great obligations, for having fo 
 much facilitated my progrefs in the work. 
 
 To the Reverend Don Patert, Principal 
 Librarian of St-Germains, I am alfo greatly 
 indebted for accefs to the library there on 
 days and at times, when it was Ihut to the 
 Publick. 
 
 But indeed I am under more than ordinary 
 obligations to him for providing me with 
 every accommodation, that could in any re- 
 fpe(5t forward the bufinefsof the undertaking; 
 and efpeciaily for recommending the work 
 
 and 
 
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 and myfelf to his Colleague Don Lieble fo 
 effedtually, that the following written af- 
 furance was put into my hands ; 
 
 " Dominus Lieble San-Germanenfis, ac 
 Bibliothecarius alter, facile et libenti animo 
 omnia cum humanitatis et urbanitatis, turn 
 rei literaris, officia fupplere poterit, in ab- 
 fentia vel defedlu Domini Patert, erga Do- 
 minum Holmes, feu per fe, vel per alios, 
 Bibliothecae San-Germanenfis auxilia, com- 
 municationemquc, requirentem," 
 
 To him, then, and to Don Lieble, I ex- 
 prefs mofl grateful acknowledgments for their 
 
 refpedlive favours. 
 
 ' ' 'I 
 
 To The Reverend *Mr. Harper, and Dr. 
 Woide, my obligations are great, for that 
 affiflance which they continue to afford this 
 work, by going on with the collation of four- 
 teen Manufcripts of the Pfalms in the Britifh 
 Mufaeum. To Dr. Woide indeed I am un- 
 der an additional obligation, for the collation 
 of fome Oriental Manufcripts. 
 
 To Dr, Owen alfo I am highly indebted, 
 for the important fervice he kindly contri- 
 butes to this work, by that collation of 
 
 A a Pbilo, 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 Philo mentioned in the firft Account, in 
 which he is proceeding. This, and every 
 other kind endeavour of his to further and 
 recommend this undertaking, 1 beg leave to 
 acknowledge in the moft thankful manner. 
 
 Thefe indeed are not all the diftinguifhed 
 Charaders, to whom my thanks are due, for 
 favour (hewn to the work and to me ; but as 
 the names of others muft occur hereafter, oc- 
 cafion will then be taken, as it may arife, of 
 expreffing the proper acknowledgments. I 
 cannot however omit the mention of one 
 more name in this place; it is that of Mr. 
 Morres, of Brafen-Nofe College, who is moft 
 juftly entitled to my beft thanks for the abi- 
 lity and diligence with which be has coope^ 
 rated with me. 
 
 I fhall now proceed to ftate particularly 
 every thing relating to the work, that has 
 been done in the courfe of the laft year, or 
 js at this time doing; obferving nearly the 
 fame order and method as to Places and Li- 
 braries, as in the former Account, 
 
 FLO. 
 
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 F L O R E N C E. 
 
 A Catalogue of MSS. in this library, was 
 inferted in the £ril year's Account. 
 
 Codex fignat. i. Plutei V. containing i8 
 books of Scripture, was ia hand during part 
 of the former year; and, in the, courfe of the 
 prefent, the collation of it has been com- 
 pleted. The places, in which it varied from 
 the Vatican text, were found fo numerous, 
 that ten months have been fpent in collat- 
 ing it. 
 
 The collation of the above MS. having 
 been finifhed in' May laft, another was then 
 entered upon. It was this:' 
 
 Codex fignat xxxviii. Plutei V, If con- 
 tains the eight firft books of Scripture, written 
 in a fmall, and now faded, character. 
 
 This MS. alfo has been completely collat- 
 ed i and the variations of it from the Vatican 
 text are as numerous, as in the former. MS. 
 of the fame books ; and it appears that both 
 the MSS, have ftriking differences from each 
 other. 
 
 The collation of this MS. was continued, 
 only during the:fpring,'fummer, and autumn; 
 for then, as the light was greateft, the fmall 
 ipharadter of the MS. might be made out with 
 
 more 
 
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 more eafe and certainty. During the winter, 
 another MS. was entered upon j namely, 
 
 Codex fignat. ix. Plutei V. containing the 
 Prophetical text, and written in a large cha- 
 radler, and for that reafon more eafily legi- 
 ble than the former. 
 
 Accordingly, ' fome advances have been al- 
 ready made in the collation of this latter MS; 
 but how far it has proceeded, I am not able 
 to fay. 
 
 The very celebrated Canon Bandini, Libra- 
 rian to the Grand Duke of Tufcany, has 
 made the above collations j and he will pro- 
 ceed with the reft of the MSS. at Florence. 
 As I have again occafion to mention his name, 
 I am obliged to repeat my moft grateful ac- 
 knowledgments to him, for his many and 
 continual fervices, of the moft fignal value 
 and importance to me in conducing and for- 
 warding the work, in the courfe of which 
 he has fhewn himfelf a very zealous Friend, 
 as well as a moft able Affiftant, 
 
 PARMA. TURIN, 
 
 In the collation of the MS. of Job in the 
 Royal Library of Parma, and of thofe in 
 the Royal Library of Turin, no advances 
 have been made. The following letter, fent 
 
 me 
 
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 me by Profeflbr De-RofB, will ferve to veri- 
 fy, in fome degree, what was ftated in the 
 former year's Account. 
 
 ** Prasftiti lubentiffime cxigua mea officia, 
 quia inftitutum tuum digniffimum eft quod 
 in Italia, reliquifquc regionibus, naviter ab 
 omnibus promoveatur. Codex Parmenfis Re- 
 gius continet tantum Catenam in Jobumj 
 nimifque recentior eft, quam ut mereatur 
 conferri. Collationem Codicum Taurinenfi- 
 um bina retardarunt; primum, quod vere 
 idoneus Collator, qui rem cum.laudepr^ftet, 
 adhuc repertus non fit; alterum, quod igno- 
 ratur quodnam pretium ftatuendum, five 
 quodnam caeteris collatoribus ftatuatur. lUam 
 tamen habebis fuo tempore. Commendata 
 namque eft ftudio et amicitite Abbatis deCalu- 
 fio, Viri non tantum peritiori lingua Grxcx 
 atque Orientalium omnium dmnigenaque 
 dodtrina et eruditione'clariflimi, fed et fingu- 
 laris omnino humanitatis ac diligentia, ac 
 vere officiofiflimi. Quantum ad ,me attrnet, 
 fi, ut nuper nadus fum pretiofum Codicem 
 GrsQum IV Evangeliorum Sxc. x. a nemine 
 collatum, aliquando, ut fpero, aliquem nan- 
 cifcar Veteris Teftamenti, pro certo habeas 
 rac ejus collationem ftatim in tui operis gra- 
 tiam ad te tranfmiffurum. Vale. 
 Dab. Parma xxiv Nov. 1789. 
 
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 i»ngt-Sr-.-Ttr<riw..i 
 
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 E S T E. 
 
 Ducal Library. 
 
 In this, one MS. containing the Pfalms, 
 has been collated by the Abbot Gabardus 
 under the direftion of Hieronymus Tirabof- 
 chius, Prffifeft of the library j and, under 
 the fame hands and direftion, the collation 
 of the two remaining MSS. is proceedmg. 
 and fome further adVances have been made. 
 
 F E R R A R A. 
 
 Library of the Carmelite Calceati 
 Sti. Pauli. 
 The firfl of the three MSS. in this library 
 confifts of two large volurnes ; ;^ J^e hrlt 
 are contained nineteen books of the Greek 
 text of Scripture; and in the fecond twenty 
 one other books, with the Pfalms The col- 
 lation of the firft volume of this MS xs now 
 
 very nearly or entirely completed by Joa- 
 chim Pla, Vice-Pr^fea of the library of the 
 UnLfit ofFerrara.andhewil proce^^^ 
 in collating the fecond volume, and the two 
 remaining MSS. 
 
 ROME 
 
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 R, 9 M'E, 
 
 VATieAN Library; • ^ 
 
 • The Catalogue of Septuagint-MSS. in this 
 fibrary, which was promifcd me, is not yet 
 come to hand; and I underftahd. that the 
 defay has been occafioned by the illnefs of the 
 perfon, who was engaged in making it. 
 
 To his Eminence, Francis Xavier de Ze- 
 lada, Cardinal-Librarian to the Holy Romari 
 See, and Secretary of State, I exprefled by 
 letter my moft grateful acknowledgments for 
 the great favour he had fhewn to this work. 
 His Eminence was fo good as to return me 
 the following anfwer j 
 
 ** Ex officiofiflimis tuis Uteris, quas nuper 
 ad me perferri curavit eruditiffimus tuique 
 amantiflimus Bandinius nofter, atque ex lis 
 quae ipfe ad^ me de' te fcribit, maxima cum 
 voluptate perfpexi, quam grata et accepta tibi 
 fuerit alacritas, qua, ut egregium opus, quod 
 celeberrima tua Acadcmia eft aggrefla, novse 
 Sacrorum Librorum Editionis perficere pof- 
 fes, tibi infervire ftudui. In quo quidem, 
 cym tuum cognoverim confilium, neque il- 
 lud fatis laudare potui, neque tibi a me fub- 
 fidium, quod petebas, negandum putavi. 
 Quare facile, opinor, mihi credes, libcntif- 
 
 . -^ B fime 
 
 -i-^-t" -^ -. 
 
'• '" to iBi ifn I fr ir i iiiiii " - ''• 
 
 ( 10 ) 
 
 ilmc votis tuis, ut primumea mihi innotuere, 
 de CoUatione turn MSS. Codicum Vaticanae, 
 quum antiqui Pfalterii meae privatae Biblio- 
 thecae, cum Editione ruv o Roman4 Biblio- 
 tum peragenda, me illico , annuifle. Nunc 
 veto quod tibi gratos animi tui erga me fen- 
 fus, quos imo ex corde profedtos efle non du- 
 bito, mihi fignificare libuerit, ac benevolam 
 voluntatenj tuam et liberalitatem, dono ex- 
 emplaris hujufmodi Editionis conficiendae 
 mihi oblato et exhibito, teflari volueris, plu- 
 rimas tibi me habere gratias certior eflo, ac 
 maxime in votis mihi efle, ut gratitudinem 
 meam, cor, animumque erga te proclivem, 
 ubi datum erit, tibi oAendam, quod enixe 
 cupio. &c. &c. 
 
 Romae. ii Id. Martii, 1789. 
 
 The collation of Cod, fignat. i. in th« 
 above library, is now completed by Jo. 
 Blias Baldius j and it would have been 
 ,iini(hed before this time, if his progrefs 
 in collating it had not been interrupted 
 by illnefs. He is now proceeding with a 
 MS. containing the Prophetical text, con- 
 cerning which fee Biblioth. Oriental. Afle* 
 jnani, Tom. i. ; and when that fhali be col- 
 lated, he will proceed to the Bafil-MS. of 
 the Pentateuchj mentioned by Montfaucon, 
 , Diar, 
 
 i 
 
 Diar. Italic, pag. 212; and by Le Long, 
 Tom. I. p. 164. : <' 
 
 -..7 
 
 Library of Cardinal de Zelada/ 
 
 The valuable MS. of the Pfalms, in the 
 
 pofleffion of his Eminence, has been collate^ 
 
 for this work by Dominicus Calabrefi, one oif 
 
 the Secretaries in the Vatican library. 
 
 BARBERINI-LiBRARY. 
 
 There are here three MSS. -■ < .' , , 
 ' i.' Containing the text of all the Prophets, 
 except DanieL t , t 
 
 The collation of this MS. has advanced 
 through fome of the Minor Prophets, and is 
 now going on. 
 
 ii. and iii. Containing the Pfalms. 
 
 The collation of both thefe MSS. has^ been 
 completed. 
 
 Chigian Library. 
 
 . ' In this, there are alfo three MSS. - t' 
 
 In the lirft of them, containing all the 
 books of Scripture to the third book of the 
 Machabees, the collation has very nearly or 
 quite advanced .'through the four firft books 
 of the Pentateuch. .\ 
 
 B 2 
 
 In 
 
 ■• r 
 
In the firft year's^ J^cgo\)nt, ar> agreqtnejit 
 with the Abbot StephanoppJi, fpf ppUgting 
 the MSS, in the two laft-mentioned libraries, 
 was repref^nted as probable. It was actually 
 concluded foon after that Account appeared j 
 and by-him the above collations have been 
 imade, and he is now proceeding. 
 
 Casanattan Library. 
 
 Here is one MS. containing the eight firft 
 books of Scripture, except the firft 22 chapp 
 ters of Genefis/ • ; - 
 
 Hpf fhi§ MS.'^ collation hs? been com- 
 pleted by Jo. Elias Baldius aboye-tnentipp^ 
 iB^, Gfie of the ' Secretaries r in the Vatican 
 Jibwy, 
 
 VENICE. 
 
 Ducal Library of the Venetian 
 Senate. 
 
 It wa? ftated in the, Uft: year's. Account, 
 that, two learned ,ppribn§, recommended by 
 the Biihop, ,npw the ^'ardinal, gprgia, were 
 fpeedilytq fet put frpm Rpme. in.ordej to 
 carry, oa the cQlUtioft of the MSS. in this 
 library. 
 
 Accord- 
 
 / 
 
 Accordingly, aboat the end- of May laft, 
 they repaired to Venice, and forthwith en* 
 tered upon their undertaking; and it ^ery 
 foon appeared, thattheirabihty and diligence 
 moft fully juftified the recommendation of his 
 Eminence, to whom I am accordingly much 
 indebted for procuring this work fuch valu- 
 able Afiiftants. 
 
 They had not, however, carried on the 
 epilation for more than two months, before 
 one of them became fo ill, that he found 
 himfelf obliged to defift, and return to Rome. 
 The other continued the coUatioo, and is at 
 this time proceeding in it. ^ - 
 
 Codex fignat. i. very ancient, in Uncial 
 letters ; and alfo. Codex fignat. ii. have both 
 been collated in part, and the collation is 
 now going on. 
 
 An infpedion and examination of other 
 MSS. in this library having been made, I 
 ihall lay before the reader the particulars of 
 it, as far as it has gone. 
 
 Codex fignat. iii. In this, the Pentateuch*, 
 text is the fame with that in Cod^ ii. But the 
 text in the books of Jofhua, > Judges, and 
 Kings, is different from that in Cod. ii. • 
 
 Codex fignat. iv. In this, the Pentateuch^ 
 text is the fame with that in Codd. ii. iii. -' 
 
 And the text of it, in the books of Joihua 
 
 and 
 
 ■>'■ " r-gT»r 
 
and Judges, is the fame with that in the Va- 
 tican Edition. 
 
 But the text of it, in the books of Kings 
 and Chronicles, differs very much from that, 
 in Cod. iii. and from that in the Vatican 
 
 Edition. . 
 
 Codex fignat. V. This MS. formerly be- 
 longed to Cardinal Beffarion, and was written 
 by Jo. Rhofus. The text of it,> in the Pen- 
 tateuch, and in the book of Jofliua, is the 
 fame with that in Cod. ii.' 
 
 But in the text of the books of Kings, and 
 Chronicles, it remarkably varies from Codd. 
 ii. iii. iv. 
 
 In the books of Ifaiah and Jeremiah, its 
 ,text is the fame with that in the Vatican 
 Edition. 
 
 But in the Book of Ezekiet, the text of it 
 bears a very ftriking difference from that in 
 Cpd. i. and that in the Vatican Edition. 
 
 In the books of the Machabees, the text is 
 the fame with that in Cod i. 
 ^ Codex fignat. vi. This alfo belonged to Car- 
 dinal Beffarion. The text of it, as far as chap. 
 29. in the book of Jeremiah, is the fame 
 with that in Cod. v. And the refl of its 
 text, to the end, is the fame with that in 
 
 the Vatican Edition. ' 
 
 'The 
 
 T 
 
 tit^gimtataxiaiu 
 
 ( IS ) 
 
 The MS. that flands in the Catalogue un- 
 der the number dxxxv, and is there called 
 a Pfalter, is only a continued Paraphrafe upon 
 the Pfalms.. '-~ 
 
 MILAN. 
 
 Ambrosian Library. •■. 
 
 Permiffion to collate the MSS, in this II-. 
 brary having not been obtained upon my firfl 
 application, I was advifed to renew it, with 
 fome alterations as to the manner of making 
 it. Accordingly, I proceeded to a fecond ap- 
 plication, adjufting it to the fuggeftions with 
 which I had been favoured. The following 
 letter was addrefled to Dr. Olbrocchius, Pre- 
 fident of the College of the Library, 
 
 Viro Colendiffirao et Dodtiflimo, 
 
 DOCTORI OLBROCCHIO, 
 
 Collegii Ambrolianae Bibliothecje Praefedto, 
 &c. 
 
 Facioquidem audadter, cumTe, Vir Co- 
 lendiffime, fcriptis datis adpellemj fed ex 
 humanitate, quam in Te effe magnam per- 
 fuafum me habeo, fpero fore, ut apud Te 
 
 ex- 
 
 ■■•.-?t.,'-'Afay*\<»t» ■»„ 
 
htasmii^tmmim 
 
 ttttmmmttitmMim 
 
 ( 16 ) 
 
 cxcufationifr veniam reportem. Prasclpue, 
 €um fciam Te Literarum omnium, et im- 
 primis Critices Sacrs, amorem fovere, et in- 
 cremento earundem, quantum in Te poffit 
 efle, femper confulere, et Eminentiflimi ifti- 
 us, ac immortalr memori^ digniffimi, Bor- 
 romsi opes literarias ad eum finem Arenue ac 
 feliciter dirigere. Quamque voluntatem, ad 
 proferendas RcUigionis ac Literarum utilita- 
 tes inclinatam, efle in Te, Vir Clariffimey 
 diJKrim, eandem quoque efle fcio in Fratri- 
 tu5 iis omnibus, qui Dodtoratus Ordinem in 
 Collegio, cui Tu es praepofitus, celeberrimum 
 componunt. In his ergo ad Te imprimis, et 
 ad Illos deinde, ad Omnes cum Obfequio et 
 Venerantiaecultu fummo, refero, delnftituto 
 meo Vaticanum Textum Verfionis Septua- 
 ginta-Viralis rurfus imprimendi, cum fub- 
 jedlis in quaque pagina Variantibus omnium 
 MSSorum, Verfionumque, et Citationum 
 fadtarum ab Ecclefiae Scriptoxibus. At in hac 
 Academic, Illifque Cantabrigiae, Dublinii, 
 Glafguae, et in hifce Regnis, funt Viri per- 
 multi, in Eruditionis laude et in loco Digni- 
 tatis fummi, qui et audtoritatem fuam, et 
 fumptus pecuniarios, ad hoc opus contulerunt. 
 Quart, de eo efl: forte putandum, baud ita ac 
 dc propofito me\ ipfius private, fed potius de 
 Academico, ac propemodum de Nationali. 
 
 Rem 
 
 f 
 
 ( 17 ) 
 
 Rem ergo banc tantis apud Anglbs et tot 
 Audtoribus mdyens,. nihil pofliim habere an-: 
 tiquiuj?, quam ut eruditiflimorum alibi quo- 
 que, ac grayiflimorum, hominum Benigni- 
 tatem, et Confilium, et Opem, ad me con- 
 ciliarem. Atque hoc mihi fuit ex voto be- 
 nigniflime conceflum, Roma3, Flofentiae, Ve- 
 netiis, Taurini, • atque in : caeteris urbibus 
 Italiae, in quibus ulli, Verfionis didtae Codices 
 fervantur. Ornatur ergo res mea eti munitur 
 audtoritate et patrocinio Eminentiffimorum 
 Cardinalium, Zeladae, Borgiae ; . et> Profeflg- 
 rum illuftrium, De-Rofli in Academia Par- 
 menfi, Schnurreri inTubingenfi Virtembergae; 
 Hominumque clariflimorum, Calufii Patricii 
 Taurinenfis, Tirabofchii ob Hifloriam Italiai 
 Litcrariam ab ipfo evulgatam celebratiflimi, 
 Morellii Venetiis, Bandinii dodliflimi fimul 
 et mihi amiciflimi hominis Florentiae, mul- 
 torumque alibi in Uteris promovcndis etjudi- 
 candis fpedtatiflimorum. Similiter mihi cef- 
 flt quoque Parifiis, ex favore Chriftiahiffimi 
 Regis; qui non modo permifit ut Codices, 
 quos fui juris habet, conferrentur omnes, fed 
 et mihi, hane aeftatem Parifiis agenti," dedit 
 ;hanc veniam quoque, ut Codices confcrendos 
 mecum domum.afportarem, ut facilius eorun- 
 dem collationem periicerem. Quo itaque ad 
 Hos omnes nomine accefleram, eodem'nunc 
 
 C 'ad 
 
— '^"'—f- ■' ■ ■ ■ 
 
 -—■■■-" 
 
 C 18 ) 
 
 ad Tc, Vir Infigniffime, et ad iingulos Doc- 
 tores Collegii Mediolanenfis clarifliml, fup- 
 plex accedoj atque oro, ut naturis veflris 
 obfequeremini, et ad me in hoc curfu Favo- 
 ris veflri fubfidia dignaremini conferre, et 
 (conjunftim cum praecipuis hujufce fxculi 
 Viris, Relligionis et Sacrse Critices amantif- 
 iimis) fovere et fuftentare Ini^itutum, com- 
 muni Orbis eruditi emolumento deflinatum ; 
 atqiie id beneficenter locupletare iis auxiliis, 
 quae non aliunde nifi a Te, et Collegio, cui 
 praeeS, poflunt impetrari, et fine quibus nequit 
 hoc opus abfolvi tarn in omnibus numeris 
 cumulate, quam efTet Fautoribus ejus ac 
 mihi exoptandum. Oro igitur concederetis 
 hanc veniam mihi, ut MSSorum Sacri Tex- 
 tus Graeci, ,qui in Bibliothec^ Ambrofiana 
 reponuntur, CoUationes cum Editione Vati- 
 can^ fierent pro opere, quod per me agitur. 
 Atque haec licentia fi concedetur, haud erit 
 profedlo concefla homini aut beneficium tale, 
 quanti debeat zeflimari, nefcienti, aut in gra- 
 tiis, quas res merebitur, maximis praeftandis 
 unquam defuturo. Si autem eo vixero ufque, 
 ut rem perficerem, unum exemplar operis 
 editi ad Te, et aliud ad Ambrofianam, in tef- 
 timonium animi, quem ad Te et Collegium 
 Mediolanenfe femper fervabo, gratiffimi, do- 
 no demandabitur. Addo infuper, quod erit 
 
 col- 
 
 ( 19 ) 
 
 collatio peragenda per manus eorum, quos 
 Tu et Dodores ipfi nominaveritis ad ' rem, 
 nifi fit, quod longe malJem, ex ipfo Dofto- 
 ratu aliquis, qui velit coljationis "penfiim ia 
 fefiifcipere; quodque, pro (?ollatione fingu- 
 lorum Codicum perfolvetur per me iftud 
 nummorum prctium^ de quo inter Collatp- 
 rem et me fuerit conftitutum. 
 
 Ita, forte audax nimis, , expofui quicqujd 
 habui rogandum, fpequidem hoc a Te, Vir 
 Humaniflime, impetrandi, primunj, ut n^ljii 
 Benignita^em Tuam prsftares Ipfe j deindp, 
 ut has literas fupplices prae oculis totius Or- 
 dinis Po^lprum coUocarcs, cum commex;i- 
 datione Favoris Tui graviffimi auftas et ho- 
 iioratas, et cum fide data Officii mei et Cul-. 
 tus deditiflimi ad Unumquemque Illorum. 
 
 Pab. Oxonii. 0&. 19. 1789. 
 
 At the fame time another application w^s 
 made to Dr. Branca, the Librarian^ who, for 
 reafons refpedting an intended work of his 
 own, had interefted himfelf againft the re- 
 queft made for leave to collate the Ambrofiaij 
 MSS. The letter to him was as follows ; 
 
 C 2 
 
 Viro 
 
 
 ■ 1 
 
( 20 ) 
 
 Viro Colendiffimo atque DoftifTimo, 
 P C T R I B R A N C A, &c. &c. 
 
 In fcriptis, quas dedi hodie ad Colendifli- 
 mum Virum Olbrocchium, ut ad Ipfum, ita 
 ad Te qupque, Vir Clariflime, ct ad caeteros 
 Collegii Mediolanenfis celeberrimi Dodlores, 
 fupplex refero. Quare Prafedum rogavi, yt 
 ' literas meas cqm toto Dodorum Venerabilium 
 Grdine communicaret. Ex iis itaque per- 
 ' ledtis poteris refcire de Inftituto meo, quale 
 fit, et quanti Viri Audtoritatem, Subfidia, et 
 Opem, ad me in ifto curfu beneficenter con- 
 ttjlerint. Scies infup^r, quod fit mihi vehe^ 
 mentiflime exoptatum, ut favorem, quern 
 apud lUos conciliaverimj eundem apud Te 
 quoque, Vir Praeflantiflime, conciliarem. 
 
 Ad Te vero unicum habeo aliqua dicenda. 
 Audivi Te habere Variantes Pentateuchi Am- 
 brofiani, Vetuftifllinji iftius ac Pretiofifiimi, 
 jam colledtas, et Aibjipiendas, appendicis lo- 
 po, ad calcern Tui Catalogi, prelo parati, 
 CodicumPraEfliantiflimorum Ambrofianas Bib- 
 liothecae. Pi^am Jibere, fi fit edenda CoUatio 
 Tua,- et quanto ocyus communicanda cum 
 Publico, nihil excidet ex votis meis j et 
 quamprimum lucem viderit Catalogus Tuus 
 ?njer gfutjitos vglcj? defideratus, rogo Te ut 
 
 
 .jjuMfci— ii«-niii mssyjt^^mgjii 
 
 ,( 21 ') 
 
 duo imprefl*a Exemplaria ftatim ad me mit- 
 tantur, et ad Te mittarii ego Syngrapham 
 nummariam pro pretio quod conftitues, et adi- 
 tum pro Tuo opere in Bibliothecas /quas 
 potero hujus Patriae meae patefaccre conabof., 
 Poflit vero efle, ut Catalogus Tuus non fit 
 cito edendus ;' aut poffit . eflTe,: ut fi idoneam 
 caufani et fufiicientem videris,haud abnueres, 
 ut Catalogus fine dido Variantium Appendicc 
 prodiret. Facerem nimirum quodcunque 
 effet in me, ut voluntatem in Te,'Vir In- 
 fignifli me, commoverem ^ ferendi quod ■ po- 
 teris adjumenti ad opus meum; neque de- 
 efiiem in dando ad Te pretia nummorum ifto, 
 quo fatis fieri vidcbitur, ut- Variantes iftaeiin 
 meiim jus cederent. Praeterea, cum edetiir 
 in lucem opus meum, prsfationem in ver- 
 bis, fi vis, Tuis Ipfius, fi non, in meis, adji- 
 ciam, qua commonebitur ledor eruditus Te 
 fuifle CoUedorem, et eflTe Editorem reverb, 
 Variantium iftarum^ ct unum exemplar ope- 
 riS mei imprefi!um ad Te, et aliud ad quem- 
 vis ex amicis Tuis, cui Tu favorem- Tuum in 
 ea fe prasftiteris, et unum quoque ad Ambro- 
 fianam ipfam, in teftimonium anirai, quem 
 fervabo femper gratiflimi, dono demandabo. 
 In uno verbo, nihil praetcrmittam, ex quo 
 fieri poflit ut vidercr Tibi et Confratribus 
 Tuis, favoris ac beneficcntias tam apud Tc 
 quam a|)ud JHos merens, &c. &c, 
 
 The 
 
■ataMMiiitti>i 
 
 ( 22 ) 
 
 The atifwer, which Dr. Branca has moft 
 oWigingly returned to this letter, is as follows; 
 
 ** Opus, quod ego molior publici juris 
 fapere, non Catalogus eft, communi faltem 
 Hip more, fed Deledlus Codicum Bibliothecae 
 Ambrofianae praeftantiorum, linguarum La- 
 tins, Graecae, aliarumque Orientaiium, ita 
 cpncinnatus, ut praemiffis ad fingula Volu- 
 minaPlfTertationibus in rem cujufque Linguae 
 Palaeographicam Codicefque ipfos, Varias 
 pmnes uniufcujufque Codicis proferam Lec- 
 tipnes, etiam leviores, ex quibus maxinie 
 «tas et origo Codicis dignofcitur, ut Anti- 
 quarii fciunt. Sic vero fit, ut non Audorum 
 Operumque nuda vix nomina ac tituli in Elen- 
 cbum digerantur, quemadmodum in Catalo- 
 gis aflblet, fed Codex omnino totus publics 
 wtilitati proponatur. Manufcripti fcilicet et 
 Editi Exemplaris Varietates fnnul infpicere, 
 Wt bene ndfti, idem fuerit, ac totum Codi- 
 cem, quantus quantus eft, prae oculis habere, 
 Hac raethodo Varias Leaiones collatas et 
 congeftas volui ejus Codicis, quern tu Penta- 
 teuchon appellas, ego appellare foleo Hexa- 
 tQUchonj qui quidem Codex antiquiflimus 
 eft, ac nulli forfitan inferior aetate j dixerim 
 ?tiam dignitate, nifi mancus eflet ac mutilus 
 turn iaitio Genefeos, turn in fine libri JoOiuas, 
 
 quern 
 
 ( 23 } 
 
 quern item continet poft Mofis libros. Tft 
 ipfius antiquitate vide Montfaucon. turn in 
 Bibliotheca Bibliothccarum, turn in Palaeo- 
 graphia, in qui tamen fallitur Vir dodiffi- 
 mus, accentuum figna efle exiftimans primse 
 manus, cum fecundae fint longe poftcrioris* 
 Talis ac tanti Codicis, intelligis, opinor, 
 quanti noftra interfit, et accuratiorem noti- 
 tiam, et Variantes ipfas Lediones, primo in 
 publicum emittere noftro nomine. Verum, 
 ego ut oftendam quanto in pretio ct honore 
 habeam tuum iftud confilium de re literarii 
 et potiflimum Sacra bene merendi, quicquid 
 Variarum Ledionum ex Codice eo colledunx 
 eft, ad Te ea conditione tranfmittam (quam 
 in Codicis Syro-Hexaplaris ufu ftatueram 
 Norbergio, tamen ab eo minime fervatam) 
 ut Varias ipfas Ledtiones fuis tantum locis ac 
 fparfim fubdas, non autem fimul omnes ia 
 Elenchum aliquem congeras, quod nobis nof-^ 
 troque operi refervatum volumus. Pro tui 
 honeftate fentias, quantum a jure noftro de- 
 cedamus, tibique conemur gratificari, qui pa- 
 tiamur, novitate adempta, pretium minus 
 operi noftro, fi tuum an tea in lucem venerit j 
 quod facile contingat, me interim oocupato 
 in edendo Opere meo De Fulgatd Sacr. Liar, 
 Latind Verjione, cujus primum duniaxat Vo- 
 lumen lucem hadenus vidlt, duobus reliqois 
 
 multiplici 
 
 Wt" 
 
ir- 
 
 ( =4 ) 
 
 multiplici de causa retardatis. Sed hafec Ipfa, 
 qus attigi, momenta valebunt, ut fpero, apnd 
 te plurimum, quod datam in acceptis condi- 
 tionibus fidem praefles religiofius. -De pretio, 
 quod fcribis, cum de re agatur mea, nullum 
 ego malim quam Relligionis ac Literature 
 bonum. Exemplaria operis, quae 'polliceris, 
 li ad nos miferis, non tam Bibliotheca; noftrae 
 gratiam referes peropportunam, quam nomini 
 confules, famaeque apud Noftrates tuae. 
 
 Prater Codicem hunc nullus alius a Gras- 
 cis noftris Pentateuchon continet. Caeteri, 
 quos habemus, tres pertinent ad Prophetas ; 
 nonnulli alii ad Hagiographa, inter quos Job, 
 ac praifertim Pfalmi, pluribus abundant Ex- 
 emplaribus, iifque vetuftatis non contem- 
 nendae. , De his omnibus accuratius ad te 
 fcribet CI. Bugatus CoUega nofter, qui nunc 
 Editionem urget Pfalterii Syro-Hexaplaris, 
 quam primum vulgandam. Quo ifta exiftat 
 perfeftior, propofitum fibi habet Graeca quo- 
 que omnia Pfalmorum Manufcripta noftra ad 
 trutinam rcvocare : qua opportunitate nego- 
 tium dabit iis qui in hac Bibliotheca Exfcrip- 
 toris munere funguntur, ut occurrentes Va- 
 rietates excerpant. Id autem pollicetur fe 
 praeftiturum tui gratia in aliis, quos fubindc 
 vulgabit, fui Syriaci Codicis partibus. Ha;c 
 autem ad te perfcribo, turn Bugati ipfius no- 
 mine 
 
 ( 25 ) 
 
 mine, turn Balthazaris Olbrocchii, Collegll 
 hujus noftri ac Bibliothecas Ambrofiana Pr*i 
 fedti humaniffimi atque eruditiffimi. Vale. 
 
 Dabam Mediolani ex Biblioth. Ambrof. 
 V. Id. Jan. A. 1790. 
 
 To the Prefident, and the College, for 
 having obligingly granted my requeft, and in 
 particular to Dr. Branca, for his very kind 
 prefent of Co valuable a Collation, and to Dr. 
 Bugatus, for the affiftancc he is fo good as to 
 intend me, this work is greatly indebted, and 
 I entertain a mod thankful fenfe of their fa- 
 vours. And the ufe, which I wifti to make of 
 them, fhould be immediate, if the additional 
 expence attending ah engagement for the col- 
 lation of thefe MSS. cou^d at prefent be fup- 
 ^orted. ' 
 
 TUBINGEN. 
 
 Here is one MS. hitherto, I believe, not 
 known. It contained the Pfalms and the 
 Cantica, but is now imperfedt in fome parts. 
 
 This MS. is in the pofTefilon of the very 
 celebrated Dr. Schnurrer, Profeflbr of Orien- 
 tal languages in the Univerfity j and it has 
 
 D been 
 
 • 1 
 

 ( 26 ) 
 
 been collated purpofely for this work. I beg 
 leave to exprefs my very grateful acknov^^- 
 ledgments to the ProfefTor, for the prefent of 
 this Collation, and for his kindnefs in giving 
 me affurance by letter of his favour and affift- 
 ance to this undertaking. 
 
 VIENNA. 
 
 C-iESAREAN Library. 
 
 The following Catalogue of the MSS. in 
 this library has been fent me ; 
 
 1 . C. Codd. Theol. i. Codex membranaceus, 
 
 pervetuftus, et optimae notas, in folio j 
 continens Biblia facra Veteris Tefta- 
 menti. Deeft initium, ufque ad Capi- 
 tis fecundi Genefeos verfum vigefimum 
 primum. 
 
 2. C.Codd. Theol. II. Codex membranaceus, 
 
 purpureus, abfque accentibus, ante mille 
 et trecentos annos exaratus, foliis con- 
 Hans viginti fex ; qui fragmenta Gene- 
 feos continet. 
 
 3. C.Codd. Theol. III. Codex membranaceus, 
 
 antiquus, optimseque notaj ; continens 
 Pentateuchum, Libros Jofuse, Judicum, 
 
 et Ruth, in folio. 
 
 4.C, 
 
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 4. C.Codd. Theol. iv. Codex chartaceus, an- 
 
 tiquus, et bonae notaej continens Gene- 
 fim cum commentario, in folio. ; 
 
 5. C.Codd. Theol. v. Codex chartaceus, me- 
 
 diocriter antiquus; continens Libros qua- 
 tuor Regum, cum expofitione, in folio. 
 
 6. C.Codd. Theol. VI. Codex membranaceus, 
 
 pervetuftus, et optimae notaeKContinens 
 Librum Jobi j Proverbia Salomonis j 
 Ecclefiaftenj CanticumCanticorum; Sa- 
 pientiam Salomonis ; Sapientiam Jefu 
 filii Sirach; cum commentariis margina- 
 libus, in 4to. 
 
 7. C.Codd. Theol. vii. Codex membrana- 
 
 ceus, pervetuftus, et optimae notaej con- 
 tinens Librum Jobi j Proverbia Salomo- 
 nis J Ecclefiaften j . Canticum Cantico- 
 rum i Sapientiam Salomonis j Pfalmos 
 Salomonis odtodecim fuppofititios j Sa- 
 pientiam Jefu filii Sirach; cum commen- 
 tariis marginalibus, in folio, 
 
 8. C. Codd. Theol. viii. Codex chartaceus, 
 mediocriter antiquus J continens Librum 
 Jobi i Proverbia Salomonis ; Canticuni 
 Canticorum j Ecclefiaften cum expofi- 
 tione J in folio. 
 
 ^. C.Codd. Theol. IX. Codex chartaceus, me- 
 
 diocriter antiquus ; continens Librum 
 
 Da Jobi 
 
 A 
 
( ?8 ) 
 
 Jobi Gum annotationibus marginalibus ; 
 in 4to. 
 XO' C. Codd. Theol. x. Codex membrana- 
 ceus, pervetuftus, et optimae nota ; con- 
 tinens totum Pfalterium cum commenta- 
 rio, ID folio. 
 
 11. G. Codd. Theol. xm. Codex membra- 
 
 naceus, antiquus, et bonae notaej conti- 
 nens Pfalterium, a Pfal. 35. verf. 3. uf- 
 que ad finem Pfal. 149. cum comment, 
 marg. in 410. 
 
 12. C.Godd. Theol. XIV. Codex membrana- 
 
 ceus, pervetuftus, et optimae notae ; con- 
 tinens Pfalterium a Pfal. 9, ver. 17. uf- 
 que ad Pfal. 150. feu ultimum, cum 
 brevi fubjundta expofitione, in 8vo. 
 
 13. G. Codd. Theol. xvii. Codex membra- 
 
 naceus, pervetuftus, etoptimffi notae; con- 
 tinens Pfalterium a Pfal. i. ufque ad 50, 
 cum brevi expofitione fubjunda, in 8vo. 
 
 14. C.Godd. Theol. xviii. Codex membra- 
 
 naceus, et optimaj notaej continens Pfal- 
 terium a Pfal, 7. ver. 10. ufque ad 106. 
 ver. 12, cum brevi expofitione, in 4to. 
 
 15. CCodd. Theol. xix. Codex membrana- 
 
 ceus, antiquus, et optimae notajj tontinens 
 Pfalterium, fecundum Ecclefiae Grascae 
 confuetudinem, in 36 fediones divifum, 
 in 4tQ, 
 
 16. C, 
 
 ■^J«~n^^^^,.' 
 
 ( 29 ) 
 
 16. C.Godd. Theol. xx. Codex membrana- 
 
 ceus J continens Pfalterium Davidicum 
 cum Ganticis facris, in i2mo. 
 
 17. C.Godd. Theol. xxi. Codex chartaceus, 
 
 antiquus; continens Pfalterium Davidi- 
 cum cum Ganticis facris, in ^to. 
 
 18. C.Godd. Theol, XXII. Codex chartaceus, 
 
 antiquus; continens Pfalterium cum Gan- 
 ticis facris, in 4to. 
 
 19. C.Godd. Theol. xxiii. Codex chartaceus, 
 
 antiquus; continens Pfalterium cum Gan- 
 ticis facris, in 4to. 
 ?o. C. Codd. Theol. XXIV. Codex membra- 
 naceus, antiquus ; continens Pfalterium 
 Pavidicum cum Ganticis facris, in Bvo. 
 
 21. C.Godd, Theol, XXV. Codex chartaceus, 
 
 mediocritcr antiquus ; continens Pro- 
 verbia Salomonis, in 4to. 
 
 22. C.Godd. Theol. XXVI. Codex chartaceus, 
 
 antiquus; continens Proverbia Salomonis 
 et Ifaiam cum commentario, in folio. 
 
 23. C.Godd, Theol. xxvii. Codex charta- 
 
 ceus ; continens fragmenta Ifaiae a cap. 5. 
 ver. 29. ufque ad cap. 62. ver. 11. cum 
 comment, marg.; et Pfalmos, cum com-^ 
 mentariis ad novem priores ; in 410. 
 ^4. C.Godd. Th, Suppl. i. Codex membraoa- 
 ceus, A. C. 1303. exafatus ; continens 
 Pfalterium cum undecim fkeris Otnttcis, 
 in 8vo, 
 
 25. C. 
 

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 25. C.Codd. Th.Suppl.ii. Codex membra- 
 
 naceus, faeculi undecimi; continens Pfal- 
 terium, in 4to. 
 
 26. C.Codd. Th.Suppl. in. Codex membra- 
 
 naceus, faeculoundecimofcriptusj conti- 
 nens Pfalteriurn, in 8vo. 
 
 During this year, application has been 
 made for leave to collate thefe MSS., and the 
 learned Michael Denis, the Librarian, has 
 been requefted, either perfonally to undertake 
 the collation of them, or, if he muft de- 
 cline that, to recommend proper perfons for 
 carrying it on. To him my befl thanks are 
 due for his anfwer, which was as follows ; 
 
 *' Non poteras in hominem votis tuis fa- 
 ventiorem incidere. Itaque, quod Uteris hu- 
 maniflimis petis, facile feres. Mihi quidem, 
 continuandis Lambecii deAuguftaBibliotheca 
 noftra Commentariis occupatiffimo, quam of- 
 fers, wTAfoiv deprecanti ignofces. Sunt vcro 
 quos tibi proponam, duumviri Uteris Grscis 
 egregie exculti, et in Codicum ledtione non 
 parum verfati, Atque horum primus eft, 
 Francifcus Alter, Literarum Graecarum in 
 GyranafioViennenfiProfeffor; fecundus, Jo- 
 hannes Bapt. Bolla, Bibliothecae Ca^fareae 
 3criptOf, Uterque provinci^m haud gravate 
 
 ( 31 ) 
 
 in fe fufcipiet, fi modo me, aut illos, literis 
 datis edocueris, quid potiffimum agi, et qui- 
 bus conditionibus tranfigere cum eis, velis. 
 
 Interea vale quam optime, et Bibliothecam 
 Palatinam noftram doftorum hominum iludiis 
 femper patere puta. 
 
 Dat. Vindob: IX Kal. Dec. 1789." 
 
 From the date of this letter, the reader 
 will fee that the collations in this library 
 might have been entered upon during this fe- 
 cond year of the work, and fome fmall progrefs 
 have been made in them by this time, but 
 for the reafon already alledged at the end of 
 the Milan- Account, which obliged me to 
 poftpone any engagement for the collation of 
 thefe MSS. 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 The number and importance of the MSS. 
 depofited in the libraries of this place, made 
 me extremely defirous of becoming acquainted 
 with the refpedabJe perfons, under whofe 
 care they are placed; and aJfo, c^cfhbJifhing 
 fuch aconneiaion there, as mhhi be uftful 
 to myi'df, or to any other ColLtocs who 
 might be fsnt thither to carry on the work. 
 
 With 
 
 • 1 
 
( 32 ) 
 
 With thefe views, then, and with a farther 
 defign of employing myfelf in collating as 
 many MSS. as the time, which I intended 
 to pafs there, would allow, I left Oxford in 
 the beginning of May, and arrived at Paris 
 on the fourteenth of that month, accompanied 
 by the Rev. Mr. Fowle my reading- Afliftant, 
 to whofe diligence and attention, during his 
 engagement with me, it is with pleafure I 
 take this opportunity of bearing the fuUeft 
 teftimony. 
 
 To the Perfons at Paris, from whom I re- 
 ceived much valuable affiftance, my grateful 
 acknowledgments have been already exprelTed; 
 I Ihall therefore now proceed to flate what 
 MSS. were collated by myfelf during my re- 
 fidence there till the nineteenth of Auguft, 
 and what has been done by another hand. 
 
 Royal Library. 
 
 In this, the following MSS, were collated j 
 
 Codex fignat. xiii. Confcriptus in mem- 
 
 brana, in folio, literis minufculis. Continet 
 
 Pfalmos ab 80, ad 117. et deinde a Pfalmo 
 
 139. ad finem Pfalmorum, et Cantica. 
 
 Codex fignat, xx. Confcriptus in mem- 
 brana, in 4to minore, literis majufculis. 
 Continet Pfalmos a 92. ad 136, 
 
 Codex 
 
 ^^^ ■*"-n~t<iir — " 
 
 ( 33 ) 
 
 Codex fignat. xxi. Confcriptus in tnem- 
 branS, in 8vo. cum literis' ex auro ubique. 
 Continet Pfalmos omnes cum Canticis. 
 
 Codex fignat. xxii. Confcriptus in mem^ 
 brana, in 4to. Continet Pfalmos omnes cum 
 Canticis. 
 
 Codex fignat. xxlii. Confcriptus in mem- 
 brana, in 4to. Continet Pfalmos, a Pf. 7. com. 
 16. ad finem, cum Canticis. 
 
 Codex fignat. xxv. Confcriptus in mem- 
 brana, in 4to. et fuit olin; Bibliothec^ in in- 
 fula Patmo. Continet Pfalmos omnes cum 
 Canticis. 
 
 Codex fignat. xxix. Confcriptus in charta 
 per manus triura Scfibarum, in 8vo. Con- 
 tinet Pfalmos omnes cum Canticis. 
 
 Monfieur Corai, Dodor of Medicine in 
 the Univerfity of Montpellier, had been re- 
 commended by Monf Villoiflbn, as well qua- 
 lified to undertake the collation of MSS. I 
 had opportunities of fully afcertaining the 
 juftice of that recommendation j and accord- 
 ingly made an agreement with him. During 
 the month of June, he entered upon the col- 
 lation of one of the Royal MSS. which, in 
 confequence of permifllon obtained by Mr. 
 Villoiflbn, he carried with him from the 
 King's library, to be collated at his lodgings. 
 It was this ; 
 
 E Ccdex 
 
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 ( 34 ) 
 
 Codex fignat. ii. Confcrlptus in mem- 
 brana, in folio, continens Pentateuchum, et 
 libros, Jofhuae, Judic. Ruth. Regum qua- 
 tuor, Paralip. duo, Efdrae duo, Efther. To- 
 biam, Judith. Machabaeorum tres. 
 
 One half of the collation of the above MS. 
 has been fent me ; and, as I heard two months 
 fince that one further fourth part of it was 
 completed, the whole is probably finifhed j 
 and Monf. Corai has fignified his confent to 
 proceed in collating other MSS. . 
 
 Upon infpe<5lion of the MSS. in this library, 
 it appeared that three of them would not re- 
 quire collation ; viz. 
 
 Codex fignat. xxxvii. Continet excerpta 
 hincillinc ex Prov. Salom. recentiflima manu. 
 Codex fignat. xxxviii. Continet Tefta- 
 mentum Salomonis. 
 
 Codex fignat. xxxix., In the three firfl 
 pages of this MS. there occur, in a very mo- 
 dern hand, fome detached parts of the Pro- 
 phetical text, but hardly with any verfe or 
 fentence complete. The whole feemed a fhort 
 indcijf of Scriptural places referred to in fome 
 of the fubfequent tradts, that are contained 
 in the MS. 
 
 The Collation of the Colbertin-MS. in 
 this library was exhibited laft year; and {even 
 having been collated by myfelf, and one by 
 
 Moi^. 
 
 1 
 
 ( 35 ) 
 
 Monf, Corai, and three not requiring collation, 
 it appears, that on twelve MSS. here nothing 
 remains to be done. 
 
 Library of Saint Germain. 
 
 In this have been completely collated the 
 following MSS ; 
 
 Codex fignat. x. Confcriptus in mem- 
 brana, in folio. Continet Pfalmos a Pf.7. com. 
 14. ad Pf. 118. com. 165. 
 
 Codex, fignat. xiii. Confcriptus in mem- 
 brana, in folio j et erat olim Magnas Lauras 
 ceu Monafterii Sti. Athanafii in monte Atho. 
 Continet Pfalmos omnes cum Canticis. 
 
 Codex fignat. clxxxvi, Confcriptus in mem- 
 brana, in 4to, charadlere quadrato-unciali, 
 fine accentibus et fpiritibus. Continet Pfal- 
 mos a Pf. 18. com. 13. ad Pf. 72. com. 10. 
 
 Codex fignat. clxxxvii. fed olim xc. Con- 
 fcriptus in membrana, in 410, unciali cha- 
 radtere. Continet Pfalmos a Pf. 1 7. com. 37. 
 ad finem Pfalmorum, cum Canticis. 
 
 Codex fignat. clxxxviii, Confcriptus in 
 membrana, in 4to. Continet Pfalmos omnes 
 cum Canticis. 
 
 In this library there have been alfo collated, 
 in part, the following MSS ; 
 
 Codex fignat. i. Confcriptus in membrana, 
 in folio, charadtere unciali. Continebat ali- 
 quando duodecim libros V.T. fed amifla funt 
 
 E 2 foli^ 
 
( 36 ) 
 
 folijqu^dam in libris Gcnef, Numer. Jofhuas, 
 I, et 3, Regg. et deperdltur penitus 4. liber 
 Regg. 
 
 In this MS. the laft ten chapters of Genefis 
 only, and the whole book of Exodus, have 
 been collated. 
 
 Codex fignat. ii. Confcriptus in mem- 
 brana, in folio. Contjnet o(5lo primos libros 
 Y.T. 
 
 Codex fignat. iii, Confcriptus in mem- 
 bran^, in folio, Continet duodecim primos 
 libros V. T, 
 
 In the two MSS. laft mentioned, the book 
 of Genefis w^s collated. 
 
 As it was at Paris, that moft of the MSS, 
 which have pafTed immediately under my own 
 hands during this year, were collated, this 
 feemed the moft proper place in the Account 
 for fliewi.ng the reader at one view, in what 
 way and to what elfeiS: my own time has been 
 employed in the courfe of the laft year. 
 
 He will h3;Ve obferved, that the whole of 
 feven MSS. in the Royal library, and of five 
 in th^t of St. Germain, together with fome 
 portions of three others, were collated by 
 myfelf at Paris. 1 have fince collated a 
 fourth part of one Bodleian MS. and two 
 Cambridge M^S. one, belonging to Gonville 
 and Caius-College, containing the Pfalmsand 
 Canticles i| the othfr, belonging to the Pub-- 
 
 -"*"'*'*■' -f-TiiH -■ 
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 lick Library, and moft obligingly lent me by 
 favour of the Univerfity. It contains the two 
 books of Chronicles j and in going over this 
 MS. it appeared that the collation of it in 
 the London Polyglott was very imperfedt. 
 Much alfo of my time has been taken up by 
 the neceflary correfpondence both at home and 
 abroad, which is now become extenfive and 
 laborious ; and in the courfe of which, ap- 
 plications for leave to collate MSS. have been 
 forwarded to Mr. Meerman at the Hague, to 
 Augftiurgh, and to Mofcow. To thefe calls 
 upon my time and attention are to be further 
 added the collation of tranfcripts, and other 
 incidental matters of lefs importance. 
 
 • 1 
 
March 12'", 1790. 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited before 
 The Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs, and 
 then depofited in the Bodleian Library in fe- 
 paiate volumes in folio with pafteboard-covers, 
 are thefe j 
 
 Vol. XIL 
 
 Exodus, a cap. 18. com. §. ad finem 
 
 Odateuchi. 
 Regum i, ii, iii, iv. 
 Paralipom. i, ii. 
 Efdrae i, ii, 
 Neemias. 
 Machab. i""". 
 In MS. I. of the Medicean Library. 
 
 Genefis. 
 Exodus. 
 
 Leviticus, ad cap. 10. com. 10, 
 In MS. I. of the Chigian Library. 
 
 Vol. XIII. 
 
 Odtateuchus. 
 In MS. XXXVIII. Plut. V. of the Me- 
 dicean Library. 
 
 oaa- 
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 Odtateuchus. 
 In MS. I. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. XIV. 
 
 Odtateuchus. 
 Regum i, ii, iii, iv. 
 
 Paralipom. i, et ii. ad cap. 36. com. 24. 
 In MS. I. of the Library of the Carme- 
 lites of St. Paul at Ferrara. 
 
 Pentateuchus. 
 In MS. 1 1 . of the Ducal Library at Venice, 
 
 Job. 
 
 Proverbia. 
 
 Ecclefiaftes. 
 
 Cantic. Cantlc. 
 
 Sapientia Salom. 
 / Ecclefiafticus. 
 
 Hofea cum feqq. xi. Proph. Minor. 
 
 Efaias. 
 In MS. I. of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. XV. 
 
 Pentateuchus. 
 In MS. II. of the Royal Library at Paris. 
 
 Voi 
 
 
( 40 ) 
 
 Vol. XVi. -: 
 
 Numerl. 
 Deuteron. 
 Jofhua. 
 Judic. 
 In MS. of the Univerfity of Glafgow, 
 
 Excerpta Pentateuch. 
 In MS. Barocc. 1 9 6 . of the Bodleian Library. 
 
 ""IP" 
 
 I II I ■ aMfii <rn I ir I 
 
 Vol. XVII, 
 
 Leviticus, a cap. 25. exclufive ad cap. 
 
 27. com. 7. 
 Numeri. ad cap. 5. com. 14. 
 Jofhua. a cap. ii. inclufive ad cap. 18. 
 
 com 28. 
 Judic. a cap. 16. com. 29. inclufive ad 
 cap. 21. com. 10. 
 In MS. of VofHus at Leyden. 
 
 Oftateuchus. 
 In MS. of the Cafanattan Library at Rome. 
 
 Jofhua. 
 Judic. 
 Ruth. 
 In MS. 2. of the Royal Library at Paris. 
 
 Hofea 
 
 1 
 
 ( 41 ) 
 
 Hofea. 
 tn MS; 6f the Barberini-Library at Rome. 
 
 ii f I II 
 
 VoL.xviii. ■ * 
 
 Excerpt. V. T. 
 Pars I"", et 2". 
 tn MS.Laud C. 88. of the Bodleian Library. 
 
 Paralipom. i, ii. 
 In MS. of the Univerfity of Cambridge. 
 
 Proverbia. 
 
 Ecclefiafles. , 
 
 Gantic. Cantic. \ , 
 
 Job. 
 In MS. K .96. of the Bodleian Library. 
 N. B. For the collation of the Prophetical 
 Text in K. 96. fee Vol. X. in which it has 
 been entered, fince that Volume was ex- 
 hibited laflyear. ' •' . .- -, 
 
 Vol. XIX. 
 
 Genefis. ad cap. 41. 
 InMSS. 2,et 3. of Saint Germain's Library 
 at Paris. 
 Genefis. a cap. 40. ad finem. 
 In MSS. 1, 2, 3. of the fame Library. 
 
 F Exodus » 
 
( 4? ) 
 
 Exodus. 
 In MS. I. of the fame Library, 
 
 Pentateuch.a&. 
 In a Coptick Verfion in the Royal Libr^y 
 at Paris. 
 
 t^Mi ■ n I 1 1 I I 
 
 Vol.. XX. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 Cantica Sacra. 
 In feven MSS. of the Royal Library at Paris. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 
 Cantica Sacra. 
 In five MSS. of St. Germain's Library at 
 Paris. 
 
 Vol. XXI. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 Cantica Sacra. 
 In MSS. I, and 2. of the Barberini-Library 
 
 at Rome — and alfo. 
 In MS. of Cardinal Borgia. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 In MS. of the Ducal Library at Efte. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 Cantica Sacra. 
 In two Bodjeian MSS. Barocc. 15. 107. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 . ■.,; .Pfalmi.v.: % : ,' ;.J .ir:.',:. ] ■■-■ 
 
 In four Bodleian MSS. Cromw. iro. Laud. 
 C. 41. Laud* C. sSii NEB. 2> 120. 
 
 Pfalmi. ' ' 
 Cantica Sacra, 
 In three MSS. of. the Colleges of Trinity, 
 Emanuel, Gonville-Caius, In Cambridge, 
 
 Vol. XXII, . 
 Pfalmi. 
 Cantica Sacra. 
 In MS. of Cardinal Pe-Zelada, 
 
 Pfalmi. ' ■- '■ 
 
 Cantica Sacra. ■ 
 In MS. of Profeflbr Schnurrcr at Tubingen . 
 
 Pfalmi a Pf. ^y, incluf. ad Pi^77. incluf. 
 In fourteen MSS, of the Britifh Mufeum. 
 
 Vol, XXIIJ, in 410. 
 
 Collatfo Grabfana Codicfs Cottoniani^ 
 
 emendata ex alii collatione ejufdcm 
 
 Codicis per Uflcrium fadi. 
 
 Codex Bodleianus, Seld. in pluteo fuperiori. 
 
 ' N". 9. (3997. in Catalog, impreflb) De- 
 
 . fcriptus i ct ab ejus Textu Variantes Cod. 
 
 F 2 Bodleiani, 
 
( H.- ) 
 
 Bodleiani, Laud. C. 88. item defcripta in 
 margine. 
 
 Collatio Genefeos cum citationibus 
 Philonis. 
 
 . Such of the above Collations as were made 
 in various Libraries of Italy, were all deli- 
 vered at Florence by the end of November 
 laft } and as the work has been gping on ii) 
 thofe Libraries fince that time, that is, during 
 a period fomewhat exceeding three months, 
 advances have certainly been further made in 
 collating ftveral MSS ; and though I am not 
 able to ftate exadlly through wh^t portions 
 of them the collation may have been carried 
 dviring that int«;rval, yet^ I apprehend, thi^ 
 fummary view of Collations done this year, 
 in the whole and in part, is near the truth. 
 
 Thirty MSS, have been completely coIt 
 lated. 
 
 In fix of the largeft MSS. there has been 
 collated very nearly the whole in three of 
 them, and more than half in one, and a 
 fourth part in twoj in fifteen others a fourt^ 
 part in fachj and in feven others feme part. 
 
 And 
 
 ( 45 ) 
 
 And in the eollation of the Arabick; MS, 
 of the Bodleian Library, Laud 146. Profeflbr 
 Paulus, of the Univcrfity of Jena, has made 
 fome advances, though no part of his cpHair 
 tpn has y^t come to my hands. 
 
 Oxford, Delegates'-Rooni, March 12. 1790. 
 
 THE Rev. Dr. Holmes, having this day 
 exhibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch 
 collations of the Septuagint-MSS. as have 
 been completed in the year laft paft, accord- 
 ing fo the ftate now printed, together with 
 fuch as were reported in the laft printed ac- 
 count to have been collated, bv»t not exhibited. 
 It is the opinion of this Board that he has fo 
 far fulfilled the condition upon which the 
 Subfcription to the faid collation was made, 
 and that a compcterit and laudable progrefs 
 has been made In ^he work. 
 
 The Delegates therefore think it again in- 
 cum^berjt upon them to recommend the pre- 
 fent annual account to the confideration of the 
 Publick ; hoping that Dr, Holmes will meet 
 with fuch farther encouragement as will en- 
 able him to bring the work to its completion. 
 
( 4-6 ) 
 
 Account of Expences incurred during 
 the ,{econd Year. 
 
 To Mr, Bandini the remainder for 
 
 collating Medicean MS. I. 20 00 
 
 Journey (April 5.) to Cambridge, 
 to foUicit leave to bring MSS. 
 from thence to be collated here, 
 but without being able to obtain 
 more than two ; out 10 days 10 17 o 
 
 To Jo. Elias Baldius for collating 
 
 the reft of the Vatican MS. I. 40 o o 
 
 To Mr. Bandiai for collating Medi- . 
 
 cean MS. xxxvni. Plut, v. 50 o o 
 
 To Hieronym. Tirabofchius for the 
 collation of one MS.of the Pfalms 
 in the Library of Efte • ' .. ■ 500 
 
 To two Collators at Venice, allow- 
 
 • ance (at the rate of 8/. per month 
 to each) for lodging, board, &c, 
 during June and July 1789 3^9 Q 
 
 To, one .Collator at Venice, Salary 
 during thofe two months, after 
 which ficknefs obliged him to re- 
 turn to Rome IQ o 
 
 To BernardStephanopoli for collating 
 MSS. in Barberin. and Chigian 
 Libraries, in part — — . 30 8 6 
 
 To Dominicus Calabrefi for collating 
 
 Cardinal De^Zelada's MS. 710 o 
 
 To Monfieur Corai for collating 
 three fourths of MSS. 11, in the 
 Kings Library at Paris 45 o o. 
 
 14 6 
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 Journey (May 5.) from hence to 
 Paris, and rcfidence there till 
 Aug. 20. and expences back hi- 
 ther ; out till Aug. 27. — — 188 
 N. B. The travelling charges 
 andmaintenance of myRead*- 
 ing-Affiftant, and expences 
 of duty, done in my abfence 
 are included. 
 
 To Joachim Pla for collating Vol. L 
 
 of the MS. of Ferrara — ■ — 50 o o 
 
 To Mr. Morres, Affiftant-Ccllator, 
 one quarter, from March 25. to 
 June 1789, and part of another 
 quarter — — — — 45 o o 
 
 To Mr .Williams, R.eading-Affiftant 
 
 to Mr. Morres for the fame tijx\e 11 50 
 
 To one Collator at Venice feven 
 months allowance for Lodgings 
 &c. from July 1789 excluf. to 
 March 1790 56 o o 
 
 To D° for nine months Salary from 
 June 1789 inclufiyc to March 
 J 790 excluf. 45 o o 
 
 To Mr. Hayes for tranfcripts made 
 
 of Laud. 146, 147^ Arab. MSS. 18 12 4 
 
 Journey (Dec. 8.) to Cambridge tq 
 return the MSS. before brought 
 from thence, and to receive thofe 
 which GonviUe-Caius College, 
 and the Univerfity, had then con- 
 fentcd to put into my hands ; 
 out 12 days '■ — '—■ '12 r 4 
 
 Paper, &c. " "— ^ — — ^ — '■ " 4 17 6 
 
01 
 
 ■TfTTtir AfaBa 
 
 Mdks bought — >-^ — y g id 
 ^pftagc of letters, and carriage of 
 , parcels, foreign and home, fent 
 
 and received - — , — 1 1 3 6 
 Infurancc of collations coming by feat . 
 
 from Leghorn to London — — 7 10 o 
 To Mr. Fowle my Reading- Affift- 
 ant, one year,, from March 25, 
 1789 to March 25, 1790 30 o o 
 Printing 350 Gopies of this Ac- 
 , count, including bookbinders 
 charge for making up and cut- 
 ting '■ ' "——■ -' ■ " ■ ' 619 9 
 
 E:fpences 745 9 3 
 
 Amount of Subfcriptions 540 15 
 Yet remaining unpaid 33 12 o 
 
 Subfcriptions received 507 3 o 
 By Gratuity charged laft 
 
 year to the Collator of 
 : Cardinal Borgia's MS. 
 
 and refufed by order of 
 
 his Eminence — — 500 
 
 Received 
 
 512 3 
 
 Expences exceed by 233 6 3 
 
 T H &; 
 THIRD ANNUAL ACCOUN' 
 
 p P 
 
 The collation of the 
 
 M39, 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SEPTUAGINT^VERSIO 
 
 N, 
 
 TO WHICH IS PREFIXED 
 
 A. ' T R 4 ,Q 7. 
 
 BY ROBERT H0L,ME5, 1)D 
 
 PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THB U.NIVERSITy OF OXFORD 
 . PREBENDARY OF. SAUSBURY, • * 
 
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 THE third year, fince the commence- 
 ment of this undertaking, being now 
 concluded, it becomes incumbent upon me, at 
 this time, to deliver a third Account, and to 
 ftate what advances have been made in the work 
 during the year paft, and what are the prefent 
 circumftances of it. 
 
 To the difcharge of this duty I fliould 
 have confined myfelf accordingly, had not 
 my obligation, at this particular period of 
 the work, appeared to require of me fome- 
 thing more. It may be reafonably fuppofed 
 that, in the courfe of a Collation continued 
 during three years, materials have accrued 
 capable of affording fome grounds for efti- 
 mating, more fully than could have been hi- 
 therto done, whether the work is likely to 
 prove of importance and utility, and may there- 
 fore deferve further encouragement and fup- 
 port. 
 
 Accordingly, I fhall prefix to this third Ac- 
 count fome view of the materials already before 
 me } not indeed at that length to which they 
 would enable me to go, but yet at an extent 
 fufficient, I hope, to evince that the general 
 
 A Col- 
 
[ 2 ] 
 
 Collation now in hand will prove of very con- 
 fiderable ufe in forwarding the cfFedt and aug- 
 menting the means of Sacred Criticifm in every 
 affignable way. 
 
 Some few inftances to this particular purpofe 
 were offered at the head of the firft year's Ac- 
 count; the general point, as to the authority and 
 importance of the Septuagint-Verfion, in quefti- 
 ons r.efp?<^,ipg the Scriptural Text, havjng then 
 hee.n pri^yipufly flatpd and ^xepiplified. Taking 
 MP ,th.e ipattcr fr,9|ip the poinf &^ which it was 
 Jcft theni, I flj^ill now procee4 to an exemplifi- 
 cation mof,e at large. 
 
 Thicr? Zf£ two points to which the feveral 
 prpb-^bilities in favour of this work may be 
 reduced and upon whicl? they depend. One 
 pf thefe points is this j whether the MSS. and 
 Yerfjon^crf" the Septuagint-Greek differ fre- 
 qtieoitjy and materially from the printed Text ? 
 If they are adually found to do fo, there mufl 
 he now, it fhpuld feen?, flronger reafon than 
 ever for .expediting that this general exami- 
 nation will confiderably enlarge the means 
 we now pofTefs of fatisfying ourfelves as to 
 the ftate ^n.d tenour of the Scriptural Text in 
 every age. 
 
 The other point is, whether further portions 
 than have yet appeared, of thofe Greek Inter- 
 pretations, yyhich were fubfequent to that by 
 the Seventy, will be brought to light by means 
 of this work ? If fo, it will then be of impor- 
 
 tant 
 
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 tant ufe in this rcfpedt alfo,.by enabling us to 
 judge more fully and precifely, than has been 
 hitherto in our power, how the Sacred Text 
 flood in the times of thofe feveral Interpreters. 
 Thefe points, then, are queftions of fad j 
 and my only drift in the following pages is to 
 offer fome evidence upon both j without being 
 underflood to decide, whether fuch variations 
 as are here inflaneed will ultimately prove of 
 conclufwe vt^eight. Some of thefti perhaps will, 
 and poflibly fome may not, be finally confirm- 
 ed, when more complete light fhall be thrown 
 upon them ; but it feems fufHcient for the pre- 
 fent to fay, that hone of the fubfeqoent variati* 
 ons feem afcribable to the mere inadvertence of 
 tranfcribers, and that very few of them have 
 as yet been fubmitted to the Publick. What 
 I have to offer fhall be diflributed under fedi- 
 ons convenient for the purpofe of preferving 
 a due diflindtnefs of view ; and if the feader 
 will recolledt all along what my p'articular 
 point is, he will eafily account for the manner 
 of reprefentation that will be adopted. 
 
 A 2 
 
 SECTION 
 
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"W' 
 
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 SECTION I. 
 
 Injlances in which the Sepiuaginf-MSS. omit 
 parts of the Vatican Text. 
 
 I T has been obferved that the Greek Text 
 is more full and ample in the other three 
 principal Editions than it is in the Vatican. 
 It may therefore be expedted, that MSS. will 
 the lefs frequently differ from the Vatican by 
 omitting parts of its Text. Still however, that 
 variations of this fort are not few, may be con- 
 cluded from the fubfequent examples. 
 
 Gcnefis. 
 
 yi- 20. Atto TravTuv tuv h^vtuv run Triritvuv. Vat. 
 Compl. Alex, and MSS. — Aid. omits 
 only Tm •sriTstvuv. 
 
 Atto tuv TTiTetvuv is the whole reading of MS. 
 Univ. Coll. 
 
 De animantibus volatilibus. Latin Verf. 
 Tertullian. de Monog. 952. C. Sabatier. 
 
 Ex volatili. Hebr. 
 
 IX. 23" Ka/ TO "zs-pocrcoTfov &c. to the end of the 
 
 vcrfe. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 This is wanting in MS. Univ. Coll. and the 
 
 Latin Verfion in Ambrof. de Noe. c. 30. has 
 
 nothing correipondent to this latter claufe in 
 
 the 
 
 lu lu 
 
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 the Greek, and the Hebrew for part of it was 
 wanting in Cod. Kennicott. 157. 
 
 X. 24. 'AffpcL^aa iyivvrin rot TLdivav h^ Ki*Vi'aL» 
 'tyivvti<rt tov Zcthti. Vat. and in fubftance, 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 'Af^a.PoiS' lymtjTi t)>v £<*A*. MSS. Sangerm. 
 II. III. " 
 
 Arphachfad genuit Selach. Hebr. 
 
 XL 12, 13. What Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, have 
 here relating to Cainan, to which there is 
 no correfpondent Hebrew, is wanting in MS. 
 Sangerm. III. and alfo in the Cotton-MS. for 
 in one of its fragments fo much of this paffagc 
 remained fomc years fince, as to render the 
 omiHion of Cainan difcernible. 
 
 XIII. 13. 'Afieij>rci)?',o) ivctvTiov.ii QiS a-<po^pXr. Vat. 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Superflu^ hie in LXX Interpretibus additum 
 eft, In confpetflu Dei. Jerom. And yet the 
 correfpondent Hebrew ftands in the printed Co- 
 pies and MSS. at this day. 
 
 *Ajtt*p«Ao) (r(^i^^ is all that occurs in MSS. 
 Ferrar. i. Vat. 1668. 
 
 But in the preceding verfe, to the words, 
 'A5/)<»|tt h "srobfcdiCfiariv iv 75 Xetyatetc, this Ferrara- 
 MS. fubjoins, ivAnlcv tS QiS. Has then the 
 correfpondent Hebrew been inferted, fince Je- 
 ' rom's time, in the 13 th verfe where his copy 
 had it not, inftead of being placed in the 12th 
 
 verfe, 
 
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 verfe, wh'eri^ the Ferrara-MS^ implies ihat it 
 flood ? Or did the writer of the Fdrrara-MS. 
 find the words, ivaniov rS &tS, in the margin 
 of his copy (for it feems that the text itfelf 
 had them not in the 13th verfe) arid infert them 
 by miftake in the 12th verfe, iriftcad of the fub- 
 fequent one ? Let the reader judge. 
 
 XX. 2. 'E<PoQ^9^y| yap htthv- 
 
 Compl. Aid. in fiibftance. 
 MSS. 
 
 • J»' rt.uV*)!'. Vat. 
 and Alex, and 
 
 This is wanting in MSS. Ferrar. I. and San- 
 german. II. though fome later hand has placed 
 it in the margin of the latter MS. It has no 
 correfpondcnt Hebrew. See a claufe very like 
 it, Genef. xxvi. 7. from whence it rtay have 
 come, firft into the margin, and then into the 
 Text. 
 
 XXI. I.. Ka/ TUvpio; i.TntrKi'^^ATO r^f YiAMAV kaS'o. 
 
 Vat. Compl. nearly. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 The latter of thefe two claufes is wanting in 
 
 MS. Univ. Coll. It is alfo wanting in Syr. Verf. 
 
 XXXI. 10. 'Ev y*Tp< Kck^Qdvona,. Vat. Compl. 
 and MSS. 
 As this is omitted in Aid. and Alex, and in 
 feveral MSS. and has no correfpondcnt Hebrew, 
 the prefumption may be that it was at firft a 
 glofs, placed in the margin of fome MS. In that 
 
 very 
 
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 very fituation the writer of MS. Vat. 747. pro- 
 bably found it in the MS. which he copied ; for 
 he h^s placed it jn his margin, and marked it as 
 . a glpfs to tl)e word mKiosuj/ in the text. 
 
 XXXV, 7. 'Hcr^C. vltTcompK Aid. and MSS. 
 /T' ijirrtC MS. Sarrav. and Alex. 
 
 This is wanting in MS, Royal Libr. Paris. IV. 
 And frequently, words and claufes, which were 
 either marked with the Obelus by Origen, or 
 included in brackets by the Editors of Alex, as 
 no.t. havjng any cprrefpondent Hebrew, cjo i?0t 
 appear in Jome Septuagint-MSS. Here however 
 it muft be obfef vpd, that Codd, Kennjcott. 69, 
 95, 151, 155. ai>.4 Co4. Sam. .^5. and Syr. 
 Verf. acknowkdge the obelize4 wppd. 
 
 XL. 17. Tuvyivuv. Vat. Compl. Aid. and MSS. 
 
 Alex. \tuv yivvfinuTCiiv.^ 
 
 This is wanting in MSS. Glafg. and Vien^ 
 na, II. The laft is of high antiquity, in capital 
 letters of filver on a purple ground. 
 
 It has no correfpondcnt Hebrew. 
 
 XL VI. 8. 'l*)t4iS Xj ol viol ctvTcu. Vat. Compl. 
 Alex, and MSS. Aid. omits it. 
 This is wanting in MSS. Univ. Coll. and 
 Ferrar. I. and it feems from the turn of Ori- 
 gen's words in Nicephori Qaten. Tom. I. Co- 
 lumn. 489. not to have been in his copy. No 
 ^cprrefpondent Hebrew appeared in Cod. Ken- 
 nicott. 252. 
 
 XLvn. 
 
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 lilli HUM 
 
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 XLVII. 1 8. Ufos <n tW xu/ufii/. Vat. Aid. and 
 MSS. 
 
 TTWi (Ti Toy xJ/»o)/ )j/*<yy. MS. Dominican. Fefu- 
 lan, Florent. as in Compl, and Alex. In this 
 laft i^imv was infertcd by the Editor. 
 'mm "vhv Kvfiov rif^uv, MS. Vat. 1668. 
 
 The claufe is wanting in MS. Milan, and it 
 has nothing anfwerable to it in the Vulgate. 
 
 Exodus. 
 
 III. 12. EiTTt ^i Qios Muva-ri, Xiyuv. Vat. Aid. 
 Compl. in fubftanee. and MSS. 
 
 The whole of this is wanting in MS. Fer- 
 rar. I. — no more than the two laft words of it 
 are omitted in MS. Milan, but MS. Glafg. 
 omits all except nm Si, and with this Alex, 
 agrees. 
 
 Et dixit. Hebr. 
 
 IV. 17. Tvf) pa€Jov TMTYiv TYiv 7pci(peiirciv «V oCpif- 
 A)jvj/>i. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 Ttiv ftiQov TcLxiTYiv Krf^. MSS. Vcnct. Library, 
 II.— MS. Glafg. T. p. 'r. A^%|/6if.— MS. Milan. 
 
 T. p. T. A^jtAYJI. 
 
 Virgam banc fumes. Latin Verf. Auguftin^ 
 Locut. 20. Tom. III. 341. C. Sabatier. 
 Virgam banc capies. Hebr. 
 
 N. B. It feems probable that MS. Glafg. was 
 copied from one in capital letters. Avni 
 written for am, Jofti. xx. 7. and x*poi 
 
 for 
 
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 for m^^l, Jofh, xxi. 34. are fuch mirtakes 
 as apparently imply that the Text before 
 
 'hi?F^'^ ^^^ '^^ w°^ds in. this fo™ 
 AYTH-— KAPeA, ' 
 
 ^^^' 1?4 ^7 ^^ ^T""'"^"' *^^'^' Vat. ComDl 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. v.umpi. 
 
 ■ . This is wanting in MSS. Glafg. and Domi 
 mean. Fefulan. Florent. and Milan, and it hal 
 BO correfpondent Hebrew. 
 
 VIL 19. Tf aAtpS trif. Vat. Compl. Aid 
 
 Alex, and M&S. ^ " 
 
 This does not appear in.MSS. Glafg. and 
 
 Dommican. Fefulan. Florent. and Milan and 
 
 It has no correfpondent. Hebrew. 
 
 XL, 8 'ElnX^i ^i Muva-ns awo (bcifct^ ueri ^vuS 
 Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. ^ 
 
 This is wanting in MS.Venet. of the Ab- 
 bot Canonici. , 
 
 ^"\V/a1 ' ^r^«r^, ^-^i^"- Vat, Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. '^ 
 
 It is wanting in MS. of Mofcow. 31. 
 XVIII. 8.^ ■EK^e.fi, o^^^^, ,^ 1^ .^^ ^-^ ^._ 
 anrMSS.''" ^'^^^' '"'^ "''''>' ^^^' ^^«- 
 
 I '^^U '' Ta]','^ ^-^^5- ^^^%- and Venet. 
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 XIX. 9. 'M'yy«Ae^^ ^"""^SlSTle^^d 
 JfosKvfiov. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, ana 
 
 MSS. , , ^ 
 
 This is wanting in MS. of the Abbot Ca- 
 
 nonici. 
 
 vf t"'o. - p*vr.^5 e.' *iro'. Vat.-Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and IVISS. have the claufc m 
 fubftance. 
 It is wanting in MS. Venet. of the Abbot 
 Canonici. and i! not m^dered m the Vulgate. 
 
 XI 10 K^3^eI^*r*E«vT«,. Vat. Alex, and 
 MSS.-Compl. Aid. ^ P^eA.y/^* e«.r«/. 
 This is wanting in MS. Dominican^ Fefu- 
 lan. Florent. and the correfpondent Hebrew 
 was wanting in Cod. Kennicott. 151. and Syr. 
 Verf. omits the claufe. 
 
 XIV. -o. K:*a^^« *^"" ^ yk' v^'- ^^'"p^' 
 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 This is wanting in MS. of the Abbot Cano 
 nici; and nothing like it appears m the Vulgate. 
 
 XIV 57. o5r«Ti'^^«V^- Vat. Compl. 
 
 Ti^ii;w^ti^'^^^ 
 
 Vulgate has nothing like it. 
 
 Vat. Aid. nearly. andMbb. ^^^^^_ 
 
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 Compl. omits kvevnauiTu only; but avaTreivrts 
 uvTti are both included in brackets in Alex. 
 Both thefc words are wanting in MSS. Leipfic. 
 and Venet. Lib. II. and Glafg. 
 
 XIX. 34. 'O . <srfioa-rihvTos 9 'srponrcpivof^ivef . "srpos^ 
 vfi^. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 'srfO(ri\\vTos is all that appears in MS. of the 
 Abbot Canonici j and the Vulgate makes no 
 reprefentation of any part of the claufe.. 
 
 XXI. 24. Ka/ iXa,XY[ri Msjyirljf •ar^of 'A*fw/ n^ 
 jovf vlovi uvtS, Htfi wgW TS'avTas vlovs 'l(r^*^A. 
 Vat. Compl. and MSS. Aid. omits it. 
 
 fuv j^ Tous &c. Alex. 
 
 The whole verfe is wanting in MS., of the 
 Abbot Canonici ; and, the correfpondent He- 
 brew was wanting in Codd. Kennicott. 9. 109. 
 252. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 VII. 1 1 . "Kfxuv «f «<t6' iifjtipciv apxi^v ^O'^ ijf^ipav. 
 
 Vat. Compl. and nearly Aid. Alex, and 
 
 MSS. 
 
 Prasfedlus unus in diem, praefeitus unus in 
 diem. Hebr. 
 
 ' u^x"" ^i '^*^' ^f^ifx*' Is all that appears in 
 MSS, Glafg. and Ferrar. I, and of the two 
 
 B 2 ci^ui- 
 
[ 12 ] 
 
 equivalent claufes in the Hebrew, the latter was 
 wanting in Cod. Kennicott. 84. 
 
 XXXI. 6. X<A/»5- hi (pyA^f %<A<W iK (puA^f. Vat. 
 and nearly Compl. Aid. and MSS. 
 
 XfA«W f» <pt/A^f /r- 3^ %<A/«s- k (poAify.'' MS. 
 . Sarrav. and' Alex. 
 
 XtXias he (puA^f. MS. Ferrar. I. without the 
 obelized part. 
 Milledctribu. Hebr. 
 
 I Samuel. 
 
 XIV. 10. noWi}|t*af. (firft time) Vat. Compl. 
 Alex, and MSS. Aid. ot^V vf^as. 
 
 This is wanting in MS. Royal Lib. Paris. 
 IV. and it has no correfppndent Hebrew. 
 
 XXIII. 3. Elan-o^iv<rof4,i9-x } Vat. Aid. and MSS. 
 
 « •sropivifiiS-a, } Alex, but Compl. omits it. 
 
 This is omitted in MS. Venet. Lib. IV. and 
 there is nothing to anfwer it in the Hebrew. 
 
 XXIV. 19. l,^f4,if)oy. {2'^ time) Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 It is wanting in MS. Royal Lib. Paris. IV. 
 and is not exprefled in Lat. Verf. in Lucifer 
 Calarit. pro Athanaf. Lib. I. Sabatier. and has 
 correfpondent Hebrew only in Cod. Kennicott, 
 210. 
 
 2 Samuel. 
 
 N 
 
 1 
 
 -^^~*^--- — 
 
 [ 13 ] 
 
 2 Samuel. 
 
 IV. 8. 'E)JiKti<rtv Tm ioc^fu* avrSuf ^ 'ttfAtfcutivTii, 
 Vat. Compl. Aid, Alex, and MSS. 
 
 hc^UtiTiv us ri iifMM, owDf. MS. Venct. Lib. II. 
 Ultiones die hac. Hebr. 
 
 X. 9. 'E« TH Kctrk ^foa-uTTov tPivetrricts j^^^ tx -r* 
 oTTK^iv, Vat. Aid. and MSS.-Compl.omijts 
 £x T» x*T« -a-foa-uTrov, and Alex, leaves out 
 
 e^evaiTjW >^ ex r. 0. MS. Venet. Lib. II. 
 
 A frontc et a tergo.' Hebr.' 
 
 Two interpretations feem to (land together 
 in the Vatican ; the reader will judge which 
 is to be attributed to the Seventy. 
 
 XXI. 1 2. !!(»/)« Tuv aii^i^uv vluy 'l*S/j-r*A*«t^. Vat. 
 and nearly Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 Ilfitg* TUV h^fuv 'lA^sis r. MS. Venet. Lib. 
 IV. nearly as Compl. and ojachas no correfpon- 
 dent Hebrew. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 •I. J 4. Komv ^i ^Kcinuv Knjg-ufii^a. •za-eivTis, Hfff 
 
 fictfrlTrmoviv yivYi^n'Tu iifuv. Vat. Aid. Alex. 
 
 and MSS. Compl. omits the firft claufc. 
 
 Marfupium unum fit. omnibus nobis. Hebr. 
 
 Of the two claufes in the Greek ;the latter 
 is omitted in MS. Venet Lib. I. 
 
 L 18. 'H at KeiTciT^6(pij avofiiv •srA^ofjtuv xcucii. 
 Vat. Aid. and MSS. Alex. :has it in 
 brackets. Compl, omits it. 
 
 It 
 
 '■ r 
 
[ H ] 
 
 It is omitted in MS.Venet. Lib. I. and there 
 16 nothing anfwerable to it in the Hebrew, or 
 in, the Latin Verfion in Lucif. Cal. 1. i. pro 
 S. Athanafio. Sabatier. 
 
 XXIII. 21. KoE/ ivm<riTcu aii'fftjyi^ivct h^ ouKuatt- 
 Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 The words, }(^ ^aku^yi, are omitted in MS. 
 Bodl. Lib. Laud. C. 88. and nothing corref- 
 pondent to them appears either in the Hebrew, 
 or in the Latin Verfion in Sabatier. 
 
 Ifaiah. 
 
 XV. 2* 'Ett) TUV aCiSfJLoLTm CtVTtjS, Xi iV ToCii "Z^XoLTH-^ 
 (US CWTYIS, Xj iv ToTtS fV[*M? CWTI^f. Vat. Aid. 
 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 In tedlis ejus, ct in plateis ejus. Hebr. 
 It fccms then that two interpretations iland 
 together in the Vatican. 
 
 tTr) rm aajxciruv cwrris, K h reus pv/^ctig owrJJf. 
 MSS. Florent. Plutei V. andVenet. Lib. I, and 
 St. Salvator. Bologn. 
 
 '^ Kj'iV ToCli fvfidif AvTYis'. — A. 2. ©. X, sc rav 
 wA*T««<s- auTtii, Marchal. MS. 
 
 It feems then that the former three MSS. 
 omit the very claufe, which is not to be attri- 
 buted to the Seventy. 
 
 XLV. 9. Mi? a,7roiCj)tB-ri(riTaj to "srKcia-f^st wfof tov 
 ■srXa<runa,a,vrh; Vat., Aid, and MSS, Compl. 
 
 and Alex, omit it. 
 
 This 
 
 ' "This is wanting 'in >ISS. Venet. Lib. I. and 
 St. Salvator. Bologn. -^nor is there any thing to 
 anfwer it in the Latin Verfion in Jerom. At 
 
 ' the beginning of the verfe there is Hebrew to 
 this effedtj Heus ille qui litigat [refpondet] 
 
 .contra formatorem ejus! To this the Greek 
 ftanding here would correfpond more nearly 
 than what Vat. has at the head of the yerfc. 
 
 XL VI. I r. Ka/ ivuSwa-a, rijy oiov cwtS. Vat, Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. Compl. omits it. 
 This is wanting in MS. Venet. Lib. I. and 
 nothing Hke it occurs in the Latin Verfion in 
 Jerom, or in the Hebrew. 
 
 'LXII. 4. 'On eijpxjjff-g Kvfius. iv <ro), k^ jjy^ <int 
 avvciKiSriiriTcif. Vat. and nearly Compl. Aid. 
 and MSS. , 
 
 This is wanting in MS. S. Salvat. Bologn. 
 and there is nothing in the Latin Verfion jn 
 Jerom correfpondent to it. Z. 0. on ivSoKfjlrH 
 &c. MS. Marchal. — and Alex, has on tv^oKYiaiv, 
 &C. under the afteriflc. 
 
 Jeremiah. 
 
 III. 8. Eif T*f %«|fltf axrnii. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 This is wanting in MS. Venet. Lib. I. and 
 has nothing to anfwer it in the Hebrew. 
 
 XIIL 13. K«/rov'i^^<*v. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 This 
 
 ",' '■ r 
 
^mf': 
 
 [ i6 ) 
 
 This is wanting in MS.Florent. IX. and has 
 not any thing anfwerable to it in the Hebrew. 
 
 XIV. 13. 'EttI Tvii yki, xaf. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS., 
 
 This is wanting in MS. S. Salvat. Bologn. 
 and has no correfpondent Hebrew. 
 
 XIX. 3 1 Koq OJ atrTTopivofiiVOt h tm; "jrvhcus Tojumn, 
 Vat. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 This is wanting in MS. Venet. Lib. I. and 
 has nothing to anfwer it in the Hebrew. 
 Compl. omits it. 
 
 XXVI. 21. Tpe<pO|itew< iv uvtyi. Vat. Compl. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 Tfi(pof4,iyoi eis (r^ayviv. Aid. \ 
 This is wanting in MS. S. Salvator. Bologn. 
 and has cot any correfpondent Hebrew. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 I. 24. "HkOVOV TflV (puVilV TUV "S^ipvyUV CiVTUV IV TU 
 
 'Ziro^iwS'ocf ctvTX as (pavrjv. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 nearly. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 rinaev riiv (pav^i* tuv 'Z^ipvyav avTuv us (pavriv 
 
 MS. of Mofcow, 31. 
 
 Audiebam vocem alarum eorum licut vocem 
 — Lat. Verf. in Ambrof. Sabatier. 
 
 What the MS. omits has [at this place no 
 correfpondent Hebrew. 
 
 Hofea. 
 
 Ti r~ — 
 
 [ 17 ] 
 
 Hofea. 
 
 II. 12. Ka) T« iFlTeiVA T(Z evpeivcv. Vat. Aid. 
 
 and MSS. — Alex, has it under the obelus. 
 
 Compl. has it nearly, but differently placed. 
 
 This is wanting in MS. Venet. Lib. I. and 
 
 has no correfpondent Hebrew. 
 
 Amos. 
 
 II. 4. 'A«€«a<f vluv 'l»(5k. Vat. nearly Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 aa-iZncus 'liSit. MS. of Mofcow. 34 1. 
 
 Pravaricationibus Jehudah. Hebr. 
 
 Micah. 
 
 VII. 6. ^Ex^fot 'zrams M^fts o\ tv ru oiKa cujtS. 
 Vat. Aid. and MSS. ' ' 
 
 ix,B-^i>) wAVTii av^fis pi av^^is ol &c. Alex, the 
 Editor having inferted av^fos. 
 
 ixS-foi 'sfAVTis o\ AvS'^is ol &c. Compl. Cyrill. 
 tX^foi a.vS'fhs ol eit^fis ol h &C. MSS. Mofcow. 
 
 Inimici hominis virl domcftici ejus. Lat. 
 Verf. in Jerom. Sabatier. 
 
 Inimici viri viri domiis ejus. Hebr. 
 
 In Matth. x. 36. there feems to be an al- 
 lufion to this paffage, which may perhaps 
 in fome degree confirm the reading of the 
 MSS. 
 
 Jonah. 
 
 I. 12. 'Im^. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 C The 
 
 -- >-- — *, 
 
"•^?'- 
 
 .«. I n Wiat I 
 
 mty f"**^" ^' '~'~'v 
 
 [ 18 ] 
 
 The word is omitted in MS. Venet. Lib. I, 
 and has no correfpoiident Hebrew. 
 
 Zcchariah. ^ , ^ 
 
 I. 8. Uvff^iy ^ Y*po'. ^ mmKoh nm Aeuxo*. Vat. 
 ' Aid. Alex, and MSS. Compl. omits it. 
 
 As }i -^cifo) ftood after Mvko) in MS. Barberin. 
 there leems to be the greater probability that 
 it was a glofs brought from the margin into 
 the text. It is wanting in MS. Venct. Lib. L 
 
 Rufi, et varii, et albi. Lat. Vcrf. in Jerom. 
 Saiatiet. 
 
 Rufi, varii, et albi. Hebr. 
 
 VIIL 2. Tiiv 'Ieg»o-aAJi;U, k, riiv Zwv. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 T;i^ ^luv. MS. Venet. Lib. L agreeably to the 
 Hebrew. Of the two names, Jerufalem and 
 Sion, Cod. Kennicott. 30. had indeed the firft, 
 but not both. 
 
 Variations of the preceding fort will often 
 fuggeft a reflexion, which I fhall deliver chiefly 
 in the words of One, whofe mafterly difcuf- 
 fion of moft points relating to the Septuagint 
 has' diftinguifhed him among the learned of 
 
 his time. 
 
 Many words and even claufes " were mam- 
 feftly inferted in the Greek Verfion by way of 
 explanation. They are a kind of paraphrafti- 
 cal interpolations^purpofely added to make the 
 fenfe more clear, complete, and determmate. 
 They owed their origin, if I am not greatly 
 ' miftaken. 
 
 [ 19 } 
 
 miftaken, to the following circumftance. The 
 Kotv^, that is, the old Greek Verfion in common 
 ufe, though plain and fimple, was neverthelefs 
 in many places fcarcely underftood by \ht com- 
 mon people. To render thefe places more in-^ 
 telligible, the minifters of the church in read- 
 ing, or perhaps in the fubfequent explication 
 of the leflbn, added, I conceive, in fome places 
 certain words to explain the fentencej and elfe- 
 where exchanged feme words of abjirufe mean- 
 ing for others better known. And moreover, 
 where they thought fome texts improperly 
 rendered, there they propofed new and diffe- 
 rent tranflations of their own." 
 
 " The explanatory interpretations above- 
 mentioned were afterwards inferted in the mar- 
 gin of feveral copies ; and from thence finally 
 admitted into the text; which accounts for 
 fome variations of the Greek from the Hebrew \ 
 as it does alfo for the different renderings ob- 
 fervable in the Greek itj'elf before the time of 
 Aquila. And be it further remarked, that thefe 
 interpolations, though founded on the fame 
 principle, were yet of courfe different in diffe- 
 rent countries, becaufe of the different idioms 
 of their language; which fully accounts for 
 thofe varieties we fee between fome and others, 
 of the Greek copies." 
 
 ** Hence then it is evident, that thefe and 
 fuch-like additions can with no propriety be 
 attributed, as they commonly are, to the ori- 
 ginal interpreters ; but owe their exiftence to 
 fubfequent authors." — And when copies of the 
 
 C 2 Greek 
 
[ 
 
 20 
 
 ] 
 
 Greek itfclf, together with Verfions and Cita- 
 tions from it, concur in difowning them, and 
 nothing correfpondent to them occurs in the 
 Editions and MSS. of the original Text, there 
 feems to be no want of fufficient authority for 
 concluding that they had not from the firfl a 
 place in the Kotvn- 
 
 SECTION II. 
 
 Injlances in which the Septuagint-MSS. have 
 differences of various kinds Jrom the Vatican, 
 and ejpecially by fupplying either additional 
 •words or claufes. 
 
 IF the Seventy interpreters, in framing their 
 Verfion, had made omifTions of the Sacred 
 Text confiderable either as to their impor- 
 tance or their number, it appears hardly con- 
 ceivable that fuch a circumftance fhould have 
 continued unknown during a great length of 
 time. The high and, indeed extravagant com- 
 mendations beftowed upon the Septuagint- 
 tranflation by Philo, Jofephus, and the Tal- 
 mudifts, its early and long admiffion in the 
 Synagogue, and the favour and care with 
 which it had been continually cherifhed and 
 guarded by the whole body of the ancient 
 Jews, feem accordingly fufficient teftimonies 
 that it originally reprefented the Sacred Text, 
 
 as 
 
 [ 21 J 
 
 as it flood at the time, without cither defalca- 
 tion as to its fubftance, or violation as to its 
 order. In fucceedijig times, however, the Ver- 
 fion fell into another flate ; and various caufcs 
 had confpired to introduce into it appearaofres 
 of mutilation and diforder. Words and whole 
 claufes of the original Text were then found 
 to have either no reprefentation at all in it, or 
 none in the requifite place. Upon this, fuch 
 words and claufes were Juppofed to have been 
 omitted by the Seventy interpreters. " But 
 what ground is there for fuch a fuppofition ? 
 Is there any thing in the nature, conftrudtion, 
 or meaning of fuch words and claufes, that 
 fhould induce the original interpreters thus to 
 omit them ? This cannot be affirmed, with any 
 (hadow of reafon. And if they had no induce- 
 ment to leave them out, why fhould we fup- 
 pofe they did ? Nay, do not the copies, which 
 now fupply thefe defedts, exhibit to us fo 
 many pofitive proofs that their archetypes were 
 clear of them ?" And if fo, is not this a plain 
 indication, that fuch words were exprefted at 
 firfl in the Septuagint- Verfion, though hafly 
 and carelefs tranfcribers have fince left out 
 the Greek that reprefented them P Do not 
 alfo the early Citations and Verfions of the 
 Septuagint-Greek occafionally attefl, that it 
 did in fadt exprefs feveral portions of the 
 original Text, of which it was prefumed the 
 Seventy interpreters had made no cxpreflion? 
 kn^ if (o, there feems reafon to apprehend 
 tbarwhen MSS. Citations, and Verfions fill up 
 
 dcfi- 
 
-w- 
 
 [ 22 ] 
 
 deficiencies in the prefent Septuagint-Text, 
 they do, in many more places than we know, 
 only replace in it what had been originally 
 its own. 
 
 What has been here faid the reader will 
 apply to the fubfequent parts of this Sedion, 
 wherever he fhall fee it fit and right that fucb 
 an application fhould be made. 
 
 ™"^'1i-^ilillB'r - 
 
 Genefis. 
 
 VII. 14. K.at "ZiTcivTa, to. S'tifia. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 eujTo) Kj Ts-dnA to, S-rifiU. MS. of the Abbot 
 Canonici. 
 
 Ipfi et omnis beftia. Hebr. 
 
 VII. 14. Hav ofinov ttithvov xctra. yivog uvtS. Vat. 
 and MSS. — Compl. Aid. and Alex, omit 
 clvtS, and the two laft omit o^vtcv. 
 
 Omne volatile in fpecie fua, omnis avis, 
 omne alatum. Hebr. 
 
 Part then of the Hebrew at this place has 
 no correfpondent Greek. 
 
 'sray Trtretvov kato, yivos a^th, "^av ofiviov, 
 
 'sra.y -zflipuToy. Catena Nicephori. Tom. I. 
 Column. 146. and MSS. Vatic. 747. and 1668. 
 So alfo MS. Dominican. Fefulan. Florent. and 
 fingly with ^ eia-riAB-ov following, agreeably ta 
 Hebr. Et ingrefla funt. 
 
 [ 23 ] 
 
 VIII. 1 9. 'E^^B^ea^a,» hi r^f 'xiQckrrS. Vat. nearly 
 Cpmpl. Aid. Alex. and. MSS. - , 
 
 Tit. MSS. Ferrar. I. and Glafg. 
 
 VIII, 22. 'Hf^ifav Kf vvKTcc i KATATTcwiriiTi. Vat. 
 Compl.Ald. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Et dies et nox non ceflabunt. Hebr. 
 
 K, Yi^i^a, )ij vv^ »' KetTctTTcwTHiri. MS. Vat. 1 668. 
 And fo the Septuagint-Text flands alfo in Ca- 
 ten. Nicephori. Tom. I. Column. 154. 
 
 The reader will confider how far thefeveral 
 preceding nominatives in the context of Ge- 
 nefis imply that tifiipA and vu^ were the original 
 reading of the Koivrj. 
 
 X. 2 1 . Tw IttjfA — a,$i>^<pu 'la^tfl r5 jW«^ovof . Vat. 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Tu £^|tt — *jeA(p&J *I*(pe9" tu i^ei^ovi. MSS. Fer- 
 rar. I. Sangerm. II. 
 
 Sem ipfi — fratri Japhet majori. Latin Verf. 
 In Auguftin. Sabatier. 
 
 De Sem — fratre Japhet majore. Vulgat. 
 
 XVI. 6. 'Ait^ov v\. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and 
 
 '■ MSS. ' ,, 
 
 a,fi<^ov n iv i^p^Ahfiols o-a. MS. of the Abbot 
 Canonici. . - 
 
 Bonum in oculis tuis. Hebr. 
 
 xvri. 
 
[ H ] 
 
 XVIII. 8. Ka/ t^cbyer avtos ^ ^irAfH^KH auToif 
 WTO TO iiv^m. Vat. nearly Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 «t JtW Je "TTcLfu^ii-Aet tfJroTj- xnrh to oivaj^ov ^ '(^ayo*. 
 MS. of the Abbot Canonici. 
 
 Ipfe ftetit fuper eis fub arbore, et comede- 
 runt. Hebr. 
 
 XXIII. 13. To apyvpiov tS ct,ypoZ XaZi. Vat: 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Si^uiM TO et^vpiov tS ayfi, ActSe. MS. of the 
 Abbot Canonici. 
 
 Dedi argentum agri, cape. Hebr. 
 
 XXVII. 46. 'kjrb Tuv BvyaTi^uv Tfis yns TewTijf, 
 Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 rtTTO TUV BvyOiTtfuv Xer Toiojuretf i^o tuv B'vya.- 
 Tifuv '? yns TuvTtjf. MS. of the Abbot Canonici. 
 
 De filiabus Cheth ficut iftae de filiabus hujus 
 terrsE. Hebr. 
 
 The reader will confidcr whether the re- 
 currence of the words <i7ro tuv 3-vya,Tipuv did not 
 at firft lead fome tranfcriber into that omiffion 
 which there feems to be in the printed copies. 
 
 XXVIII. 6. 'EV T« tChOy^V CWTOV Kffi tViT^TO. 
 
 Vat. Compl.' Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 »(37 iv Tu iohayetv <wt\v '&iT6tha,To. MSS. Royal 
 Lib. Paris. III. IV. 
 
 XXXI. 
 
 t 25 ] 
 
 XXXL 34, 35. 'ETTOcciB-ig-tv uvTfls' ^ HTTit Vat. 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 tTTiKAd'Kriv eujTols' K^ dif^Xoi(pr[(riv Aa^civ tIjv 
 trvfiTTMretv <rxS7nji', ^(57 jf;^ tljii. Ka) H^i. MS. of 
 the Abbot Canonici. 
 
 Sedit fuper ea; et contredtavit Laban totum 
 tabernaculum, et non inyenit. Et dixit. Hebr. 
 
 XXXVII. 5, 6. 'AJ^A^oTf uvtS' y^ HTTtv. Vat. 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 ct,aiX(pols avTou' njj 'iirfoa'iB'tiKctv er; /ztiriiv uiiTov. 
 Ka/ wrec. MS, of the Abbot Canonici. 
 
 Fratribus fuis, et addiderunt amplius odifle 
 eum. Et dixit. Hebr. 
 
 XLI. 44. X«^«. ctiirS. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 X^^ei' *^^ »9 Tov "zroda ctirrS. MS. of the Ab- 
 bot Canonici. 
 
 Manum fuam et pedem fuum. Hebr. 
 
 The recurrence of avrou might give rife to 
 the omiflion. 
 
 XLI. 56, 57. AlyvTrliots' k, -zi-a^xi. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 cuyvTrTiois' xJi ivl^vinv XifiOi tv yji AJyuTTTOu* 
 xaj -zB-itra/. MS. of the Abbot Canonici. 
 
 ^gyptiis ; et invaluit fames in terra ^gypti : 
 et omnes. Hebr. 
 
 D 
 « 
 
 XLIII. 
 
[ 26 ] 
 
 XLIII. 23 > 24. XvfAiur K, rinyx.iv. Vat. and nearly 
 Compl. Alex, and MSS. Aid. my>Mv, 
 
 tiVfAim' K eiirriyeiytv otvtip raj civ^pas «V tov el- 
 Mv '\ua-i\ip' Kj n^iyKiv. MS. Venet. Lib. II. 
 
 Simeon, et venire fecit vir homines in do- 
 mum Jofepb. Et dedit. Hebr. 
 
 XLV- 3. 'ErdfAx^n^rav ya,f. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 iTAfAX^*\'^i*V yctf ATT 9 'STfOtTUTTOV etVTCV. MS. 
 
 Venet. Lib. II. 
 Quia erant turbati a facie ejus. Hebr. 
 
 XLV. 23. "Apra^ Tu ■srctTjil. Vat, Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 aPTHf 56 Too^iiv Tu •zs-cclp'i. MS. Venct. Lib. II. 
 
 Frumentum et panem et efcam patri. Hebr. 
 
 XLVII. 7. 'E«r.)y*ye ^i. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS; 
 X) iiTTi (Pctpcta TU 'laxni^, ayuyi avrovf 'zs'^os [if 
 iia-riyctyi Si. MS.' of the Abbot Canonici. 
 
 XL VIII. 14. 'EvA^va^Trtf %«/)*f. Vat. Aid. Alex. 
 
 and MSS. Compl. ewPAa^etf. 
 
 sf*»^a? rocs x^fO'i or* MfltVtffror^ (fic) jr/icJloVoxof . 
 
 MS. Venet. Lib. II. 
 
 Cal- 
 
 [ 37 . ] 
 
 Callide agens quoad manus fuas, licet Ma- 
 nafleh primogenitus. Hebr.' '' 
 
 XL VIII. 19. Ka) *•« ^6e\tiTiif. Vat. Compl. nearly 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 X, ii» ^6U,,criv Tol^f AvrS. MS. Venet. Lib. II. 
 Et renuit pater ejus. Hebr. 
 
 L. 5. Aiyuv, h TU. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and 
 MSS. ^ 
 
 Xiyuv, 'iSou iyu a,7roB-vr,<T)Cu. tv Si tu. MS. of 
 
 the Abbot Canonici. 
 
 Dicendo, Ecce ego morior, in &c. Hebr. 
 
 L. 18. Ka/ eAflflflef ttoos <*,vtw, wtolv. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. nearly Alex, and MSS. 
 
 K ihd'ovTii ZTfof uirriv oi ci>ot\^o) auToZ hrurov itt) 
 •sr^oa-a^ov ctiruy, h^j HTrav. ^ MS. of the Abbot 
 Canonici. 
 
 Et iverunt etiam fratres ejus, et ccciderunt 
 coram eo, ^t dixerunt. Hebr. 
 
 Exodus. 
 
 I. 5, 6. 'luTi\<p Si *iv iv. Alyv^u. ^H<rav Si 'zsrarctf 
 ^^Xixj e^^ 'la,Ku<^ "zs-im xe^ i^SofirtnoyTa,' in- 
 MvTiia-i Si. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, in fub- 
 ftance and order, and MSS, 
 
 " Haec verba, 'low^cp SI ijy kv AiyuVlw, a LXX 
 D 2 adduntur. 
 
 - -■='*»-"■- 
 
[ 28 ] 
 
 adduntur, et in omnibus exemplaribus repe- 
 riuntur, licet in Hcbraeo non exiftant." L. Bos, 
 
 The words are only, as it feems, out of 
 place in Edd. 
 
 Si. MS. Sangerm. II. 
 
 Et fuit omnis anima egredientium femore 
 Jahacob, feptuaginta animae -, at Jofeph erat 
 in iEgypto, Et mortuus eft. Hebr. 
 
 XII. 41. yilTU, TO, TlTfOiKoa-lCf, TpieixOVTCL ITYI 'l^*lA9'i. 
 
 Vat. and nearly Compl, Aid. Alex, and 
 MSS. 
 
 , . . ; T<tur*i g?^AS-£. MS. of Abbot Canonici, 
 with that void ipace, 
 
 A fine trigintaannorum et quadringentorum 
 annorum, et fuit in corpore did hujus egrefli 
 funt. Hebr, 
 
 Xlllf 21, 22. Ev «ruA« -aru/iof . OiiK i^ihiTriu &C. 
 Vat. nearly Compl. and MSS. 
 iv 5xiAw •arvfos' toZ (^cuvhv ^9 a,vTci{ ovk i^iMTnv 
 &c. Aid, 
 
 iv 9uA6? TTvpos' X ^^ (Ptximv avrots." Oi/K t^iXetTTiv 
 &;c. Alex. 
 
 iv roAfij 'zsrvfos' tov (pouvm ctvrois ohvHV yif*ipot>s ^ 
 vvKTO!. Qux &c. MSS, of Abbot Canonici, and 
 Sangerman. II, 
 
 In 
 
 "^^' '■ 
 
 ^^^^^T'^-'^^u' - 
 
 [ 29 ] 
 
 In column! ignis, ad illucendum els, eundo 
 die et nodte &c. Hebr, 
 
 XVI. 10. Ka/ n ^ola,. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. ^m 
 
 Xj tJou »j ^0^*. MS. of Abbc^^honici. 
 Et ecce gloria. Hebr. ■'^'z 
 
 XX. ig. A<*A»}(r«i' (ri r\[uv, y^^ fM\ A«A«r4). Vat. 
 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 XaXyjo-ov arv iijMV, >^ (AKHa-oi^iS-a,, k^ ft^ A«.AhV«. 
 MSS, Sangerman. II. and of Abbot Canonici. 
 
 Loquere tu nobifcum, et audiemus, et ne 
 loquatur. Hebr. 
 
 XXI. 18. 'EdV di Xeiaoouvlaf avo oLVOfH, ii Tmlei^axrt 
 
 TOV t!r?iti(riov. Vat. Aid. and MSS, 
 
 So nearly, but with -zb-*]*?)) tu tov •29-. Compl, 
 Alex, 
 
 idv 06 hompmTotj avo civaoif, i(ffj <z!'<iTa.h\ us rov 
 wM^tov. MS. Milan, 
 
 Si rixati fuerint viri, et percuflerit alter 
 proximum, Vulgat, 
 
 Et cum rixati fuerint viri, et percuflerit vir 
 focium fuum. Hebr, 
 
 XXV, 24. Ka/ t^oitj<rHf aCTrj, Vat, Alex, and 
 - MSS. 
 
I* 
 
 "I 
 
 1,1 V 
 w.. 
 
 
 
 l»: 
 
 [ 30 ] 
 
 enf ctvT^. MS. of Abbot Canonici, as in 
 Compl.'Ald. 
 
 Et tegcs cam auro mundo, et facies ei. Hebr. 
 
 XXIX. 42. TmtBriTOficti iroi iKfi^iv, u'ri AaA^craj (rot. 
 Vat. Alex, and MSS.— Compl. Aid. w«. 
 
 yv«o&»icroj»«} (r« im' UTi >MM<rai <roi ikh. MS. 
 Milan, the latter wa having been added by 
 another but very ancient hand. 
 
 Conveniam vobis illic ad loquendum ad te 
 ibi. Hebr. 
 
 XXXV. 7, &c. HuA* rttniTTT*, yJi A«S-iif ' Vat. 
 Aid. and MSS. 
 Ligna Sittim, et oleum luminari, et aromata 
 oleo undtionis, et fuffimento aromatum, et 
 lapides. Hebr. 
 
 5-.a.*u*rof, K^ A/^i(f. Compl.-and nearly the 
 fame words are here inferted under the afterilk 
 ii\ Alex. 
 
 This reading has not yet occurred in any 
 MS. and it differs in fome refpeds from the 
 verfions of Symmachus and Theodotion, as 
 they ftand in Montfaucon. 
 
 A»S-»f. MS. Ferrar. I. , 
 
 r — iir I' ~ ||,^j^,^„j,^ 
 
 t!\s avvh-ia-ius, K A/S-yj-. MSS. Univ, Coll. and 
 Bafil. "^ • 
 
 The claufe, Kj tXeuev hs tV <p5?» Hffi k^uficLTA, 
 w^hich is only in the firft of thcfe three MSS. 
 may have been omitted in ,^the two latter, in 
 confequence of the recurrericp of the words 
 y^ tAcuov. 
 
 Leviticus. 
 
 XIV. 52. 'Ef Tu cufutTt tS ofViB-'m. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 tv T« euf^ATt Tflu ofViB^iov Tcw 'i<r(pAyfitveu. MS. 
 Glafg. . , ^^ 
 
 XVI. 3. 'Ec f*OC^« ex |3o«V 'STifi AfJUl^TiAS, Kj itflOV. 
 
 , Vat. Aid. Alex, and MSS. but ^(57 x/«« 
 Compl. 
 
 'ivA fAO<^Oy (K ^OUf 'O'i^t AflApTiAft Hfff KflOV. I 
 
 MS. Glafg. ■ ; i 
 
 Vitulum pro . peccato, et arietem. Latin ; 
 
 Verf in Jerom. Sabatier. 
 
 Cum vitulo filio bovis pro peccato, et ariete. 
 
 Hebr. 
 
 XIX. 26., M^ i&iri iTn.TUV opiav. Vat. Compl. ,^ 
 
 Aid. Alex, nearly, and MSS. | 
 
 f4,ti iS-lin Wi T* aifiATcs. MS. S anger m. II. j, 
 
 Non comedetis fuper fanguine. Hebr. ) 
 
 Numbers. \ 
 
 \ 
 
f 
 
 ^ [ 3== 1 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 IV. 13. K-Oj Tov xa^vTrl^pa, iTn^a-H. Vat. Com pi » 
 Aid. Alex, in fubftance. and MSS. 
 
 K. iKir7ro^ioi<rii(rtv TO 3'va-ia,r*lfioy, ^ tov yuLT^vTrvr^fA 
 y&ifH. MS. Sangerm. II. 
 
 Et excinerabunt altare, et exponent fuper 
 iUud&c. Hebr. 
 
 VII. 3' To Jwgai' (ttlTuv ivecvTf Kvpla &c. Vat. and 
 MSS. Compl. Aid. Alex. Tec ^upa,, 
 
 TO, aufici avTuv ^-ffivAm rS B-vnA^tipla &c. MS. 
 Ferrar. I. 
 
 VIII. 19. iCctf ovic i<;-af IV Toii vfn 'irpctriX •zr^offiy'^ 
 y'i^iiiv Tsrpos t» ayict. Vat. Aid. and MSS . 
 
 Ka/ «» sra/ iv toI; v[o1s 'lTpci*i\ "zirAtiy*! oretv w^ofl*- 
 tyyil^atrt •stpos to. ayia,. Compl. 
 , Koj iiK i^eq iv Toii uols 'ifr^AJJA ^ •z3'A>iy>j ' 'srfoa-^^ 
 tyyiZpvTuv [MS. •artoo-eyy/^wK tuv'\ ^oiv 'l(rpcit]\ •ar^oy 
 T» ayia. Alex. 
 
 In MSS. Bodl. Laud. 146, 147, the afteriik 
 is like wife prefixed to the Arabick word cor- 
 refponding with -srP^riyti j and the Editor of 
 Alex, changed upon conjedure ts-poa-iyyi^uv tuv 
 into iirpoa-iyyi^onuv. 
 
 Kof iiK eVo/ iv Tols ijots 'Icr^at^A '!!Fpo<rtyylg!ov tuv 
 ^uv 'la-pct,ij\ isrpoi to, ctyM. MSS. Ferr. I. and 
 Glafg. 
 
 But in MS. Ferrar. I. ^avatos is interlined 
 above between 'Is-pairih and 'sirpo<nyylZ,uh but not 
 by the firft hand. 
 
 Et 
 
 [ 33 ] 
 
 Et non erit in filiis Ifrae| accedens fillorum 
 Ifracl ad fanfta. Latin Vrtf. in 'Auguftin. 
 Sabatier* 
 
 Kxj ovx, i^oj iv Tois viols 'la-pxiih B-potZiris iv t>i 
 S'ptiviret ■srpoa-tyyi^av tuv viu* 'l(rpar,X hs to, ayM, 
 MS. Sangerm. II. 
 
 Qu. Whether S-pava-ig iv rp S-pctva-si may not 
 have been the tranflation of a conjectural read- 
 ing of the Hebr. nsxi f]:\} at firft inferted in 
 the margin, and afterwards tranfcribed into 
 the text ? 
 
 Et non erit inter filios Ifrael plaga cum ac- 
 cedant [in accedendo] filii Ifrael ad fandua- 
 rium. Hebr. 
 
 It is left to the learned to determine, which 
 of the readings above given is moft likely to 
 be genuine. Let me add that in the margin of 
 Heb. Complut. tyjj accedens is found with a 
 reference to come in after n^n* t«><'71 " et non 
 erit." And in Cod. Kcnnicott 129. all the 
 words " plaga cum accedant filii Ifrael " are 
 omitted in the Hebrew. 
 
 XIV. 44. AMStci<rAf4,tvot. Vat. Compl. Alex, and 
 MSS. Aid. ^ia,Gti(roif4'ivoi. 
 oicd'oifodTAfiivot. MSS. Ferrar. I. 
 
 XXI. 22. E<i)f TS'cbpixB'uf^Liv TO, 'oput cn. Vat. and 
 in fubftance Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 iUf 
 
w 
 
 [ U ] 
 
 'iuf kv TS'cifiiXB'auzv to. 'ipia ira, Tpo^tjv aayvptco 
 iXiTaduirets f^ot, h^ ^idyof^ccj' ;>^ vdcop apyvpia jA-iTci,^ 
 ^ciireis fioi, Kj •sriofiOj' ^ fiovov rol? 'tsrotriv jita 'sj-a,pe~ 
 hivTOf^xi, ov T^oTTov 'sriTToitiKa.v y.01 01 u(o< 'VLtoZ ol 
 KctTOiKivn^ iv ToJoolXo,^ 56 ol MuctQira^ ol XMlotKSvTt; 
 ill Tji opm. MS. Sangerm. II. 
 
 Ufque dum tranfeamus terminum tuum. 
 Hebr. but without any thing further corref- 
 pondent to the Greek of the MS. 
 
 But the Samaritan copy, omitting entirely 
 Ufque dum tranfeamus terminum tuum, reads 
 conformably to the Hebr. Deut. ii. 28, 29, 
 
 Cibum argento vendes mihi, ut comedam; et 
 aquas argento dabis mihi, ut bibam , tantum- 
 modo tranfibo pedibus meis 5 quemadmodum 
 fecerunt mihi filii Efau habitantes in Seir, et 
 Moabitae habitantes in Ar. 
 
 XXII, 5. 'E^OjitewV fiou. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 'iX^pei(Ji'iVO( l^ov. MS. Glafg. 
 
 Contra me. Vulgat. 
 
 XXXIII. 7, 8. ncipmQa,Xov a,7rtva,v\i MrtVfLAs' k 
 
 awripuv dTTivctvTi EȤiwir, K^ dtt'orp-AV j^icrov t-/,? 
 
 S-axdosrif. Vat. nearly Compl. Aid. Alex. 
 
 and MSS. 
 
 'zira.jiiviSa.Xov cL'Trivavn Meoy^uXn' ^ oiiGtitrav &c. 
 
 MS. Univ. Coll. 
 
 'ifAfiviQaXov 
 
 -^jAl. 
 
 [ 35 ] 
 
 "ZirApiviQciXoy ATriva,ni Mct,y$uXoD' y^ k7n\fa,v ix. 
 l/lay^uha, ^ J<e£>)!ri*k &c. MS. Ferrar. I. 
 
 It feems then that an omiffion was made, 
 by the writer of MS. Univ. Coll. in confe- 
 quence of the recurrence of Mcty^uXa., and th^t 
 both the copies, from which thefe two MSS. 
 were taken, had the words Xj ATr^fiety kx May- 
 ^uKov. Still however that Greek does not ex- 
 prefs the original fully. 
 
 Caflrametati funt ante Migdol ; et profedti 
 funt a facie Hahiroth, et tranfiverunt per me- 
 dium maris. Hebr. 
 
 5ut immediately before xo) 'arot^6i/e5«tAoi/ 
 the Ferrara-MS. reads yj^ uTr^puv Aifh •ro- 
 fjt.a,T@^ iTTt 'EifuB-, but this violates the order 
 of the recital, and has not at that place any 
 correfpondent Hebrew". It may feem therefore 
 that in the margin of fome copy the words Kj 
 a,7ry,pci.v cLTTo <i'oy.a\(is <biipuB'' ftood marked for fu- 
 ture infertion, as having been omitted in that 
 copy, and that they were accordingly inferted 
 by the next copyift but in the wrong place, 
 and with the change' of <S>iipu^ into ett^/ 'Eipu^. 
 From a Scholion of Origen in Caten. Nicephor. 
 Tom. i. pag. 703. col. i. it appears that tojW'* 
 'E(/)it3- in the foregoing part of this very verfe 
 was the verfion of LXX. PofTibly then in the 
 fubfequent part of it their Greek might ori- 
 ginally be this J "TuyoupiviQtctXov 'ATTivavTi MocyouXovt 
 X- a,7[-y,pa,]i atto <TBfia]of 'EifcoQ- x. oiiZr\iTat.v &C. This 
 would agree with Hebr. and may perhaps be 
 traced in the Latin itfelf. 
 
 — — contra Magdalon, et profedi contra Os 
 E Z Erotb, 
 
[ 36 1 
 
 Eroth, tranfierunt per medium maris. Latin 
 Verfion. Sabatier. 
 
 Deuteronomy. 
 
 'Mfiuv. Vat. and nearly Coropl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. but Compl. Mca-i^d. 
 
 Beeroth filiorum Jahachan in Mofeiah : ibi 
 mortuus eft Aaron. Hebr. 
 
 But from Numbers XX..23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 
 28. it appears that Aaron died on Mount Kor, 
 whicii, as we find alfo Num. xxxiii. 30 — 
 38. was feveral encampments beyond Mofera. 
 The queftion then will be, whether the ac- 
 count given in this book of Deuteronomy, was 
 not originally confiftent with that in the book 
 of Numbers ? It was fo, according to the Cub- 
 fequent reprefentation ; 
 
 'EQpUVA' iKsiS-lV OUTrYfOLV y^ STXpiVl'^CLXoV iV TAO-iOiV 
 
 *i/nj KaJ*;?' KslxiiB-iv a,%v\pcLv xaj •zirctpmZa.hov iv tu 
 P/)«''X1/)' iKst a,7ri^ct,viv'Aa,jia^v. MS. Ferrar. I. 
 
 A Maferoth, et caftrametati funt apud filios 
 Jaakanj inde profedi lunt, et caftrametati funt 
 in Hagudgad ; inde profedti funt, et caftrame- 
 tati funt in Jotbathah, terra torrentium aqua- 
 rum; inde profedti funt, et caftrametati funt 
 in Ebronah ; inde profedti funt, et caftrametati 
 funt in Etzion-geber i inde profedti funt, ct 
 
 caftrame- 
 
 [ 37 ] 
 
 caftrametati funt in deferto Tzin, hac Cades ; 
 inde profedi funt, ct caftrametati funt in monte 
 Hor } et ibi mortuus eft Aharon. Samaritan. 
 
 In comparing the Greek of MS. Ferrar. 
 with this extra<ft from the Samaritan, it will 
 be obferved that the two encampments at 
 Gadgad and Jethabatha are not mentioned 
 in the Greek of the MS. The principal part 
 of the Greek, however, which is there want- 
 ing to complete the reprefentation of the Sa- 
 maritan fupplement, occurs in the very next 
 verfe of Ed. Vat. thus ; 
 
 €*6i*, (JlirxQct^ci Compl. Alex.) yri {yyiv Aid. y^v 
 i Compl.) %«jitappti< (;^«fwi.pps' Aid. Alex.) v^druv. 
 
 Inde profedti funt in Ghudghodah, et de 
 Ghudghodah in Jotbath terram torrentium a- 
 quarum. Hebr. 
 
 So far then the printed text of the Hebrew 
 and Septuagint- Verfion agree in attefting that 
 a part of what the Samaritan copy fupplies 
 aftually had a place here ; and as the Greek 
 in MS. Ferrar. I. only completes the reprefen- 
 tation of that Samaritan fupplement, it may 
 feem probable that the Hebrew Text and Sep- 
 tuagint-Greek did at this place formerly cor- 
 refpond with the whole of what now ftands 
 in the Samaritan and the MS. 
 
 $r(j*]e. Vat, nearly Compl, Aid. and MSS. 
 
[ 38 ] 
 
 iripois els ^» p*ij<*Tg. Alex. 
 
 MTpivTUf^tv mTois. MS. Ferrar. I. 
 
 Eamus poft deos alienos quos hon nofli, et 
 ferviamus eis. Hcbr. 
 
 XXIII. 1 6. Om av ct^ia-^ cLvru. Vat. and MSS. 
 r— Compl. Aid. iv 'sran) tottu ii &C. 
 
 'srvhay' tra ii apia-ztt avf^. Alex. 
 
 iv "sravTi tottu ov a,v 'iK\i'rr\Ton tv f^iA tuv (pvKuv 
 (f. OTyAav) (ra ii totv Afia-K^ a,vru. MS. Ferrar. I. 
 
 In loco quern elegerit, in_ una portarum tua- 
 rum, in bono ei [ubi placuerit ei]. Hebr. 
 
 In Caten. Niccphor. Tom. i. pag. 1564. 
 this addition ftands alfo in the Septuagint-text, 
 but with the difference oi tuv vrokiuv inftead of 
 TUV "zirvXuv, which laft is there attributed by 
 Procopius to other Interpreters ; and the He- 
 brew word here ufed is commonly rendered 
 by LXX, OToAif, whenever, '• thy gates," is to 
 be taken, as it is here, in the fenfe of " thy 
 cities." 
 
 " XXVI. 13. Xvpoi, K^ld, Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS.' 
 X^^oi, )i 'icpAyov iv Tciis TToAiTi ^^i, ^ i^7rKYi<B^i7a,v, 
 Kc^Toi. MS. Ferrar. I. 
 
 XXXII. 
 
 i 
 
 [ 39 ] 
 
 XXXII. 24. Aifia Kc4 (ipoicrH opvim Kct^ oTTiSoTevo^ 
 ^vldlos. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 A/^o) K, (ifua-ft opnav ^ ottiSxtovco aviATU. MS 
 Brit. Muf. 5535. ^ ' • ^ 
 
 Fame, efca avium, extenfione nervorum in- 
 fanabili. Latin Verf. from MS. of Monaft. St. 
 Michael, Lorrain. Sabatier. 
 
 XXXII. 36. 'ExAeAfl;5ror*f \v iTrctyay^. Vat 
 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 ifcKaoiTTOTcii (V a,7r»yuyl MS. Brit. Muf. 
 
 5535- 
 
 Defedlos in abdudtione. Latin Vcrf. from 
 the MS. above mentioned. Sabatier, 
 
 Jofhtia. 
 
 VIII. 4. TpiAKo^a. x'^t»^g. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. *^ 
 
 Triginta millia. Hebf. 
 
 This is here faid to be the number of men, 
 whom Jofhua placed in ambufh. But at v. 12. 
 they are again numbered thus j 
 
 Circiter quinque millia. Hebr. 
 
 One of thefe reprefentations then muflbc 
 
 wrong. 
 
 TpHs x'^ta^'^s. MS, Ferrar. I. at v. 3. 
 TlivTi xt^iA^cts. Same MS. at v. 12. 
 Poffibly fome MS. of early date had the 
 fame numeral letter E at both places ; of 
 
 which. 
 
t 40 ] 
 
 which, atv.3. only a part, r. remained d^- 
 Ternib e, and for that was written JP^; Iy°> 
 "/the two inconfiftent numbers m the He- 
 brew tha" at v. U. may feem the mod hkely 
 
 to be right. 
 
 X 32. 'ETToln^^v T^iv M^vL Vat. and MSS. 
 "eWe^xUeG.*. Compl. Aid. Alex. 
 
 .J?. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 vojitUi'. MS.Ferrar.I. 
 
 I Samuel. ^ , ., -^ ai 1 
 
 VI. 8. r^eu,, T^ %^um *^Xme. Vat. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS.— Compl. ^TToaon. 
 
 .,.ei5« %fucri ^ *'^«^«««- MS. Royal. Libr. 
 Paris IV. 
 
 Vafa aurea quae etc. Hebr. 
 
 The reccurrence of the ^^me letter three 
 times probably gave occafion to this om>ffion. 
 
 X. 27. TiV ^«a-« 0^*. «ro. 5-Vat. and MSS^ 
 
 rU .«.« ^,^*. -0. ; Compl, Alex and Ed 
 Bof.-Ald. has not the pomt of interro 
 gation. T(f 
 
 I Ay 1 
 
 t'h truxTH r^Mi' iixos^ MS. Royal Lih. Paris IV. 
 
 Quis falvabit nos ? Hie ? Latin Verf. in 
 Auguflin. Sabatier, 
 
 XIV. 41. Aof ^r\ ra hetu <ni 'l(rpitii\ ^of ^ oanoTtilct,. 
 Vat. Aid. an'd^MSS. Compl. omits it.— 
 Alex, omits the firft S'os ^. 
 
 IV ra Xcui) a-ov -\(rpa\x ij a^tx,la, jj'of «ji/. MS. 
 Royal Lib. Paris IV. 
 
 Haec iniquitas eft in populo tuo, da. Vulgat. 
 
 There is not here any correfpondent Hebrew. 
 
 XV. 17, IiKif'/rTfiou (puA^if 'icrgan^A J k eW«rg n 
 Kwpwf «V /3«Kr«A«flt. Jt) 'l(rfa,*iX. Vat. and 
 nearly Compl- Aid. Alex, and MSS, 
 
 'at a-KriTTT^ou Bmctf^h T?f gA<*jj<5-flrs^(*ff (pvXijs toZ 
 iTpetiih i K£H iXS'"'^ ""^ Kvpies «f ^ourtXia, iTrl •ztavtco 
 'Icrpcc^A. MS. Brit. Muf. I. D. II, 
 
 XVI. 5. Met' e^» <rtiiAi^cv. Vat. Aid. Alex, and 
 
 MSS. 
 
 f^iT kf^S iTYifiipov «V ry,v d'virlciv. Compl. 
 ♦ fiiT i^S «f T^v 3-viria.v. MS. Brit. Muf. I. D. II, 
 Mecum in vif^imam. Hebr. 
 
 XIX. 17. Ka) «7ri Z«i^A. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 >w 
 
[ 42 ] 
 
 )(^' A^y^ftXetv Tu XttHA, n^ etTit Sati^A. MS. 
 Brit. Muf. I. D. il; 
 
 XX. 12) 13. 'AyaS'ov n wtf)) Aa.vid', Kj ov jtt^ cctto- 
 f«A(U •ar^w Ti sis ayfotiy rdoi OTOiijtraf. Vat. 
 and nearly CoKipl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 aya,9''ov tjv (fic) intt^ Aavia',, n^ {t7ro5-«A« •ar/JoV 
 in «V TO "sri^iov, j^ ictv kakov ^, rciai Ts-otricruj, MS. 
 Brit. Muf. I. D. II. 
 
 XX, 15. Eij>i^riVXI TO OVOf^Oi tS 'ic^vd^AV oCtTO Tii d'iiCH 
 
 Actvia, K 'ixXyiTviiron TSjuowf ex.d'fiovi tov AavIS'. 
 Vat. Aid. and MSS. 
 iPcipB'tjvui TO ocflji** 'luvciB'av c(,7rh toZ o'tMv Aotf/i?, 
 Hsij in^yiT^ret Ku/uof &c. Alex. but Compl. £?Ag- 
 S")j5-£ra/ TU 'luvciB'etv — ix XH^m ^S'pw A. 
 
 «' t^apS'^iriTaf tu 'Iuva^av f^iTo. tov o'ikov L«oi/A, 
 uc^flTTJa-aj Kvpios m xetfbs- ex^puv Aavio. MS. Brit. 
 Muf. I. D. II. 
 
 Auferat Jonathan de domo fua, et requirat 
 Dominus de manu inimicorum David. Latin 
 Verfl in MS. Sangerm, Sabatier. Was it Saul 
 inftead of fua ? 
 
 Auferat Jonathan de domo fua, et re- 
 quirat Dominus de rrianu inimicorum David. 
 Vulgar. 
 
 2 Samuel. 
 
 XI. 12. K'i^urov iVTctZB-a, Kcciyi a-^/j,(pov, KSH «f/"«l' 
 
 e?*7ro5-eAw (Xi. Vat. and in fubflance Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 )^iB^l<roy 
 
 i 43 ] 
 
 ilxTTOTiKu «. MS. Venet. Lib. IV. 
 
 Compare the fubfequent part of the verfe : 
 
 T^ iTTdVpiOV. ' * 
 
 
 XIII. 8, 9. Ko^vpidit^' K gXaCe. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 xohXvoi^As lis TO TjfyrtMV x, «Aa€e. MS. Royal 
 Lib. Paris IV. ^ ^ 
 
 1 Kings. 
 
 XVI. 28. Vat. in Alex. XXII. 45. oO? g^oAg- 
 utia-iv. Vat. Aid. and MSS. — Alex, oir* 
 
 tTTOXif^t^lV. 
 
 'is-oXificvs evs t-TToXifjiyicnv. MS. Royal Lib. 
 Paris IV. 
 
 2 Kings. 
 
 V. II. 'K-TToirvvcihi TO Xnrqov. Vat. Aid. nearly 
 Alex, and MSS. — Compl. a,7ro<jvvai,^H uvro. 
 a-^oa-vvoi^et avTU (forte etvr'b) atto t^j (raoKK Ati*. 
 
 MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. 
 
 2 Chronicles. 
 
 XIII. 5. "E^iaxg ^aa-iXiot. tw) tov 'lc-poi.)\K cis tov 
 
 aiuvot. TU Accvi^ k^ toIs ^ois ctvrS ^lA^Kyi khos. 
 
 Vat, Alex, and MSS. Ed. Bof, points it 
 
 interrogatively, 
 
 F 2 eJftjxe 
 
i!! 
 
 [ 44 J 
 
 taciKi (iao'iXeuv ru Aa.v)a ew) 'la-pcttiX eis tov cdmct, 
 Xj roi? tfols ctirrS dg ^(aS-^Ktiv kXos. Compl. 
 
 \ \ 1^ 
 
 eis oittS'riH 
 
 Aid. 
 
 y. ras ifiis avtu ets aia.'jviX.Yiv cuuviov. 
 
 tdaiKt (2a,iri\ia tov Aetviq i7ri''la-pciyi?^ «V tov ectam, 
 X) Tiss ^ols ctvTou eis i'ia,B'ti>iriv''cu^vtov. MS. Venet. 
 Lib. IV. ^: I 
 
 — J;*6)]x»ji' iAof cuuvm. IN^S. Venet. Lib. IIL 
 
 XXIL 8, 9. ' ATTiKTetViV ccilT^S' K. eiTTtV TOV J^ilTtjITcq 
 
 TOV 'Oxo^Uv. Vat. Compl. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 but Aid. eCTTiKTHViV CtVTilf Hgj ChTTiKTSiViV 'l*)* 
 
 Tflv 'lufAfJi, J^ i^vyiv 'Oxo'Qot^' X} ^TTiv 'irik tS 
 l^rjTfia-aj tov "O^o^/av. 
 a-TTiXTetviv avT^s' K^ 'Ozo^m^ liof 'lupa.^ ^a/riMvs 
 'iSdcb xctTiS>i B-Mtret,t5uf tov lufiu/^ ijiv 'A;^*a^ (lie) 
 
 Of ICOleteA" K ATTiKTetViV 'l»JS: TOV 'lufUfi, X. i^vyiv 
 
 'Oxo^Mi- K, etTTiv 'l*iii tP ^tHwaj tov 'Oxodei'V. MSS. 
 Venet. Lib. Ill, IV. 
 
 Vat. 
 
 Pfalms. 
 
 XXXVIII. 9. On a-u (i laroi^rcCf pe. 
 and MSS. 
 
 'oTt (TV 'tTTolria-cis [/t*e]. Alex. 
 
 oTt (TV gxaVaf. MS. Meerman. So Compl. Aid. 
 
 Quia Tu fecifti. Hebr. 
 
 CXVn. 19. EWih^m. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 '<y« «VeA^w. MS. Brit. Muf. 5553. 
 
 CXVIII. 
 
 [ 45 ] 
 
 CXVIII. 32."Or*i/e7rA«Tt;i'rtf. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 OTt tTTXaTwaf. MS. Brit. Muf. 5653. 
 
 Cum dilataveris. :> Hebr. 
 
 ) 1 . 1 
 
 CXVIII. 136. 'EtpuAa?*. Vat. Compl. Aid. and 
 
 MSS. , -i;,: 
 
 «(puA*|etK. Alex, infcrted by the Editor. 
 i(p6ha^Av. MSS. Brit. Muf. 5534. 5737. 
 Cuftodierunt. Lat. Vcrf. Sabatier. 
 Cuftodierunt. Hebr. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 I. 14. Mxpa-lTrmov h yivYi^TU rifjCiv. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 fietqa-'mviov tV yivrfi^TU Trcivlm ijf^uv. MS. Bodl. 
 
 Laud C. 88. 
 Marfupium unum fit omnibus nobis. Hebr. 
 
 I. 15. M^ OTopiuS-Jif. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 ^i i/,ii, jtt^ TsropivB'ris. MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. 
 
 Fili mi, ne ambules. Hebr. 
 
 III. 6. Tag Ms <rov. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 TO,; o^i tm' Si iris a^ i fit] xo\|/>i. MS. Bpdl, 
 
 Laud C. 88. 
 
 X. 2. 
 
\ \ 
 
 [ 46 ] 
 
 X. 2. "PuVfclrt/. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. 
 
 XI. 6. 'kiruhHot,. Vat. and MSS. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex. aJ^ahicc. 
 a^il^m. MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. 
 In pravitate. Hebr. 
 
 XVII. 23. Actfj^^ctvonos ^upcc ck^lKUf iv KoKmn ou 
 
 Kcuoa-uvtis. Vat. nearly Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 cS'oii, iUKXivH yao o^ovs ^iKcuoTVVri^, MS. Bodl. 
 Laud C. 88. 
 
 Ifaiah. 
 
 V. 23. To ^Mcuov tS S'tKccia ui^ovlis. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 TO ^Ikcuov ri SiKcaa cuftovns kir alr^. 
 
 Juftitiam jufti aufertis ab eo. Vulgat. 
 
 Juflitiam juftorum amovebunt ab eo. Hebr. 
 
 VII. 6. 'la^cuav, ^ tjvyi^aXniravTis. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 ludcuotv, Kj KAKooa-eifjiiv (flc) a.uTi\v, h^ irv^AM' 
 crctms. MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. 
 Judaeam, et vexemus earn &c. Hebr. 
 
 IX. 
 
 [ 47 J 
 
 IX. 1 1. 'Hz^piif ^icLtnctSaxei. Vat. and MSS. 
 
 iX^^ovf ctiirS ^ida-Ki^oicrei, Qompl. Aid.— 'Alex. 
 ^ cu)tS " as from Aq. Symm. Theodot. 
 
 iz^pii^ 'l«i^* ^Kta-Ki^dret. MS. Florent. Lib. IX. 
 
 Inimicos ejus commifcebit. Hebr. 
 
 XIII. 13. OvpAvbf\S;vfi,uB'^(riTa{. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, arid MSS. ' ■ 
 
 ci/^um a-ccMvB'ria-lTaf. MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. 
 
 Ccelum movere faciam. Hebr. 
 
 XIV. 21. T^y yrtv 'sroXifiuv. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Tfiv 7^v 'sroMuy. MS. Venet. Lib. 1. 
 
 Terram ciyitatum. Latin Verf. in Jerom. 
 
 ^abatier. 
 
 Facies orbis urbibus. Hebr. 
 
 XXVI, 2 1 . K.dTctx.a.Xv^H Tovs avyiprjfiiyovs. Vat. 
 Aid. and MSS. 
 
 KeCTciKaAv\j/£i in tov$ kvy\pyipi,ivovs ^ en." Alex. 
 
 It is uncertain on what authority the Editor 
 inferted the firft en, but the laft is in Compl. 
 
 jcctTdKaXv-^H Tiif a,vv\pv\jj<,iviis itt airna en. MS. 
 Bodl. Laud C. 88. ' 
 
 Operiet ultra fuper intcrfedos fuos, Hebr. 
 
 XXXIIL 
 
iiHMti 
 
 [48 ] 
 
 XXXIII. 6. 'Em<re(piA. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 ■andMSS. 
 
 '^Kit <ro(pU. MS. Venet. Lib. I. 
 
 Venit fapientia. Latin Verf. in JeronK 
 
 Sahatier.^ \ ' ,: 
 
 XXXIV. 12. 01 fiiyi7a.ns. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 is-civTis ei i^iyKsra^ns. MS. Venet. Lib. I. 
 Omnes principes. Hebr. 
 
 XXXV. 7. 'EttouCmh nahAf^iv. Vat. Alex, and 
 MSS. — Compl. Aid. l-TrAvXis Troif^v'm XAActfta. 
 
 tTTAvhH a-Hfrivav ksH x<»A«|acn. MS. Florent. 
 
 Lib. IX. 
 
 XL. 22. 0« ImKovnis iv arjTA ^'i etK^'oa. Vat. 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 T»f KATOtKSvTdS iV Clvn US AKfioAS- MS. Bodl. 
 
 Laud C. 88. 
 
 Habitatores ejus quafi locuftas. Latin Verf. 
 in Jerom. Sabatier, 
 
 XL. 24. i7rnv7iv W eitrrols, ncii. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 ynvtiv CT ctvTovs uvifi(§^, x«f. MS. Bodl. 
 Laud C. 88. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 [ 49 ] 
 
 XLIX. 9. 'AvetxctAu^9-?ya/. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 . Alex, and MSS. 
 
 avAKa^v^S-nrt. MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. 
 Revelamini. Latin Verf. in Jerom. Sabatier. 
 Manifeftate vos. Hebr. 
 
 LIII. 8. 'El' T)| TATTHmg-H r[ Kfi<ris avroZ ^pB'tif Tti» 
 ytvMv AvrS. Vat. nearly Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 kv Tti TATretvuirei autov ij Kplris autou ripB'ti, riiv Jle 
 yiviccv AvTov. MS. Bodl. Seld. 9. has both va^ 
 riations. MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. has only 
 the laft. . '• '■■-'-''■' 
 
 nativitatem autem ejus. Latin Verf. 
 
 TertuU. Sabatier, .- ,- 
 
 Et generationem ejus. Hebr.* 
 
 LX. 8, 9. 'Ett ff4,i j 'ifxi c^ Vijiret vTrtfieivAV. Vat. 
 and MSS. 
 
 if*\ v*i<roi vTrifXHVAv. Compl. Aid. Alex, omitt- 
 ing the reft. 
 
 iTTijjti 'fri 'Liciv t|it£ y^ro* vTrtfiHyAv. MS, Bodl. 
 Laud C. 88. 
 
 LXVI. 18. Kdyu TA tftyA avtuv hsh '">' ^oyir/Jiov 
 AiiTuv 'ij)xo(*Ai (rvvAyAyeiy, Vat. Alex; and 
 MSS. 
 
 » \ N 
 
 ^ N V 
 
 KAya rov XoynrfAov autui/ >(g:j T* tpyA avtuv 8W<- 
 ^ai^Af K, AVTATTOOUrU AVTOif \^ 9V)IAyAy(iV tpx*!*'^' 
 
 MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. • ^ ^ 
 
 G ii*i 
 
[ so ] 
 
 Et ego opera eorum et cogitationes eorum 
 novi. Latin Verf. in Jerom. Sabatier. 
 
 Chald. Syr. Arab, alfo, countenance the fup- 
 plemental word imTafiaj, and Compl. Aid. 
 have it. The other variations of this MS. here 
 have not yet occurred in any other. 
 
 Jeremiah. 
 
 XXXVII. (XXX Hebr.) i6. K«/ sWro/ d Ji*- 
 
 (pofSvTis (Ti «V ^iet^ipti/^ei. Vat. and Compl. 
 
 nearly Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Several MSS. formerly read ^icc(poQ6vvns — 
 ^ta.p'o'oYifji.A. So Aid. 
 
 &c. as in Vat. MS. Florent. Lib. IX. 
 
 Omnes dcvorantes te devorabuntur, et uni- 
 verfi hoftes tui univerfi ipfi in captivitatem 
 ibiint. Hebr. — but " univerfi ipfi " was want- 
 ing in Cod. Kennicott. i68. and there is no- 
 thing correfpondent to it in the Vulgate. 
 
 XXXVIII. (XXXI Hebr.) ij. G^^Vs k, xActu^- 
 fiS, ^ oS'vpfjLS. Vat. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 S'privas, Kj xA*u$-jitW, H^ oSbfiics. Compl. and 
 MSS. 
 
 B-fiivos Kffj xArtuS-ftof )iff\ MVfiiQS "UoAvi. MS. 
 Bologn. 
 
 Matth. ix. 18. B-fHivcf yJi kKcivB^k ^ 'o^vpiA,:; 
 
 Luctus 
 
 [ SI ] 
 
 Ludtus fletus amaritudinum [fcil. amarifli- 
 fimus], Hebr. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 L 9. n^otruTTH Avtuv. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 'STfoa-uTTis eturS. MS. Venet. Lib. I. 
 Faciei ejus. Hebr. 
 
 I. 18. Kof t^ov ctuToi. Vat. Compl. nearly Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 H£^ <PaGifo) tia-av ){ffj «Jov eturois. MS. Venet. 
 
 Lib. I. 
 
 Et formido ipfis. Hebr. There appear to 
 have been two different Hebrew readings, 
 nN^Kl and riny\ The MS. has Greek, for 
 both. 
 
 I. 21. 'E^wtvTo avv eiuTe7f. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex*, and MSS. 
 
 i^gono K el Tfoxoi. MS. Mofcow. 31. 
 
 Elevabantur rotae. Latin Verf. in Ambrof. 
 Sabatier. 
 
 Elevabantur rotae pariter cum iis. Hebr. 
 
 So V, Syr. Chal. Ar. it may feem therefore 
 that ol Tpixot has been dropt in Edd. 
 
 I. 22. X^v^A?i^u £x]e|(*^ewv fTn run "sflifvyuv. Vat. 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 G 2 x^v<roi?i^ii 
 
[ 5^ ] 
 
 Xfiv?-ci>i<ii (po^ifiov, iKliTdiAiyoy vTrlf xetPrtAjJf. MS. 
 Venet. Lib. I. — MS.Mofcow 31. has not the 
 laft of thefe variations, but reads (po€e§y in the 
 part preceding. 
 
 Gelu terribilis, extenta fuper capita. Hcbr. 
 
 I. 23. '£xi»7£>> aw iTriKa.XvTrjovrai t* ffuiicna, 
 
 avruv. Vat, Compl. and MSS, 
 w*s-« aiio avvi^ivyfJLivcLi, KaXv^Tna-oj to, irufia,Tc<( 
 auTuv, Aid. Alex, but MS. Alex, tu truf^ATi. 
 
 Jufl iTnKtthvTniiTctf Tu, (TUfMTci ctvT^v, MS. Venct, 
 Lib. L 
 
 Unicuique duae tegentes fibi, et unicuique 
 duffi tegentes fibi corpora fua. Hebr. — et uni- 
 cuique duas tegentes fibi was indeed omitted in 
 eight MSS. of Kennicott, and in four, at firfl, 
 of De RofTi. 
 
 The recurrence of ^oi<ru> Joo may h^ve led 
 to the omiflion of the words which the MS. 
 fupplies, ' 
 
 I, 24. ''ySckTos Tsro^S, Vat. Compl. Alex, and 
 MSS. Aid. v^ctTcs IkavS, 
 
 v^aruv woTSt^uv. MS. Venet. Lib. L 
 
 Aquarum inuUarum. Lat. Verf, in Ambrof, 
 Saiafier, 
 Aquarum multarum, Hebr, 
 
 L26. 
 
 I 
 
 [ 53 ] 
 
 ^' ^^A/r'lc ''' '^^f**^^^ '^'^"*> «f V»-'f- Vat. and 
 
 According to this, fie voice above the firma- 
 ment is faid to refemble a wftbk appearance, 
 which can hardly be right. It fhould feem 
 then that fome part of the Septuagint-Verfion 
 is dropt in Vat. 
 
 _ Ottc^ xe(p*A?f^ ctuTWK £>. ju k<ivai uirra avUno 
 
 iiTTif x£(p*Anf alnm, us 'ipAo-ts. ■ Alex.' nearly as 
 Compl. Aid. ^ 
 
 iiTTip xecprtAsjf avruv u tu eV^co/ avra. ^^ avi^tta-' 
 S-of (forte awg^Sa/) 'zsTtpvyc^f avrav, )(gi) itt^vu toZ 
 9(^tui^a,T<^ &c. MSS. Venet. Lib. I. V, 
 
 The recurrence of {inip Ki<pa.Xni ctOrm might 
 ocdtfion the omifTion iii Vat. The learned 
 reader will confider that in the MSS. the pafTage 
 and preceding context feem connedled thus j 
 
 In flando [cum flarent] ilia, demittebant alas 
 fuas, et erat vox defuper firmamento quod 
 fuper caput eorum, in flando ilk et demittendo 
 [cum flarent et demitterent] alas Tuas. 
 
 All was J/ence^ as to them, when they flood 
 and dropt their wings ; and a voice from the 
 firmament overhead founded, while their - mo- 
 tion and their wings did not, 
 
 J. 26. 'Ai^i^j; avu^iv. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 av^puTra i^' airrS fjravuGty, MS. Venet. Lib. I. 
 
 Kominis fuper eum defuper. Hebr. 
 
 Hofea. 
 
I 
 
 [ 54 ] 
 
 Hofea, 
 
 II. 5. To i?^cucv ^». Vat. and MSS, 
 
 K, TO iXcu'ov 1^. Compl. Alex, — cms fts k^ 
 TO t^cuov jtta. Aid. 
 
 Tw olm fiov Hs^i TO i^cuiy f^ii, MSS, Mofcow. 
 219.341. 
 
 VIII. 3. 'Ez^(ov KATiMulc^v. Vat. Compl. AW. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 'fZ^fis KATi^iooliv MTov. MS. Vcnct. Lib, I, 
 Inimicus perfequetur eum. Hebr. 
 
 VIII. 4. 'E<*oTo7f 'iQcta-ihivcrciv. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS, 
 AUTO* gC*o-iAevf*i'- MS. Venet, Lib, I. 
 Ipfi regnare fecerunt. Hebr. 
 
 XUI. 14. AUn o-s ^»WTe} Vat. Compl. Aid, 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 vUti V» S-*vATe ; MS . Mofcow. 219, 
 
 II. 29. 'EKz^^ kT^o tS 7ryeu>loV ^J^- Vat. Compl. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 iKXiu k-m ToD 'umy<AToi fiov m OT|fl^Tetir«u<r;, 
 MSS. Mofcow 31. 219- 341' So Aid. 
 
 Aft. Apoft. ii. J 8, \m^ *7ro t5 w«u^*I»f pi^, 
 jc •arpo(p>jT£vff'»(r<. 
 
 ^ II. 
 
 [ 55 ] 
 
 II. 30. 'Ev eu^ya 1(5^ stt) t^j yns. Vat. nearly 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 tv TU tifdvu Avu iigji tjri Tq? . y^f katu, MSS. 
 Bodl. Seld. 9. and Mofcow 31. 
 Compare again Adt. Apoft. II. 19. 
 
 III. 6. 'Ooiuv etirruv. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 ofiluy Tris xA«;|)oi'ojU'iW duTuv. MS. Venet. Lib. I. 
 De termino eorum. Hebr. 
 
 Amos, 
 
 II. 1 6. Ko/ Kfoicuos i fiYj liipyiffd T*iV Kctfoictv clvtS 
 
 h k)ia';MUi. Vat. Alex, and MSS. — MS. 
 Alex, ii tv^rei &c. 
 X. ivf^Tn Triv &c. Compl. 
 K. fcYi ivoiB'ti ri KctpS'la, &c. Cyril]. 
 X. ivfiB'tj >j KcLg^ieo oLx/rm h avva^cus, MS. Va- 
 tic. 452. 
 
 Et inventum cor ejus inter potentes. Latin 
 Verf. in Jerom. Sabatier. 
 
 Et robuftus corde fuo inter potentes. Hebr. 
 
 The LXX it fcems read N^D in their copies 
 by tranfpofition for VOK. 
 
 V. 12. 'AAArty,tt<*T*. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSiJ. 
 u.nci?iS.ccyfi,ct. MS. Venet. Lib. I. 
 
 Piamcntum [fc. redemptionem fceleris ]. 
 Hebr. 
 
 Obadiah. 
 
 •'Tif^i ... 
 
[ 56 ] 
 
 Alex, and MSS* 
 «^wxe« «u oi cruveaa/omf <r«< i^mv. MS. Ve- 
 
 net. Lib. I. . , tt u 
 
 Viri pacis tuae, panis tui &c. Hebr. 
 
 VII. 5- 'El* ^'^"'f — '*'^'' ^y'^1^^'""^* ^^'■' Compl. 
 ' Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 b (pi'Aoif -sTfumi — CT* f/ya^ewf. MS. Venet- 
 Lib. I. 
 
 VII. 20. A^«-« «V iA^'S-f*" T? '1*"^^, eAeoi' rw 
 'Aeg»*|it. Vat. Aid. and nearly Alex, and 
 MSS. — Compl. omits «V. 
 
 MS.Venet. Lib. L 
 
 Dabis veritatem Jacobo, mifericordiam A- 
 brahamo. Hebr. 
 
 Nahum. , ... ., 
 
 I. I c. n<^rY^ht(o,iiy^. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex. 
 
 and MSS. 
 
 ^la,yylKXj>fliv^ Anofiv. MS. Venet. Lib. L 
 
 Zechariah. . ~ ir » „„^ 
 
 I. 6. Ot) x*lgA*€o3-^v Tw ^*lep«f '^f*'^'- .vat. ana 
 
 nearly Alex, and MSS. 6\ k. &c. Compl. Aid. 
 
 00 xaTeArtCflv roof OT*Teg*ff u^twv 5 MS. Venet. 
 Lib. I. fo pointed. 
 
 Nonne attigerunt patres veftros ? Hebr. 
 
 ^ V lit 
 
 
 [ S7 ] 
 
 VIL 10. ''EKet<rof tS aSix^S avtS. Vat. Compl, 
 Alex, and MSS. Aid. omits it. 
 
 iKA^I^ KATCi TOW <»AA(pOU CCVTOV, MS. VCHCt. 
 
 Lib. I. 
 
 XI. 13. KrtS-* (TwiTct^i 14.01 Kvpios ftands at the 
 end of the verfe. MS. Mofcow 31. 
 
 Quemadmodum praeceperat mihi Dominus* 
 Arab. Verf. 
 
 Matth. xxvi. 10. Ka^a, trvviTd^ifMi Kvfit^. 
 
 Malachi. 
 
 L 7. Ka} TO, iTnTtQ-i/iivcc i^isSivuTctn' SiaTi, Vat. 
 Compl. and MSS. — So alfo Aid. but with 
 
 ^iOTi. Alex. 
 
 Kv^iOf "SFxvTOKfciTu^' S'lOTt. MS. Vcnct. Lib. I. 
 
 Et qua fuper pofita funt defpexiftis. Quia. 
 Latin Verf. in Jcrom. Sabatier. 
 
 In the beginning of this Section fome men- 
 tion was made of the reafons there may be to 
 
 H apprehend 
 
[ 58 ] 
 
 apprehend that when MSS. Citations and Ver- ^ 
 fions fill up deficiencies in the prefent Septua- 
 gint-text, they do in many more inftances 
 than we know only replace in it what had 
 been originally its own. 
 
 By way of conclufion it may be here further 
 obferved, that this may be fuppofed for fuch 
 reafons as thefe among others j — 
 
 I. Becaufe fuch additions are frequently 
 countenanced, either by thp evidence of feveral 
 concurring MSS. or by the early Latin, or by 
 early Citation, even when what is added agrees 
 with the Hebrew either of Editions or MSS. 
 and yet is not known to have been adopted 
 from other Verlions. 
 
 II. Becaufe known Hexaplar additions were 
 fometimes the very Greek of the Seventy, 
 taken from one place and transferred to an- 
 other, and on account of tranfpolition fo made 
 were diftinguiflied with the afterifk, in the fame 
 manner as claufes adopted from other inter- 
 preters. 
 
 III. Becaufe Theodotion, from whofe Ver- 
 iion chiefly the defeds of the Septuagint-tcxt 
 were fupplled, feems to have gone upon a 
 principle of adopting and appropriating the 
 Greek of the Seventy, when the views he had 
 of the Hebrew would permit him to do it. 
 
 Of the firft of thefe three cafes fome ex- 
 amples have already occurred in this Sedlion-— 
 
 to 
 
 t 59 ] 
 
 to each of the two laft one appofite inftance 
 fhall be fubjoined. 
 
 I. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 XVI. 4, 5. as in Alex. Kaxjjv — Mavthov, 
 
 >^Kjisiosav cXiyti A^«j- (fie, leg. A^\^(f) fiiTU 
 OMcuoawtii, Jj ■ssroMat y£v>)ftoi,T* (fie) ^er* idix/as" 
 
 fiaS"^ T* ^KtQrifMTa. avtS. MS, Venet. Lib. I. 
 ; .' This Oreek, which occupies four lines m 
 the MS. with the afterifk prefixed to each of 
 thepi, {lands in the text of the MS. imme- 
 diately between the words xaKtiv and jjulvthov. 
 The fame Greek is in Vat. part at Ch. xv. 29. 
 and part at Ch, xvi. i. — it is alfo in Alex, after ' 
 Ch. XV. 29, arid without an afteriflc ; it has in 
 part its'correfpondent Latin in the Verf/in Je- 
 rom from the^Greek. Sabaiier, But the '.He- 
 brew anfwering to it ftands immediately' after 
 V. 7. of this chapter. Thither probably Origen 
 tranfpofed it, and prefixed the afteriflc, to in- ■ 
 dicate that he had placed it there to anfwer the 
 Hebrew, but had taken it from elfewhere. The 
 Greek which he had thus tranfiaofed feems to 
 have been placed together with his afterilk in 
 the margin of fome copy of the Kso^, to fup- 
 ply the deficiency it had'at v. 7. of this chap- 
 ter; and fome fubfequent copyift inferted it 
 wrongly as in MS. Venet. Lib. I. Hence it 
 came to ftand under the afteriflc, though the 
 
 H 2 reafons 
 
[ 6o ] 
 
 rcafons affigned above make it probable that 
 it was in fait the Greek of the Kom^, 
 
 II. 
 
 Jeremiah. 
 
 XI. 6. OTflojerotTe aiiris. 
 
 7. is wanting. 
 
 8. xa] ^x iTToitja-av. Vat. 
 
 Et facite ilia. Et non fecerunt. Latin Verf. 
 in Jerom from the Greek. Sabatier. 
 
 The cafe then feems to be that between the 
 concluding words of v. 6. and the three con- 
 cluding words of V. 8. all the intermediate 
 words were wanting in the Greek when Je- 
 rom's Latin was adjufted to it. 
 
 tK -y^s AlyvTTTOv, itj icd; rij? )i|M.£p<*f rct,vTr\i, o^S-g<'^«i' 
 % imi^cbfiTVPOfAim, K, hiyur AKis<ra,Ti r^f <puvrfi fAH' 
 
 3C, ^K rKHTO'V, X, i.^iKAlva,V tI iSg aVTUV, Kj 'fTTOOlV^a-AV 
 a,V>J9 iV T»| iv!jVTflTl Ti\i tCoifOMi OUMTOV Tyjf 'ZS-OVt^pdi Kj 
 
 in-riyciyov W auras •arcti'Ti*? TSf hoyov; rrn &ia,jr\x,'/is 
 TctvTYji, >/$■ iv^HKa,iA>Y\v 'zs-oiria-ctj avTiii, K. UK iTTOivjirciv. 
 Alex, and fo Conipl. nearly, the Supplemental 
 Greek having been adopted from the verfion 
 of Theodotion. Perhaps however this was the 
 omiffion of tranfcribers, and not of the LXX, 
 Probably the words immediately preceding the 
 part omitted, and thofe at the end of it, flood 
 nearly thus in fome early MS. 
 
 I 
 
 [ 61 ] 
 
 6. nOIHCATEAYTOYS - - 
 
 7 
 
 8. nOIHCAIATTOrS fisij 
 
 ovK iwolyitrcLv , 
 
 The recurrence of words fo fimilar in ap- 
 pearance, as thofe in capitals are, (if they were 
 not abfolutely the fame in both places, which 
 they might be,) probably gave occafion to the 
 omiffion of the whole in v. 7. and of the whole 
 alfo in V. 8. except the three laft vvords. The 
 probability of this appears from the Latin 
 Verfion ', — 
 
 Jerom. 6. et facite ilia. 
 
 7. is wanting. 
 
 TertuU. 8. et non audierunt et 
 
 non adverterunt aurem fuam : fed abierunt in 
 iis, quae concupierunt corde fuo malo 
 
 et non fecerunt. 
 
 Jerom. 
 
 Jerom connects et facite ilia at the end of 
 v. 6. with et non fecerunt at the end of v. 8. 
 as if nothing had intervened 5 but the extradl 
 from the Latin Verfion in Tertullian fhews 
 that fome intermediate Greek did formerly 
 exift in the K.otv>], clofely of the fame tenour 
 with that which was afterwards adopted from 
 Theodotion. 
 
 SECTION 
 

 :fl'i 
 
 m 
 
 fii'" 
 
 [ 62 ] 
 
 SECTION III. 
 
 MANY circurnftances render it a mod 
 interefting queftioir in the critical ftudy 
 of the Scripture, how the Sacred Text flood 
 in the fecond century. 
 
 With refped: to this point a fatisfadory. 
 judgement might have been formed, . if the 
 Verfions of Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, ' 
 and of others in the fubfequent century, who 
 tranflated, as they did, from the Hebrew, had 
 defcended entire to thefe times. That however 
 is not the cafe; but even the fragments of them, 
 that are extant, have cccafionally afforded helps 
 of great importance in Sacred Criticifm j and 
 upon comparing them with the Original Text 
 , and Septuagint-Greck, a more precife and juft 
 infight into the ftate of both the latter at that 
 time has been obtained, than could have been 
 had without afliftance from them. 
 
 To the remains of thofe interpreters additions 
 not inconfiderable may yet be made -, and as far 
 as addition to them can be made, fo far one fer- 
 vice to Sacred Learning is flill left to be done; 
 and to do it falls within the compafs of this 
 undertaking. What probability there may be 
 that this part of the prefent objed will be at- 
 tended with fuccefs, the reader will judge 
 from the fubftance of the enfuing Se6kion. It 
 will contain chiefly Hexaplar readings, either 
 
 from 
 
 f 63 ] 
 
 from MSS. or other quarters whence I am to 
 colled them, and either not occurring at all or 
 only in a mutilated ftate in the colledions made 
 by Drufius and Montfaucon. 
 
 Genefis. 
 
 IV. 24. 'On iTTTAKK iK^'i^iKriTaf iK Ka»V, iK <Je 
 A(if4,iX i'^^OlA.r^MVTAKtS iTTTci. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. oTi hnATrXAa-ius iK^mtiB-tiTiTcij KaVe, 
 « AeifAix il^Sof^yiMtrrdKis iTiTci. 
 
 Symmachus. on iQoft^ouoi iK^Untriv ^uth. MS. 
 Mofcow. 31. 
 
 XV. I. 'Eya vTTijicia-Trl^a (ra. Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. vTrif^d^xfifAOj m,^oi7rif eTrAov. Ca- 
 ten. Nicephor. Tom. i. p. 201. 
 
 XIX. 2 1 . 'Ida i^Av^cLora, tra to 'sreotruTrov. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. iSii i^a, wforuTrov a-a. Caten. Niceph. 
 Tom. i. p. 250. 
 
 XXXIII. 13. Ao^ivonaf. Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. kvovtiv. MS. Vat. 747 in the 
 margin. 
 
 XXXIV. 3. KjAto, Tiiv ^icimeiv. Vat. ^ 
 
 Aquila. et) Kctp^'icty. 
 Symmachus. KecTctB-vfuu. MS. Mofcow. 31. 
 
 Exodus. 
 

 ':',iT; 
 
 'p. 
 
 [ 64 ] 
 
 Exodus. , 
 
 III. 22. 2xuAeuir:t«. Vat. — Aid. a-v(ncivct,(ra.Ti. 
 
 Aquila. vvhi^rATi. Procop. in Catcn. Niceph. 
 Tom.i. p. 590. 
 
 Symmachus. cwKidfATi. 
 
 <r)cvXiu(rcii ra? AiyvA'ms' iiru ya,p Eu/A/t*%9j to 
 ffKivAo-aSaj ^piJiiviua-iv. Theodoret. Quasft. in 
 Exod. p. 138. Tom. i. Ed. Hal. 
 
 Syrus. iKTivaPciTi, KtvuTaTi. Procop. in Caten. 
 Niceph. 
 
 XXIII. 21. Oo ya.p fMi o7ro5-«A»iTaf o-e. Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. ix, a>^ri<rei •zctfUTflufia, vf^uv. Pro- 
 cop. Caten. Niceph. Tom. i. p. 818. 
 
 Numbers. , ~ v 
 
 XVI. 15. OvK i'7ri^v^y\iJi>A oMivQS ccvtuv et\*i(pci. 
 
 Vat. 
 
 (p^j-) — ovx, mv ms ccvtuv eA*€oi'. Procop. m 
 Caten. Nicephor. Tom.i. p. 1272. 
 
 XXI. 18. 'Ev Tu KVfiiZa-cii civTuy. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. h t^ &AMY\fU — 
 
 Theodotion. b r^f p*€Jbif alrm. Procop. in 
 Caten. Nicephor. Tom. i. p- 1314- 
 
 XXIII. 10, To o-7r£><* jltOU «f W CTTi^l^Ct, rOVTUV. 
 
 Vat. 
 
 £ 
 
 [ 6s ] 
 
 "A^flf T* eo^^4T* ^» opkt *wr«y. Caten. Ni- 
 cephor. Tom.i. p. 1332. 
 
 Sit noviflimum meum ficut ipfius. Hebr. 
 
 XXIII. 2.1. To. ivSoht a^xflnuv. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. «,A*A«.y^of ^Ao-ihius. 
 
 Symmachus. ayifuurla, — 
 
 Theodotion. <ra,\7riTfA0f — Procop. in Caten. 
 Nicephor. Tom.i. p- 1335. 
 
 Clangor regis. Hebr. 
 
 Deuteronomy. 
 
 XII. II. T* SifiATci.. Alex, but under the 
 obelus. It is wanting in Vat. 
 
 OJ AoiTTor TO, htiiTut. Theodoret. in Cat. Ni- 
 ceph. Tom.i. pag. 1482. 
 
 XXXIII. 8. AfjAW autS, X. othriSetccv etvrS tu AV^fi 
 
 avTov 'i(p' vS^ATis AniXoyMi. Alex. 
 
 Symmachus. TihetoTris a-n ^ StS'^xn fn tu a.v^(i 
 TU iiriu, 01/ iTreipAO'Af h ookii^atm' iooKificKrAs ai/Tov 
 tTri rvj vSctTos Ttjs ctvnheyictS' Procop. in Caten. 
 Nicephor. Tom. i. p. 1660. 
 
 Perfe(fb'oncs tax et illuminatfones tu2 viro 
 tuo pio, quern tentafti tentatione, quocum 
 contendifti ad aquas jurgii. Hebr. 
 
 Jofhua. 
 
f 
 
 lj 
 
 [ 66 ] 
 
 Joftiua. 
 
 VII. 17, 18. K«) "Zirfca-rixd-tl KATA S'niias ^ 'itfJ*/' 
 ^ m^eixB'n ^Yjfits Z*g»«" Kj -STfOTfix^ri ^tjfios 
 
 i Z*/«« )CAT OLVafOii '-^ Kj AVIOH-X^ Z*€i:Ji* ^ 
 
 ■ziT^so'TC'^') olxos avtS kat ciyafAy" » 'unS'etxB'ti 
 '^AxAv ifos Z(»jit€/)< i^if Z*§» jji^ <i.7ro (puA^f 'liSct,!' 
 Alex. — Compl. Aid. have it not fo fully ; 
 but Vat. lefs fully than either. 
 iiffj "zxr^oa-viB-tia-Av ( fie, 'srpoa-tJx^lo'AV MS. Univ. 
 Coll.) X(*T* ^^^as 'lidA, Kj avi§'H'x^v\ ^tjfios Xa^a' 
 ii "z^-forAyAyov tov orifAOV ZApA kcit o'ixa?, j6 ii/eJaj^fij; 
 CMOS 7.ccf4,Qf'r Kc/ij STpotrtiyAyov toc oUov Xaf^Qei kat 
 av^pA, Xj AHoetx^yi " ^XAp t)W Xa/iyU./, i)» Zctf^'ofi, ^S 
 ZAfA Tjjf (puA^f 'ijJJk. MS, Ferrar. I. 
 
 Et applicuit familiam Jehudae, et depre- 
 hendit familiam Zarchi ; et applicuit familiam 
 Zatchi viritim, et deprehenfus eft Zabdi j et 
 applicuit domuni ejus viritim, et deprehenfus 
 eft Hachan filius Charmi, filii Zabdi, filii Ze- 
 rach tribus Jehudah. Hebr. 
 
 Et oblati funt per plebes, et oftenfa eft piebs 
 Zara. Et obtulit plebem Zarae per domus, et 
 oftenfa eft domus Jambri. Et oblata eft do- 
 mus per viros, et oftenfus eft Achan, filius 
 Charmi, filius jambri. Latin Verf. in Lucif. 
 Calarit. Sab a tier. 
 
 This example ought rather to have been 
 placed in the preceding Sedtion. The Hexaplar 
 fupplement, however, (if it really be fuch, 
 which may be doubted) is fuller in the MS. 
 thap in Alex. , 
 
 2 Kings. 
 
 [ 67 ] 
 2 Kings. 
 
 X. 21. ILcLj Am<ret\iv 'Iriis iv •stavt) 'la-pAfjX, j^ ^Afloc 
 •srAvns ol mZxoi too BistA. Alex, nearly as 
 Compl. Aid. and MSS. 
 
 Mifitque Jehu in omnem Ifrael, et venerunt 
 omnes fervi Baal. Hebr. 
 
 But between the words 'U^a^X and h^ ^X^ov 
 there are in Vat. nearly four lines inferted, 
 which are fo like what preceded in v. 1 9. that 
 they feem to be another interpretation. The 
 whole of this latter infertion in Yat. is alfo in 
 MS. Royal Lib. Paris IV. but before the whole 
 of it the afterifk ftands in the body of the 
 text. 
 
 JCV. 16. 'E^*r*?eK AvTriv. Vat. Compl. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 VTATa^iv AvriiV "^ yJi •zstavtas raf tv avt'y\. MS. 
 Royal Lib. Paris IV — The addition is in Aid. 
 
 Seven MSS. Kennicott. had Hebrew for ^, 
 and MS. Kennicott 70. had it for ts-ocvtas toI? 
 
 tv AVTA, 
 
 Job. 
 
 XXXIIL 2. 'h yAaoT* iiiM, Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 3j yXuasA fia iv Xipvyyi f^n. MS. Venet. Lib. I. 
 
 Lingua mea -^ in gutture meo." Latin. Verf. 
 pf Jerotn firom the Greek. 
 
 Lingua mea in palato meo. Hebr. 
 
 I2 
 
 XXXIIL 
 
I 
 
 I 
 
 1' 
 
 [ 68 ] 
 
 XXXIII. 23. @iivciTti(pqpoi, «f. Vat.CompI. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 B-a.vccT*i^i^o( iix. iTroKplvovTOj (fie) ctvTu' «f. MS. 
 Venet. Lib. I. 
 
 Mortiferi ^ non refpondebit ei" Unus. Lat. 
 Verf. of Jerom from the Greek. 
 
 XXXIV, 19. Qa,v[4,ctS^'yivaj 'zs-ooa-uTra, avTUV. Vat. 
 
 '^ Tov S'avficiS'vivai r* Ts-potruwa, uvtuv. MS. 
 Venet. Lib. I. in the text. 
 
 Pfalms. 
 
 XVI. 9. Oj e%6^o» f4,iS Tr,v ^f'tl;^^^V fHi Trifiiiirxov. Vat. 
 Symmachus. Oi kyc^pol f^ov ■zsri^) ivxyjs mCk- 
 7\U7(iv fjoi. Caten. Corderii Patr. Grac. in Pf. 
 Tom. I. pag. 289. 
 
 XL VII. 2. "Og!j S<«yv, T«. TrXivfoi, ri Boffo,, *i '^oht? 
 tS tidiTiMus tS jiteyaAs. Vat, 
 
 Symmachus. "OP*; Ziwr Mri^oi toZ Bofjia.- f^t-n- 
 T/iOTroAif Tov |3«t(r<Ae&)f Tew ^iya,Kov. MS. Bodl. 
 N E. B. 2. ( 1 20) in marg. 
 
 The capital letters were fupplied by conjec- 
 ture, the MS. being in thofe places defaced. 
 
 LIV, 5. ZKor©-. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. Mvrjins. Athanaf. in Corder. Cat. 
 Patr, Gr£B. Tom, ii, pag. s^. 
 
 Aquila. AT^ivSncn- Montfauc. from Eufeb. 
 
 LX. 
 
 [ 69 ] 
 
 LX. 5. UapoiKtiTu IV Tu (rKf}yufM\i a-a «V ts? cuupccf, 
 (DiiTrcKBijfrtficn tv a-xiTr^ rm is\igvym an. Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. -srctpot^ttia-a iv tj o-khv!^ tm ^t' cuuvof, 
 tiAxfo-via-u tv T»i o-«gV>i Tuv "zflipvyav <ni. Heracleot. 
 in Corder. Cat. Patr, Grajc, Tom. ii. p.'igj. 
 
 — confidam in latibulo alarum tuarum. Hebr. 
 
 LXXI. 7. 'E4)f a avTAVMfiB^ *i a-eXrivti, Vat. 
 
 a-viifiaxa- 'ius vaXcuaSna-ilai creA^'w). MS. Bodl. 
 NE. B. 2. (120) in marg. 
 
 The verfion of Symmachus here is other- 
 wife reprefented by Montfauc. from Eufeb. 
 
 LXXVII. 26, AiQcc. Vat, 
 
 Akv avtix,ov XiZct, XiTnoTo, — . MS. Bodl, 
 
 NE. B. 2. (120) in marg. 
 
 XC. 12. Etti ^stpuv apoviri a-ty ftri^oTi ■zs-poa-Ki'^iS 
 ifffas XiBov TOV -jsroJ* o-». Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. tTr) xapuv |3*5-«t(roo!r«' fi, "ivcL fjiAf 
 ■zFpoa-TTccitrti iv XiB^u, Tsro^'i <rov. Eufeb. Comment, 
 ad h. 1. pag. ^<)j. Ed, Montf. 
 
 XCV- 4. 'Ett) •zra.vTo.i tovs Qzovf. Vat. Alex. — 
 imif Compl. Aid. 
 
 'iWoc 'oV< % ol O^ Kj ol r K^ ii 'E Kj n <T txJiKrii, 'iTr' 
 rsrtivTUs T^f B-iiif, t^H- CVS iTrufiivoi (fie) k, Oio^- 
 
 ^(jlflf Stus ifffiijviva-iv. MS. Bodl. N E. B. 2. ( 1 20) 
 in marg, 
 
 •-! XCVIII. 
 
"^~- r'liT-"-^ *■ 
 
 
 I'll 
 
 i,«'j 
 vf 
 
 i-j- 
 
 I' 
 
 C 70 ] 
 
 XCVIII. 8. Ka) iK^iKuv tTr) -i' 'sroina, " to. tTriTti- 
 ^ivfAonrcb a,vTuy. . Alex. 
 
 aVftflAX' ^ iJiOlKUV iTTt fCtIi iTTtljUCUS (fic) dVTUV. 
 
 MS. Bodl. NE. B. 2. (120) in marg. 
 Montfauc. from Schol. Vat. Kj h^iKos &c. 
 
 CXVIII. 49. Mv^crftjT; TWi' Aoy&iv trou tu cwuAw 
 (TOO, ajf 'i7ryi\7rKrus ^e. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. jM,v)jo9-fl< fyi[td]os Tuv.^hm a-a hri a -zregi- 
 ffAetvas fii, 
 
 Symmachus. fivtiftiviVTOV hiym If^uv tS atsha era 
 
 Theodotion. As LXX. 
 Heracleota Caten. Patrum Graec. in Pfalm. 
 I'om. iii, pag. 416. 
 
 CXIX. 136. Att^J>iS — >CCl,Ti<^r]TClV E5T« iK l(p(l- 
 
 A«.?*, Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. ^icu^ia-ets — tubrQwciv — "zs-i^t tuv 
 ^)i (^vXcLKiinuv, Origen. 0pp. Tom. ii. p. 813. 
 Ed. Paris. 
 
 Divifiones— defcenderunt — propterea quod 
 non cuftodierunt. Hebr. 
 
 CXIX. 143. 'EfToAo/ o-a |t*eAgT») /ia». Vat. 
 Aquila. ay" eireAa} (tb amXAv&ls f^- 
 Symmachus. «) ti broA«J <ra eTspTrfli/ j^i. Ori- 
 gin. 0pp. Tom.ii. p. 813. Ed. Paris, 
 
 f 7? ] 
 
 They are in Montf. but mutilated. 
 Praecepta tua deledationes mes. Hebr. 
 
 CXIX. 170. 'A?(^|ti*. Vat. 
 Aquila. S'iria-n. 
 
 Symmachus. »xm-/*. Origen. 0pp. Ed. Paris. 
 Tom. ii. pag. 817. 
 
 Deprecatio mea. Hebr. 
 
 Proverbs. ^ 
 
 VIII, 29, 30. Unyctf Ttis vtt' ipdm — Ka) uf Ir- 
 %iip*. Vat. 
 
 There is no Hexaplar reading in Drufius or 
 Montfaucon ; but Compl. Aid. Alex, infert at 
 the end of v. 29. nearly what here follows, 
 to which the Editor of Alex, applied the 
 mark X • 
 
 *y7i' ){^ vdccTct, ov -srctpiAtva-iTaj ^o/^ia, uvtS' tjy;Ka> 
 l^v^a,. MS. Venet. Lib. I. 
 
 This differs in fome refpeds for the better 
 from what is in the three Edd. and it nearly 
 correfponds with the Hebrew at the place. 
 
 XXIX. 24. Ka/ ra^jv WaXcbTO t>j yAwoj">j OMTrii, 
 Vat. Alex. 
 
 Et ordinem pofuit linguje fuae. Latin Verf. 
 in Auguftin. Sabatier. 
 
 »} oi iXiri^oavvri xvTrif h t^ yKuoj^ aimjf. Compl.' 
 and partly Alex, at v. 27. 
 
 Et 
 
 • 1 
 
r 
 
 ^MM3tel,J-'in>-l-rrt«ii^a«— ■aifcrt^WMi<M1ti*Mi 
 
 ■^ 
 
 II 
 
 [ 72 ] 
 
 S-g(r|tt6« ^i (Mtll^'Oavvris stt/ tJj yA«w*l avrijf. Clem. 
 Alex. Padagog. Lib. III. cap. xi. p. 250, — 
 Conftitut. Apoftolic. Lib. I. cap.vm. pag.210. 
 Ed. Coteler. 
 
 Et lex mifericordias fuper lingua ejus. 
 
 Hebr. ^ 
 
 XXIX; IV M*T»ii' at <nZonaj{ f^t, dtda,ir>covns tv- 
 rihuMTi^ uvB-paTTuv Kj ^tSdo-KcthMs- Vat. 
 
 A C 0. >9 iyivtTo T)i <po5^o9a/ (fie) avTiis ejtte ei'- 
 „a;j**./V^«i' <^i<5^*«'-'i. MS. Barberin. Lib. in 
 marg. 
 
 Et fuit timor eorum erga me, mandatum 
 hominum edodtum, or edodus. or diferently 
 pointed, mandata hommum edocens. Hebr. 
 
 XLIV. II, 12. V*: «"• ^^^' Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and M&S* 
 
 *^*- TiKTovis y*§ «V;v *7ro rtvS/JwVwr on. MS. 
 Florent. Lib. IX. 
 
 Et artifices ipfi ex hominibus. Hebr. 
 
 There is here no Hebrew for this claufe ; 
 —but in the middle of v. u. there is Hebrew 
 rendered in Vat. xojtps/ i^o ^vS-pc^yrm- and the 
 fame Hebrew word may be rendered either 
 xfti^oi or TiKTms- 
 
 LIV- 9—10. 'Atto tS vhrts Ttf iTri Nwe- 
 A«Nff«. Vat. 
 
 . £X- 
 
 Ac^uila. 
 
 f 
 
 [ 73 ] 
 
 Aquila, 'Xl? «} ^fiipof jou N«e awTfl (fie) ^ttw 
 lo (leg. oif) ufMO-a, amh tS •sra.fobycLym v^ato, itti 
 T^c y'riv, »Vft)f «^0(7* *T» (leg. rtxo t«) -iffoLfo^w^vaj 
 iTTi (TU Hj a,7ro Tov i'^-tufiria-af iv troi, crt to. opt] a,Mxc^'' 
 friirmv, ^ et fiavoi (pa,Xn<fov{eti (fie) ii thus fiv -nAfi. 
 « kK a.mxu^ii<Tn. MS. Barberin, Lib. in marg, 
 
 LV. 7. 'On m\ -arflAu a^ret. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. on •5rA()$-ui'« tou licra.^. HoKvg yat 
 i^iv a,(ptivaf. MS. Barberin. Lib. in marg. 
 
 Here feem to be two interpretations. Per- 
 haps before the fecond, the initial letter of 
 the interpreter's name has been dropt. 
 
 LV. II. TeAeo&>(&c, Vat. 
 Aquila. xctnvS'viiti, 
 Perficiet. Hebr. 
 
 Same place. Kj tvoSMra tus o^ii a-a k to, 'i^oihfiai\(»^ 
 flit. Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. KUTtf^urn 'ta-a, «.7ref«A* mtov, 
 MS. Barberin. Lib. in marg. 
 
 Secundabit quicquid mandavero. Hebr, 
 
 LVII. I, 2. KoJavJJief ^ikcuo) — Ik tv fiiora. Vat. 
 
 • Aquila. j^ av^fH thin ervXKiyovraf iv ra S-vKtivaf 
 (fic, legend, forte oCx, wo/) a-vmra, (fie) on a,7r» 
 moa-uirov rrn KctKietf u-ui>i?<iyn i ^ix,cu@^' thB'iTa iy 
 Hfrivyf ivATTctva-dSua-ctv tTr) Ko^m mtuv irofivofiivos 
 
 K $ymmachus 
 
Mt^.nH-VAi.Vw^i 
 
 i^^,^^^^,^^^^^^ 
 
 [ 74 ] 
 
 Symmachus and Theodotion. k, AvS^ii t* XaS 
 (leg. eAesu, Aaw and iMos are frequently inter- 
 changed in MSS.) irvmyonoi TsrccpaTo jmi vTraf 
 ■Xfiv a-uvovTct, ( f. a-vnina,) ii^nfot^iv ya,j) r^f xukJch 
 o-vvAyiTcui ^iKcu<^' «V6A9-6t<w eippf^ a,vctwavTa,<r- 
 9-atriv 'nri rks koItas etvTUV o 'syofiivif^ivos unU^vi 
 MS. Barberin. Lib. in marg. 
 
 uirrn 
 
 LIX. 15. 'AXii9-«* ri^TXi &C. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. k, lyimo »i a.Xr\^eM haMvUTcc, k^ a,(pi- 
 ^eiftim awl KAKi ?^a,(pv^i(^ivos . 
 
 Symmachus. >y£/ lyiviTo 'r\ iAjjS'wct e7r«A«7rou(r*, 
 H^l WKKim (leg. exxAifoii') <i7ro xctxcv •nroAwpxou- 
 
 Theodotion. >($£/ eyEcero ctX)j9-«* vTripo^ufiini, 
 }iffj s exxAj'i'wi' ctTTo K<*xou rxuAtuETo/. MS. Barbe- 
 rin. Lib. in marg. 
 
 i 
 
 LIX. 17, 18. Ka) OTe^ieSaAiTo — uTrei/otmW. Vat. 
 Aquila. 5 evEcJua-siro »^«t7<oi/ iK^mai ivSb<riV' k^ 
 iwCoAeV<*TO (fie) if ecV* C'J'^'»'> ^^ ^f' */*'"f'*f 
 (f. Afio&Ui) ui iTr) aTTo^ua-d (leg. A^oSocrsi) %oAoo 
 ToTf S-A/Sji<r(i', iitcoj^^i- Totf e^fi/JoTf air^, toTj (1. tais) 
 
 ytjg-Oif A^OtQilV ATTO^aXTHV (f. ATTOaUTHJ. 
 
 Symmachus. nsH m^'iJ'rATo 1[^atia lAmiia-iui ev- 
 ^vfM, Km ■sTifn'^AMTo as ^s■^^Qi^Mov ^AoV in -m^i 
 
 AVTATraSuTiV (1. AVTAvihfiV) Ui ITt) to ATrOTiTOi %- 
 l^lv Tolf ^hi<^OV(nV aCtOV, To7f iX^foy AVTOZ AVTAwi- 
 
 ^ufjbA (1. <iKT*7rflV*) taIs vwoh avT*7raJli)fKt (flc) 
 
 Theodotion. 
 
 [ 7S ] 
 
 Theodotion. j^ mSua-ATo eK^iKtAs ivSvfM, ■srepi- 
 eC*Aera us 'nndvTAV (fie) ^Aov if st' a,nA7ro^u<riuv 
 (fie) Xflsdijf iTTATroTia-Ai (fie) $-u^ov ToTf iVAvliots AV- 
 
 rS, AVTATTO^UI^A (fic) ToTf «;tj5-f0»f, ToJf KfJITfl/f aTTO- 
 
 oa|tt* (fic) ATTOTia-ei. MS. Barberin. Lib. in marg. 
 
 Daniel. 
 
 III. 22. EtTH to 'f\(JLA tS (iATlhiUS VITlflc^Vi, Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. Eo quod vcrbum regis inob- 
 fervatum erat. MS. Syro-Tetrapl. Milan, in 
 marg. 
 
 X. 16. 'Ek TJ] OTTTAC-iA ffOV i^fA<Pf\ T* EfrOf ;tMU i* 
 
 'iy,oi. Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. In vifione diftorta funt mem- 
 bra mea. MS. Syro-Tetrapl. Milan, in marg. 
 
 XI. I . Ka) f^lTA t)) KfATrjg-Of AtlTOV TH 'a'h.ivi AVtS, 
 
 iTrAVA7*\a-iTA\ -nrAcrcus ^ATi^eicug 'E^jjv&ii'. Vat. 
 
 Aquila. Et juxta fortitudinem fuam In di- 
 vitiis fills fiifcitabit omnes contra reges lonum. 
 MS. Syro-Tetrapl. Milan, in marg. 
 
 XI. 5' Kflt/ tVK^UFSt (3Alfl\iVf ToZ NoTS* K Hi TU1 
 A^-XfinUV AVTUV iVwCa-H iTT AVTOV, Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. Et obtinebit fiiper regem Auf- 
 tri, et fiiper principes ejus, et przvalebit fiiper 
 eum. MS. Syro-Tetrapl. Milan, in marg. 
 
 Kz 
 
 XI, 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 |iT 
 
!■' fiVl ■ ■-'-■- 
 
 t 76 ] 
 
 XI. 23. 'E^ oXlya i^vH. Vat. 
 
 Symmachus. Ta^quam in populo parvo trati' 
 quillh MS. Syro-Tetrapl. Milan, in marg. 
 
 What has been laid before the reader in this 
 Sedlion, fhall be left to his judgement with 
 only one general obfervation — that the Ver- 
 fions, of which he has here feen fome in- 
 edited remains, have their ufe in fhewing what 
 was in the Hebrew, and often what was in 
 the Septuagint-Greek, at a period which was 
 earlier than the date of any Hebrew-MS. by 
 more than fix centuries, and of any Greek one 
 by more than four. 
 
 SECTION IV. 
 
 In this laft fedtioh will be contained fome 
 inftances, in which Verfions both MS. and 
 Printed, in different languages and of different 
 ages, but all made from the Greek, have va- 
 riations of every kind from the Vatican-text. 
 
 They may not be all of equal fervice in af- 
 certaining the reading of the Septuagint j it 
 feems however that there is not any of them, 
 which will afford no afliflance to that cfFedt, 
 either by concurrence with other copies, or by 
 its Jing/e evidence. 
 
 This feftion will alfo contain inflances of 
 
 Citations, that differ from Vat. 
 
 Gcnefis, 
 
 [ 77 1 
 
 Genefis. 
 
 II. 15. T'^s Tfv(p'!jf. Vat. Coropl. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 This is wanting in MS. Bodl. Arab. Laud. 
 182. and Aid. 
 
 IX. 6, A'(|tt*Tos- cturS. Vat. 
 
 Mfutrf^ etirroZ cufM, a,vT(v. MS. Arab. Verf. 
 Eodl. Laud. 182. 
 
 Edd. and Verfions vary. Poffibly, the whole 
 paffage might fiand thus in fome uncial MS. 
 ANTITOYAIMATOGATTOT&c. and by 
 an improper diflribution of fyllablcs, and the 
 miflake of one letter only, namely, by taking 
 G for C> it was read as in Vat. am m uifixTee 
 dvTH &c. inflead of a,vn tou cujjlo, to tAVToZ, pro 
 illo [fcil. fanguine] fanguis ipfius effundetur. 
 
 IX. 24. 'A^o ToZ o'iva. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 i^o T* oiya uvtS, Armenian Verf. 
 
 A vino fuo. Hebr. 
 
 IX. 26. Xavomv isrcus ohtTtif. Vat. Compl. and 
 MSS. 
 oMiTtis is not expreffed in Armenian Verf. 
 nor in the Latin Verfions in Ambrof. and Au- 
 gaftin. Sabatier. and it is wanting in Philo, 
 Juflin Mart. Theodoret. Chryfoftom. Aid. 
 Alex. 
 
 XIX. 
 
[ 78 ] 
 XIX. 12. 'E^iy*ye w tS TOTra Tim. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 8?Ay*ye aItovs w toZ romu tovtov, Armenian 
 Ve^f. and Sclavonian Verf. Ed. Oftrog. 
 
 XXI. 12. Ucu^'m. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 srcu^U TSTis. C6pt. Verf. 
 The Hebrew has the demonftrative article. 
 
 XXIV. 20. UiXiv. Vat. 
 
 This is wanting in Armenian, and Sclavo- 
 nian Verfions, as in MSS. Vienna I. and LVIl. 
 and Compl. Aid. Alex. 
 
 XXV. 31. Us^uTOTWicL a-a ii^oi. Vat. Aid. 
 .■zirpsiiTOToxta, a-a \ii^oi\^ Alex. 
 
 epji is wanting in the Armenian Verfion, as 
 in MS. Cotton, and Compl. 
 
 XXVI. 8. Vi^^fm. Vat. Aid, Alex, and MSS. 
 Compl. omits it. 
 
 yifdfuv <puA<5-*«|t«. Armenian Verf. 
 
 Pheliftim. Hebr. 
 
 1- 
 
 XXVII %6. T* re •zsTflamoxj* jttsi «A)i(p6- m "i*"' 
 Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 rm T« OT^aroToW jit» «A»itpe* 5 vw. Philo. 
 Primogenita mea ante tulit, et nunc. Vulgat. 
 - XXVII, 
 
 [ 79 ] 
 
 XXVII. 43. Elf Ti\v Mio-ovoTUfiUv. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 This is omitted by Philo, and has no cor- 
 refpondent Hebrew. 
 
 XXXI. 33' EI^aS'wv oi AxQav, YifiivYiT^v ets riv 
 
 cIkoV A«/*S-, X, iiV, iVfitV K, i^ii^B-iV iK tS oHkoU 
 Aeieif^ )(j tj^lVVriTi TOV OIKOV IdKUh, X. iV TU OlKa 
 
 fif TOV olxov 'Paxn^' Vat. and nearly Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Kj eia-i^B'av AdQctv ijpivvtiiriv «f toy omov 'IxkuS ;t 
 aV TOV olxov Aeidf y^ eis tov olxov tuv avo ns-M^Krxuv, 
 ^ ix i'^fi"' ^ i^iA^oiv ix tS oIxh Aeictf, wV^AS'ey «V 
 TOV oJkov Paxv^' Armenian Verfion. 
 
 Et venit Laban in tabernaculum Jahacob, 
 et in tabernaculum Leah, et in tabernaculum 
 ambarum ancillarum, et non invenit : et egref- 
 fus eft de tabernaculo Leah, et venit in taber- 
 naculum Rachel. Hebr. 
 
 >(s^ ^pivnia-i TOV olxov 'IaxuS Is evidently out of 
 place in Vat. for the mention of Jacob could 
 hardly have intervened originally between that 
 of Leah and her handmaids. Perhaps fome one 
 who obferved that «V rh olxov 'laxwS had been 
 omitted, placed thofe words in the margin to- 
 gether with tj^ivvfja-i, to which word he meant 
 they fhould be fubjoined ; and a fubfequent 
 tranfcriber mifplaced them as in Vat, 
 
 XXXVII. 2. UoifiCUVUy T« -ZFfiZsifTCt, TW trcLTPOt 
 
 aUTQfJ 
 
•- I » i— iiim'^ I t '-■v-<^-«^..^. ■ 
 
 I 
 ■il 
 
 [ So 1 
 
 CLVTOV fliTA tUV Mi, 
 
 and MSS. 
 
 VrCllUUViilV fliTCt, TUV 
 
 menian Vcrfion. 
 
 >uv ctvTcv. Vat. Aid. 
 rtMA^wv T* •sr^o^ATcc. Ar- 
 
 So alfo the uncial MS. of Vienna — but 
 Compl. Alex, infert ctvri after aJo^^uv, agreeing 
 however with Arm. Verf. as to order. 
 
 Pafcens cum fratribus ovcs. Latin Verfion 
 in Auguflin. Sabatier. 
 
 Pafcens cum fratribus fuis oves. Hebr. 
 
 XL. 17. Tuv yevac. Vat. Compl. Aid. and MSS. 
 
 It is not exprefled in Arm. Verf. and has no 
 correfpondcnt Hebr. It is wanting alfo in 
 MSS. Vienna I. LVII. 
 
 XLII. 24. Ka) ^TTtv eivrols' Kf iXccSi. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 The reader will confider how far the ex- 
 preffiion 5 «5r£v mtois may feem abrupt, when 
 the fubftancc of wAat wzifaiJ does not follow. 
 
 1(5^ OTTIV CLVTolsy «f VfjI^UV KATcthetTTiTU UOl, XI S 
 
 EinON TMIN, fMX^iv di a.SiX(pov v[*uy Avciyili fiir 
 Vfiiv iv toCtu ykf yvu^tiTin 'on vfiei; ei^viViKoi, ew 
 KBureitrx.07rn' Xj eAet€s &c. Copt. Verf. 
 
 XLIIL 16. o; M^fUTTot. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 o( eivB-pw^et Sroi. Armenian Verf. 
 
 xnx. 
 
 [ 8i J 
 
 XLIX. 7. 'Ev 'iix^e — iv 'i<rj,ci^\. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 A Jacob — ab Ifrael. MS. Arabick-Verf. 
 Bodl. Laud 182. as if sj- had not been the pra- 
 pofition in his copy. 
 
 XLIX. 19. ACrh, in the iirift and fecond in- 
 ^ance.^ ^Vat., Compl. „ Alex, and MSS. 
 Aid. Ar'jTu in fecond inflance. 
 
 Neither of them are exprefTcd in MS. Ara- 
 bick Verf. Bodl. Laud 182. nor the laft of them 
 in the Hebrew. 
 
 XLIX. 22, 22' Uf'os (At Avd^oi-^ov' «sr ov Sict^a- 
 MvofAim i\oi^opSv. Vat. CompL Aid. Alex, 
 dnd MSS. ^ 
 
 Retro fe vertil fq ad eos, qui deliberaverunt 
 contra euhi.' MS. Arab. Velf Bodh Laud i82. 
 
 L. 13. 0» via) (cvrov. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 This is not exprefled in Copt. Verf. 
 
 Exodus. 
 
 III. 22. Ka) xf'J^a. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. ^ 
 
 K, TKivfj xfoa-a,. Copt. Verf. as in Hebr. 
 
 VII. IQ. KccfTuv S-e^ATrofTuy aurS, Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 L This 
 
[ 82 i 
 
 This is not exprefled in Copt. Verf. and has 
 no Correfpondent Hebrew. 
 
 VIII. 6. Ka) avnyctyi t^f /3ale«t;^»f. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 This alfo is not exprefled either in Copt. 
 Verf. or in the Hebrew. 
 
 1 1 
 
 
 XVI. 8. AiciyoyyvCin KctB"' yif^uv. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 (HajyayyvQ-Jl KciB-' etiiTOV. Copt. Verf. 
 
 Murmurantes [eftis] contra eum. Hebr. 
 
 XXIX. 17. K*T* fiiM' Vat. Compl. Alex, and 
 MSS. Aid. }(j r* pM. 
 
 To this is fubjoinedi Et auferes [eximes] 
 aures ejus. Cop. Verf. 
 
 XXIX. 43. KoLj <x,yia.&ii<ro(jt,ctJi. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 Ki etyia,^tia-o[A,xi \v ctiiToi^, >i a,yia,&yi(rofJLa^. MS. 
 Univ. Coll. in which perhaps there are two 
 interpretations. 
 
 Et fandlificabitur. Hebr. 
 Hjkyta/ru avTovf. Copt. Verf. referring it to 
 Ifrael. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 — *^^--'-^--h Vi ■ i-f 
 
 • ' ■ -I fcl, 
 
 [ 83 ] 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 IX. 14. 'Kv T>?.yj; ifiuy. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. ^ 
 
 This is not exprefled in Copt. Verf. nor in 
 the Hebrew. 
 
 XII. 14. Oi)K iVT^Airna-iraji iTrra, ^fiipag ; a(pofKr- 
 B-^Tu iTrra, ij/iipa,^ t^u. Vat. and Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 £57T* iifiifd^, in the laft inftance, is omitted 
 in Compl. but was inferted by the Editor of 
 Alex, though wanting in his MS. 
 
 Irenaus in fragment. Ed. Grab, pag, 472. 
 And fo it is read and pointed in MS. Glafg! 
 and Aid. 
 
 XIII. 33. "-EK^M-iv. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 omS'Qs. Copt. Verf. 
 
 TO IiAfM^HTtKov, "OvH^os, SchoHafl:. Ed. Vat. 
 
 Infamiam. Hebr. 
 
 ■f: 
 
 XV. 34. T»' ■zs-oi^Tua-m avriy. Vat. and nearly ■ 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 r< Kvpiot woiwii ci,vTui, Copt. Verf. 
 Qiiid iieret, or, Quid faceret de illo. Hebr. 
 
 
 L 2 
 
 XXIV. 
 
^■w^. »■> X*. *■ *. 
 
 It 
 
 
 [ 84 ] 
 
 XXIV. 23. Ka) Xi/ r'ny. Vat. Ald,andMSS. 
 It is in bracl^ets in Alex. 
 
 This is wanting in MS. Arab. Verf. Bodl, 
 Laud 147. as alfp in MS. Univ. Coll. and 
 Compl. 
 
 It is not exprdTed in Hebr. 
 
 Judges. 
 
 II. 7. MiTo, 'iwS. Vat. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 fiiTo, 'Itjo-ovv. Theodoret. Quasft. 7. p. 326, 
 and Cpmpl. 
 
 Foil Jehofuah. Hebr. 
 
 I Samuel. 
 
 IX. 2,2. 'E€J()jtt;jxovrA avS'^uv^ Vat. Aid. J^lex. 
 and MSS. but Compl. t^mkovta. 
 h roii TpiaKona, kXvitoIs, Irenaeus. Ed. Grab, 
 p. 85. agreeably to Hebr. 
 
 X, 4. Au<rov(rt a-oi Sva kira.^-x^i ot^fTuv, Vat, 
 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 ^ua-UTi troi ATTcLfx^i a^tuv^ Theodoret. Qusft, 
 
 Aquila, S'vo ApTiis. Montf. 
 
 Duos panes. Hebr. 
 
 The Vatican probably exprefles two inter- 
 pretations, one by Aquila, who feems to have 
 r'ead D'tyKn, the other of the LXX, who read 
 ^nSf J as the text ftands at prefent. 
 
 ^ XX. 
 
 [ 85 ] 
 
 XX. 5. K^t^^rsiiccj h Tu ■wi^ico 'ia^ ^fWlf* Vaf.. 
 Compl. Aid. and MSS.* biit Alex. <5«Aiif 
 
 hri TftcCMVTA i\f4>i^CUS 'iKfijQiTO. IreOSUS. £d. 
 
 Grab. pag. 85. 
 
 There might be an error in the Koiv^ from, 
 the omiflion perhaps of r the numeral letter 
 after ^kA*;? y of which letter only a^ part, as f , 
 remaining, fome copyift fuppofed and wrote it 
 A, and from thence came tjhakovto, in Irenaeus. 
 
 Abfcondar in agro ufque ad vefperam ter- 
 tiam. Hebr. 
 
 Pfalms. 
 
 X- 7. H jM.e/«f Tcv. TsroTtfiilBu auruy. Vat. Compl. 
 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 Ta,vTti r\ ^ifU tS •zsroTtiPin avrm. Copt. Verf. 
 
 XIII. 3. Toufpos — o(p9-a\i/,uv avTUv. Vat. 
 
 This is wanting in Compl. Aid. Alex. 
 
 It ftands at length in MS. Bodl. Sahidic. 
 Huntingt. 3. as in Vat. and Juftin. M. See 
 Ep. Rom. III. 13—18. 
 
 XVI. 8, 9. 'E« Tuv Av^i^n^oruv rn ^ii^M (Tov <pv- 
 Aw^oV f*£. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and 
 
 MSS. 
 
 Libera me dextra tua ab adverfantibus lis. 
 Copt. Verf. 
 
 XXI. 
 
[ 86 ] 
 
 XXI. 9- "O'"' -^e'^" *"^"''- Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 « B-ihet MTov. MS. Sahidic. Sangerm. and 
 Copt. Vcrf. 
 
 XXVI. 3. 'Ev TctxjTn. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 tv TiSTu (in mafculino) Copt. Verf. 
 
 In hoc. Latin Verf. in MS. Sangerm. Sa-* 
 batier. 
 
 '^m^- 
 
 iih^ii iflT'^i V ^'V>ii V ^"- 
 
 t ■- ■ ■.... — -- ■ ^ 
 
 LXVII. 19. "EAaSe? ^oV*™ ^c. Vat, Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 SfLxe Jo^ctr^t, Copt. Verf. 
 
 Dedit dona. Pfalt. Rom— Mozarab.— Coif- 
 lin.— Corbeienf.—Pfalt. e MS. Vatic, apud Hi- 
 larium. Sabatier. 
 
 LXXVII. 2. ^^ByfofAcii -zs-fioQA^f^etTa, utt' a.jix.'is. 
 Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 KiKpvfA.[A.ivei ciTrk KciTd^oAtis. Origen. Comm. in 
 Matth. p. 398. Ed. Huet, 
 
 Erudabo abfconfa a conftitutione mundi. 
 Latin Verf. in Hilar. Sabatier. 
 
 Matth, xiii. 35. e§su?o/^a/ KiKfvfx^im ctTro x*- 
 
 CXXXV. 16. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS, 
 To this verfe is immediately fubjoined j 
 
 v. 17« 
 
 [ 87 ] 
 
 V. 17. Qui deduxit aquas e petra dura, 
 Quia in aeternum mifericordia ejus. 
 Copt! Verf. 
 V. 17. Qui edUxit aquam de petrS rupis, 
 quoniam in i'aeculum mifericordia ejus. Latin 
 Verf. in MS. Sangerm. Sabatier. 
 
 CXXXV .26. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 To this verfe alfo is immediately fub- 
 joined ; 
 
 V. 27. Confitemini Domino Dominorum, 
 Quja in aeternum mifericordia ejus. 
 Copt. Verf. 
 
 V. 27. Confitemini Domino Dominorum, 
 quoniam in faeculum mifericordia ejus. Latin 
 Verf in MS. Sangerm. Sabatier. 
 
 CXL. 10. ■'£<!)«• i kv txrct^i^Gu. Vat. and nearly 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 iu; i a,v •araipeAS'*) tj kvo^iict. Copt. Verf. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 XXXI, II. YLoiXm a-x-ikuv. Vat, Compl. Aid. 
 and MSS. 
 
 Alex, has xaAw in brackets. 
 
 ifAuXuv. Conflitut. Apoflol. Lib. I. cap. 8. 
 Ed. Coteler. 
 
 Spoliis. Latin Verf in Auguftin. Sabatier. 
 
 Spoliis. Hebr. 
 
 Ifaiah. 
 
[ 88 ] 
 
 Ifaiah. 
 
 VI. lo. Tois iwr<v etvTuv ^a^ius iiKii<rav. Vat.CompI. 
 Aid, Alex, and MSS. 
 
 ToTj- utriv (ittpius tixaoTAv. Apoflolic. Conftit. 
 Lib. III. p. 283. Ed. Coteler. ex MS. Vindo- 
 bon. Lib. 
 
 A61. Apoftol. 28, 27. ToTj- u(r) (icbfiui fiKiiirciv. 
 
 VI. 10. liio-oj^a/ ccvTovs. Vat. Aid. Alex, and 
 MSS. 
 
 'id,Ta>i^ai avTi^s. Eufeb. Dem. Ev. p. 45. Ed. 
 Steph. So Compl. 
 
 Saneni illos. Latin Verf. in Vigilio Tapf. 
 Saiatier. 
 
 Adt. Apoftol. 28, 27. 'Icicrcoficcj avTiii. 
 
 IX. I. X^)fobZa>Z\jKuv, Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 toV (p*]<riv Ts-foCpriTrii' T? Zx^aP^uv. Fragment. 
 Irenasi in Ed. Grabe. p. 470. 
 Terra Zabulon. Hebr. 
 Matth. iv. 1 5. r? ZaJ^ahm. 
 
 IX. 2. "iS^i (pus f^iya. Vat. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Vidit lucem magnam. Latin Verf. in Je- 
 rom. Saba tier. 
 
 Matth. iv. 15. &c. «Je <pus f^iya. wJe &c. 
 Compl. Aid. and MS. Bodl. Laud C. 88. 
 
 Viderunt, or differently pointed, Videte &c. 
 Hebr. 
 
 , XLII. 
 
 [ 89 ] 
 
 XLII. 2. Kf'mv Ttif «9-»£a-<v e^oiVa. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 K, Kfrnv &c. Eufeb. D. E. p. 34. Ed. Steph. 
 
 Et judicium. Hebr. Codd, Kennicott. 96, 
 224, 271 A, 295 i primo 130. 
 
 n^mv Tols iS-HTiy a,7rcty(ihsi, Origen. Comm. 
 in Johann. p. 23. Ed. Huet. 
 
 Matth. xii. 18. j^ xpmv rots tS'virtv <*5!-*y(eA«. 
 
 LIII. 4. 'A/Mpltetf fiftm ^fn. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 ao&evfW hi^uv ihctZiv. ' Athanaf. Interp. in 
 Pfalm. p. 65. Ed. Rom. 1746, expreflly quo- 
 ting Ifaiah. 
 
 Matth. viii. 17. ii^iveias 'ifiuv eXttCe. 
 
 Morbos noftros tulit. Hebr. 
 
 LXI. 7. The beginning of the verfe was 
 wanting in Origcn's Septuagitat-cbpy. He 
 adopted the Greek from Theodotion, and 
 inferted it under the afterifk. 
 
 aydTit^icurovTaj j»Ep/f etvruv. 
 
 Pro pudore veftro duplici pt ignominia exul- 
 tabunt parte fua. Hebr. 
 
 Ludus veftri et ignominia veftra humilia- 
 buntur. Copt. Verf 
 
 The reader will then confider whether this 
 paflage had not originally feme reprefentatioiTi 
 in the Kni^. 
 
 M 
 
 LXIIL 
 
"'*»~^ ■'•'-'■""-«' -■ — -^- 
 
 ■AiiMi^aMlBB 
 
 [ 90 ] 
 
 LXni. '5. '^ffvcTATO -nvTovs fifdyj^m fAtv , Vat. 
 Compl. Aid . Alex, and MSS. 
 
 'mviretTo fit o lip*x{'"^ f*^- MS. Sahidic San- 
 'geirnian. and Cdpt. Verf. 
 
 V Salvavit mihi brachium'nie'uni. Hebr. 
 
 Jereniiah. 
 
 IX. 15. YiWjttj&i avTovs AvoiyKcti. Vat. nearly 
 Compl. Aid. and MSS. 
 
 Yufii^ci) vjMbs ctiiTiis a-vdyMs. Alex. 
 
 — '■ ■ ' ■ ' euTois Avokynijs, Copt. Verf. 
 
 Cibabo' populum hu'nc abfinthio. Vulgat. 
 Cibans eos populum hunc abfinthio. 'Hebr. 
 
 XII. 6. 'Emavv>iz^(ra,v. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 This is not expreffed in Copt. Verf. 
 
 XXII. 30. "AySpairovroT, if fin avl*,^. Vat. Compl. 
 Aid. and MSS. 
 
 sivS-j)U7rov, ^ .avivu^oTov iv tcus i^ftifcu? etwrsu' 
 'oTi i fifj rtu^JiS")), Alex. 
 
 'uy&e^Trev^ 'ou i fAiyd^oTToina-H iv tms vifiifcui m- 
 roZ,- isH av^fUTTos «M)?>)3"p.' Copt. Verf. 
 
 Virum, [qui] non profperabitur in diebus fuis, 
 ftam non profperabitur — vfr. Hebr. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 \ 9_i 1 
 Ezekiel. 
 Y|. 1 1^ TuTTfi^l. Vat.Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Tu ■zsroJi' o-a. Copt. Verf. 
 |*^de tuo. J^fbr^ 
 
 VIII. 5. Ilv^tJV t\v "STfOS M>CtTO?MS. Vat. 
 
 In ^aeteris libris hxq feqiiuntur : rS Bva-iccrn- 
 
 SchoUaft. Rom. Edit, a^ K ' 
 
 And this addition appear?, fomevvhat dif- 
 ferently indeed in Compl; Aid. Alex. ' 
 
 Portam ad orientem ariguli, ecce idolum ad 
 ^roityro ejqs. Cppj. Verf. 
 
 Portam altaris iimul^chru^n zelotypiae iflud 
 in Introiiu. Hebr.' 
 
 VJII. 10. 'Ett' rtprif xuxAw. Vat. Aid. and MSS. 
 tit avrS Ttix^i kukKu kvkKu. AleX. 
 im tS Toixfi kvkXu ^loha. Compl. . 
 ^ Symm. Theod, reu roi-xfi^ hvkXu. MS. 
 
 Super parietem circij^cfirca. Pebf. 
 h KVKhu tS toj;)j». Copt. Verf 
 
 X. 19. Trii iTrivAvji. Vat. Comph AW. Alex, 
 and MSS. ' •, '' ' " 
 
 Tijf aTrivAVTi kvAToXm. Copt. Verf. 
 
 Orientalis. Vulg. and Hebr. 
 
 Daniel. 
 
 1 
 
■^-^ .. ■.^^.. ^■- ■■■■. . - ■ , ,. . ..1. . 
 
 [ 92 1 
 
 Daniel. 
 
 VI. I. X«l/)a?r<t? txaTov «;tfl«. Vat, Compl. Aid. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Satrapas centum viginti feptem. Syriack 
 Verf. in MS. Syro-Tetraplar. Milan. 
 
 VII. 6. 'Elaa-ia, tSod-ti ttvi^. Vat. Compl. Aid. 
 and MSS. — MS. Alex. uItu. 
 
 Lingua data eft ei. Syriack Verf, in MS. 
 Syro-Tetraplar. Milan. 
 
 IX. 24. Kct) tS <r^ftlyl<rcn itficcpTietf, ti (»7r<»A»yeey 
 
 aytiyeiv. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and 
 MSS. have the three claufes. 
 
 Et fignentur peccata, et exorentur injuftitiae, 
 ct inducatur. Latin Verf, in TertuUian. Sa- 
 batier. • 
 
 Were then ngj ckTrahei'^uf tus iS'tKiei.s in the 
 Koivn ? 
 
 Et ad iigillandum peccata, et ad expiandum 
 Iniquitatem, et ad adducendum. Hebr. 
 
 XII. II. 'Uf^ifOi x^^'"*l ^iciKOiricif miv^KOVTec. Vat. 
 Compl. Aid. Alex, and MSS. 
 Dies bis millc et ducenti et nonaginta. MS. 
 Syro-Tetraplar. Milan, in marg. 
 
 Hofea» 
 
 [ 93 3 
 .Hofea. 
 
 II, 1^. KrijptT*. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and 
 
 MSS. ''-.-. 
 
 Vineas. Copt. Verf. 
 Vineas. Hebr. 
 
 IV. 13. SxeV*;. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and 
 
 MSS. 
 
 Umbra ejus. Copt. Verf. 
 
 Umbra ejus. Hebr. 
 
 XI. I. T« TiKvct etvrS. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, 
 and MSS. 
 
 rh ^at fzov, Copt. VcrC and Origen ad Nu- 
 mcr, xxiv. 8. 
 
 Matth. ii. 15. Tavt/ovj^a. 
 
 Amos. 
 
 III. 9. To cf^. Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and 
 MSS. 
 
 T* Oji);j. Copt. Verf. 
 Monies. Hebr. 
 
 Obadiah. 
 
 Verfe 10. T^v kari^HAv a,S^iX(poZ trn 'lanuZ. Vat. 
 
 and MSS. Compl. t. «. Ka\a, a^. a-a 'I. Aid. 
 
 omits av. 
 To Vat. the Editor of Alex, adapted his 
 text i for MS. Alex, had t^i/ «V tav iSix^w, 
 
•w 
 
 [ 94 1 
 
 Verf. 
 
 Micah. , , », , ,,pr. 
 
 V. 2. 'Ex (r». Vat. Compl. Aid. Alex, and M§S. 
 
 £;t 0-8 y«§. Arab. Verf. 
 
 Matth. xi. 6. U o-a y*g. 
 
 Habacuc. 
 
 III. i6. 'H «^<f jwflu. Vat. Aid. Alex, and 
 MSS. 
 
 Fortitudo mea. Latin Verf. in Jerom. Sa- 
 batier. 
 
 Should it not then be 1%^? ? It is fo in eleven 
 MSS. of Brit. Mufeum, and in Compl. 
 
 Haggai. 
 
 I. 12. 'Ex (pyA^f 'IJ**)'*. Vat. and nearly^ Compl. 
 Alex, and MSS. Aid. m Ki(p»Mi '!• 
 This is wanting iq Copt. Verf. ^n4 ^^s no 
 correipondent Hebrew. 
 
 Zechariah. 
 
 XII. 10. 'Av9-' uv it.cLTUfx,yi<3'a.no. Vat. Compl. 
 Alex, and MSS. 
 
 Quein pupugerunt. Tertullian. 
 
 In quem transfixerunt. Cypri^. 
 
 Quern transfixerunt. Laftant. 
 
 TES^ ,p.|irA^b. ,ppUt. Pf 2^. Ed. Cofeler. 
 
 Hfi- 
 
 [ 95 ] 
 
 iB'II/itffi^VflV' Hsw'^^^at«^n<fM. Igntft. Ep. Inter- 
 pol ad Trallian. p. 65. Ed.Coteler. 
 
 'o-^6iTdi''ci KCKENTHSANTEZ. Ignat. Ep. In- 
 te^pbl.'ad Smyrn. p. 84. Ed. Cotel. 
 
 John xix. 37. Hs %v i^iKiv\i\Ta,y. — Apocalypf. uj. 
 
 Quern transfixerunt. Hebr. 
 
 XlII. I. 'K.otjeisTx'^^Krf^ov. Vat. Alex. andMSS. 
 
 ^t In afperfionem. Latin Verf. in Jerdm. 
 Sabatier, 
 
 .. MS, Alex, had jumq-fMv, but the Editor re- 
 Jeded that reading. It is fo in Aid. — Compl. 
 
 has fxnria-ei. 
 
 IVfalachi, 
 
 Vg. Atii3-*itt dinroZ. 'Vat. Cdmjil." Aid. 'Alex, 
 'and MSS. 
 
 St^^rin avToZ ut mifcreitur vcftrijm. Copt. 
 Verf. 
 
 — et ■ m iferebitur noflri . Hebr. 
 
 Thus I have entered, and at a length fome- 
 what greater than L expected, into a view of 
 the materials before me ; not indeed with any 
 critical views, but with a wi(h to be underflood 
 as intending no further than to ftate matters of 
 fadl, likely to engage coafideration whenever 
 the Scriptural Text is an objeft of enquiry. 
 
■^»«- 
 
 ■ ni» , ■■• .-, < .^.. -fc- . - ^^ 
 
 [ 96 ] 
 
 1 have inftanced in many books of Scripture, 
 and in the feveral things, as MSS. Citations, 
 and Vcrfions, which will be comprehended in 
 the plan of this work. The reader has feen 
 that they have differences of every kind from 
 one another, and from the four principal Edi- 
 tions, from one or other of which the reft of 
 the Editions are profefledly taken j he has feen 
 that fo differing they agree frequently either 
 with the Hebrew or the Latin Verfion, either 
 with both, or with neither j that they fome- 
 times concur with the reading of all the Edi- 
 tions, and fometimes accede to the Angular 
 reading of one. 
 
 Upon view of the whole it will, I truft, ap- 
 pear to him, that there ftill remain manifold 
 and important afliftances, as yet unapplied in 
 the fludy of the Sacred Text, either from their 
 being hitherto unknown or not placed col- 
 leftively at hand ; and that under the feveral 
 parts of this work fuch afliftances will come 
 into light and into ufe, and thereby will be 
 laid open a fcene of information in Sacred 
 Learning of great extent and effedt. 
 
 The perfuafion I have of this juftifies me in 
 ftill keeping the accomplifhment of this objedl 
 at heart, and in continuing my refpeftful ap- 
 plication to the Publick for means of fuftaining 
 the expences attending it. 
 
 [ i ] 
 
 STATE 
 
 OF THE COLLATION. 
 
 I Come now to the Account of what has 
 been done during the year laft paft in 
 further profecution of this work, and of its 
 prefent ftate and circumftances ; and in the 
 lirft place repeat my moft grateful acknow- 
 ledgments for the continuance of that Pa- 
 tronage and Subfcription with which it has 
 been favoured hitherto j and prefent them 
 efpecially to thofe Friends of it, who on be- 
 coming Subfcribers during this Third year, 
 contributed neverthelefs to the preceding ex- 
 pences of the undertaking, as well as to thofe 
 which were then to come. 
 
 The particulars relative to the work ftiall 
 be ftated under certain heads of Places and 
 Libraries, as on former occaiions. 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
 1 
 
[ ii ] 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
 Medicean Library. 
 
 Some little advances in the collation of 
 Cod. fignat. ix. Plutei V. containing the text 
 of the Prophets, had been made at the time 
 of delivering the fecond year's Account. The 
 collation of it has been fince completed. 
 
 Library of the Fefulan Dominicans in 
 the neighbourhood of Florence. 
 
 Upon fearch made here. One Septuagint- 
 MS. was difcovered, which had not, I ap- 
 prehend, been heard of before. It contains 
 the eight firft books of Scripture, written 
 about the eleventh Century. Leave was 
 given to remove it to the Medicean Library, 
 for the purpofe of ciflating it, and accord- 
 ingly the Collation o it has been completed. 
 
 The above collations have been made by 
 Canon Bandini, and he will proceed with 
 the reft of the MSS. under his charge, as Li- 
 brarian to the Grand Duke. I have the fame 
 reafon as before to exprefs a moft thankful 
 fenfe of the many earneft and fuccefsful ef- 
 forts he has made and is making in favour of 
 this work in every quarter, to which appli- 
 cations of his could be extended. 
 
 Library 
 
 1 
 
 [ iii J 
 
 Library of the Monaftery of St. Mark 
 at Florence. 
 
 Here One MS. has been found, of which 
 no intelligence had, I believe, been received 
 before. It contains the eight firft books of 
 Scripture. After the Collations had been fi- 
 nifhed at Venice &c. Mr. Schow ftayed fome 
 weeks at Florence, and during that time col- 
 lated the book of Genefis in this MS. 
 
 TURIN. 
 
 During thq courfe of the year I made ap^ 
 plication by letter to Sig'. Di Calufio, Se- 
 cretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences 
 there, and requefted that the collation of 
 MSS. in the Royal Library might be entered 
 upon, as foon as he could find a fit perfon 
 for carrying it on. This is an extradt from 
 the anfwer he was fo good as to return me. 
 
 " Cum nuper De RofTi fafciculum mitti 
 ad me curavit tuarum literarum, methodique 
 typis expreffa qua libros MSS. vis cum Va- 
 ticana editione conferri, exultans confeftim 
 ad Bibliothecffi noftrai Cuftodes adii, impe- 
 travique a lubentibus ut copia fieret MSS"", 
 quorum duos ftatim oculis ufurpatos cognovi 
 
 a z \q&\x 
 
[ iv ] 
 
 leftu effe, mihi certe, admodixm faciles. Turn 
 ad collationem fufcipiendatn excitavi homi- 
 nem in primis probum, cui fidere omnino 
 poffis, Ecclefiae addidlum, CoUegii Artium 
 in hoc Regio Athenaeo Sodalem, Grasce fatis 
 dodum, Johannem Baptiflam Operti, qui 
 receptae in fe operas focium fibi comparavit 
 haud ineptum, jamque fimul aliquot horas 
 fingulis diebus vacant conferendo ad normam 
 tuorum, quae ipli tradidi, praeceptorum unum 
 ex his codicibus. Et quanquam de hominis 
 religione in varietate notanda noh eft quod 
 dubitem, ftatim atque annotatio ex recenfione 
 unius Codicis erit abfoluta, ipfe aliquot ejus 
 plagulas comparabo hie illic cum MS. ut dc 
 tl)Cj)iQiici cognofcam adnotatorum. 
 
 Dabam Taurini iv. Idus Augufti, 1790. 
 
 The two MSS. then entered upon were 
 not very large j and on that account it may 
 be reckoned upon, I think, as a certainty 
 that they have been entirely collated, though 
 no pofitive advices to that effeO: have been 
 yet received. The work is under great obli- 
 gations to Sig'. Di Calufio, for his kind and 
 vigilant interference in its favour. 
 
 FERRARA. 
 
 '' 
 
 ^ 
 
 1 
 
 [ V ] 
 
 F E R R A R A. 
 
 Library of the Carmelite Calceati 
 Sti. Pauli. 
 
 MS. I. in this Library confifts of two 
 large volumes j and the firft of them was 
 very nearly but not entirely, finiflied at the 
 time of my delivering the laft Account. 
 Since that time the fmair remainder of the 
 firft volume and the whole of the fecond has 
 been collated by Joachim Pla, Vice-Prsfea 
 of the library of the Univerfity. 
 
 Upon leaving Venice, Mr. Schow went to 
 Eerrara, and ftaid there till he had finiftied 
 the collation of the other two MSS. in the 
 Carmelite-library. 
 
 ROME. 
 
 Vatican- Library. 
 
 ^ The MS. of the Prophetical Text, men- 
 tioned in the laft Account as the next on 
 which Elias Baldius was to proceed, has been 
 collated, and one other MS. He has befides 
 collated the book of Gcnefis in ten Vatican 
 MSS. and is now proceeding to collate that 
 book in the remaining MSS. of that library 
 that contain it. 
 
 Barberini 
 
[ vi j 
 
 Barberini-Library. 
 
 The collation of the laft of the three MSS. 
 here, containing the text of all the Prophets 
 except Daniel, had been entered upon im- 
 mediately before the clofe of the year pre- 
 ceding. During the courfe of this it has 
 been completed. 
 
 Chigian Library. 
 
 In the firft of the three MSS. here, con- 
 taining all the books of Scripture to the 
 third book of the Machabees, the whole has 
 been collated this year, except the four firft 
 books, which had been collated laft year. 
 
 The collations in both the Libraries laft 
 mentioned have been carried on by the Ab- 
 bot Stephanopoli, 
 
 VENICE. 
 
 Ducal Library of the Venetian 
 Senate. 
 
 The MSS. here marked I. and II. had 
 been in part collated laft year ; and fince 
 then the collation has been carried through 
 the remaining parts of them, and alfo 
 through the reft of the Septuagint-MSS. in 
 that library. 
 
 Library 
 
 [ vii ] 
 
 Library of the Abbot Canonici. 
 
 It was ftated in the firft year's Account 
 that a MS. containing the eight firft books 
 of Scripture had been found here. Upon in- 
 Ipedlion it appeared a very fingular and va- 
 luable MS. and through the three firft books 
 of the Pentateuch its text differed exceed- 
 ingly from that of any other written or 
 printed copy, but in fubfequent books it ap- 
 proached nearer to their text. It has during 
 this year been collated. 
 
 Zenian-Library at Venice. 
 
 Here is one MS. containing the Pfalms 
 and Canticles. 
 
 Nanian Library at Venice. 
 
 Here alfo was found one MS. containings 
 the Pfalms and Canticles. 
 
 Both the MSs'. laft mentioned have been 
 collated this year. 
 
 Mr. Schow, one of the two Collators re- 
 commended by His Eminence The Cardinal 
 Borgia, has made the above collations ; and 
 before he quitted Venice he made diligent 
 enquiry, but could not difcover any other 
 ieptuagint-MSS. there. 
 
 BOLOGNA. 
 
iM>iMa»»s<a.diite 
 
 ■mmmM 
 
 riMta 
 
 t viii ] 
 
 BOLOGNA. 
 
 Library of the Canons Sti Salvatoris. 
 
 Of the two MSS. depofited here mention 
 was made in the firft year's Account. 
 
 The firft of them contains the Pfalms and 
 Canticles, and was reputed to be of the ele- 
 venth century. But upon a careful infpedion 
 it feemed that the writer had imitated the 
 hand-writing of that age, and that the MS. 
 was not older than the thirteenth century. 
 
 The other is of the eleventh century, 
 as appears from the writer's own note at 
 the end. It contains the Text of the fixteen 
 Prophets. 
 
 Both the above MSS. have been collated 
 during the year lad pad. 
 
 MILAN. 
 
 Under this article I have nothing further 
 to fay, than that the collation of Genefis and 
 Exodus in the ancient and very valuable 
 Ambrofian MS. containing the fix firft books 
 of Scripture has been obligingly fent me by 
 Dr. Branca the Librarian. 
 
 VIENNA, 
 
 f i^ J 
 
 VIENNA, 
 C-2SAREAN Library. 
 
 The collation has been entered upon here 
 during this year by the two perfons whom 
 the Librarian, as ftated in the former Ac- 
 count, had recommended; and four MSS 
 have beeii collated. One of them was the 
 celebrated MS. in capital letters of filver on 
 a ground of purple, and of the higheft an- 
 
 A-?f •^V.^^™^^""' save an account of this 
 MS. in his Catalogue of the Vienna-Library • 
 but on the prefent occafion it has been made 
 out that the reading of the MS. is different 
 in fome places from what Lambecius had re- 
 prefented it to be. 
 
 The fame two perfons will proceed in col- 
 lating other MSS. in that library. 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 Royal Library. 
 
 In Cod. fignat. ii. containing twenty- two 
 books of Scripture, fome of the latter books 
 had not yet been collated at the clofe of the 
 fccond year of the work. That remainder 
 has been fince then collated. There have 
 aifo been collated four other MSS. of this 
 
 h Library, 
 
r 
 
 I"; 
 
 i 
 
 [ ^ ] 
 
 Library, and the book of Genefis in two 
 others. Thefe collations have been made by 
 Monf. Coray, and he will proceed to fur- 
 ther collations in the fame library. 
 
 THE HAGUE. 
 
 Mr. Meerman's Library. 
 
 There were here, according to what I had 
 read and heard, three Septuagint-MSS. On 
 my application to Mr. Meerman he fhewed 
 fo much kindnefs to this work and myfelf as 
 to permit that they fhould be tranfmitted to 
 me at Oxford. When he came however to 
 put his obliging purpofe into execution , 
 the firft of the three was not to be found; 
 nor has the enquiry fince made enabled him 
 to form any conjecture when or how it was 
 loft. 
 
 The remaining two came to me. The firft 
 of them contains Ecclen ; Cantic. Cantico- 
 rum J Sapient. Salomonis j Ecclum j but in 
 the firft two books of the four there are 
 fome fmall deficiencies. — The other MS. 
 contains the Pfalms and Canticles. 
 
 I have collated thefe MSS. and found fome 
 of their differences from the Vatican-text to 
 be new and worthy of confideration, I can- 
 not 
 
 [ xi ] 
 
 not clofe this article without expreffing my 
 thankful acknowledgments to Mr. Meerman 
 for the favour he has {hewn me. 
 
 AUGSBURG. 
 
 PuBLicK Library. 
 
 Here is one MS. 
 
 Pfalterium admodum vetus, ac fimile illi, 
 cujus in Polygraphiae libro fexto Trithemius, 
 aliique mentionem fecerunt. 
 
 By letter received from Profeffor Schnur- 
 rer, I had the fatisfadtion of hearing that Mr, 
 Mertens, the Librarian, had already entered 
 upon the collation of the MS. there depo- 
 fited. As a confiderable time has pafTed fince 
 that letter came, the whole of the MS. may 
 have been collated, though I am not able to 
 ftate abfolutely that it is. This is one of the 
 many inftances in which this work is in- 
 debted to the kind interference and recom- 
 mendation of Profeffor Schnurrer. 
 
 ZURICH, 
 
 PuBLicK Library. 
 
 There is extant an Epiftle of Breitinger, 
 De antiquiffimoTuricenfis BibliothecaeGraeco 
 
 b z Pfalmo- 
 
'-«?-- 
 
 [ xH ] 
 
 Pfalniorum Libro, in membrana purpurea 
 titulis aureis et argenteis exarato. Turici. 
 1748. But upon enquiry made by Profeflbr 
 Schnurrer, intelligence was received that nq 
 fuch MS. was to be found there, nor any 
 ether Septuagint-MS. 
 
 BASIL. 
 PuBLicK Library. 
 
 Here are four MSS. 
 
 1. In 4to and marked A. vii. 3. contains 
 the Pfalms, written in uncial letters of the 
 fmaller fize, and has an interlinear Latin 
 Verfion. At the end of each Greek word 
 there is one point, and fometimes two, 
 
 2. In 4to, marked B. vi. 18. contains the 
 Books of Genefis and Exodus. 
 
 3. In 4to, marked B. vi, 22. contains the 
 four books of Kings and the two books of 
 Chronicles. 
 
 4. In 4to, marked B. vi. 23. contains Job. 
 Prov. Ecclef. Cant. Cantjc. Sapient. Sira- 
 cid. The firft and laft leaf of this MS. are 
 wanting. 
 
 DRESDEN. 
 
 [ xiii ] 
 
 DRESDEN, 
 Electoral Library, 
 Here are three MSS. 
 
 1. Contains the books of Prov. Ecclef, 
 Cant. Cantic, and Job; with fome few Scho- 
 Jia, and with fome vafious readings of LXX, 
 and alfo fome readings gf Aquila, Symnia- 
 phps, Theodotion, 
 
 2. Contains the books of Ecclef. Pro* 
 verbs, in part, and Cant. Cantic. with Scho- 
 h'a of Olympiodorus and others, 
 
 3. Contains the book of Job. 
 
 MOSCOW. 
 
 Library of the Holy Synod. 
 
 As the permiffion to poUate the MSS. in 
 this library muft come, as I have be?n in- 
 formed, from the Synod itfelf, it has been 
 my endeavour to find fome perfon of weight in 
 i^, to whom my application might be made. 
 In that endeavour I have in more than one in- 
 flance failed. But fince that I have addreffed 
 my application by letter to Samuel, Metro- 
 politan of Kiovy. The anfwer returned me 
 )vas as favourable, as the fituation and cir- 
 
 cumflances 
 
i 
 
 I 
 II: 
 
 t xiv ] 
 
 cumftances of The Prelate left it in his 
 power to make it. He exprefled the beft 
 wiflies for the advancement and fuccefs of 
 the work; and aflured me that he would 
 have ufed his perfonal endeavours to obtain 
 the leave I requefted, if his refidence had 
 been at Mofcow or near it. But as he lived 
 conftantly at Kiow, the great diftance pre- 
 vented his ferving me in the manner I wiflied. 
 All he could was to give me his advice how to 
 proceed ; and he accordingly direfted me to 
 apply by letter to Gabriel, the Bifliop of No- 
 vogorod, and to ufe his name. He recom- 
 mended this flep becaufe the Bifhop of No- 
 vogorod was Prefident of the Synod, and 
 commonly upon the fpot, and was favourably 
 difpofed, as he very well knew, to all literary 
 works of this fort. 
 
 Such was principally the fubftance of the 
 Bifhop's very kind and very ferviceable letter j 
 ^nd his diredlions were forthwith obeyed. 
 And as fome length of time has now elapfed 
 fince my application to the Bifhop of Novo- 
 gorod was tranfmitted by the favour of Count 
 Woronzow, I am in hopes that an anfvver 
 will foon be received. 
 
 I have however been able at prefent to 
 make up in fome meafure for this delay and 
 
 difficulty 
 
 
 [ XV ] 
 
 difficulty refpedling the Mofcow-MSS. I have 
 met with collations of three of the moft va- 
 luable among them. They are as follows j 
 
 Cod. fignat. 341. Membranaceus, fcriptus 
 faec. xii. aut xi. Continet libros Proverb. 
 Ecclef. Cantic. Cantic. Sap. Salomon. Sira- 
 chid. xii Minor, et iv Major. Prophetas. 
 Efther. Judith. Macchabaeor. tres. Fuit olim 
 Monafterii Batopedii. 
 
 The collation I have procured goes through 
 the Text of the Minor Prophets in this 
 
 MS. 
 
 Cod. fignat. 219. Membranaceus, fcriptus 
 fa:c. X. aut xi. Continet xii Prophetas Mi- 
 nores ; cum Scholiis Theodoreti, quibus ta- 
 men et aliorum Scholia funt admifta. 
 
 The collation I have of this MS. is 
 complete. 
 
 ^ Cod. membranaceus Typography Synoda- 
 lis, fignat. xxxi. Eft Ledionarium ex V.T. 
 fuit olim in Monafterio Laurs in Monte 
 Atho. 
 
 This is a MS. of confiderable value, and 
 the more fo as Ledlionaria V. T. are uncom- 
 mon. The collation I have of it is complete. 
 
 The 
 
[ 3£vi ] 
 
 The much lamented death of Dr. Woide 
 gave me reafon to fear that the advances of 
 the work would fall much fhort of that 
 point, to which it was my purpofe and ex- 
 pedlation to bring them by the end of this 
 third year. The Mufeum-MSS. of the 
 Pfalms had been collated by him in con- 
 jundlion with Mr. Harper as far as the Sad 
 Pfalm in each copy.' And had he lived, fo 
 much more would have been collated by 
 them in each MS. that it would have been 
 in my power to have finifhed by this 
 time the whole of what was to be done at 
 the Mufeum. In confequence of the lofs of 
 that afliftance upon which I had reckoned, 
 the reft of the collation there depended en- 
 tirely on endeavours of my own. To the 
 Truftees I am therefore the more highly in- 
 debted for the permiflion they were fo kind 
 as to give, that the Mufeum-MSS. fhould be 
 tranfmitted hither for my ufe, the Pfalters by 
 three at a time, and the Arundelian and Pa- 
 chomian MSS. fingly. It was a favour ex- 
 tremely feafonable and important. For though 
 expence was incurred by journeys to London to 
 receive and return the MSS. yet that expence 
 was much lefs than muft have been incurred, 
 if no further favour had been allowed me, 
 than that of collating them at the Mufeum. 
 Thus facilitated in my progrefs, I have been 
 
 able 
 
 'r: 
 
 [ xvii ] 
 
 pofe, at Icaft fo far, that no more iha/a Va , 
 of one Mufeum.M9 r«,v,„- *«*"<* part 
 
 Tn ru rr"l ^^^^- remains now uneolJated 
 In the courfe of fome few weeks the rem • ! 
 of that will Itrna h ^!:^^^''^^^'^ema,nder 
 andX 11 ' ^^"^ ^^^" Sone through, 
 
 ami he collation will then have been com- 
 pleted, I apprehend, in all the MSS of thi. 
 country. If it Should pleafe this BWd and h 
 Pubiick to continueTheir fupport of the wo k 
 mypomt then will be to apply part of mv 
 time m putting the copy of Genefis oLther 
 !" ^" '^; MSS. that have it, while I am wai 
 -g for foreign collations of fubfequenrbrok ^ 
 Wuh a view to this purpofe, I have durin. 
 the year paft procured all the collations of 
 G nefis hat I could, without much breaking 
 in upon the advances of the collation in othef 
 
 heutmoftofinypower^butlamafrad 
 that confiderations of expence will prevent 
 n^y accelerating what others are to do in the 
 
 work quite as much as I have done, and 
 would otherwife do. 
 
March iy*\ i79i' 
 
 • COLLATIONS, this day exhibited before 
 The Delegated of the Clarendon- Prefs, and 
 then deposited in the Bodleian Library in fe- 
 parate volunies' in folio with pafteboard- 
 cbvers, are thefe^ 
 
 Vol. XXIV. Exodus. Leviticus, Numeri. 
 Deuteronom. Jofhua. Judic. Ruth. 
 In the MS. of the Dominicans at Fefulae 
 near Florence. 
 
 Vol. XXV, Leviticus a cap. xi. com. xi. 
 
 ad fin, — Numeri, Deuteronom. Jo- 
 
 Ihua. Judic. Ruth, i, ii, iii. Regg. 
 
 et iv. ad cap. v. com. i6. 
 
 In a MS. of the Chigian Library at Rome. 
 
 i, ii, iii, iv. Regg. i, ii, Paralipom. 
 i, ii. Efdra;. Neemias. Judith. Eft- 
 her. Tobias, i. Macchab.ad cap.xi. 
 com, 48. 
 In MS. I. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. XXVI. Ecclus. Ifaias. Jeremias. La- 
 mentat. Baruch. Ezekiel. Daniel, 
 xii. Proph. Minor, i. Macchab, et 
 
 ii. ad 
 
 ( xix ) 
 
 ii. ad cap. iv. com. 45. i, ii. Efdrae, 
 et iii. fcil. Neemiae, Tobias. Judith. 
 Efther. Job. Proverb. Ecclef. Can- 
 tic. Cantic. Sapient. Salomon, ad 
 cap. xix. com. 18. ii. Macchab. a 
 cap.iv. com, 45.3d fin. Pfalmicum 
 Canticis. 
 In MS. I. of Ferrara. 
 
 xii, Prophet. Minor, excepto Ho- 
 fea. Ifaias ad cap. Ixiii. com. 12. 
 
 In a MS. of the Barberini^Library at Rome, 
 
 Vol. XXVII. Pfalmi cum Canticis. 
 
 In MSS. 24. «6. of Royal Library, Paris. 
 
 In MS. of Mr. Meerman at the Hague. 
 
 In thirteen MSS, of the Britifh Mufeum, 
 from Pfalm Ixxviii. 
 
 1 
 
 Vol. XXVm. Jofliua. Judic. i. Regg. et 
 ii. ad cap. xxiv, com. 25. 
 
 In MS, II. of the Ducal Library at Venice. 
 
 Pentateuchus. Jofhua. Judic, Ruth. 
 i, ii, iii, iv. Regg, i, ii. Paralipom. 
 i, ii, Efdrje, Nehemias. Efther, 
 ad cap. viii. com. 9. 
 
 la MS. IV, of the Ducal Library at Venice, 
 
 c 2 Genefis, 
 
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 Genefis. 
 In MS. of the Dominicans ?t Fefuls, 
 Florence. 
 
 Vol. XXIX. Ifaias. Jeremias. j:.amentat, 
 Ezekiel. Daniel. 
 In MS. IX, Plutei V. of the Medicean 
 Jjibrary. 
 
 x\\, Prophet. Minor. Ifaias. Jere- 
 mias. Baruch. Lanientat. Eze- 
 chiel. Daniel. 
 In MS. 452. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 xii. Prophet. Minor. Ifaias. Jere- 
 mias ad cap. 36, cpm. 29. 
 In MS, of Bologna. 
 
 Vol. XXX. Genefis. 
 
 In MSS. II. VII, of the Casfarean library, 
 
 Genefis, 
 Jn Six MSS, of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. XXXI. Jeremias. Lament. Ezekiel, 
 
 Daniel. Sufann. Bel et Draco. To^ 
 
 bit. Judith, i, ii, iii. Macchab. et 
 
 iv. ad cap. 18. com. 23. 
 
 Jn MS. I, of the Ducal Library at Venice, 
 
 Joftiu^. 
 
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 Jofliua. Judic. i, ii, iii, iv, Regg, i, 
 ii.Paralipom. i,ii.Efdr£. Neemias. 
 
 Jn MS, in, of the Ducal Library at Venice. 
 
 Vol. XXXII. Genefis. 
 
 In MSS. in. IV. of Royal Lib. Paris. 
 
 Pentateuchus. 
 In MS. of Abbot Canonici, 
 
 Genefis. Exodus. 
 In MS. of Ambrofian Library. 
 
 Vol. XXXIII. i, ii, iii, iv. Regg. i, ii. Pa-, 
 ralipom. Neemias. Efthcr. 
 In MS. II. of Royal Library, Paris, 
 
 Vol. XXXIV. Pentateuchus. Jofh. Judic. 
 Ruth, i, ii, iii, iv. Regg. i, ii. Pa- 
 ralipom, i, ii. Efdr. Neemias. i, ii, 
 iii. Macchab. Efth?r. Judith. Tobit. 
 
 In MS, II. of Ferrara, 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 In MS. III. of Ferrara. 
 
 Ezekiel a cap. 36. com. 18. xii. 
 Proph. Minor. Job. Proverb. Ec- 
 iples, Cantic. Cantic. Eilber, a 
 
 cap. 
 
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 cap. 9. com. 12. Sapient. Salom, 
 ad cap. 19. com. 18. Sirachid. 
 In MS. V. of the Ducal Library, Venice. 
 
 Ecclus. 
 In MS. of Mr, Me?rman at the Hague. 
 
 Pfalmi cum Canticis. 
 In MS. of Zenian Library, Venice, 
 |n MS, of the Nanian Library, Venice. 
 
 Vol. XXXV, Genefis. 
 
 In Three MSS. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 ^n One MS, of Libr, of Monaftery of St, 
 Mark, Florence, 
 
 xii. Prophet. Minores, 
 
 In MSS. 341. 219, of Mofcow-Library, 
 Ledtioparium, 
 
 In MS. Mofq. 31. 
 
 i, ii, iii. Macchab. i, ii. Efdr?p. To- 
 bit. Judith. 
 
 Jn MS. II. Royal Library, Paris, 
 
 Vol. XXXVI. i. Macchab. a cap. xi. com, 
 51. etii, iii, ad cap, vii, com, 22, 
 Job, Pfalmi, 
 jj, MS. h of the Vatican Library. 
 
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 1. Rcgg. a cap. xiii. incluf. ad fin* 
 cap. XT. 
 
 In MS. I. D. II. of Britifh Mufeum. 
 
 Baruch. 
 
 In MS. I. B. II. of 5ritirh Mufeum. 
 
 Eccles. Cant. Cantic. Sap. Salome 
 In MS. of Mr. Meerman of the Hague. 
 
 Collatio Citationum ex V, T. 
 In Epiftola Clementis Romani Utraque. 
 
 Collations of this year have gone through 
 the whole of Thirty MSS. if that at Augf- 
 burg be done, which there is reafon to fup- 
 pofe ; and nearly through the whole of Four 
 others, containing each fome books, and one 
 of them containing many. 
 
 The firft half has been alfo collated in One 
 MS. and the latter half in Sixteen others ; 
 the concluding fourth part in One of the 
 largeft, about a third part in One other, and 
 the book of Genefis in Twelve others. 
 
 Upon the whole j Greek MSS. completely 
 collated are One hundred and fix — collated 
 
 in 
 
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 in part. Twenty, namely through a confi- 
 derable part. Three, and through Genefis, 
 Seventeen. MSS. either publilhed, or not to 
 be found in Places and Libraries to which 
 Catalogues had afcribed them, or pofterior' 
 to the Origin of Printing, and therefore not 
 to be collated, are Twenty. 
 
 Oriental MSS. collated are Three, and 
 fome part of Another. 
 
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 Oxford, Delegates'-Room, March 17, 1791. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day 
 exhibited to The, Delegates of the Prefs 
 fuch Collations of the Septuagint MSS. as 
 have been made in the laft year paft, ac- 
 cording to the State now printed } Refolved 
 that the Sum of 40^^. annually be allowed to 
 him for the three years next immediately en- 
 fuing, to enable him to compleat the Colla- 
 tions and prepare them for the Prefs. 
 
 The Delegates fully fatisfied with the Pro- 
 grefs- made by Dr. Holmes, think it incum- 
 bent upon them again to recommend this 
 Work to the Patronage of the Publick. 
 
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Account of Expences incurred during 
 the third Year. 
 
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 Venice -Collator's allowance for 
 fubfiftence at 81. per Month 
 from March inclufive to Auguft 
 inclufive — — 48 
 
 Ditto Salary for faid fix months 30 
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 the Dominican library at Fefuls 40 
 
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 BRtTISH MUSEUM. 
 
 At the clofe of the preceding year, the 
 only one of the Mufeum-MSS. of. which 
 Lrpart remained to be collated, was tha 
 
 which is marked, i D II. It contains the 
 following books of Scripture. 
 
 Ruth, Regg.i.ii>iii>iv. -^^P'^^ 
 Efdr. Nehem. Efthei-, Macchab. », 
 ii, iii. Efther. rursus. Ifaiae. 
 
 The book of Ruth, twenty chapters of th« 
 firft book of Kings, -"<! the book of Ifai^, 
 hadbeen collated before the delivery pf the 
 laft Account; the reft has been coUaUd in 
 the courfe of this year, and the variations of 
 
 the MS. from any printed Text are extreme- 
 ly numerous, and many of them appear ot 
 great confequence. 
 
 This is the MS. which was ^ozm^'^ 
 known by the name of the Arundclian. Ot 
 
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 the two different copies of the book of 
 Efther, which it contains, one is according 
 to the Hexaplar Text.of Origen, the other, 
 according to the Text of the Ke<;^. Both of 
 them were printed by Archbilhop Ufher at 
 the end of his Syntagma de Grascl LXX 
 Intpp. Vcrfione, Lond. 1655. Each of thefe 
 printed copies has been collated with the 
 MS-copy, from which it was taken : and 
 what Dr. Grabe obferved, with refpeft to 
 the MS. Text of Origen, is juft, as far as it 
 goes. " Afterifci quidem aliqui manu prima 
 Scriptoris funt appofiti ; plures verb una cum 
 %nis finalibus, ut et lemnifci, iis quae in 
 Hebraeo Textu non extant appofiti, recen- 
 tioris funt Librarii ; ac Hi quidem forte ip- 
 flus Uffcrii &c. Grabe De Vitiis LXX In- 
 terpretum Verfioni ante Origenis avum il- 
 latis, pag. 104. 
 
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 With refpeft to the Text of the MS. and 
 
 the Impreflion from it, fomewhat further 
 
 may be added. 
 
 Hexaplar marks, inferted in the MS. either 
 by the firft hand or by that of the Primate, 
 are, in fome few inftances, omitted«in the 
 printed copy, or placed wrongly as to their 
 
 A 2 beginning 
 
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 begjnniag or end ; or appear ia the Edition, 
 without being in the MS. 
 
 There were left in the MS. vacant fpaceis; 
 feme capable of containing three or four 
 lines : and thence it fhould feem that there 
 were, at thofe feveral places in the copy 
 from which the Arundclian was taken, parts 
 of the Text which the writer could not 
 make out, and for which the blanks were 
 left, in cafe it fhould be poffible to fill up 
 the defedts by the help of other legible copies. 
 Moft of thefe deficiencies the Primate had 
 then the means of fupplying j and he accord- 
 ingly inferted in the Arundclian MS. portions 
 of the Text, which the writer of it had 
 omitted. There however ftill remains in the 
 MS. a vacant fpace of three lines at leaft, 
 where the Primate has made no fupplement. 
 The Greek, there omitted, may poffibly be 
 preferved in other MSS. though it appeared 
 in none that had then been examined. 
 
 The feveral pafTages, which the Pri- 
 mate had inferted in the Arundclian MS. 
 ftand in his printed copy between brackets j 
 in one inftance however the brackets are apr 
 plied, tfi fome lines of Greek, which the 
 writer of the MS. had not omitted. 
 
 What 
 
 i S ] 
 
 What appeared to the Primate the mere 
 error of the tranfcribepy that he coi:re(^ed ; 
 fometimes in the MS. itfelf, and always in 
 his Edition. Corrections however are made 
 in fome infliances, where it may be queftibned 
 whether a mifi;ake had been made by the 
 writer i and in each of the MS. copies, there 
 are fome few portions of Greek, which do 
 not appear in the refpedive imprefHon. 
 
 I cannot difmlfs this article without re- 
 peating my moft refpeftful thanks to The 
 Truftees, for Their favour in permitting 
 Mufeum-MSS. to be fent hither for my ufe ; 
 and particularly for allowing the Arundelian 
 Ms. to remain in my hands for a length of 
 time, much exceeding what I prefumed would 
 have been fufEcient for collating it. 
 
 SAXE-GOTHA. 
 
 Ducal Library. 
 
 Here is One MS. 
 
 Membranaceus, fcriptus luculentiiHm^ et 
 pukherrim^ a Graeca et diligentl manu fsec. 
 ut videtur, xi. in foliis raajoris forms 415. 
 
 fed 
 
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 fed mutilus. Continet Pfalmos cum ingenti 
 variorum Patrum Catend. Patrum nomina, 
 rubris defcripta in marginibus, haec funt ; 
 Chryfoflomus, Cyrillus, Bafilius M. Eufebi' 
 us, Gregorius Theologus, Athanafius, Theo- 
 doretus, Gregorius Nyffenus. Hi faepe ap- 
 pellantur ; rarius Icguntur nomina Origenis, 
 Ifidori, Ephremi, Philonis, dementis et Do- 
 rothei. Prolegomena ab initio funt mutila. 
 Incipit Codex a recenfione Editionum, quas 
 reperts funt Caracallo et Alexandro Impera- 
 toribus. 
 
 As foon as it became known to the Duke 
 for what purpofe a Collation of this MS. was 
 requefted. His Highncfs went fo far in fa- 
 vour of the work, as to order that the MS. 
 fliould be immediately tranfmitted to the 
 Collator at Wittenberg. It has accordingly 
 been collated, and the remains of the Ver- 
 lions of the later Greek Interpreters, which 
 occurred in the Catena, have been tranfcribed 
 from it. 
 
 LEIPSICK. DRESDEN. 
 
 At the firft of thefe two places, befides the 
 MS. publiftied by Fifcher, there is Another 
 containing the Pfalms. 
 
 And 
 
 I % } 
 
 And in the EleftpraliLibr^ at the latter 
 place are Three MSS.: of which mention was 
 made in the laft year's Account. 
 
 With refpeft to the Collation of the MSS. 
 at both thefe places, I fubjoin an extrad from 
 a letter fcnt me by ProfeiTor Matthai. " 
 
 " Pfalterium Lipfienfe curabo. — - Totum 
 hoc negotium (refpedting the Drefden- 
 MSS. ) mihl potcras committere. Viginti 
 tantum miliariis Germanicis diftat Drefda ab 
 Vitemberga. Accedit, quod Drefdenfes Co- 
 dices mei quondam fuerunt/ atque e^ lege a 
 me venditi funt, ut fi eis opus haberem^ ad 
 tempus mutu6 acciperem," 
 
 Fitmbergtgf Odl. i . 1 79 1 . 
 
 I have accordingly requefted him to un« 
 dertake the Collation of them. 
 
 VIENNA. 
 C^ESAREAN Library. - • 
 
 Here fome advances have been made in 
 the courfe of the year -paft, and the work is 
 now going on in the fame hands, that have 
 hitherto been employed. The MSS. that 
 
 have 
 
 ■ 1 
 
C ^ J 
 
 have been collated this y^ar, are Four, and 
 to them is to be 'added the book of Ecder 
 fiafllcus in a Fifth; and the progrefs in this 
 Library would be rather more ipeedy, if 
 Greek MSS; of the LXX were the fingle ob- 
 jects before Mr. Alter. But as Jie goes on in 
 collating Them, he carries on at the fame 
 time .the Collation of the Ar^ieni^n and 
 Sila,yonian VerfionsV 
 
 K on 6 S.K A, Mmgary, 
 
 Pxintcd Catalogues \of Septuagint-MSS. 
 gave teafon to expeft that Ope wa? depofited 
 here. Enquiry after '\t was accordingly made 
 at my defire, and permifHon to collate it was 
 requefted. The anfwer returned to the en- 
 quiry W9$i cpipp;xunicated to me in the fol- 
 lowing words by Mr* Alter of the Caefarean 
 Library. 
 
 ** Ecclefia Konorraii, nullum poflidet Scla- 
 vonicum Codicem antiquiiEmum, peque etiam 
 Graecum Veteris Teftamcoti antiquiflimum, 
 de quo monuit Kennicottus in publicis Ephe- 
 meridibus, ut Glariffimus Denifius mihi, ex 
 Epiftola Praspofiti Ungari, communicavitj re- 
 vocatum eft, Konorraii nihil fimile adefle." 
 
 MOSCOW. 
 
 
 f 9 ]■ 
 
 • : M o 5 C; a.w. . 
 
 ^"^^^^^«^^;the Holy SVNOD. 
 
 thJ°-*^' ^^ year's ■Account it Was ftatcd 
 bLT 7^^'''^''' ^'"^ been made to The 
 
 me Mib. m thefeLibraries; '^ 'No anfwer has 
 come t^^rty: hands; lam therefo^S' 
 
 '-ll>f'- 
 
 ''>:,[ y. 
 
 sq . /-'" '^^^^'^^^ TwoiUbrarieA one 
 SS Synodi, and the other, Typographei Sv 
 nodah^-IK^feacK^W,ei^^ti,^2^^S 
 W Septuagint-MSS;^ I have pS 1 
 Catalogue of themV whith is here \^Xd! 
 
 BifiLroTH.sS. Synodi.' 
 
 Codex I Chartaceus, in folio, num. xxx. Ssc xv 
 a duobus Librariis fcriptus. Exarati funt a Ni-' 
 codemoquodamlibr.feqq. Genefis. Exodus. Lc 
 viticus. Numeri. Deuteron. Jof. Judic. Ruth. 
 Regg..,„,,„ iv paralip.i,ii. Efdr.;,ii. Nehem. 
 Macchab. ,, ,, uu Jofeph. in Macchab. Efther 
 
 Jud.th. Tobic. Proyerbia Salon.. Item aliaPro: 
 verbia. Ecclef. pardm; Indices capitum horum 
 27 hbrorum prims partis fol.i--6. leguntur. 
 
 ^ Convenit 
 
 I' 
 
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 Convenit numerus capitum cum diftinftlonc ea 
 qus in Libris Editis reperitur. Scripti funt ab 
 alio Scriba, Sasculi item xv. libri. Ecclef. reli- 
 quum. Cantic. Cantic. Sap. Salom. 
 
 2. Membranaceus, in folio, numeroxxxi. a. (bis 
 enim hie numerus occurrit) Saeculi ix. Ab initio 
 folia 58 fcripta funt a manu Saec. xv. in charta. 
 Continet, Oftateuchi libros. Regg. libros, in 
 ft'» et 3"° mutilos. Paralip. i, et ii. ufquc ad 
 fol. 435, unde a recentiori Scriba SaEC. xv. funt 
 omnia ad fol. 440. ubi definit Codex mutilus in 
 cap, 36. conv 5. 
 
 3. Chartaceus, in folio, numero xix. fcriptus ut 
 videtur ab Hypographe in ultim. folio fere de- 
 leta, a Metrophane Hieromonacho, Anno poft 
 Chriftum natum 1475- Continet libros Penta- 
 teuch. Jofuse. Judic. mutilum poft. cap.xx. 31-. 
 Judith. Tobit. et alia, fed nihil aliud de Sacro 
 Textu. Adeft Catena Patrum ad Genefin et 
 Exodum. 
 
 4. Membranaceus, in 4". numero cccxli. Ssc, 
 xii, aut xi. Continet libros. Proverb. Ecclef. 
 Cantic. Cantic. Sap. Salom. Sirachid. xii Pro- 
 phetar. Min. Ifaias. Jerem. Baruch. Lament. Je- 
 rem. Ezek. Dan. Efther. Judith. Tobit. Macch. 
 i, ii, iii. Fuit olim hie Codex in monafterio Ba- 
 
 topedii. -, 
 
 * 5. Mem- 
 
 t M ] 
 
 S* Membranaceus, in foljp, numero cc«. Sasc. x. 
 
 , vel », ^pntinet xn Pxopliet. Minor, cum Scho- 
 
 lii3 Theodoreti, quibus tamep CyrUU et He- 
 
 fychii, et fortafle alioruni quoque Scholia funt 
 
 admifta. 
 
 $., Membraaaceuspartim, .chartaceus partim, in 
 4". numero cccli. Sjecxv autxvi. Fuit quon- 
 dam in Monafterio BatopediL Continet interpre- 
 tationem Theodoreti in libros xii Proph. Mi- 
 nor, cum fragmentis Sacri Tcxtus. 
 
 7, Membranaceus, in foJio, nurats-o cxlviji. Sxc. 
 xii; aut xilL fuit quondam in Monafterio Ibe- 
 ronun. Continet libram Job), cum Catena Pa- 
 trum. Proverbia Salonn. Eeclef. Cantic. Cantic. 
 Sap. Salom. ( fed defunt a fol. 1 68, ad 173. hie 
 interferuntur aliquot Pfalmi.) Sirachid. 
 
 8. ^artaceus, in folio, ~^ numero xxiv. Sasc. xv. 
 Continet Catenam Variorum Patrum in Ifaiam. 
 
 9. Membranaceus, in folio, numero ccccxxx. 
 Sxc xL Continet Catenam Patrum in Ifaiam 
 aliquanto diverfam ab ea in Cod' 8. 
 
 10. A^emjbranceus,, j^tt folio, Ssc xL ut monet 
 Hypographe Scribae if»fiu^. Continet Eccldiaf- 
 len, <^m piympioidori ,iun^i^'fA«a-t. 
 
 B 2 
 
 II. Ment* 
 
-v f 
 
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 11. Membranaceus, in 4»' minore, numerocccxxix. 
 SaeG4 xi; Continet Jpbi textum, fcriptum literis 
 majufculis ftx*if«f a cap. i. 5. ad cap. xiii. 3. '■ 
 
 12. Membranaceus, in 4'°. numero cccxi-n, Ssc. 
 xiii, vel xiv. Fuit olim in Monafterio Dionyfii. 
 Continet Proverbia Salom. Ecclen.' cunrt com- 
 mentariis. 
 
 ;>..;. ' r'--iv' '■■ •;:; •• 
 
 13. Membra,nceus, in;4"'mino,re, nurpeifp ccclxxxv. 
 
 Saec. xi. Continet , Textum Jobi a c«ip* xiii, 25. 
 cum catena patrum. Hie et Codex 11. quondam 
 jun£bi • fuerunt, ac ,uiium '■ integrum efFdcerunt. 
 Sunt, enim iidem plane ■ dudtus literarum. ■ Sed 
 in fine hujus alia manusTiextum co'ntinuavit. 
 
 J4. Membranaceys, in.4"!, nuiP?ro cccx<.nJ[. Sscx. 
 Contiqet Pfalmos cum Canticis. 
 
 15. Membranaceus, in 4". numero cccxi,v. Sjec.xi. 
 Fuit olim in Monafterio mpntis Athoqis Ibpro- 
 rum. Continet Pfamos cum Canticis. 
 
 1 6. Codex, in 8". numero ccclxxj?viii. Saec. xv. 
 Continet Pfalmos cum Scholiis. Fuit oliqi Co- 
 dex in Monafterio Iberorum. 
 
 17. Membranaceus, in folio, numero cxlv. Saec. 
 xii, vel xi. Fuit quondam in monafterio Ibero- 
 rum, ct in bibiiotheca Maximi Epifcopi Cythe- 
 j-Qrumi Continet Pfalmos cum Canticis. 
 
 J 8, Mems 
 
 [ I13 3 
 
 'ig.^ Membranaceus,"ift f6ii6,''numert>'cxLvi. Sjec. 
 xiii' vel xiii. ' Fuit quondam in Monafterio Lau- 
 ras Athanafli. Continet Pfalmos cum Cantic. 
 
 19. Bombycinus, in folio, numero cxlviii. Sasc. 
 xiii. Fuiti quondam in Monafterio Iberorum. 
 Continet Pfalmos. 
 
 20. Membranaceus, i^ folio, numero ccxiv. Ssec. 
 X, forte. Fuit quondam in Monafterio Iberorum. 
 Continet .Pfalmos cum Canticis. 
 
 21. Membranaceus,' in folio, numero ccxiii. Ssec. 
 xiii, vel xii. Continet Pfalmos cum.interpreta- 
 tione Theodoreti valdS abbreviata.' . 
 
 22. Membranaceus, in4"min. numero cccxxvui. 
 Saec. xi. Continet Pfalmos cum Canticis. 
 
 23. Membranaceus, in 8*°. numero ccclxxx. Sasc. 
 xii. Continet Pfalmos cum Candcis. 
 
 24. Chartaceus, in 4"" minore, numero cccxliv. 
 Saec. XV. Continet Pfalmos cuni Canticis. 
 
 25; Chartaceus, in folio, numero cclxxxi. Sxc. 
 xvi. Fuit quondam in Moiiafterio Lauras Atha- 
 nafli. Continet Pfalmos cum Canticis. 
 
 2 6. Chartaceus, in 8" minore, numero cccxc. Saec. 
 XVJ. Continet Pfalmo§ cum Capticis. 
 
 27. Pars 
 
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 ay. Pars vidctur Codici? 7; nam hie habet Pfal- 
 mos tantum qui leguntur a folio 168. ad fol. 179. 
 
 j8. Chartaceus, in 2"^ numero ccclxxxix. Saec 
 xvi. Ab initio a manu paulo vetuftlore legitur 
 Pfalmus primus cum parte fccundi. 
 
 BiBLIOTHECA TyPOGRAPHEI SyNODALIS. 
 
 1. Membranaceus, in folio, numero v. Saec. x. 
 Fuit quondam in Monafterio mpntis Athonis 
 Iberorum. Continet Textum libri Genef. fcrip- 
 tum in rubris, et catenam Patrum in atramento. 
 
 2. Membranaceus, in folio, numero xxix. Sxc. 
 xi, vel xii. Continet Proverbia Salom. Job. cum 
 variorum Patrum interprctationc. 
 
 3. Chartaceus, in 4'°. numero xLii. Saec. xv. Con- 
 tinet Proverbia Salom. ufque ad Cap. v, 14. 
 Sap. Salom. Sirachid. 
 
 4. Membranaceus, in folio, numero xxxi. Saec. 
 xii. fcriptus partim a Bafilio Monacho ut monet 
 Hypographe. Fuit quondam in Monafterio Lau- 
 ra: in monte Athone. Eft Leaionarum ex Y-T. 
 A folio 184 incipitaliasnanus, fed oihil defcrip- 
 fit ex Textu Sacro. Poftpauca folia, incipit ter- 
 tia manus in membrana, defcripfitque Leftiones 
 ex V.'T. Poft aliquot folia incipit quarta manus 
 in membrana, et defcripfit Lediones ex V.T. 
 
 5. Mem- 
 
 f '5 J 
 
 5. Membranaceus, in S'', uliiwr/a vii. Saw. xii, 
 vel xiil , Continet Pialroosi ,<:um inre/prctatione 
 Theodoreti. 
 
 €. Chartaceus, in la"'. numero viii. Scriptus 
 An. Ch. 1658. Continet Pfalmos. 
 
 Collations of the. whole in Two of thefe 
 MSS. and of the Text of the Twelve Minor 
 Prophets in a Third, were brought up Jaft 
 year. At prefent I have to add Collations of 
 the firfl: chapter in each of the Scriptural 
 books, and of Pfalms, i^ 20, 21,44, 4^* 75» 
 log. through all fuch MSS. of both the 
 above-mentioned Libraries, as contain thofe 
 parts of the Sacred Text, and of Pfalm 13. in 
 Two, and PC 49. in One,i 
 
 MPP 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
 « 
 
 Medicean LlBBARy. 
 
 During the month of Augufl: laft intelli- 
 gence was fent me, that The Grand' Puke 
 had directed Mr. Bandini to finifti His Cata- 
 logue of the Medicean Library without de- 
 lay, and that the whole of what remained 
 to be done towards completing it was more 
 than he expefted to get through before the 
 
 month 
 
C i6 ] 
 
 month of March; but that he fhould then re-, 
 fume the Collation, which this avocation had 
 obliged him to fufpend. 
 
 MILAN. 
 Ambrosian Library. ; 
 
 There are her? Eight Septuagint-MSS. 
 and what information I have to fubmit re- 
 fpeAing then) and the advances hitherto 
 made in collating them, will appear from the 
 fubfequent extraft of a letter fent me by 
 Caietanus Bugatus, one of the Doctors of 
 the Ambrofian. College. 
 
 ** Cum his litteris meis conjundam acci* 
 pies T. B. Brancae, Collegae mei, Epiflolam, 
 ex qua intelliges quo Hexateuchi noftri col- 
 latio perdudta fit.. Quod ad me pprtinet, un4 
 cum Hexateuchi fafciculo integram Trium 
 Pfalteriorum Grascorum optimae notae CoUa- 
 tionem ad Bandinium tranfmittam prope- 
 diem, una cum horum Cpdicum defcriptione. 
 Conferendi adhuc reftant Codices Duo, Saec. 
 xi. et fcquentis, librorum Jobi, Proverbiorum, 
 Ecclefiaftis, et Canticorum ; itemque Duo 
 cjufdem ferme aetatis, Libros Propheticos 
 compledentes.'-' 
 
 Dr. 
 
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 Dr. Branca has ' lately acqua^ted ipe by 
 letter, that he had fent to Florence th? Col- 
 lation of the Ambrofian Hexateuch; as far as 
 the book of Numbers, and tjiat the rtmain- 
 der to the end of the MS; was re^dy to fol- 
 low. This parcel; ;fcontaining^f6' thp Col- 
 lations of the Three MS3-.rt^ent'ipped by Dr 
 Bugatiis; is n9t yttf^tiim'Btmitczme 
 to Floi'chcei thb pdCifei;! havt rccciy^ /rohi 
 thence this year ha4byeii fenVaway. ' ' 
 
 ^ i.n\ •;■'-"] Trr7u?fWWTTT?TTr.;-, ! 
 •:..i.:;T Ufni,:Rf Lln:;N..'M. . 
 RoYA^L'LiBRARy.i'i-'bi- • - !f .' Ji ' I 
 
 The Collation ;oftl]^iVlS^;*in"'tlj^^^^ 
 ry having been'entefed'uppn tpw^rds.the en4 
 of Auguft in the year 1709, as ajjpeared fronji 
 the letjej. .under this' 'artjc|e ip. Igft Account, 
 there was reafon to'fupppfc j^at ihp CoUa- 
 tion had been continually ,^dv^'c/pg, and 
 that at this diftance of tiijie the whole of it 
 would have been ^compje^ecj. JBu^ in th? 
 month of September l.aft I received the fubr- 
 fequent letter; 
 
 Roberto HoLivjEs ■ . . 
 Thomas a Calusio ficc &c. 
 ^gre profedtb animum induco ut ad te fcri- 
 bam, quod tuli sgerrime, tibique fignificare 
 
 c haitenus 
 
I f8 3 
 
 hadleii.us diduli, mederi potius optans atque 
 emendate, vcl mea yel .^Uus opera, ^guaetuam 
 non deciperet expeftationem. Sed quando- 
 quidem neutrum vid?o ppffc fieri, /altem pro- 
 pedi'em, n"olp diutiys tuam pecuniamj fruftra 
 habere c^'adeoque rpgq ,ut:refcribas:quid ea 
 velis fiefi.. Nam quun^-, Jo.JB^p^ Opprtjus li- 
 bellum mihi tradjdif yafiarum leftionum Co- 
 dicis menibranacei PfaJino^ufu Biblipth. Tau- 
 rin. B. 11,42. cum edjtione FranequpraM a fc 
 coUati adjiitore Jo. Pavefio Baccalaureo, pu- 
 tavi efle officii mei liB^fifm faltem curfim per- 
 legere antequam ad Bandinlum mitterem ; ac 
 ftatim multa animadverti, quae mihi fufpicio- 
 nem injiccrentnegligeqtigp atque infcitiae.; id- 
 eoque notavi omnia, de'quibus mihi dubitatio 
 fuboriebatur, ut iterum Op'ertius curar MS", 
 conferret. At is libelluni a me receptum, diu- 
 que iterum apud fe habitum, retulit tandem 
 multis locis retradatum,' qu£B indicaveram, 
 fed ita ut in aliam addudtus fufpicionem fim 
 longe moleftiorem, quod himirum non ite- 
 rum codicenj confuluiflet, fed temere ac pro 
 libito ea, quae novaverat, de mea animadver- 
 fione fumfiffet. Adivi igitur ipfe Bibliothe- 
 cam, infpedtoquc codice, reperi me plane di- 
 vinafle, ac nulla dignam fide coUationem G- 
 pertii efle, tibi prorfus nulli ufui futuram, 
 
 quippe 
 
 i 19 ] 
 
 ^ippe;quWfepe varietatem annotet, ubi nul- 
 la eft, ubi eft, prajtereat, male multa le<fta 
 habeat,^ multa fcripta mendofe; ad he admo- 
 neat quidem^ quum Pf. a' plagula occufrit car- 
 
 taceamanu recentiorer-Quare ne pecuniam 
 niale perdas. libellum, ^ndui ad Bandfn" um 
 mittere, neque eft cur apud me velis eam efle, 
 quum quod unum fortaflb adhuc tibi potero 
 pr^flare non fit penfandum argento. Nam 
 quod fupereft unum.eft, ut, fi quid otii nac- 
 t s fuero, ,pfe codicem Vonferam, quando- 
 quidem, cm fidam, qui ' opus mercede velit 
 fufcipere, ncminem habeo., Rogo igkur ut 
 Jgnific^-Utrurn velis peci^ii;^ &, Sc red- 
 teTVapezua.,^reno,Vquoacce^ 
 ahter ad te remitt,,.aut alii aJicui perfolvi. 
 C^terum fi quid aliud^ignificaveris, in quo 
 poflim nbr ^ratifieari, mihi gratiffii^ipm fe- 
 cerzs. Aveo enim; tibi problrc voluntatem 
 meam in horomes dodos qui de re publica 
 literana ac prscipue de Sacra Philologia bene 
 mereri ftudent., Yale: ' ^ 
 
 Taurim\ xKaUSept. 17^1. 
 
 Such^and fo unexpeded an impediment 
 to the advances of the Undertaking at Turin 
 has happened during the'prefent year. Upon 
 receipt of this intelUgence, I immediately 
 
 c z renewed 
 
[ .20 ] 
 
 renewed my application to The Abbe Calufio, 
 and earneftly requeftedhim to do me the 
 further' favour of making every poffible en- 
 quiry, and to put the bufinefs in fprwardnefs 
 again, if a proper Collator could be found. 
 Having not received any letter from him 
 fince mine was fent, I can but hope he may 
 have fucceeded. 
 
 R 6 M E. 
 
 Vatican L^ibrary. 
 
 At the end of laft year Elias Baldius was 
 left to proceed in collating copies of Genefis; 
 and as the number of them here is large, and 
 Collations of them will be wanted earlier than 
 thofe of fubfequent books, he was to com- 
 plete the Collation of them, before he entered 
 ^, upon any entire MS. When this year's pac- 
 
 ket of Collations from Florence came away, 
 no Collations had arrived from him ; I am 
 therefore uncertain as to the further advances 
 he may have made. 
 
 Chigian Library. 
 
 In the Second MS. of this Library are 
 
 contained the following books ; 
 
 xii Prophet. 
 
 [ 2, ] 
 
 ^ii Prophet, minor.; Ifalas. Jeremias. Ba- 
 ruch. , Lament. Jerem. Epiftol. Jerem. 
 Ezekiel. Daniel, prsbtm^e loilori^ Su- 
 fann{B. , . . .; i ...:.; 
 
 In the Third MS.' ai-e coritaihed,' ' 
 
 Jeremias. Baruch. Lament. Jerem. Epif- 
 tol. Jerem. 0ahiel,"^ fubfequentibus ad 
 finem hiftoriiSfSu&pnas^ Bel. Dracon. 
 Daniel rursus. Ezekiel. Ifaias. 
 
 • ■ . ■ 'i 
 
 In Two other MSS. of the fame Library are 
 , contained the Pialmis and Canticles. 
 
 ThefeFour MSS.' have" been ■collated in 
 the courfe of 'the year part ; fo that now the 
 Vatican is become the fingle objedt at Rome; 
 and accordingly my endeavours will be ex- 
 erted to procure additional agency there du- 
 ring the cnfuing year. 
 
 E V O R A..ForfugaL 
 
 There are here preferved Three Septua- 
 gint-MSS. One pf them contains the Text 
 of the Pentateuch, and the Two others that 
 of< the Pfalms. 
 
 This 
 
[ 22 ] 
 
 This intelligence was communicated by 
 the Biftiop of Beja to Mr. Hill Chaplain of 
 theEnglilh Faftory at Lifbon j and he is now 
 doing a further fervice to this work, by en- 
 deavouring to procure a proper perfon to col- 
 late the above MSS, 
 
 MADRID. 
 
 Library of the Escurial. 
 
 The information I have to offer refpeding 
 the number of Efcurial-MSS. and the Colla- 
 tion of them, (hall be prefentcd in the words 
 of Dr. Moldenhawer of Copenhagen i 
 
 Roberto Holmes 
 
 D.G. Moldenhawer &c &c. 
 
 Eo ipfo tempore, quo litters tus, die xx 
 Oaobris ad me humaniffime perfcriptae mihi 
 tradebantur, tot negotiis et occupationibus 
 diftinebar, ut gratiffima -quaevis tantifper fe- 
 ponendi adeffet neceffitas. Proinde ignofcas 
 velim in fcribendo morse, quam ipfe tanto 
 moleftius tull, quanto impenfius honorifica 
 tua invitatione laetabar, quantoque acrius in 
 me defxderium, votis tuis optatifque, quan- 
 tum 
 
 r *3 ] 
 
 tunr\ iftmeeft,, fatisfeciendi. :Has.vcEo.littc- 
 ras.~$9as^^p^.imas ,eflfi,'iiqiias.;abis.;te.da^as. ac- 
 c.ep^rin?y.ifanjft?. tibi :eQnfirmo. -3 Quoh^m ' fa- 
 to . iptpfceptfe fiw, Jjriqrftsjj n^ t Satia t me- .ali- 
 quaflidiu abfmt^iMpj^dyenexim,; jnefcio,' nee 
 inqiiirepti Jndagare^icuU ijjadhtranij quam 
 £jeci,j ye.hem^nterdoleq.hfnhr.-n idii ^zzlu \ 
 
 P.wbp: mcniini,.Woidium nunc^defideratif- 
 flmum me de tuo confilio mature certiorem 
 fecifl:e,r,et a.dniQnui(rs:,ds:iis ;Copiis>/.quas. me 
 operofe collcgifTe. nover^t, , tequm r. communi- 
 candis,; Refpondi, me,;l$tarj/pe,) qua nil eru- 
 ditis < litteiiarum facrarum; jcultoribus. gratius 
 acQidere poffit i gratam.' mihi fore quamcun- 
 que operaip, : qua jd tale;quidem opus locu- 
 pletandum; nonnihil. a ,me.,c.o.nfcra. queat ; 
 mequepmijem hujufmgdiapparatum^ px.iti- 
 neribus meis reportati^^iet aliunde congeflum 
 tibi,,tpanfmiirurum, fi ere tua,.vJAim. foret. 
 Quae. (Je fpe fruftus cujufdam percipiendi, ' qui 
 laboris quondam fufcepti.non. raoleflias fed 
 fumtus cpmpenfet, fubjun.J?eram j amicus a- 
 mico laperuit, non conQlio lucelli captandi, 
 /ed rei asquitate confid^ns. Ad hsdnil re- 
 fpondit Woidius, mox acerbiffimum fui defi- 
 derium rellnquens. Hoc allato nuntio revo- 
 cavi confilium^ quam primum mihi liberalius 
 
 otium 
 
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 otium contigiffet, excutiendi charlas ad Ver- 
 fionis Alcxandrinae crifin fpcftant^s, rerum 
 colleftaruqi et obfcrvatorum copiam novis 
 curis. retra<aandi,'et fingujari volupnine cum 
 haruni litterar um am&joribus communicandi, 
 Acccptis vero tpis litteris, priftina me cepit 
 alacritas tibi tradendi, q«icquid operl quod 
 adornas infervire poflet. De his ut plenius 
 tibi cdnftet,' haec velim behevole excipias.^ 
 
 -In Hifpania, quum ad Bibliothecam Efcu- 
 rlalenfemacceffiffem, bmnes, qiiotqubt ibi 
 affervantur, codices Graecos excutiendi oppor- 
 tunitas contigit. Hos inter cura fingulari in- 
 quifivi in eos, qui Verfionem Graecam five 
 omnem, .five fingulas ejufdem partes, conti- 
 nent y erant Tredecim numero. De quorum 
 pretio, praevia exploratione, conftiterat, inte- 
 groscontuli j incceteris-ratis habens, ic^io" 
 num' fpecimina, quibus mei de ipfis judicii 
 Veritas aliquando conflrmari poflet, et notitise 
 corum fiippeditandae materiam, collegifle. In- 
 de enata eft copia fatis ampla et, quod vere 
 dixerim, egregia non modo ad veram ledio- 
 nem innumeris in locis conftituendam fir- 
 mandamque -, verum quoque ad fubtilius ju- 
 dicium de variis et inter fe permixtis recen-' 
 fionibus Verfionis Alexandrinx fercndum. 
 
 Hanc 
 
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 , iHanc omnem. .tibi o&ro atiimo prompto 
 et alacri; dummpdo non: nialisLfeiftinare jii-. 
 bear, Ufque ad mcnfis MarfiJ dccprrumi om- 
 nis induftria mea in opere, quod nundinis 
 Lipfienfibus proxiih?^ eViiigaBiifdi',- • ad finemi 
 perducendo yerfgri.^ .i^J>fH^ tJtiB? . ^:??P l.^bpre 
 pera(ilo abfque ul]a mppa ■ iqe 9opye,rtam ad 
 chartas .i^las . digpren^a^ jif^jufq^e tuis' ipa ac- . 
 comni9d^,nda8,,.;prpp't,,'tibi grat^ffimum fore 
 exiftimetn. De pretiojiil definiaxn, antequam 
 cpnimeQtarii m(?i elaborati tibique tranfiiiifli 
 fueript i\ fiimmae yero aequitatis me rationem 
 habiturum efl'e fppndeo. 
 
 Vale,' meque hpminum tibi conatibufque 
 tuis addidiflimprum niimcro adfcribas velim. 
 
 Scripfi ,Hi^/W d.xjivi'Dec. 1791. 
 
 -f .—rr: 
 
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 ■-■ P 'A""'R. 'I;''S.. • ■ 
 
 RpYA^t- Library..- ,t.. , ,;. / ,■■• 
 
 Inth^'ciourfe''of fhfc year there have been 
 here collated, the bo'oks'of th^' Pentateuch 
 and fome part pf Jofhua, in MS. i, and as 
 much, excepting only GenefisV in MS. 4. 
 and the vsrhole pf JVIS. 8, cpntaining the four 
 books of Kings. 
 
 D The 
 
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 The above Collations have been made by 
 Mr. Coray j and he is now proceeding with 
 theMSS. I, and 4.. 
 
 St. Germain's Library. 
 
 The MS. ufually known by the name of 
 Coiflinianus, i. has been collated through 
 moft of the books by the celebrated Mr. 
 Griefbach, and the Collation publifhed. The 
 reft of the MS. which he did not go through, 
 has been collated by Dr. Moldenhawer, and 
 his collation will be fent to irie for this work. 
 
 Versions. 
 
 It has been ftated under a preceding arti- 
 cle of this Account, that the collation of the 
 Armenian and Sclavonian Verfions was in the 
 hands of Mr. Alter of Vienna. And as the 
 readings of thefe Verfions, if not correfpon- 
 dent wirh the Vatican-Text, are noted in his 
 Greek Collations, the work with refpedt to 
 Them is advancing from time to time. 
 
 Oriental Versions. 
 
 By Mr. Paulus, Profeflbr of Oriental Lan- 
 guages in the Univcrfity of Jena, fome part 
 
 of 
 
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 of the Collation in the Two Arabick Hexa- 
 plar MSS. of the Bodleian Library, marked 
 Laud. 146, and Laud. 147,' has been done. 
 A letter from him, dated January lafi, and 
 which has been read^to the Board, of Dele- 
 gates of the Clarendon 'Prefs, gave me reafon 
 to hope that a packet,: containing the Colla- 
 tions he had made; would arrive from him in 
 time to make'part,6f what is now laid before 
 Them, i It is not 'h'owevei?)as,yet come to 
 hand. ; ■/-'' '^ -. ' , , - • V . 
 
 What little I have, further to add, refpeds 
 advances more immediately made by myfelf. 
 
 It appeared to me, that when the Col- 
 lation ' of MSS. in this country had been 
 completed, which would be the cafe in the 
 courfe of this year, the fucceeding interval 
 of time, during which collations of foreign 
 MSS. muft be waited for, might be employ- 
 ed to moft: advantage in expediting the work, 
 if fome progrefs were in the meanwhile made 
 in preparing the copy for the Prefs. Accord- 
 ingly it was intimated in the laft Account, 
 thar during part of the year then enfuing 
 fomething ihould be done, towards form ing 
 
 D 2 the 
 
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 the copy of Genefis, by putting together the 
 various readings of ail the MSS. that had 
 been yet collated, and contained that book. 
 Of what has been done in execution of that 
 purpofe this is the flate. 
 
 There are reduced tp one view according 
 to the form, of which a printed Specimen 
 has been exhibited to The Board, various 
 readings from Greek MSS, and Editions, 
 Citation*, Verfions, as follows ; 
 
 GENESIS. 
 From Chap. I. to Chap. XII. exclufive. 
 
 Greek MSS. 
 
 I. Z' 3.4. 5. 6. 7. 10. 15. 16. 18. 19. 29, 
 
 3°- 31- 37- 55' S^' 57' 59- ^^- 64- 7*- 72- 74- 
 75.76.77. 78. 79. 32. 106. 108. 1 2 1. 128, 129. 
 
 132- 133- 
 
 Editions. 
 
 Complutenf. Aldine. Bafil. 1525, Argen-» 
 torat. 1526. Bafil. 1550. Frankfort. 1597. 
 Paris. 1628. Polygl. Parif, 1645. London. 
 i653.PQlygl. Lond. 1657. Franequer. 1709, 
 Alexandrine, Amfterdam. IJZS' Tigurin, 
 1730. Catena Nieephori printed at Leip^ 
 fick, 1772. 
 
 Citations. 
 
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 -Citations. 
 
 Clem. Rom, Epp. i.japd,, ^ j,^^^^ 
 
 ^roughtheQi,.ek.7aftf^'AppI.'V.ia2 
 Dial, part I, and 2. " '/^ ' "^ ' ' 
 
 Versions. 
 
 Coptick MS. Sahidick^MS. Armenian, 
 oclavonian. 
 
 The advances made in this jvay reach how- 
 ever fomewhat furthej thiij this ; as far as 
 the twenty fifth chapter, various readings are 
 brought together from about one third of the 
 Greek MSS. fpecified aboye j'^nd- there' are 
 other Writers of the Greek Church, fome of 
 whpfc variatioiw from the Vatican Text are 
 noted m the copy ; but as the rcprefentation 
 to be made as to them is. not > yet complete, 
 tneir names have been omitted. 
 
March 15. 1792. 
 
 fcOLLAtlONS, this day exhibited be- 
 fore The Delegates of the ;Clarendon-Prefs, 
 and then depofited in the* Bodleian Library 
 in feparate volumes in folio with pafteboard- 
 covers, are thefe ; 
 
 Vol. XXXVII. Genefis. 
 
 In MS. I. of the Royal Libr. Paris. 
 
 Exodus. 
 In MSS. I. ly, of the fame Library. 
 
 Regg. i, ii, iii, iv. 
 In MS. VIII. of the fame Library, 
 
 Vol. XXXVIII. i. Regg. a cap. 20. ii, iii. 
 ad cap. 13. 
 In MS. I. D.II. of the Britifh Mufeum. 
 
 Vol. XXXIX. Regg. iii. a cap. 12. iv, Pa- 
 ralip. i. ad cap. 2 1 . 
 In MS. I. D. II. of the Britifh Mufeum. 
 
 Vol. XL. Paralip. i. a cap. 20. ii. Efdras. 
 Efther. Efther rursus. 
 In MS«I. D.IL of the Britifli Mufeum. 
 
 VoL.XLL 
 
 Vol. XLL, .N^hemi^s, \u,^^:\ ^ ^ / - 
 . : In MS. L,pj^. .of ;tbf iritiib Mufeum. 
 
 ■• ' • -f-Pfatmili-::'? aL'cfi;n';ypO' •1'- 
 
 In-MSS. -XXVir.lXL; XLI. XLII. of the 
 
 Royal Library, Parisv i i 
 
 '■ '■■Pialmi.'-"'':''- ' wfri.. ,i ; ;/ / . 
 
 In MS. of the Ducal Library of Saxe- 
 Gotha::-i :..i/i ■.[\ , . / \ 
 
 ToL. XLII. Regg. IV. a cap. 5. xvii. Paralip. 
 1,11. Efdras i,ii; Efdras rursiisi,ii, 
 Judith. EftherVMacchab, i.ii iii 
 
 Sir^chides. j^, t , 
 In MS. of :the Palatine Libra^^ ; ' 
 
 Vol. XLin.fi2 Prophet. min.Ifaias. Je- 
 remias._ Baruch. „ Lament. Jerem. 
 Epiftol. Jerem. Ezekiel. Daniel 
 (praunte Hiftbria Sufanns). 
 In MS. n. of the Chigian Library; Rome. 
 Ifaias, a cap. 62,. xiii. Jeremias. 
 iiaruch. Lament. Jerem. Epiftol. 
 Jerem. Ezekiel ad cap. 54. xv 
 In MS. of the Barberini-Li'braiy, Rom'e. 
 
 Vol. XLIV. 
 
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 Vol. XLIV. Jeremias. Baruch.- Lament. 
 , f i >•; "i : jferetflJ' 'Epiftol. jcFem.' Daniel , 
 
 fubfequentibus Sufannl. Bel. Dra- 
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 kiel. IfaiaiS. i; . , 
 
 In MS. III. of the Chigian Library, Rome. 
 
 Pfaimi el Cantica. 
 In MSS. IV. V. of the fame Library^. 
 
 Vol. XLV. Jereriiias a cap. 36. xx'ix. Eze- 
 kiel. ib^niel,. praecedente Sufann. 
 
 ■ '" ' Dracon. hiftbnis. 
 In MS. of the Library of 'The Canons S'\ 
 Saivatotis at fidlbgna-. ■ • 
 
 MaccKab. i,'ii, iii. 
 fn M^t D; IL of tlic Brhifli Mufeum. 
 
 Vol. XLVI. Pfalmi. 
 
 In Miss, duobus, numer. XVlI, XVIII. 
 Bibliothecae Vindobonenfis. 
 
 Vol. XLVIL Proverb. Salom. ^ 
 
 In MS.- numer. XL. Bibliothecae Vindo- 
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 exhibited to The^ Delegates of the Prefs 
 fuch Collations 'bf- the. Sep^uagint MSS. as 
 have teeii^coUatedin the year lift t^^ft, to- 
 gether with the progrefs alrea'dy made hy him 
 in preparing the fame for the Prefs, as ftated 
 in his Annual Account ;— It is the opinion of 
 This Board that he has fo far fulfilled the 
 Condition upon which the ^ubfcription to the 
 faid CoUation was made and renewed, and that 
 a competent and laudable pi^ogrefs has been 
 made in both parts of the Work. 
 
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 cumbent upon them to recommend the prefent 
 Annual Account to the confideration of the 
 Publicki hoping that Dr. Holmes will meet 
 ■with fuch further encouragement as wUl ena- 
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 THE Fifthr year fince the ; comtoence- 
 ment of this undertaking being now 
 nearly elapfed, it becomes again incumbent 
 upon me to fubmit an Account ef jthe work ; 
 and to 'fhew ^hat advances hia^e bcert aiad^ 
 during'the pafl yeiir> and what are now mak-^ 
 ingiJ in furthes profeeirtioft «^it.i .^j; :. 
 
 ct) :„;■ 
 
 But I cannot addrefs myfelf, upon any oc- 
 cafion, to the raany-Patrons of this under- 
 taking, without renewing my moft thankful 
 acknowledgqjipnlis fof tljeif ppuitenance and 
 fupport. With the higheft fenfe of what 
 the work owes to their part faivoiir, Ifdicit 
 thepi n?oft refp^i^fully and ^ari^^fUy to jcfiii- 
 tinue it to me. 
 
 To Dr. Charles Burney, of 'Fair Lawn 
 
 IJouf?j Hapimerfmith, my very fincere 
 
 A thanks 
 
 I 
 
 L 
 
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 [ 
 
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 thanks muft be exprefled, for more than one 
 kind fervice. By his fubfcription not only 
 to the expences of this Fifth year, but alfo 
 to thofe of the Four years preceding, he has 
 laid me under great obligation ; and to this 
 favour he has added another, by his pre- 
 fent of MSS. fragments of the Sacred Text, 
 which have been found valuable as far as they 
 go. . , •; 
 
 The reprgfcntation, which ' I am now to 
 prefent, flaall begin with an account of ad- 
 vances made abroad j and particulars fhall be 
 ftated, as on, former occafions, under diftind 
 heads of places and libraries. 
 
 L E I P S I C K. 
 
 PuBLicK Library. 
 
 Here is One MS. of the Pfalms, of which 
 notice was taken in laft Account. 
 
 DRESDEN. 
 
 [ 3 ] 
 
 DRESDEN. 
 Electoral Library.. 
 
 Of Three MSS. here depoGted, mention 
 was made in the Third Account. 
 
 In the courfe of the^ prefent year, the 
 above Four MSS. have been collated by Pro- 
 fefTor Matthaei. 
 
 VIENNA'. 
 Cesarean Library. 
 
 The collation has bee^ carried on in this 
 library by the fame two agents as before: 
 and during the year feveral MSS. have been 
 collated. 
 
 Mr. Alter has done Two entirely; but 
 has been for the greateft part of the time 
 employed upon Pentateuch-books ^ in dif- 
 ferent MSS. He fent me the collations 
 A 2 of 
 
t 4 ] 
 
 of Genefis during the fummer ; and fince 
 that time he has been continually advancing : 
 but how far he may have proceeded, 1 have 
 not yet been enabled to fay. 
 
 At the end of May laft, Nine MSS. vi^ere 
 fpecified, feverally containing but one of the 
 Scriptural Books, on the collation of which 
 Mr, Bolla was then to proceed. Some 
 months have paffed fince my laft advices 
 from Vienna were received ; and in them it 
 was ftated, that he had not then got through 
 the MSS. afligned him ; but it was not ex- 
 actly faid how many of them he had finifhed. 
 I expedl every day to receive information that 
 all of them are collated. 
 
 E V O R A. Portugal. 
 
 Library of the Carthusian Fathers. 
 
 Mention was hiade in laft Account of 
 fome LXX-MSS. that had been found here j 
 and to the number then fpecified, may be 
 
 added 
 
 [ 5 1 
 
 added One more, lately difcovered, contain- 
 ing the Text of the Minor Prophets. 
 
 Mr. Hill's kind efforts to find fome proper 
 perfon to collate thefe MSS. have been at- 
 tended with the defired fuccefs. The col- 
 lation has been undertaken .by Father Vin- 
 centius Ferriera of the Carthufian College. 
 I fubjoin his letter to itie : 
 
 Frater Vincentius Ferriera 
 Roberto Holmes, &c, &c. 
 
 Bene faeis, quod Septuaginta Interpre- 
 tum verfionem tuo ftudio et opera in lu- 
 cem proferre velis tanto fumptu et apparatu, 
 ut nihil fupra. Ad me quod attinet, ef- 
 ficiam, ut in conferendis manufcriptis, quae 
 Eborae in Cartufiana Bibliotheca, non fine 
 laudabili literarum proventu, aflervantur, ni- 
 hil defiderari videatur. Nam quo tempore 
 eram multis variifque curis implicitus, tunc 
 Genefeos collationem ea dilig^entia abfol- 
 vere quaefivi, ut, mea quidem fententia, nihil 
 reliqui habeam, ad ejus, fi ita loqui fas eft, 
 
 peifec- 
 
I 6 ] 
 
 perfedtionem. Hanc tibi mitto, fatifque 
 mirari non poflum tuum, in promovenda tali 
 modo facrofanda Chrifti Keligione, lauda- 
 bilc ftudium. Dignus propterea, qui ab om- 
 nibus viris, cum pietate, turn eruditicne com- 
 mendatjs, pro virili parte juveris. Id enim 
 tibi non recufat fandtiffimus in Chrifto Epif- 
 copus Pacenfis, de re literaria optime meritus, 
 tot tantifque nominibus infignitus, ut antefe- 
 ratur huic nemo, pauci pares putentur: qui 
 haud fumptui, baud labori unquam parcens, 
 omne fuum ftudium ad fcientias promoven- 
 das, et Tacrofandam Chrifti Religionem am- 
 plifickndam enixiffime perpetuo contulit, con- 
 fertque quotidie. Hujus enim favore ac 
 gratia, a Cartufianis Patribus tibi etiam, 
 quantum in fe eft, donatur. Scias igitur 
 oportet, illos nonnullo dolore affici, quod pro 
 fuis legibus Codices e Bibliotheca fua egredi 
 non poflint, ut majori cum facilitate colla- 
 tio base a me peragenda foret. Idcirco earn 
 domi fux fieri alacri animo lubentifTimeque 
 patiuntur : immo cupiunt, nimifque laetan- 
 tur. Praeter hunq Genefeos Codicem, alios 
 tres habent, qui Leviticum, Numeros, atque 
 Deuteronomium continent : duos infuper 
 
 qui 
 
 [7 ] 
 
 qui integrum Pfalterium abfolvunt j quorum 
 unus expofitionem Theodori habet j hie ele- 
 gantiflimeeftexaratus; alter, non tam nitidus 
 ac pulcher, expofitiones Eufebii ac Mar- 
 cellini affert. Omnes funt chartacei. Hu- 
 jus Pfalterii coUatio aliqua ex parte jam a me 
 eft elaborata. Operam dabo imprimis, ut 
 ad finem ufque perducatur. Vale. Dabam 
 Eboras in Spiritus Sandi Collegio, iv. id. 
 Maii, A. 1792. 
 
 Notwithftanding the turn of expreflion 
 ufed in this letter (fee the laft page at the 
 bottom), it feems that all the Pentateuch- 
 books form but one MS. of which, in the 
 courfe of this year, there have been collated, 
 the books of Genefis, Exodus, and Leviti- 
 cus J with the book of Pfalms in Two other 
 MSS. 
 
 MADRID. 
 
 Library of the Escurial. 
 
 In confequence of the letter from Dr. 
 Moldenhawer of Copenhagen, dated Dec. 
 26, 179 1, (fee laft year's account at page 22, 
 
 &c.) 
 
[ 8 ] 
 
 6cc.) requeft was made to him for a particu- 
 lar ftatement of the LXX-MSS. which he 
 had found and collated in the Efcurial Li- 
 brary. 
 
 He returned the fubfequent anfwer. 
 
 d. g. moldenhawer 
 Roberto Holmes. 
 
 Expedtatione djutius we detinpit labor 
 ifte, quern menfe Martlo ejcennte me abfo- 
 luturum fperaveram. Ejceeperunt eum nego- 
 tia, quorum adauda moles per aliquot fepti- 
 manarum feriem me obruit. His j^m defunc- 
 tus nil mihi jucundius habeoquam tuo fatis- 
 facere defiderio, quod litteras tgas hium.aniiili- 
 m£B mihi dudum iignificaverant. Veniam 
 mors a benevolentia tua expedto, tantoque 
 confidentius fpero, quanto firmior eft de tua 
 prolixa in me voluntate animi mei perfuafio. 
 
 Accipe nunc primum .Codicum eorum re- 
 cenfum, quos in Bibiiotheca Efcurialenfi five 
 integros contuli, five curfim infpexi. Sequor 
 in eo ordinem, quo iq ipfa Bibiiotheca dif- 
 pofiti reperiuntur. 
 
 n. I. 
 
 [ 9 ] 
 
 n. I. 5. Codex' membranaceus Sec. X' 
 continet Ezekielis capita poftrema?t non- 
 nulla eDanielis Apocrypho; in quibus quum 
 multas invenirem lediones admodum notabi- 
 les, hxc fragmenta haud negligenda exifti- 
 mavi. 
 
 n. I. 7. Cod. Chart. Sec. XIII. in quo 
 habetur Malachias Expofitio in fententias Sa- 
 lomoneas. Textus inferti, leftionibus probis 
 pleni, varietatem fedulo obfervavi ac eno- 
 tavi. 
 
 .^r'r ."r^" ^'^^'°^""^ V. T. a Genefi ufque 
 ad III. Maccab. Codex membranaceus Sec. 
 X. exeuntis, blim Didari de Mendoza Sa- 
 tis habui in fingulis libris tot feftiones con- 
 fulmfTe, quot comprobandaj fingulari ejuf- 
 dem cum editione Aldina affinitati fufficere 
 polient. 
 
 -r. I. 2. Davidis Pfalterlum cum Canticis. 
 Textus r>zv?a>s fcriptus ct ubcrrimis Patrum 
 commentanis cindtus. Cod. membr. externa 
 forma prasftantiffimus Sec. X. ineuntis, dim 
 Angeh Juftiniani Epifcopi Genevenfis. qui 
 t)ec. XV. medio inclaruit. Pfalmos haud 
 paucos accurate contuli, reiiquos curfim per- 
 ^ luftravi; 
 
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 luftravi; haud omiflis iis quibus collecftio 
 Montefalconiana pofTet augeri. 
 
 f. III. 6. Cod. membr. Sec. XII. con- 
 tinet inter alia res geftas Eliae atque Elifa; 
 e Graeca verfione iii. et iv. Regum libii 
 petitasj non abfque copiofa ledlionis diver- 
 fitate, quam omnem excerpendam duxi. 
 
 T. II. 2. Polychronii Catena Graecorum 
 Patrum in Proverbia. Recentius Apogra- 
 phum Codicis antiquiflimi Icdionumque bo- 
 nitate commendabilis, unde illarum e textu 
 colligendarum operani haud detretSavi. 
 
 T. II. 12. Cod. membr. Sec. X. conli- 
 nens Catenam Expofitionum in Efaiam, auc- 
 tore Jo. Drungario, ineditam. Incipit tex- 
 tus charadtere nitidiflimo exaratus a cap. i. 
 commate viii. definitquc in c. xlii. c. 9. 
 Obfervata in textu attente collato varietas 
 folii majoris columnas xx. replet. 
 
 T. II. 14. Cod. membr. Sec. XI. in quo 
 Catena Pfalmorum ab editis plane diverfa. 
 Pfalmos contuli nonnifi paucos, ut de tex- 
 tus conftaret ratione. Plura a commentariis 
 haufi, ad augendas et emendandas veterum 
 interpretum Graecorum reliquias. 
 
 T. III. 
 
 1 
 
 Y. III. 2. Ledtionarium quod ctmymtrus f. 
 uvetyvua-fAxlci vocant, membranaceum Sec. XI. 
 Seftiones pleraeque e Proverbiis defumts.' 
 Contuli omnes, et copiofam ledionis varieta- 
 tem collegi. 
 
 T. III. ^. Codex circa 1300 fcriptus, Pen- 
 tateuchum, Jof. Jud. Ruth, i, 2 Samuel, 
 continens, initio et fine mutilus, olim Arfe- 
 nii Epifcopi Monembafis. Defcriptus eft 
 ex exemplari antiquiflimo, Origenianam re- 
 cenfionem reliquis, quotquot innotuerunt, li- 
 bris accuratius fiftente, fi Leidenfem excipias, 
 cujus collationem dedit Millius. , Contuli li- 
 brum Judicum integrum; e reliquis multa 
 decerpfi. 
 
 Z. I. 6. Chartaceus anno 1586 manu Ni- 
 col. Turriani exaratus, in quo Catena in 
 Genefin et Exodum ab editis diverfa habetur. 
 Hanc eo unice confilio, quod in cod. T. H. 
 14. mentione notavi, ideoque paulo feftinan- 
 tius percurri. 
 
 r. II. 19. Catena in iv. Regum libros et 
 utrumque TrdpciMtTro/nivm. Sec. XIII. Nulli 
 inter codices Efcurialenfes diutiorem, nulli 
 utiliorem curam impendi. Habet enim in 
 
 ^ 2 margine 
 
r 
 
 ■»r- 
 
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 12 
 
 J 
 
 marglne notas e Kexaplis Orlgeniaois quantl- 
 vis pretii, (juas accurate exfcripfi ; baud neg- 
 iedo textu, quem in pofteriore Samuelis li- 
 bro utpote imprimis mendpfo integrum ex- 
 cuffi; in reliquis loca impeditiora infpexi. 
 
 Habes brevem apparatus mei ad Verfio- 
 nem Alexandrinam pertinentis defcriptionem. 
 Plura quam indicavi, hec ipfe teneo, nee in 
 Bibliotheca Efcurialenfi exftant. Omnia tibi 
 promto et alacri animo offero, nil ufibus 
 meis refervans, nil diflimulans. Quas op- 
 tabis coUationes certo habebis ; tranfmit- 
 tetur quicquid ex re tua effe fignificaveris. 
 Ut id quamprimum fiat impenfe te oro. Vale. 
 Scripf. Hafn. d. xxv. Junii, 1792. 
 
 Requefl was immediately made, that all 
 tbefe papers might be fent to the Bookfeller 
 at Leipfick, and forwarded by fca to this 
 country. 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
 Medicean Library. 
 
 That avocation, by which Mr. Bandini 
 was prevented from proceeding with the col- 
 lation 
 
 [ ^3 ] 
 
 Utioq ,of MSS.; in this library, continued 
 longqr,%i;i was expeded. His letter, dated 
 Sept. 4, J 7,951, cQntained the fubfequent in- 
 fwrnattjon ; 
 
 " Menfe Novembris proximo, ^bfolutum 
 erit tertium et ultim'um voliimen Nov$ Bib' 
 liothecaeLeopoldins Laurentianas; quare in 
 pofteruiT) totus ero in . curandis pro te Bib- 
 licis Medicaeorum Codicum Collationibus." 
 
 In a, letter, dated two months later, he 
 gave me an afTurance nearly to the fame ef- 
 fed: : and from thence I conclude, that in 
 the courfe of January lad, the collation of 
 Medicean MSS. was relumed. As the MSS. 
 upon which he was next to proceed, feve- 
 rally contain the bopk of. Pfalms only, there 
 feems reafon to prefume that fome few of 
 them have been by this time collated. 
 
 MILAN. 
 Ambrosian Library. 
 
 The remaining part of the collation of 
 the Hexateuch, here depofited, has now 
 
 reached 
 
[ H J 
 
 reached my hands ; Caefar a Cruce, one of 
 the fecretaries of the library, who made the 
 tranfcript of this collation, has fince ex- 
 amined it anew by the MS. At the end of 
 this MS. there are feme fragments of Ifaiah 
 and Malachi. They have alfo been collated 
 by the fame hand. 
 
 There have alfo been received the colla- 
 tions of the three MSS. mentioned in the 
 laft Account. They were made by Benedic- 
 tus de Perego, Secretary of Oriental Lan- 
 guages to the Ambrofian College. I add an 
 Extradt from the laft letter of Dr. Bugatus 
 to me, dated May, 1792. 
 
 " Quam vellem Benedidum de Perego, 
 virum fane in Collationibus accuratiflimum, 
 ct nemini fecundum, urgere potuifTe opus 
 fuum in reliquos Codd. Ambrofianos, qui ad- 
 huc reftant in ufus tuos conferendi ! At is 
 occupationibus aliis, ac praefertim Editione 
 mei Pfalterii Syro-Hexaplaris, quae prselum 
 jam fpedlat, praepeditus, nonnifi fubfecivis, 
 ut aiunt, horis, huic opera; poteft incumbers 
 Itaque librum Jobi cum Tribus MSS. X. vel 
 XI. Saeculi, Catcnam Graecorum PP. pra:- 
 
 ferentibus, 
 
 [ ^5 ] . 
 
 ferentibus, conferre adgreffus eft, quod opus 
 vix fpero fere, ut in hujus anni fine ad ex- 
 itum pcrducatur." 
 
 ROME. 
 
 Vatican Library, 
 
 When laft year's packet of Collations was 
 forwarded from Florence, nothing had ar- 
 rived there from Elias Baldius. He had 
 been however proceeding during that year 
 with the collation of Vatican MSS. and dur- 
 ing this laft year alfo he has carried it on 
 with all poflible diligence. The reprefenta- 
 tion, then, which I am now to prefent, will 
 comprife the collations he has made in the 
 courfe of the Fourth year, and nearly one 
 half of the year laft elapfed. 
 
 There have been collated by him the fol- 
 lowing parts of the Pentateuch-Text : 
 
 The books of Exodus, Leviticus, Num- 
 bers, Deuteron. in One MS. This is the 
 MS. in Uncial letters, from which the Va- 
 tican Edition was made. 
 
 The 
 
 ■ 1 
 
[ i6 ] 
 
 The books of Levit. Numbers, Deuteron. 
 in One MS. not containing either Genefis or 
 Exodus. 
 
 The book of Exodus in Ten other 
 MSS. 
 
 The book of Leviticus in Nine other 
 MSS. In One of thefe the collation is com- 
 plete, as it contains no part of the Sacred 
 Text fubfequent to Leviticus. 
 
 As thefe Collations were delivered during 
 the fummer, he has fmce that time made a 
 further progrefs, the particulars of which it 
 is not in my power to ftate. 
 
 Early in the month of Odober laft, re- 
 queft was made by letter to his Eminence 
 the Cardinal Zelada, to engage an additional 
 Collator in the Vatican Library ; and parti- 
 cular MSS. were name^, upon which it was 
 defired that this fecond Collator might im- 
 mediately proceed; and a pecuniary remit- 
 tance was fent, fufficient to pay him for what 
 he would have time to do, till notice could 
 reach me that he was adtually at work, and 
 a fecond letter from me might get to Rome 
 
 Though 
 
 [ 17 ] 
 
 Though! have not heard from the Cardinal 
 himfelf, yet r Have received information that 
 he endeavoured to ferveme. He offered the 
 bufinefs to one perfon, who declined under- 
 taking it J but as it feems to be very pofTible 
 that about the Vatican an additional agent 
 may be found, and as the wifh of his Emi- 
 nence to- oblige me by finding one is thus 
 afcertained, intelligence may be daily expedt-!- 
 ed that a fecond Collator has- been proceed^ 
 ing with the bufinefs in' that Library, 
 
 FA R I SV 
 RoTAL Library. 
 
 Mr. Coray has not met With any inter- 
 ruption during this year, in carrying on the 
 collation of MSS. in this Library. 
 
 In MS, I. he had, at the time when laft 
 Account was delivered, proceeded as far as 
 the beginning, of the book of jofhua. In 
 the courfe of this year, he has" collated the 
 reft of Jofhua, and the feventeen following 
 - • ' c books. 
 
[ i8 ] 
 
 books; Judges. Ruth. Kings i, ii, "i, iv. 
 Efther. Judith. Tobit. Chrome, i, n. 
 Efdras i, ii. Nehem. Macchab. i, ii, m. 
 This MS. contains nothing further. 
 
 In MS. IV. he had at the clofe of laft year 
 reached the beginning of Jofhua. During 
 this year, he has fini(hed the collation of 
 Jofhua, and of the nine fubfequent books ; 
 Judges. Ruth. Kings i, n, m, iv. Efther. 
 Judith. Tobit. The MS. has no further 
 coiitents. 
 
 MS. XIV. contains the following books; 
 Hofea. Micah. Joel. Obadiah.. Jonas. Na- 
 hum. Malachi, in part. Ifaiah, in part. Je- 
 rem.inpart. Baruch, in part. Lamentations 
 in part. Ezekiel, in part. The Collation of 
 this MS. is finifhed. 
 
 MS XVI. contains the books of Ifaiah 
 and Ezekiel. This MS. has been collated 
 this year. 
 
 According to all prefent appearances, the 
 further progrefs of Mr. Coray will not be 
 obftrudcd, 
 
 VER^ 
 
 [ 19 ] 
 
 VERSIONS FROM LXX. 
 CoPTiCK Version. 
 
 Coptum-Arabicum Euchologium, printed 
 at Rome, in two vols. 4to. 
 
 It contains frequent Citations from the 
 Coptick ; all of which have been collated by 
 Mr. Alter of Vienna, in the books of Ge- 
 nefis. Proverbs, Pfalms, and Ifaiah. 
 
 Arabick Version. 
 
 Of MS. Bodl. Laud. A. 182. the colla- 
 tion is now in hand, and fome part of the 
 book of Genefis is collated. 
 
 In MS. Bodl. Huntingt. 424. all that is 
 from LXX. is collated. 
 
 Thefe Collations have been made by Pro- 
 feflbr Schnprrer of Tubingen ; and he has 
 been fo kind as to aflure me of his affiftanca 
 refpeding any Arabick MSS. Tranfcripts 
 have been fent him, and he is proceeding, 
 c 2 Arme- 
 
[ ,20 ] 
 
 Armenian Version. 
 This was printed at Venice 1733. fol. 
 
 Armeno-latini Sermones Jacobi Nifibeni, 
 were printed at Rome, 1756, fol. 
 
 ' In this work Citations are made from the 
 Armenian text. 
 
 The Armenian Verfion is contained in the 
 MS. of the Csefarean Library, marked 3270, 
 'and alfo in another MS. marked 3274. 
 
 In the above Printed and MSS. Copies, 
 the Armenian Verfion has been collated with 
 the Text of LXX. through the books of 
 Gencfis, Proverbs, Pfalms, and Ifaiah, by Mr. 
 Alter of Vienna; and he is now proceeding 
 in the. collation of them all through the 
 book of Expdus. 
 
 But as Mr. Alter at prefent collates the 
 Armenian Verfion with fuch books only of 
 the Greek Text, as exift in fome MS. of 
 the Csfarean Library, further help was need- 
 • ed to forward the collation of the Armenian 
 Verfion in thofe Scriptural books, which no 
 
 Caefarean 
 
 [ 21 ] 
 
 Caefarean MS. contains. For this purpofe 
 Mf. Bredenkamp, Sub-Redor of the Uni- 
 verfityiof Bremen, has been employed. He 
 has collated the book of Daniel, and fome 
 of the Minor Prophets, and is proceeding 
 with the reft, and will afterwards collate 
 other books. 
 
 ScLAvoNiAN Version, 
 
 Of this one Edition was made at Oftro- 
 goth, and one at Mofcow. Both of them 
 have been collated by Mr. Alter through the 
 books of Genefis, Proverbs, Pfalms, and 
 Ifaiah j and he is now proceeding with the 
 collation of- them in the book of Exodus. 
 
 Since that which is ftated in this Account 
 under the article Vienna had pafled through 
 the prefs, new advices from thence have 
 been received. From them it appears, that 
 Mr. Alter has collated Three MSS. entirely, 
 and entered upon the collation of Exodus 
 in the Caefarean MSS. And it appears that 
 
 Mr. 
 
[ 22 1 
 
 Mr BoUa has finiOied Five of the MSS. af- 
 figned him, and is proceeding with the 
 next So that of what has been done abroad 
 inVu'rther collation of Greek MSS. during 
 the year paft, the following general repre- 
 fentation feems to be near the truth. 
 
 The number of MSS. collated through- 
 out is Seventeen. 
 
 There have been alfo collated the laft Se- 
 venteen books (out of twenty. three, in all) 
 in One MS.— the laft Nine books (out ot 
 fifteen, in all) in One-the laft Two books 
 (out of three, in all) in One~Gene(is, an 
 Two— four Pentateuch-books, m One- 
 three Pentateuch-books, in One— Exodus, 
 in Nine-Leviticus, in Eight. The num- 
 ber, therefore, of MSS. collated in part, is 
 Twenty-four. 
 
 As to Verfions, either MSS. or Printed, 
 no recapitulation is needed. 
 
 Such 
 
 [ 23 ] 
 
 Such, in various parts of the work, is the 
 prbgrefs made and now making abroad ; and 
 in wliat next follows, reprefentation will be 
 prefented of what has been done at home. 
 
 Citations from the LXX-Greek have been 
 collated with the Vatican Edition in Ec- 
 clefiaftical Writers, of which the Names 
 and Editions are here recited. 
 
 Patrcs Apoftolici. Ed. Cotel. fol. tom. duob. 
 Barnabae Epiftola — Polycarpi 
 Epiftola — Ignatii Epiftolae 19. 
 non interpolatae, interpolatae, et 
 fuppofititiae — ^Conftitution. Apo- 
 ftolic. libri odlo. 
 
 Origenes. E(^. De La Rue. tom. quatuor. 
 
 Tom. L — Epiftol. ad African. Uipi Apz'^r 
 libri quatuor. De Oratione liber. 
 — Exhortatio ad Martyr. Contra- 
 Celfum, libri odto. 
 
 Tom IL — Commentaria et Seledta, ia 
 
 Genef. 
 
 • 1 
 
■^ 
 
 [ H 1 
 
 Genef. Exod. Levit. Numer. Deu ' 
 teron. Jofh. Judic. Reg. i. li, 
 III.' IV. Job. Pfalmos. 
 
 Cyrlllus Hierofolym. Ed. Oxon. fol. 
 
 Catechefes xii primae. Cateche- 
 fes Myftagog. quinque. 
 
 Epiphanius, Ed. Colon. 1682. fol. torn, 
 duob. 
 
 B'afilius. Ed. Benedidlin. fol. torn, tribus. 
 
 Theodoret. Ed. Halenf. 8vo. torn, decern. , 
 
 Tom. I. — Quaelliones in Odateuch. Reg. 
 I, II, III, IV. Paralip. i, 11. 
 
 Tom. II. — Interpretatio in Pfalmos, ad 
 Pf. 92. 
 
 Editions of the LXX-Verfion, which have 
 been collated with the Vatican Text in 
 Genefis from Chap. 24 to Chap. 34, are 
 thefe : 
 
 Parif. 1628. Lond. i653.Lond.Polygl. 1657. 
 Franequer. 1709. Amftelod. 1725. 
 
 Caten. 
 
 [ 25 ] 
 
 Caten. Nicephori. -— COMPLU- 
 TENS. Parif. 1645.— ^ALDINE. 
 Argentorat. 1526. Bafil. 1545. Ba- 
 " fil. 1550. Francofurt. 1597. — 
 ALEXANDRINE. Tigur. 1730. 
 
 The Fublick will have obferved from my 
 fourth Annual Account (at page 28) what 
 had been done towards preparing copy for 
 the Prefs. In furtherance of that end, fome 
 additional progrefs has been this year made, 
 as far as (efpeds the above-mentioned fif-^ 
 teen Editions of LXX. from the 24th to 
 the 34th chapter of Genefis. 
 
 But in order to prepare ftill more fully 
 the copy of Genefis, Various Readings of 
 the Greek Fathers alfo were to be digefted 
 in their refpedlive places; and as a previous 
 Collation of their Citations was therefore 
 neceflary, it has been my principal objedt 
 this year to collate their Citations, as above 
 ftated. 
 
[ 26 ] 
 
 March 15, 1793. 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited be- 
 fore the Delegates of the Clarendon- Prefs, 
 and then depofited in the Bodleian Library, 
 in feparate volumes in folio, with pafteboard 
 covers, are thefe : 
 
 Vol. XLVIIL Genefis. 
 
 In MSS. I. III. of the Casfarean Library, 
 Vienna ; and 
 
 In the Armenian Verfion, MS.' and Print- 
 ed ; and 
 
 In the Sclavonian Verfion, Oilrog. Ed. 
 
 Vol. XLIX. Genefis. Exodus. Leviticus. 
 In MS. of the Carthufian Library at 
 Evora. 
 
 Exodus. 
 In Two MSS. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. 
 In MS. 2106 of the fame Library. 
 
 Exodus. 
 In Five MSS. of the fame Library. 
 
 Exodus. 
 
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 Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deu- 
 teronomy. 
 In MS. 1209 of the fame Library. 
 
 Exodus. 
 In four MSS. of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. L. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuterono- 
 my. Jofhua to XIII. 32. 
 In MSS. I. IV. of the Royal Library, 
 Paris. 
 
 Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. 
 Jofhua. .Fragments of Ifaiah 
 and Malachi. 
 In MS. of the Ambrofian Library, Milan. 
 
 Vol. LI. Jofliua. Judges. Ruth. 
 
 In MSS. I. IV. of the Royal Library, 
 Paris. 
 
 Kings I. II, to c. XI, v. 17. 
 In MS. IV. of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. LIL 
 
 Kings II, from c.xi, v. 17. in. iv. 
 In MS. IV. of the Royal Library, Paris. 
 
 Efther. Judith. Tobit. 
 In MSS. I. IV. of the fame Library. 
 
 Chronicles 
 
 • 1 
 
[ 28 ] 
 
 ;[ ^ J 
 
 Chronicles i. ii, to c. ix, v. 12. 
 In MS. I. of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. LIII. Chronicles 11, from c. ix. v. 12. 
 Efdras i. ii. Nchemiah. Mac- 
 chab. I. i;. III. 
 la MS. I. of the Royal Library, Paris. 
 
 .Vol. LIV. Leviticus. 
 
 InMSS. 2058. 1252. 330. 746. of the 
 Vatican Library. 
 
 The Pfalms. 
 In Two MSS. of the Carthufian Library 
 at Evora. 
 
 The Pfalms. 
 In Three MSS. of the'Ambrofian Library, 
 Milan. 
 
 The Pfalms. 
 Ifaiah. 
 In MS. XXVII. of the Cafarean Library, 
 Vienna. 
 
 The Pfalms. Job. Proverbs. 
 
 Ecclefiades. 
 In Four MSS. One, of the Publick Li- 
 brary, Leipfickj and Three, of 
 the Eledoral Library, Drefden. 
 
 Vol. 
 
 Vol. LV. Proverbs. 
 
 la MS. XXV. of the G«Iarean Library, 
 
 Vienna j and; 
 In the Armenian Verfion MS. and Printed i 
 
 and 
 In the Sclavoniao Verfion, Oftrog. Ed. 
 
 Proverbs. liaiah. 
 In MS. XXVI. of the fame Library ; and 
 In the fame Verfions MSS. and Printed. 
 
 Job. 
 In MS. 230. of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. LVI. Exodus. Hofea. Joel. Amos. 
 Ifaiah. Jeremiah. Daniel. 
 In ibme Fragments of MSS. 
 
 Genefis. Deuteronomy. 
 In the Arabick Verfion, MS. Bodl. Hunt- 
 ings 424. 
 
 Daniel. 
 In the Armenian Verfion. 
 
 CITATIONS. 
 
 In the Epiflle of Barnabas. 
 
 In the Eight books of the Apoflolical 
 
 Conflitutions. 
 In the Works of Epiphanius. 
 
 Vol. 
 
 A. 
 
[ 30 ] 
 
 Vol. LVII. Citations. ^ 
 
 In Tuftin Martyr's Firft and Second Apo- 
 logy, and the Dialogue with Try- 
 pho. Part I. II. 
 
 CITATIONS. 
 
 In the works of Origen. through the Firft 
 and Second Volumes. 
 
 Vol. LVIII. Citations. 
 In Theodoret. Vol. I. Ed. Hal. 
 
 N B The Citations of Irenaeus have 
 been 'alfo collated ; but the Collation of them 
 is written down in the margin of the Septu- 
 agint-Edition Franequer. 1709. 
 
 OXFORD. DELEGATES ROOM. 
 
 Marci I J, 1793. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day 
 exhibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch 
 collations of the Septuagint MSS. and of Ci- 
 tations from the Greek Fathers, as have been 
 collated in the year laft paft, as ftated in his 
 Annual account: it is the opinion of this 
 Board, that he has fo far fulfilled the condi- 
 tion upon which the fubfcription to the col- 
 lation was made and renewed, and that a 
 competent and laudable progrefs has been 
 made in the work. 
 
 The Delegates, therefore, think it again 
 incumbent upon them to recommend the 
 prefent Annual Account to the confideration 
 of the Public ; hoping, that Dr Holmes 
 will meet with fuch farther encouragement, 
 as will enable him to bring the v^^ork to its 
 completion. 
 
[ 32 ] 
 
 Account of Expences incurred 
 during the Fifth Year. 
 
 FOR Collation of one MS. in 
 Library at Leipfick, and of 
 three in the Eledloral Library, 
 Drefden, with the journey and 
 expences of the Collator 20 
 
 For Collation of eight MSS. in 
 
 the Casfarean Library, Vienna 30 
 For Collation of remainder in each 
 of the MSS. I. IV. and of the 
 whole in MSS. xiv. xvi. in the 
 Royal Library, Paris ']^ 
 
 For Collation of MSS. in Vatican 
 Library ^5*^ 
 
 o o 
 
 For Second Collator in the fame 
 Library, in advance 10 
 
 For remainder of Tranfcript of the 
 Collation of the Milan Hexa- 
 teuch, and examining the fame 
 anew by the MS. 9 
 
 o, 
 
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 For Collation of the book of 
 Daniel in the Armenian Ver- 
 lion . 
 
 4 o 
 
 For Tranfcripts of Arabick MSS. 3 14 
 For Affiftants at home in reading 
 
 and collating 45 ^ 
 
 Books bought and binding 17 18 
 
 Lofs by exchange and difcount 
 Portage at home and abroad 
 Paper &c. — — 
 
 Journeys to and expences in Lon- 
 don, and other charges incurred 
 in profecution of the work 47 12 
 
 Printing Specimens, and this Ac- 
 count, with making up and 
 cutting &c. — — 67 
 
 o 
 6 
 
 o 
 6 
 
 2 13 10 
 16 15 o 
 
 696 
 
 446 15 7 
 
a=5=s 
 
 Subscriptions. 
 
 Fird Year, with ad- 
 ditions, as in laft 
 Account, 438 17 
 
 To be further added, 
 Dr. Charles Burney, 
 Fair-Lawn-Houfc, 
 Hammerfmith, 2 2 
 
 Second Year, with 
 
 the additions, 573 6 
 To be further added, 
 Dr. Charles Burney, 2 2 
 
 Third Year, with 
 
 the additions, 63 1 o 
 To be further added. 
 Dr. Charles Burney, j 2 
 
 Fourth Year, — 688 15 
 To be further added. 
 Rev. Mr. Crache- 
 
 rode's fubfcription 
 
 ftated ihort, i i 
 
 The Warden of 
 
 Wadham College 
 
 omitted, — 33 
 Dr. Charles Burney, 2 2 
 Fifth Year, — 695 i 
 
 Total Subfcription 3039 i i 
 
 ExFENCES. 
 
 FirftYear, — 433 12 o 
 
 Second Year, 745 9 3 
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 2d Year yet 
 
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 Third Year, — 620 4 7 
 
 Subfcriptipns for 
 3d Year yet 
 
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 Fourth Year, — 405 14 5 
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 Fifth Year, — 446 15 7 
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 2949 18 10 
 
 Ballance 89 12 2 
 
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 rbe Suhfaiben, if they approve of the Progrefs made 
 tn the work, are very refpeSifully re^uejied to make an 
 ■early depo/tt of their Subjaiptions for the f.th year, 
 in the hands either of the Editor, or J. Cooke,' 
 J. Fletcher, 0;./.ri; .r T.Payne. B. White, Lon- 
 don; or Mr. Jones, Bookfeller, Dublin. 
 
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 lATE PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF 
 
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 VERY GREATLY INDEBTED 
 
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 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Weftminfter 660 
 
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 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Exeter — — 550 
 
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 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Gloucefter 5 5° 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Ely 3 3° 
 
 New College " 10 10 
 
 All Souls' College 5 5 
 
 Oriel College 5 5° 
 
 Brazenofe Cfollege 5 5 o 
 
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 1.. :.'in I, J 
 
 THE Sixth' -Year- fince the commence- 
 ment of this 'collation has now elapfed. 
 The obligation accordingly returns upon, me 
 to fubmit another Account ; and to ftate what 
 further advances in the ifeveral parts of the 
 undertaking have been made' in the courfe of 
 the year paft. • i 
 
 Indebted very highly to the Patrons and 
 Friends of the wprjc, J repeat now, and muft 
 repeat upon every occafion that may offer, 
 my moft thankful acknowledgments for the 
 countenance. and affiftance afforded nae ; and 
 with all due refpeft aiid earneflncjfs entreat 
 them to favour me with the contihviarice of 
 their fupport. ■', 
 
 . 1 .V 11' 1 
 
 It 
 
[ ^ ] 
 
 It will be eafily conjedured, at tlie prefent 
 conjun6lure, that my neceflary communica- 
 tion with Foreign Countries has been fome- 
 what impeded ; and that channels, by which 
 much of my materials for the work were hi- 
 therto conveyed to me, are now either entirely 
 clofed, or expofed to much hazard and de- 
 lay. For all fuch circumftances, juft allow- 
 ance will unqueflionably be m^de. 
 
 In this Account, as in preceding inftances, 
 the particulars of what has been done abroad 
 will be detailed under diflinft heads of Places 
 and Libraries. ^ 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
 MfiDicEAN Library. 
 
 In the covirfe of this year, the Collatiori 
 has been here refumed ; although it was not 
 in the power of Mr. Bandini to return to it 
 tjuite as early as it was hoped he might. 
 
 The MSS. through which he has proceed- 
 ed in the courfe of the year, are Six in 
 
 number ; 
 
 nwmber; .and he J|as,informed me, that the 
 collat.ioiiof..the remaining >(ISS. ,m;the Me- 
 dicean Library, will now be for wardeU with- 
 out interruption. 
 
 MILAN. 
 
 Ambrqsi^n Library, ', , ; , • 
 
 ' Caititanus Bugatu^;lbne of thc^D^odlors of 
 the Ambrbfian CoIlege;'% his letter/ printed 
 m' th6>laft Aecbunt,,^ftated that BenediaUs ^e 
 P^rega,^;Sdcrctary'^of Orierital Languages in 
 the Libriry-; was about tcienter upon- the c«l- 
 latidri'of Thi-ee AmbrofiatrMSS. in the book 
 • of JobV^ Accordiriglj^,-' in^the ;<:ou;fe'of the 
 year paft, he has collated thafboolc irt'thofe 
 Three MSS. They are all of them important 
 in.many-refpeas; -irf one, howevcrj they, are 
 of very diftinguifhed-Valu^. The margins of 
 them, very a-equently. contain fragments, hi- 
 therto inedited, of the' Verfions by' Aquila 
 Sypmachus; .ana^Th^eodo.tion, 
 
 In coUatmg thp remaining MSS. ^f-thQ 
 Ambrofian Libraiy, . thp fame, Colfator will 
 
 B 2 proceed 
 
i 4 ] 
 
 proceed with all the' difpatch, which his fitii- 
 ation and obligations will leave' it in his power 
 to ufe. 
 
 ROME. 
 
 Vatican Library. 
 
 Ellas Baldius, Secretary of the Library, had 
 been . employed, frona . ,the . commeti^pment of 
 this ,worU, and continues fllll , enaployed, in 
 collating t]xc Vatican TylSS. ,,Pn niy, endea- 
 vour to engage a fecorid CoUa^o^, fpme diffi- 
 culties loccur^red ; but^ by iavour of. ( the Car- 
 dinal Librarian, they werQ got ovei;. Qn that 
 occafipn,, I, received from his Eminence the 
 tbllowiiiTg letter : ..■'., , 
 
 Roberto Holmes in Academla Oxonlenfi, 
 
 &.C'.; &C. 
 
 F. X. Cardinal, de Zelada SD. 
 
 Optabam equidem, et quomddo ex ea, 
 qv^am fuperiore Npvembri ad te refcrlpfi 
 Epiilolam, colllgere potuiftl, mandata jam 
 opportune' dederam, ut ad peragendas, quas 
 
 ■ ' •" requlris, 
 
 [ s ] 
 
 requiris, Sacrorum' Bibliorum Collationes, qua 
 majori celeritate tibi fieret fatis, loco Domi- 
 nici Calabrefi, quem mihi propofueras, et cui 
 profedlo novi' fatis otii non effe, alixis qulf- 
 plam a- Vaticanae Bibllotheca5 Cuftode, qui et 
 probatus ' 'eflet, - Eliae ■ Baldlo : daretur focius. 
 Res adhuc infefta non fme maxima animi 
 mei moleftia procraflinabatur ; quibus autem 
 de caufis,- notuin tibi arbitror, nee mea refert 
 dicere.^ Cum^perlatae ad me'funt tuas litterae 
 XV. Kal'^^Maii labentis datjae; nee J)rimxini 
 complicatai6 oad 'Jofephum ' Spalletti! perlegi 
 Epiftolam ;' -Cum. iplum ad me accerfivi, per- 
 fuafique, ut ftatim opus, quo(J illi a te com- 
 miiTum ; eft,'- aggrederetur. ' Lastabor certe, fi 
 faltem hoc modo, fiquldem'mihi in praefenti 
 alius mlnlme occu'rrit, . poffit 'tuum, ut quara 
 maxlme cuplo, expleri:deliderium; 
 
 Ne te longius teneam, illud tantummodo 
 adjungam, me tibi fore femper tam benevo- 
 lentia corijundhim, quam exiftimatione im- 
 penfe devptum, atque interim eas omnes, 
 quas Ipfemet optas, me tibi ex animo aufpi- 
 cari felicitates. Vale. 
 
 Dabam Romas, iv. Kal, Jun. 1793. 
 
 I Jofephus 
 
'i wi ! i i y »a 
 
 [ 6 1 
 
 Jofephus Sp^letti acceded to the propofal 
 thus made to him. 
 
 By Ellas Baldius there have been made in 
 the courfe of the. latter half of the preceding 
 year, and by him! and Spallettl in the cowfe 
 of the prefent year, the following Collations; 
 
 I 1. ■ 
 
 Of the Book of Numbers, in Ten MSS. 
 Of the Book of Deuteronomy, |in Nine, MSS., 
 Of .the Book of Jolhua, inlNine MSSv A ■. 
 Of the Book of-Judges,.in Nine MSS. ; ,. ;.. 
 Of the Book of Ruth, in Nine MSS, i ■. ■...:. , ' ' 
 
 li lU 
 
 The Collation' has now proceeded, through 
 all thei Vatican MSS. that contain any of the 
 books of the Oaateuch. And the two Col-, 
 lators are proceeding in , the collation of fub- 
 fequent books. 
 
 The above Collations are lying at Florence 
 till fome means can be found of fending them 
 in fafety to this country. 
 
 EVORA. 
 
 [ 7 ] 
 
 EVORA:- Portugal. 
 
 Library of the Carthusian Fathers. 
 
 Here, as the laft Account flated. Four Sep- 
 tuagint-MSS. had been difcovered. 
 
 Two of them containing the Pfalms, and 
 moft of another, containing the books of 
 Genefis, Exodus, and' Leviticus, had been 
 collated in the. courfe of the laft year. The 
 remainder of the latter, with the whole of 
 the Fourth, containing the Prophetical Text, 
 has been collated during the prefent year. 
 
 The above Collations have been made by 
 Father Vincentius Ferriera, of the Carthulian 
 College ; and are now lying in the hemds of 
 the Reverend Mr. Hill, Chaplain to the Bri- 
 tifh Faftory at Lifbon, till a fafe opportunity 
 may occur of forwarding them to this coun- 
 try. 
 
 To Mr. Hill this work is highly indebted, 
 both for the difcovery of thefe MSS. and for 
 procuring a Collator. 
 
 MADRID. 
 
[ 8 ] 
 
 MADRID. 
 
 Library of.the Escurial. 
 
 Collations of feveral LXX-MSS, here pre- 
 ferved, have been made by Dr. Moldenhawer; 
 and of thofe collations the following are now 
 come to my hands ; 
 
 A complete collation of One MS. a Lec- 
 tionarium of the eleventh century, contain- 
 ing Sedlions of the Scriptural Text in the 
 books of Numbers, Job, Proverbs, Ifaiah, 
 Ezekiel, Daniel, and nearly of all the Minor 
 Prophets. 
 
 , A Collation of Genefis in another MS. of 
 the thirteenth century, containing the books 
 of the Odateuch, and i, 3 Samuel. 
 
 A Collation of the 2d book of Samuel in 
 another MS. of the thirteenth century, con- 
 taining Sam. 1,3; Kings, 1,2; Chronicles, 
 
 I 9 ] ' 
 
 . The reft of the collations, made in thi3 
 Library by ProfefTor Moldenhawer, are to be 
 lent me without fiirther delay. 
 
 COPENHAGEN. 
 
 Royal Library.'-; ' ' ' 
 
 Here are preferved fome few LXX-MSS. 
 but they are not, as far as I know at prefent* 
 more than Four. Endeavours have been long 
 fince ufed to provide, for the collation of 
 them ; and that they have now been attend- 
 ed with fuccefs, will appear by the following 
 -extrad from a letter,,. fent me by ProfefTor 
 Moldenhawer. , , 
 
 " Fervet opus coUationum Codd. MSS. 
 Bibliothecae Regire Hafnienfis, me eas mode- 
 rante, et ut debita attentione fiant, dili'gentif- 
 iime provident'e." . , . 
 
 , Jan. 18, 17^4. ' • 
 
 Intel- 
 
[ 10 ] 
 
 Intelligence has been fent me of a MS. 
 at Copenhagen, not in the Royal Library, 
 and hitherto unknown. It contains the Hex- 
 aplar Text of Ifaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Da- 
 niel, charged with the Origenian marks; 
 and it appears to be one of the moft impor- 
 tant MSS. any where to be found. It is 
 now under collation; and the book of Jere- 
 miah has been finilhed and part of it fent 
 me. The remaining part of the MS. will be 
 collated wltli all poffible difpatch. 
 
 iii««i I I 
 
 L O R R A I N. 
 
 The Library of a Religious Houfe, in or 
 near Metz in this province, had poffeffion of 
 One LXX-MS. It contains the Pfalms as 
 tar as verfe 1 1 pf Pfahn Ixx. It is written 
 in capital letters of the firft antiquity, and 
 without accents \ and from its various read- 
 ings, which, though not very numerous, are 
 yet very important, it appears to be one of 
 the moft excellent MSS. a& far as it goes, as 
 well as one of the moft ancient. An endea- 
 vour to obtain the ufe of it, fo that it might 
 
 be 
 
 [• 
 
 II 
 
 ] 
 
 be collated for this work, has been made 
 with fuccefs ; and the collation of it, though 
 not yet arrived, may be expeded every day. 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 Royal Library. 
 
 Mr. Coray has not, as far as it appears, 
 been yet prevented from continuing tlie col- 
 lation of MSS. in this Library. Duxjng the 
 year paft, he has collated the MS. marked 
 VII, containing the books of Samuel, of 
 Kings, of Chronicles, and of Efdras : and he 
 is now carrying on the collation of the Two 
 MSS. marked III, VI. and he has been folli- 
 cited to proceed, after thefe Ihall have been 
 done,, in collating fuch other MSS. in that 
 Library, as have not yet been collated either 
 by him, or by myfelf. It may therefore be 
 prefumed, that he will continue to adl, even 
 though it fhould be impoffible for epiftolary 
 communication to pafs between us. 
 
 The collations which he has made during 
 the year laft elapfed, and the concluding part 
 
 C 2, of 
 
t 12 ] 
 
 of the former, are now lying at Turin, wait- 
 ing for fome fafe conveyance hither. 
 
 RUSSIA. 
 
 MOSCOW. 
 
 Libraries of the Holy Synod. 
 
 What LXX-MSS. are contained in thefe 
 Libraries, and what appUcation had been 
 made for leave to collate them, was ftated in 
 the Account, delivered at the conclufion of 
 the Fourth year. 
 
 Neither that effort, nor another in the 
 former part of the year next following, were 
 fuccefsful. When this appeared, application 
 was made to two Profeffors at Mofcow ; and 
 they were entreated to undertake the colla- 
 tion of the MSS. in queftion ; and in order 
 to facihtate the obtainment of leave to collate 
 them, I then fent a letter of requeft ad- 
 dreffed to Plato, Metropolitan of Mofcow : 
 and as both the Profeffors were known and 
 much efteemed by the Prelate, I defired them 
 to prefent it; and expreffed my hope, that 
 
 they 
 
 [ 13 ] 
 
 they would be fo kind as to join in fupport- 
 ing my application by earneft interceffion of 
 their own. 
 
 They obligingly tranfmitted the letter of 
 application to the Prelate ; and interpofed 
 their foUicitation. He returned the following 
 anfwer to one of them. 
 
 " Acceptis tuis litteris ffatim in memoriam 
 mihi revocavi cam jucundiffimam atque doc- 
 tiffimam tecum converfationem, qua mihi 
 frui licuit, 'quum effem Mofquae. Nunc ab- 
 fenti mihi eam vicem fupplerunt quodam- 
 modo gratiffimae atque fiaaviffimae littera; 
 tuas. Tantum enim abeft, ut illas otium 
 meum perturbent; quin etiam augeant, quam 
 ex eo perciplo, voluptatem. Poftulato tuo, 
 quod etiam Robertus Holmes, Anglus, et 
 D'. M. datis ad me litteris a me expetunt, ut 
 fcil. per me liceat facros codices conferre, fi 
 qui in Bibliotheca Patriarchali Mofquenii et 
 in Typographla Synodal! reperiuntur, ut hac 
 fada coUatione, eo facillus Verfio Septuaglnta- 
 viralis in lucem edi poffit : huic, inquam, tuo 
 atque doftiffimorum virorum honefliffimo 
 poflulato ut fatisfacerem, nihil mihi gratius, 
 
 nihil 
 
[ H ] 
 
 nihil optabilius effet ; fi hoc in mea conftitu- 
 tum fuiflet poteftate. Sed nullum in eas 
 Bibliothecas jus habeo : nihil quidquam pof- 
 fum praecipere iis, quorum curae eas Biblio- 
 thecas commiflas funt. A fola SS. Synodi po- 
 teftate pendent et illas, et qui eis prasfunt. 
 Quare, fi placet, opus eft, ut ad Synodum 
 h^c res deferatur, vel a D". Holmes, vel ab 
 alio, fi cui ille hanc curam commiferit. His 
 expofitis, enixe te rogo, ut me excufatum ha- 
 beas coram D°. Holmes, et D°. M. quod eorum 
 voluntati fatisfacere, et graviffimum negotium 
 pro viribus meis adjuvare, non potuerlm. Quid 
 enim in re tam feria, et commodo Ecclefias 
 maxime profutura, denegaftem, ft quid in me 
 fttum eflet ? Adhaec expetas, obfecro, pro 
 me veniam a doftiflimis iis viris, quod pecu- 
 liaribus litteris ad eorum litteras non refpon- 
 deam. Gravitate muneris et tenuitate vale- 
 tudinis impedito, vix ad hanc epiftolam con- 
 fcrlbendam, vel tempus, vel vires fuffecerunt. 
 Quod reliquum eft, Deo optimo te, amice 
 cariffime, atque tua omnia commendo. Vale. 
 
 Poteris, Domine, exemplar hujus Epiftols 
 communlcare Domino Holmes. Item rogo 
 ftgnifices, quod velim, ut duo exemplaria pro 
 
 me 
 
 I -5 ] 
 
 me de'ftinentur, illius veriloms, quam in lucem 
 edereun animo habet,; pro eo pretio, quod 
 conftitutum erit." ' , ,. 
 
 I795._ Martii/'4dle;' '^ -' 
 Laura. , "^ . 
 
 r.' s: 
 
 Such was the anfwer returned to one of 
 the two Mofcow Profeflbrs.' from the other 
 I received a letter, from which I fubmit the 
 fubfequent extrad : .:.;... 
 
 •' Ne uUa prsfatione morer exTpeftationem 
 tuam, quam fatis diu res :ipf& adhuc morata 
 eft, caufas atque impedimenta, quibus id ac- 
 cidit, exponere iiiperfedeo, ftatimque te re- 
 mitto ad litteras Metropolitae Platonis, qus 
 ad D". Prof. S. refponft loco fcripts, ab 
 hoc tecum communicand^ mihi tradrtae funt. 
 Intelliges autem ex iis, iri ipfo negotio tuo 
 nihil adhuc efle promotum, et fpem omnem 
 redire eo, ft per legatum publicum Petropoli, 
 ab ipfaSynodo, quae tamen ad arbitrium 
 fummi imperii fortafle rem rejiciet, uftim il- 
 lorum codicum impetrare poflis ; neque quan- 
 tum fcio, alia ratione aditus ad illas Biblio- 
 thecas 
 
[ I6 ] 
 
 thecas patebit. Si impetraveris, quod nee 
 dubito, et tua caufa pariter quam communi 
 litterarum vehementer opto, tamen difficultas 
 remanet, non adeo facile expedienda, in ipfa 
 collatlone ; quam ficut niultafane quafi offi- 
 cii nomine in me potiffimum devolvere vi- 
 dentur, ita non minus multa eaque gravilTima, 
 item prope officii nomine, vereor, ne cum 
 aliis me quoque ipfum deprecari cogant. ' D'. 
 Prof. S. qui pro honore litterarum tua- 
 rum gratias maximas agit, etiam atque etiam 
 rogat, ut propter curas muneris et reliquas 
 occupationes, quibus vergente etiam tetate 
 diftridtus eft, excufatum ipfum habeas, fi ni- 
 hil poffit in hoc genere procurationis in fe 
 fufcipere ; item, quod hjec per me potius, 
 quam litteris fuis tibi fignificet. Meorum 
 ftudiorum haec eft ratio, ut omne adhuc tem- 
 pus, omnemque laborem inftitutioni juven- 
 tutis et cur:e gymnafii mihi commlffi, litteris 
 adeo praefertim ad heec ipfa munera rite pbe- 
 unda propius fped;antibus impenderim ; nec- 
 dum inveni, quomodo ex his anguftiis me ex- 
 pedirem, ut ad alias cura?, etiamfi voluntas 
 non deeflet, animum adjic^re potuerim. Hoc 
 unum licet poUiceri, me et libenter effe fuf- 
 cepturum et cum fide exfecuturum, quidquid 
 
 in 
 
 ' 
 
 i '7 ] 
 
 In hoci negotio ad meum 6^dum rediturum 
 fit, neque propter uUam aliam caufam, pr^. 
 ^r negand, neceffitatem ejufmodi, qu^ 'c^^3 
 
 SSI ^'i' r'^^^' ^" ^^ ""^- -Oram 
 ^lap. d,ffieult.te^ f..,, ^.^ minus honeft 
 confiha m communem: litteraru^n utilitatem 
 lulcepta exitum optatum habearit. Unus 
 etmm eft m Profefforibus noftris, quern olim 
 auxdmm pr^ftitiffo in confer.ndi? eodict^ 
 
 ouam "^" fr'' ^^ '''' ^^^^^^^' P^^^"^ ^li- 
 quam cur^e fufapere gravabitur. Aliqs hie 
 
 nov, nullos^^d quibus. cogitare aut fperare 
 
 ejufinod: quid hcea... Ut trapfmittantur c" 
 
 dice, ad Petropohn, fi quk ibi reperiatur q^i 
 
 collationen. fufcipiat, valde, dubito an impe- 
 
 tran poffit. Cetera tu ^pfe videris. Mihi mo- 
 
 leftum eft, quod nihil nifi dubitationes et dif- 
 
 ficultates m medium proferre habui ; quam- 
 
 quam ab humanitate tua id me impet^.a?^n;r„ 
 
 ta de confido, ut id rerum neceffit^ti non 
 
 yolufit^ti me^, tribyendum exiftimes. Ut 
 
 ahos omnes adjutores confiliorum ' Wvm ^a. 
 
 be s mag. aptos et expedites , vehementer 
 
 ulla. vii habe-fe p'ote.r'js ' para^tio.em nuem- 
 quam ; quare, fi te ulla resVaht h^c aSt alia 
 qu^cuncjue ad me rejecerit, tu, quid ea pof- 
 
 ^ tulec 
 
 1 
 
L i8 J 
 
 tulet a me fi:?ri,fignifi(:abis; ego, quid recip'ere 
 per fidem poffim aut minus, perpendam 
 fedxilo et libere indicabo, quidquid receptum 
 erit accurate exfequar. Ergo ad neceffitatem 
 rogo ut me referves ; quae fi.inciderit, .pofle 
 ejus in me effe fubfidium confidas. Vale, 
 vir rieverendiffime,, et rebus utere omnibus 
 ex animi fententig. fluentibus. Dabam Mof- 
 quae, die 13 , Aprilis, i yg^ ." 
 
 Application to the Prefident of the Holy 
 Synod having previoufly failed, it feemed that 
 little probabiHty of fuccefs remained, but by 
 applying to the • Emprefs. Accordingly, . an 
 Addrefs of follicitation has been prepared; 
 and efforts are making to get it tranfmitted 
 and prefented, ; ■ 
 
 C HERS ON. " ' 
 
 At this place have been difcbvered Four 
 LXX-MSS. 
 
 I, Codex membranaceus, faeculi xii, contir 
 tinet libros Pentateuchi, 
 
 II. Codex 
 
 I IP ] 
 
 II. Codex membranaccus, feculi xii, con- 
 tinet librum Ecclefiaftis, cum' Commentario. 
 
 III. Codex membranaceus, feculi xii, con- 
 tinet Canticum Can^icorum, cum Commen- 
 tario. 
 
 IV- Codex chartaceus, fsculi xiii, continet 
 Pfalmos, cum Scholiis fimilibus Euthymianis, 
 fed brevioribus. 
 
 Intelligence of thefe MSS. was communi- 
 cated by the Prelate Eugenius; and, through 
 his mterpofition, leave, was obtained to con- 
 vey them by n^eans of,fome merchants of 
 Pultowa to Wittemberg in Saxony, where 
 they have been collated by ProfefTor M^itthsi. 
 
 MOLDAVIA, 
 
 In this province there have been difcovered 
 Five LXX-MSS. ' ■, 
 
 I. ^ Codexjmembranaceus, faeculi ix, conti- 
 net Jibrum Genefeos. 
 
 D 5 
 
 II, Codex 
 
II. Codex membranaceus, fasciili xii, con- 
 tinet Jofuam, Judices, Ruth, cum catena. 
 
 III. Codex membranaceus, feculi xi, con- 
 t'met quatuor libros Regum. 
 
 rV. Codex; membranaceus, feculi ix, con- 
 tinet Pfalmos, fed valde mutilos. 
 
 V. Codex membranaceus, faeculi xii, coa- 
 tinet libros Prophetarum Minorum duodecim. 
 
 Intelligence of the above MSS. was com- 
 municated by Dorotheus, who holds a high 
 Ecclefiallical Office in Moldavia ; and by 
 him means were alfo found of tranfmitting 
 them to Wittemberg, where they have been 
 collated by Profeflbr Matthaei. 
 
 BASIL. 
 
 PuBLicK Library. 
 
 In the Fourth year's Account, at page 12, 
 it was Hated that there were in this Library 
 Four LXX-MSS. Intelligence of a Fifth 
 has been fmce received, 
 
 Of 
 
 [ 91 ] 
 
 Of.thef0 MSS. Four, have been collated in 
 the courffe of the prefent year, namely, 
 
 !.■ 
 B- vi, 18, containing the books of Genefis 
 and Exodus. 
 
 A. vii, 3, containing the' Pfalms. , 
 S- X, S3y containing the Pfahns. 
 
 B. vi, 22, containing the two books of Sa- 
 muel, the two books of Kings, and the two 
 books of Chronicles. , ; 
 
 The above collations have been made by 
 Profeifor Hertzog of Bafil ; and he will pro- 
 ceed without delay in collating the remain- 
 ing MS. 
 
 VIENNA. 
 
 Cesarean Library. 
 
 The collation has been carried on in this 
 Library, during the pail year, by the" fame 
 two agents as before. 
 
 Mr. 
 
r- 
 
 Mr. Alter has been employed in collaclng 
 Exodus, and the •. fubifequent' books of the 
 Pentateuch, in all the Casfarcan MSS. that 
 contain them. -' W-haf iS- th'C' ^exaft progrefs 
 made by him cannot now be- -particularly 
 ftated, fince the advices, which have been for 
 fame time expe<3:cdi ihaVe not yfct come to 
 hand. 
 
 Of the Nine MSS. pointed out to Mr. 
 Bolla in May 1793 (fee Fifth Account, at 
 p. 4.), he had finifhed Five during the laft 
 year ; and during the prefent year he has fi- 
 nifhed the remaining Four ; and, according to 
 the-'direfticins given him, was to proceed in 
 irther' collations. What further advances b& 
 may- have made, cannot here be fpecified, for 
 the reafbn above afligned. 
 
 Of what has been'done^ in further collation 
 of Greek MSS. during this year, the furn- 
 mary reprefentation feems to be this : 
 
 •''.i 
 
 ;,■) n-'-, 
 
 "'•MSS. coinpletely collated ate Twenty-five. 
 •■'•' MSS, 
 
 A 
 
 MSS. containing many books of Scripture, 
 of which more than two third parts have been 
 collated, ard Two.'' ' '■ ''' ' ' ' ' ■'' ' ' 
 
 In Ten MSS.' the 'book' "of I^^mbers has 
 been collated.- • . , . 
 
 ,..;'.' , I '")■••''' ' ' ■ ' 
 
 In Nine MiSS.. there hayebeer^ coHat-ed'the 
 books of Deuterononiy, Jo|h)f a. Judges, R,uth. 
 
 In Three MSS. there'has been' collated "the 
 book of Job. 
 
 ". T a -, .. -\ 
 
 The iaboye .. ftatenienti J ,^9es not .include 
 fuch oftthe Pent^teuch-rboqks, ^s hava beea 
 collated, by' Mr. , Alter. ; ■. , t: , . ■' ■ r . ■, ■ i . ■; ■ , 
 •' ' ■' ' '-' ' ■•.! >f' mJ !i: ^ ,, :■' 
 
 ..■"■ . "i'; 
 
 
 ...;i7 ;.. 
 
 VER, 
 
-•ISftji,^^ 
 
 C ^ 1 
 
 VERSIONS FRQM I.^^X. 
 
 CopTicK Version. 
 
 -■•■■,'■'' "-'■ ■- ■ ■■■ ■ ■' ' 
 
 Coptum-Arabicum Euchologlum, has been 
 cojla^ted by Mr.. Alter through a,ll the cita- 
 tions, if "COrl^kiris "frbm thofe books of the 
 Pentatfcu'ch, ' whicii' "have ' pafled 'under his 
 han(^ 'iwi'^g t^^is year. 
 
 Arabick Version. 
 
 A fac-fimile trainfcript of the whole of the 
 MS,' Laud. A. 1-82 has been completed, and 
 fent to Dr. Schpurrer ; Mid fonie piatt of the 
 collation of it in Genefis is fent me. The 
 fame fort of tranfcript of two other Arabick 
 MSS. is alfo in his hands, excepting only a 
 fmall part. 
 
 He is now carrying on the collation by 
 equal advances through thefe three MSS. and 
 bids me exped: parcels of their various read- 
 ings from time to time, as faft as his other 
 indifpenfable engagements will permit him to 
 prepare them. 
 
 ' •' Arme- 
 
 I ^$ 3 
 
 A:RMEifiAN Version. 
 
 This Verfion, both in MSS. and printed 
 
 copies, has been collated by Mr. Alter, with 
 
 he Greek text of thofe Pentateuch-books, 
 
 through which he has proceeded during this 
 
 The fame Verfion has alfo been further 
 collated by Mr. Bredenkamp of Bremen, 
 through fome of the Minor Prophets, and Te- 
 reiniah and part, if not aU„ of Ezekiel. He ^ 
 wi 1 alfo proceed in collating this Verfion 
 with fomfr other books of Scripture. - ? 
 
 Slavonian Version. 
 
 This Verfion has been collated by Mr A] 
 ter in thofe books of the Pentateuch, which 
 have m the courfe of this year paiTed under 
 nis hands. 
 
 Georgian Version. 
 
 The Georgian Bible was printed at Mof- 
 cow, .m the year pf our Lord 1743 ; i„ the , 
 year 431 of the Georgian sra ; in folio, and 
 
 E in 
 
 
 m 
 
[ «^ ] 
 
 in letters of that fort, which is flyled facred, 
 from being exclusively appropriated to books 
 ufed in the ecclefiaftical fervice of the Geor- 
 gians. They were invented in the fifth cen- 
 tury, and feem originally derived from the 
 Armenian letters. The author of the Geor- 
 gian Verfion is unknown. It appears indeed 
 from Mofes Chorenenfis, that fome Georgians 
 were fent into Greece, to learn the Greek 
 language ; and that they tranflated into the 
 Georgian tongue the Greek Bible, and fome 
 ecclefiaftical books of the Greeks. This Ver- 
 fion may therefore have fome beneficial effedt 
 in a critical ufe of the Greek Text. This 
 indeed will not be the cafe with the books 
 of Ecclefiafticus, and the Maccabees ; for as 
 the MS. that came from Georgia to Mofcow, 
 did not contain thofe books, they were there 
 tranflated by a Georgian Scholar, not from 
 the Greek Text, but from the Slavonian 
 Verfion. 
 
 No diftribution into chapters and verfes 
 appeared in the Georgian MS. In publifhing 
 it, that diftribution in both thefe refpedls was 
 adopted, which had taken place in the fecond 
 Mofcow edition of the Slavonian Verfion^ 
 
 In 
 
 E «7 ] 
 
 In_th_e Georgian Verfion, the abbreviations 
 ^s, xf, ,f, xi, &c. perpetually occur, in exaft 
 conformity with the ufual method obferved 
 m Greek MSS. 
 
 The coUation of this Verfion has been fent 
 me through the book of Genefis. It is done 
 by Mr. Alter; and he wiU coUate this Ver- 
 fion in the fubfequent books of Scripture 
 
 Such are the advances made and now 
 making abroad, in the collation of Greek 
 MSS. and of Verfions from the Greek. Of 
 what has been done at home the reprefenta- 
 tion remains to be fubmitted. 
 
 The year has been fpent chiefly in further 
 preparation of Copy for the Prefs. Accord- 
 mgly, there has been laid before the Board 
 drawn out into the form requifite for printing' 
 according to the fpecimen of a printed pa-e 
 exhibited laft year, the Copy of fuch Varia- 
 tions from the Vatican Text as appear in the 
 following Greek MSS. Editions, and Veriions 
 
 E 2 
 
 Genesis, 
 
 J 
 
ii 
 
 [ ^8 1 
 
 Genesis. 
 
 Ch. xxxiv. In forty-one G. MSS.— In four 
 Editions ; viz. the Complutenfian, 
 Aldine, Alexandrine, and the Catena 
 Nicephori, printed (from a MS.) at 
 Leipfick, 1773.— In four Verfions ; 
 viz. the Coptick, Slavonian, Arme- 
 nian, Georgian. 
 Ch. XXXV. In forty-three G. MSS.— In the 
 fame four Editions— In the fame 
 four Verfions. 
 Ch. xxxvi. In forty-eight G. MSS.— In the 
 fame four Editions— In the Georgian 
 Verfion. 
 Ch. xxxvii. In forty-three G. MSS.— In the 
 fame four Editions— In the four Ver- 
 fions above mentioned. 
 Ch. xxxviii. In forty-three G. MSS.— In the 
 fame four Editions— In the Coptick 
 Verfion. 
 Ch. xxxix. In forty-two G. MSS.— In the 
 fame four Editions— In the four Ver- 
 fions above mentioned. 
 Ch. xl. In forty-three G. MSS.— In the fame 
 four Editions— In the Coptick, Sla- 
 vonian, and Armenian Verfions. ' 
 
 Ch. 
 
 [ ^9 ] 
 
 Ch. xli. In.forty-two G. MSS.-— In the fapie 
 four Editi6ns-f«-In' the Coptick, Sla- 
 vonian, and Armenian Verfions. 
 
 Ch. xlii. In forty-twoG. MSS. — In the fame 
 four Editions — In the four Verfions 
 above mentiohfcd. ' 
 
 Ch. xliii: In forty-tw^: G. MSS.vr-In the 
 fame fom E^itions-^— In theXame four 
 Verfions. 
 
 Ch. xliv. In forty-one G, MSS,r--Jn ^he 
 fame four Editioi^g — In the; fame four 
 Verfions... , , ; .\ . / .; ,. . 
 
 Ch. xlv. In forty-one G. MSS.— In the fame 
 four Editions — In the fame four Ver- 
 fions. 
 
 Ch. xlvi. In forty-one G. MSS. — In the fame 
 four Editions — In the lame four Ver- 
 fions. 
 
 Ch. xlvii, In forty-two G. MSS. — In the 
 fame four Editions — In the lame four 
 Verfions. 
 
 Ch. xlviii. In forty-one G. MSS. — In the 
 fame four Editions — In the fame four 
 Verfions. 
 
 Ch. xlix. In forty G. MSS. — In the fame 
 four Editions — In the fame four Ver- 
 fions. 
 
 Cli. 
 
i 3^ 3 
 
 Ch 1 In forty G. MSS.— In the fame four 
 Editions— In the fame four Verfions. 
 
 Ch. i. 
 
 Exodus. 
 
 In four Editions; viz. Complutenfian, 
 
 Aldine, Alexandrine, Catena Nice- 
 
 phori. 
 Ch. ii. In the fame four Editions. 
 Ch. iii. In the fame four Editions. 
 Ch. iv. V. vi. vii. viii. In the Complutenfiafl, 
 
 and Aldine. 
 
 I S« ] 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited be- 
 fore the Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs, 
 and then deposited in the Bodleian Libraryj 
 in feparate volumes in folio, with padeboard 
 covers, are thefe : 
 
 Vol. LIX. Genefis. 
 
 In MS. T. 2. 5- of the Efcurial Library. 
 
 Numeri. 
 In Ten MSS. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. LX. Deuteronom. 
 
 In Nine MSS. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 II. Regg. 
 In MS. 2. II. 19. of the Efcurial Library. 
 
 Vol. LXI. xii Prophet. Minor. 
 
 In two Greek MSS. clxiii, and xviii, 
 in the Armenian MS. 3274, and 
 the printed Armenian and Slavo- 
 nian Verfions, in the Csfarean Li- 
 brary, Vienna. 
 
 COL- 
 
 VOL. 
 
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 Vol. LXII. Genefis. 
 In MS. of Moldavia. 
 
 Genefis. Exodus. 
 
 Leviticus. Numeri. 
 
 Deuteronom. 
 ' In MS. of Cherfon I. 
 Ecclefiaftes. 
 Cantic." Cantic. 
 In MS. of Cherfon II. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 In Three MSS. x. xix. xxiii. of the Cae- 
 farean Library, Vienna. 
 
 Vol. LXIII, Job. 
 
 In Three MSS. B. y2>' M. 65. A. 148. of 
 the Ambrofian Library. 
 Ifaias ad cap. xxx. 5. 
 In the Greek MS. clviii. and in the Ar- 
 menian MS. 3270, and the printed 
 Armenian and Slavonian Verfions, 
 in the Cjefarean Library, Vienna. 
 Jeremias ad cap. xxiv. 
 In the Armenian Verfion. 
 
 Vol. LXIV. Genefis. 
 In the Georgian Verfion. 
 Genefis. Exodus. 
 
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 In MS. B, vi, 18, of the Publick Library 
 Bafil. ^' 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 
 In two MSS. A. vn, 3. B. 'x, 33, of the 
 lame Library, 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 In MS. B. II. 42, of the Univerfity Li- 
 brary, Turin. 
 
 Ledlion. e Proverb. Job. Ezek. 
 Dan. Prophet. Minor. 
 In MS. r. Ill, z. of the Efcurial Library. 
 
 Jeremias ad cap. xxii, 14. 
 In a Hexaplar MS. of a private Library, 
 Copenhagen. 
 Prophet. Minor, xii. 
 In the Armenian Verfion. 
 
 Citation, in Opp. Grac. Ephrami 
 Syri in Genef. Levit. Deutero- 
 nom. I. II, ni. Regg. 
 
 In 
 
OXFORD, DELEGATES ROOM. 
 
 March 25, 1794. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day ex- 
 hibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch 
 Collations of the Septuagint-MSS. as have 
 been collated in .the year laft pafl, together 
 with a ftatement of the farther progrefs made 
 by him in preparing the fame for the Prefs, 
 as ftated in his Annual Account ; It is the 
 opinion of this Board, that he has fo far ful- 
 filled the condition upon which the Subfcrip- 
 tion to the faid Collation was made and re- 
 newed ; and that a competent and laudable 
 progrefs has been made in both parts of the 
 Work. 
 
 The Delegates, therefore, think it incum- 
 bent upon them to recommend the prefent 
 Annual Account to the confideration of the 
 Publick ; hoping that Dr. Holmes will meet 
 with fuch farther encouragement, as will ena- 
 ble him to bring the Work to its completion. 
 
 [ 35 1 
 
 Account of Expences incurred 
 during the Sixth Year. 
 
 Collation of MS. VII. and of part 
 of MSS. III. VI. in the Royal 
 Library, Paris 60 o o 
 
 Collation of four MSS. and of fome 
 Pentateuch-books in other MSS. 
 and in the Armenian, Slavonian, 
 and Georgian Verfions, in the 
 Caefarean Library, Vienna 40 o o 
 
 Profeflbr Hertzog's Collation of four 
 MSS. in the Publick Library, 
 Bafd ■ . 19 o o 
 
 Collation of the Lorrain MS. 300 
 
 Collation of ten MSS. at Rome 
 in fome books of Scripture im- 
 mediately fubfequent to the Pen- 
 tateuch — — — 90 o o 
 
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 Gratuities to the fervants of the 
 Vatican, as diftributed by the 
 Praefed of the Library 5 5^ 
 
 Collation of Job in three MSS. of 
 
 the Ambrofian Library, Milan lo o O 
 
 For Collation of the MSS, at Evora, 
 Portugal, a prefent made to the 
 value of lo o o 
 
 Collation of one MS. in the Uni- 
 
 verfity Library, Turin 3 o • o 
 
 Collation of fix MSS. in the Medi- 
 
 cean Library, Florence g^ o o 
 
 Allowance to Mr. Bandini for agen- 
 cy and extraordinary trouble in 
 various ways during the laft and 
 prefent year 10 o o 
 
 Collation of one whole MS. and of 
 Genefis, and the ^d book of Sa- 
 muel, in other MSS. of the Ef- 
 curial Library 35 o 
 
 Collation of Jeremiah in a Hexa- 
 
 plar MS. at Copenhagen 600 
 
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 Profeflbr Matthaei's Collation of 
 nine MSS. from Cherfon and 
 Moldavia 80 
 
 Mr. Bredenkamp's Collation of the 
 Minor Prophets, Jeremiah, and 
 Ezekiel, in the Armenian Ver- 
 fion 5 o 
 
 Affiftants at home In reading, col- 
 lating, and tranfcribing 36 19 
 
 Fac-fimlle Tranfcript of Arabick 
 MSS. at 3s 6d each page 51 15 
 
 Fount of Types, Greek and Latin, 
 with Orlgenlan marks, &c. 45 
 
 Journeys, and expences in London, 
 and other charges incurred in 
 profecution of the work ^g 
 
 Writing-paper, pafteboard, &c. 8 
 
 Books bought — 17 
 
 Poftage at home and abroad, and 
 carriage of MSS. and collation- 
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 Printing and folding this Account, 
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 THE Seventh Year, from the commence- 
 ment of this undertaking, being now at 
 its clofe, the obligation returns upon me to 
 fubmit an Account of the work, and to re- 
 port what advances have been made in it dur- 
 ing the year paft, and what are now the flate 
 and circumftances of it. 
 
 On the difcharge of this duty I fhall ac- 
 cordingly enter, after due mention fhall have 
 been made of fome important favours, with 
 which I have been affifted in the courfe of 
 the year. 
 
 To the Emprefs of Ruffia the work is 
 highly indebted for granting in its utmoft 
 extent the requefted favour of collating the 
 Septuagint-MSS. at Mofcow. 
 
 To the Archbifliop of Canterbury my mod 
 grateful acknowledgments are due, for thole 
 obliging endeavours ufed by His Grace, at 
 ;iiy requeft, in order to obtain for a Letter of 
 
 B Appli- 
 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 Application refpedling the Mofcow-MSS. the 
 favour of Prefentation to the Emprefs. 
 
 To Lord Grenville alfo are to be prefented 
 my moft fincere thanks, for the very bene- 
 ficial interpofition of his Lordfhip, to facili- 
 tate and maintain my communication with 
 foreign countries, and to procure for my re- 
 queft to the Emprefs of Ruflia a certainty of 
 being fubmitted to her. 
 
 To Sir Charles Whitworth alfo I beg leave 
 to return the moft thankful acknowledg- 
 ments, for giving the Letter of Application 
 to the Emprefs an aftual conveyance to her 
 hands j and for notifying the fuccefs of it, 
 as foon as it was known, to Profeflbr Mell- 
 man at Mofcow, that there might be no delay 
 in forwarding the intereft of the work. 
 
 To the Patrons and Friends of this under- 
 taking I again prefent the thanks that are fo 
 juftly due for the continuance of that fupport, 
 which they have moft kindly afforded me. And 
 it cannot be more my obligation, than it is 
 my defire, to put as fpeedy an end, as may be 
 poffible, to that expence, which the Subfcri- 
 bers to this undertaking have generoufly ta- 
 ken 
 
 ( 3 ) 
 ken upon themfelves in its behalf. And 
 though the prefent ftate and circumftances 
 of he work, and efpecially the expences that 
 will now attend the collation of the MSS. at 
 Mofcow, prevent me from coming fully up 
 to my wifhes, yet fomethin^ may perhaps be 
 done now towards alleviating that burden, to 
 which the Subfcribers to this undertaking 
 have fo hberally fubmitted. It is therefor! 
 With the utmoft thankfulnefs and refpedl, that 
 I lay before the Subfcribers the following en- 
 treaty and propofals : 
 
 That thofe Individuals, who fubfcribed to 
 the work m the firft year of it, grant me the 
 favour of their fubfcription for the year now 
 enfuing, being the eighth; and that then fub- 
 Icnption, as to them, do ceafe : 
 
 That thofe Individuals, whofe fubfcription 
 commenced in any year of the work fubfe- 
 quent to the firft, do continue their fubfcrip- 
 tion till the fame ft^all have been paid, in like 
 manner, for eight years ; and that then fub- 
 Icription, as to them alfo, do ceafe : 
 
 That, without reference to the rule bv 
 
 Which the fubfcription of Individuals is to 
 
 ^ 2 ceafe, 
 
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 ( 4 ) 
 
 ceafe, Univerfities, Chapters, and Colleges, 
 continue the favour of their fubfcription, till 
 it may be either reduced or difcontinued, 
 without difabling me from bringing the work 
 to a conclufion. 
 
 To the feveral Individuals, Univerfities, 
 Chapters, and Colleges, who have united in 
 fupport of this work, I addrefs moft refped:- 
 fuUy my folicitation upon fuch points of thefe 
 propofals, as refpedlively relate to them. And 
 if it fhall pleafe them to favour me with their 
 confent to what is here fuggefted, and if fub- 
 fcriptions unpaid fliall be, as I truft they will 
 be, made good to me, and fome further addi- 
 tions fhould come, as it is hoped they will, 
 from new Subfcribers, either by annual con- 
 tribution or by fingle prefent, there may pof- 
 fibly remain an amount of pecuniary affifl- 
 ance, fufficient to enable me to ftand the ex- 
 pences attending the profecution of the work. 
 
 Among the circumftances favourable to this 
 undertaking, which have taken place in the 
 courfe of this year, one is, that the Codex Mar- 
 chalianus, which v.'as long fuppofed to be loft, 
 has been difcovered. It feems to have un- 
 dergone no mutilation fmce the time when 
 
 Montfaucon 
 
 C 5 ) 
 
 Montfaucon faw it. It is a MS. of the high- 
 eft importance, as it contains the books of the 
 fixteen Prophets, and has in the margin Hex- 
 aplar marks and readings applied to the text 
 of every prophet, except Daniel. From this 
 MS. Curterius printed the text of Ifaiah ; and 
 PhelippjEus that of Ifaiah : and fome few de- 
 tached readings of the MS. have been given 
 by others. A complete collation of it has 
 now been made, and it is fafely come to 
 hand. 
 
 I proceed now to the detail of particulars 
 refpedting the work, under diftind heads of 
 Places and Libraries, as ufual, . . . 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
 During the courfe of this year, the colla- 
 tion has been carried on by Canon Bandini 
 without interruption. 
 
 Library of the Monastery of Saint 
 Mark. 
 
 In this Library there is a MS. of which 
 mention was made in the Third Year's Ac- 
 count. 
 
( 6 ) 
 
 count. It contains the eight firft books of 
 the Sacred Text j only one of which had 
 been collated before the commencement of 
 the paft year. The collation of the remain- 
 ing feven books has been fince completed, 
 and has come to hand. 
 
 Medicean Library. 
 
 On the collation of Two MSS. in this 
 Library, containing each of them the text of 
 the Prophets, Canon Bandini was to proceed 
 as foon as the Odateuch above-mentioned in 
 the Library of Saint Mark had been collated. 
 Advances have therefore been made in the 
 collation of one or both of thofe MS. but to 
 what extent I have not been, as yet, enabled 
 to fay. 
 
 To Canon Bandini my thankful acknow- 
 ledgments ought to be repeated, for the con- 
 tinuance of thofe fervices with which he for- 
 wards the intereft of the work in various 
 ways, and with much care and trouble to 
 himfelf, in addition to the labour of collation. 
 
 ROME. 
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 ROME. 
 
 Vatican Library, 
 
 By Ehas Baldius, and Jofephus Spalletti 
 the Collation had been carried on in this 
 Library, during the year paft, till Chrift- 
 mas laft. Both of them had been chiefly 
 employed in collating the fame Scriptural 
 Books in the feveral Vatican MSS. that con- 
 tain them. 
 
 But during fome part of the year paft, 
 Elias Baldius has been employed in the 
 collation of One MS. It contains the follow- 
 ing Scriptural Books : the Twelve Minor 
 Prophets, Ifaiah, Jeremiah, Lament, of Jerem. 
 Baruch, Ezekie], Daniel. It was a MS. that 
 required more than common attention and 
 labour. The collation of it has been com- 
 pleted, and is come to hand. 
 
 By both Collators there had alfo been collat- 
 ed before Chriftmas laft Nine books of Kings 
 in different MSS. And from that time to the 
 prefent Elias Baldius has proceeded as before, 
 and more of the fame Hiftorical Books are 
 without doubt collated, though my advices 
 
 have 
 
( 8 ) 
 
 have not enabled me particularly to flate the 
 number. But early in the month of January, 
 Jofephus Spalletti died after four days illnefs. 
 Upon this, Cardinal Zelada affigned Domi- 
 nicus Calabrefi to fupply his place. So that 
 Two Collators will ftill carry on the work at 
 the Vatican. 
 
 To his Eminence the Cardinal Zelada the 
 work is indebted for every fignal favour it has 
 been at any time in his power to fhew it ; and 
 efpecially for the inftant provifion he made 
 upon the death of Spalletti. 
 
 RUSSIA. 
 
 Moscow. 
 
 Libraries of the Holy Synod. 
 
 It was ftated in laft Year's Account, that, 
 in order to obt;un permiflion to collate the 
 MSS. in thcfe Libraries, an Addrefs of Soli- 
 citation to the Emprefs had been prepared, 
 and that efforts were making to get it tranf- 
 mitted and prefented. In confeqyence of that 
 kind affiflance of LordGrenville, which I have 
 moft thankfully acknowledged in the begin- 
 ning of this Account, the Addrefs of Requeft 
 was prefented to the Emprefs. 
 
 After 
 
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 After fome lapfe of time the following 
 Letter was obligingly communicated to me 
 by his Excellency Count Woronzow ; 
 
 Copy in Tranjlation. 
 
 To His Excellency Count Woronzow. 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 Her Imperial Majefty, having received a 
 tranflated copy of a Letter written by Pro- 
 fefTor Robert Holmes cf Oxford, who folicits 
 Her moft gracious fupport in forwarding the 
 Work undertaken in England, by permitting 
 to collate the text of the Vatican Bible with 
 Manufcripts and other editions and tranfla- 
 tions, was pleafed to order me to hold a 
 conference upon this fubjedt with the 
 Procurator of the Holy Synod ; who after a 
 proper time favoured me with an anfwer, 
 * That the Holy Synod not only grants, with- 
 out difficulty, the permiffion required by Pro- 
 feflbr Holmes to collate the Vatican Text 
 with Manufcripts, &c. depofired in the Li- 
 braries belonging to the Synod and the Print- 
 ing- Office at Mofcow; but even will appoint 
 for the faid purpofe one of their Ecclefiaftics, 
 
 c a perfon 
 
 
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 a pcrfon acquainted with the Greek Lan- 
 guace, to aflift in forwarding the work ; and 
 that, if the faid collation fhould come to a 
 happy termination, it is the opinion of His 
 Eminence the MetropoUtan of St. Peterfbnrg, 
 that fuch an undertaking may be of no fraall 
 ufe to the Chriftian Church, and efpecially 
 when this work, as the faid ProfefTor writes, 
 comes to be augmented from the Holy Church 
 Fathers.' 
 
 '• After this anfwer, which I had the hap- 
 pinefs to lay before the Emprefs, Her Impe- 
 rial Majefty was moft gracioufly pleafed to 
 fignify Her confent by ordering me to com- 
 municate the fame to Your Excellency, iii 
 order that you might acquaint ProfefTor 
 Plolmes, . that either Profeflbr Mcllman, or 
 any other perfon who may be impowered by 
 him, not only will be freely admitted to col- 
 late agreeably to his requell, but even an Ec- 
 clefiaftic will be appointed for his affi fiance. 
 And in order to get the defired admittance, it 
 is neceffary that the perfon thus impowered 
 do apply to the faid Procurator of the Holy 
 Synod, Privy Counfellor, His Excellency 
 Alexey Ivanovich Moufin Poufhkin, who is 
 
 already 
 
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 already informed by mc of this Her Imperial 
 Majefly's mofl gracious pleafure. . 
 
 I have the honour to be, with pe'rfea: efleem, 
 Your Excellency's 
 Mofl obedient fervant, 
 
 C. John Ostermann." 
 
 St. Petersburg, 
 Dec. 7, ,794. 
 
 The fuccefs of the application having been 
 immediately notified by Sir Charles Whit- 
 worth to ProfefTor Mellman at Mofcow, there 
 feems reafon to hope that he may already 
 have entered upon collation. And as the 
 Holy Synod has been fo favourably difpofed 
 towards the work, as to afTign me another 
 affiflant, the bufinefs at Mofcow will, I trufl, 
 proceed without interruption in the courfe of 
 the coming year. 
 
 Moldavia. 
 
 In this province Five LXX-MSS. had 
 been difcovered, and were lafl year collated. 
 Since that time, upon further enquiry in the 
 fame province, there have been difcovered 
 Four other MSS. They are as follows : 
 
 <^ 2 I. Codex 
 
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 1. Codex membranaceus, faeculi xii. con- 
 tinet Ifaiae textum cum Catena. 
 
 2. Codex membranaceus, in duobus volu- 
 minibus, faeculi x, aut xi. continet Ifaiam, 
 Jeremiam, Ezekielem, Danielem. 
 
 3. Codex membranaceus, feculi xii. con- 
 tinet duodecim Prophetarum minorum tex- 
 tum. 
 
 4. Codex chartaceus, faeculi xiv. continet 
 Pfalmorum librum. 
 
 Of thefe MSS. Demetrius, a learned Ec- 
 clefiaftic of Moldavia, is the pofTcflbr. He 
 obligingly allowed them to be tranfmitted to 
 Wittemberg in Saxony, where they have 
 been all, or no\y nearly all, collated by Pro- 
 feflbr Matthffii. 
 
 V I E N,N A. 
 
 C.ESAKiiAN Library. 
 
 It was ftated in lafl Year's Account, that 
 Mr. Alter was employed in collating Exodus, 
 and the fubfequent books of Scripture, in all 
 the Csfarean MSS. that contain them. He. 
 
 had 
 
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 had then nearly completed Exodus j and dur- 
 ing this year he has finiflied the book of Ex- 
 odus, and has collated Leviticus, and nearly 
 the whole of the book of Numbers. He 
 will then proceed with the fame unwearied 
 afliduity, and diftinguifhed ability, which he 
 has hitherto exemplified, in collating the fub- 
 fequent parts of the Sacred Text. 
 
 One interruption has, however, taken place 
 during the year in this Library. Mr. BoUa 
 has been prevented by ficknefs from continu- 
 ing to the work the benefit of his affiftance. 
 He has indeed hitherto been able to do little 
 or nothing : but has now refumed the colla- 
 tion, and will, I hope, have it in his power to 
 purfue it during the enfuing year without in- 
 terruption. 
 
 So far as to Greek MSS. — I add only, that 
 Canon Bandini has collated Three MSS. more 
 than he is flated to have done under the ar- 
 ticle Florence. Each of them contains the 
 book of Pfalms. — I proceed now to a repre- 
 fentation of the advances of the work in other 
 parts of it. 
 
 In collating Editions of the Greek Text, a, 
 progrefs has been made as follows : 
 
 The 
 
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 The remaining part ofa Exodus, that is, 
 from the eighth chapter to the end of the 
 book ; and part of Leviticus, that is, from 
 the firft chapter to the fifteenth, have been 
 
 collated, with the Complutenfian and Aldine 
 
 editions. 
 
 In collating Verfions, the progrefs made is 
 as follows : 
 
 Coi'TicK. Version. 
 Coptum-Arabicum Euchologium has been 
 collated through fome part of Exodus, the 
 whole of Leviticus, and a confiderable part ot 
 Numbers. 
 
 Syrtacic Version. 
 .The Bodleian MS. of Bar-Hebrsus has 
 been this year collated through thofe parts of 
 the Syriac Text in the book of Genefis, 
 which are cited in the Horreum Myfleno- 
 rum. 
 
 The work is much indebted to Dr. Ford 
 for the favour of this collation. 
 
 Arabick 
 
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 Arabick Version. 
 
 The collation of the MSS. Laud 146, 147, 
 in the book of Genefis had been finifhed, and 
 was on its way to this country, but miffed of 
 it, and is loft. -The worft of the evil, how- 
 ever, is delay. Genefis has been collated 
 again, through about one half of the book, in 
 both MSS. and the collation of them is going 
 on. 
 
 In Laud A. 182, further advances in the 
 book of Genefis have alfo been made. 
 
 Armenian Version. 
 
 This Verfibn, in the Casfarean MSS. 3270, 
 and in the edition printed at Venice 1733, 
 has been collated during this year through 
 forne part of the book of Exodus, the whole 
 of Leviticus, and a confiderable part of the 
 book of Numbers. 
 
 Slavonian Version. 
 
 This Verfion has been collated in the 
 courfe of this year through fome part of the 
 book of Exodus, the whole of Leviticus, and 
 a confiderable part of the book of Numbers. 
 
 Geor. 
 
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 Georgian Version. 
 
 This Verfion has been collated during the 
 paft year through fome part of the book of 
 Exodus, the whole of Leviticus, and a con- 
 fiderable part of the book of Numbers. 
 
 In collating Citations of the Septuagint-text 
 advances have alfo been made. The repre- 
 fentation as to them is as follows : 
 
 Euthymius Zigabenus in Pfalmos, has been 
 collated throughout. His Commentary feems 
 to be of no lefs value than the bell MS. 
 would be. He frequently quotes the Greek 
 of the Interpreters pofterior to the LXX, but 
 for the moft part that of Symmachus. The 
 interpreters themfelves he feldom names. 
 
 Theophyladtus in Prophetas Minores, has 
 alfo been collated throughout. 
 
 The Writers, whofe Citations of the book 
 of Genefis have been collated, are feveral. 
 What are their names, and what the number 
 of volumes through which the collation has 
 
 been 
 
 ( 17 ) 
 
 been carried, may be known from the fubfe- 
 quent reprefentation. 
 
 Irenasus. 
 
 Clemens Alexandrinus. 
 Hippolytus. Ed. Fabric. 
 Origen. in. iv. 
 Gregor. Nyfl". i . 1 1 . 
 Gregor. Nazianz. i. 11. 
 Eufebius, In Preep. Ev. 
 
 In Dem. Ev. 
 
 In Comment, in Pfalmos. /, 
 Gregor. Thaumaturg. 
 Macarii Homilis apud Greg. Thaum. 
 Athanaf. I. 11. 
 Severianus ap. Chryfoft. 
 Chryfoftom. i. 11. iii. iv. v, vi. vii. viii. 
 
 IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. 
 
 Euthymius in j^vangelia. i. 11, m. 
 Ifidorus Pelufiota. 
 Afterius in Auftario PP. 
 Eulogius in Ram. Palmar, ibid. 
 Hefychius Prefbyt. Hierofol. ibid. 
 Johannes Archiep. ThefTalonic. ibid. 
 Georgius Metropolita Nicomedias, ibid. 
 Methodius, ibid. 
 Andreas Cretenf. ibid. 
 Michael. Syncellus, ibid. 
 
 D Phot. 
 
 II 
 
( xs ) 
 
 Phot. Patriarch, ibid. 
 
 Leo Auguft. ibid* 
 
 Bafil. Seleuc- 
 
 Cyrill. Alexandria, i. ii. in. iv. v. vi. 
 
 Damafcen. i. ii. 
 
 Theophyladl. in Evangelia. 
 
 Cotelerii Ecclef. Grsec. Monimenta. i. ii. 
 
 in. 
 Corderii Catena. 
 
 By the above collations progrefs has fo far 
 been made this year, towards further prepa- 
 ration of the Copy of Genefis for the Prefs. 
 And as the time of commencing ,the impref- 
 fion is now drawing near, there has been 
 printed and pubhfhed a fuccinil detail of the 
 materials colleded, and a Specimen of the 
 manner of reprefenting them. When fuffi- 
 cient time fliall have been given to the Sub- 
 fcribers to this work, and to the Public, to 
 confider that Specimen, fome certain know- 
 ledge may be obtained, whether the form of 
 arrangement and reprefentation be fuch as it 
 ought to be J or fuggeftions may be made 
 towards amending it. For the laft efpecially 
 of thefe reafons, it may be expedient to wait 
 fome little time ; after that, a beginning will 
 be made. That the impreffion even of one 
 
 book 
 
 
 ( 19 ) 
 
 book will require confiderable time, the Pub- 
 he may eafily fee, from the printed view that 
 has been given of the matter, which is con- 
 tamed under two chapters only. The inten- 
 tion .IS, to deliver to the Public book by book, 
 as fail as it can be printed. 
 
 D 2 
 
 COL- 
 
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 March 20, 1795. 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited be- 
 fore the Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs, 
 and then depofited in the Bodleian Library, 
 in feparate volumes in folio, with pafteboard 
 covers, are thefe : 
 
 Vol. LXV. Exodus. 
 
 In Greek MSS. I, III, of the Imperial 
 Library at Vienna ; and in the 
 Armenian MSS. 3270, 3274. j and 
 the Armenian Bible, Venice, 1733; 
 and in the Slavonian Verfion ; and 
 in the Georgian Verfion j and in 
 the Citations of Jacobus Nifibenus. 
 
 Vol. LXVI. Leviticus. 
 
 In the fame Greek MSS. and the fame 
 Verfions ; and the fame Citations. 
 
 Vol. LXVII. Exodus. Leviticus. 
 In MS. of St. Mark's Library, Florence. 
 
 Numbers. Deuteronomy. 
 In MS. of the Carthufian Library, at 
 Evora, Portug-al. 
 
 Jofhua. 
 
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 Jofhua. 
 •In MSS. 10, 330, 747, 748, ,209, 1657. 
 1 90 1, 2058, 2 1 06, of the Vatican 
 Library. 
 
 Vol. LXVIII. Exodus. 
 In MS. 203, of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Ruth. 
 In MSS. 10, 330, 331, 747, J209, 1657, 
 2106, of the fame Library. 
 Jofua. Judic, Ruth. 
 In MS. 1752, of the fame Library. 
 
 Regum I, II, III, IV. 
 In MS. 331, of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. LXIX. Judices. 
 
 In MS. 10. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Judices. Ruth. 
 In MS. 1748, of the fame Library. 
 
 Jofua. 
 In MS. 1746, and MS. 331, of the fame 
 Library. 
 
 Jofua a Cap. 11, 9. 
 Ruth. 
 
 I Reg. ad Cap. vin, 2. 
 In MS. of St. Mark's Library, Florence. 
 
 Job. 
 
( 
 
 22 
 
 ) 
 
 Job. Proverbia. Ecclefiaftes. Can- 
 
 tic. Cantic. 
 
 ;ap. 
 
 Sirachid. 
 
 In MS. of the Public Library of Bafil. 
 
 Vol. LXX. Judic. 
 
 In MSS. 330, 331, 747, 1901, 1657, 
 2058, 2106, of the Vatican Li- 
 brary. 
 
 Judices. Ruth, 
 In MS. 1745, of the fame Library. 
 
 Regum 1, II, III, IV. Chronic. 1. 11. 
 In MS. B. VI, 22, of the Public Library 
 of Bafil. 
 
 Vol. LXXI. Pfalmi. 
 
 In MSS. XXXIX, Plutei v— xxv, Plutei 
 V — XX5CVI, Plutei VI — v, Plutei v 
 — xviii, Plutei V — XXIII, XXXIII 
 — XVII, Plutei V — XXXIV, Plutei v, 
 of the Medicean Library. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 In an Uncial MS. of Lorrain. 
 
 Vol. LXXII. Genefis, ad Cap. xxii i, 20. 
 In two Arabick MSS. Laud. 146, 147. 
 
 Judices. Ruth. 
 In MS. IV, of Dorotheus. 
 
 Regum, 
 
 ( 23 ) 
 
 Regum, I. II. III. IV. 
 In MS. V, of Dorotheus. 
 
 XII Prophetae Minor. 
 In MS. Ill, of Dorotheus. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 In MS. IV, of Eugenius. 
 
 IV Prophetae Major, et xii Minor. 
 In the Marchalian MS. 
 
 XII Propheta; Minor. 
 In MS. of the Carthufian Library, Evora. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 In the Commentary of Euthymius. 
 
 Prophetae Minores. 
 In the Commentary of Theophllad. 
 
 Vol. LXXIII. 
 
 Collation of Citations from Genefis in the 
 Syriack Verfion, in the Horrcum 
 Myfteriorum of Bar-Hebrajus. 
 
 Collations of Citations from Genefis through 
 the works of Greek Fathers, whofe 
 names are ftated in pages 17, 18, of 
 this Account. 
 
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 OXFORD, DELEGATES ROOiM. 
 
 March 20, J 79$. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day 
 exhibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch 
 collations as have been made of the Septua- 
 gint MSS, in the year laft paft, together with 
 Citations of the Septuagint text, as ftated in 
 his Annual Account ; it is the opinion of this 
 Board, that he has fo far fulfilled the condi- 
 tion upon which the fubfcription to the faid 
 Collation was made and renewed, and that a 
 competent and laudable progrefs has been 
 made in the work. 
 
 The Delegates, therefore, think it incum- 
 bent upon them to recommend the prefent 
 Annual Account to the confideration of the 
 Pubhc } hoping that Dr. Holmes will meet 
 with fuch farther encouragement, as will 
 enable him to bring the work to its comple- 
 tion. 
 
 Account of ExPENCEs incurred dur- 
 ing the Seventh Year. 
 
 COLLATION of the Odateuch 
 of St. Mark's Library, Florence; 
 excepting the book of Genefis 35 o o 
 
 Collation of Three MSS. in the 
 Medicean Library, each contain- 
 ing the Pfalms 18 o o 
 
 Collation of Two MSS. in the Me- 
 dicean Library, each containing 
 the Prophetical Text, in part 20 o o 
 
 To Canon Bandini for agency dur- 
 ing one year, from March 1794, 
 to March 1795 500 
 
 Collation of the Marchalian MS. 
 containing the text of the Six- 
 teen Prophets in uncial letters 50 o o 
 
 Collation of the MSS. at Rome in 
 feveral books fubfequent to the 
 Oaateuch 48 o o 
 
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 Gratuity to the fervants of the Va- 
 tican, diftributed by the Prefedt 
 of the Library 3 3 
 
 Collation of Leviticus in fome part, 
 and of Numbers in the whole, in 
 Two Greek MSS. of the Caefa- 
 rean Library, Vienna j and in the 
 Armenian Verfion, printed and 
 MS. and in the Slavonian and 
 Georgian Verfions 30 o 
 
 Collation of Four MSS. from Mol- 
 davia, One containing Ifaiah ; 
 the fecond containing the Four 
 Greater Prophets j the third con- 
 taining the Twelve Minor Pro- 
 phets ; the fourth containing the 
 Pfalms 48 o 
 
 Collation of an Arabick Pentateuch 
 through one half, and of the 
 Two Arabick MSS. Laud, 146, 
 147, through the whole; and in 
 part for collating the two laft 
 again, the collation-packets hav- 
 ing been loft on their way to this 
 Country 20 12 
 
 
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 Fac-fimile tranfcript of Arabick 
 
 MSS. 29 9 o 
 
 Affiftants in reading and tranfcrib- 
 
 ing, &c. 46 6 
 
 Additional Sorts to the Fount of 
 Letter, and recafting fome parts, 
 and for diftributing 10 16 o 
 
 Printing- Paper, Eleven Reams and 
 
 a quarter, at il 4s 13 10 o 
 
 Printing Two Chapters of Genefis, 
 and the Codex Argenteus, and 
 engraving Specimen of one page 
 of the MS. 48 6 o 
 
 Printing the Seventh Annual Ac- 
 count 366 
 
 Folding and Stitching the Codex 
 Argenteus and Specimen, and 
 this Account 760 
 
 Writing Paper, Pafteboard, Adver- 
 
 tifements, &cc. 470 
 
 Books bought 12 18 2 
 
 Journeys and expences in London, 
 and other charges incurred in pro- 
 fccution of the work 58 9 5 
 
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 Poftage at home and abroad, and 
 carriage of MSS. and collation- 
 packets 37 1 8 
 
 Lofs by exchange in fubfcriptions 
 remitted 2 6 
 
 552 13 10 
 
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 Subscriptions. 
 Firft Year, with the 
 
 additions, 442 o o 
 
 Second Year, with 
 
 the additions, 576 9 o 
 
 Third Year, with 
 
 the additions, 634 3 o 
 
 Fourth Year, with 
 
 the additions, 696 z o 
 
 Fifth Year, with the 
 additions, 696 2 o 
 
 Sixth Year, with the 
 Sums ftated to 
 have been return- 
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 Rev. Mr. Boys o- 
 
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 Seventh Year, 686 1 3 o 
 
 4445 4 o 
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 4456 12 9 
 
 Expences. 
 Firft Year, — 433 12 o 
 
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 Third Year, — 620 4 7 
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 Seventh Year, 552 13 10 
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 7th year yet 
 
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 4456 12 9 
 
1'be Subfcribers, if they approve of the Progrefs made 
 in the work^ are very refpeSfully requefled to tnake an 
 early depofit of their Subfcriptions for the eighth year, 
 in the bands either of the Editor, or J. Cooke, 
 Fletcher and Hanwell, Oxford \ or T. Payne, 
 B. White, London j or Mr. Jones, Bookfeller, 
 Dublin. 
 
 Page 5, 1. 7, for « that of Ifaiah," read 
 " that of Hofea." 
 
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 OF THE 
 
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 CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH. 
 
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 THIS 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Parfous, Ball. CoU. 
 
 X Rev. Mr. Profler, Ball. Coll. 
 Rev. Mr. Sarraude, Lxeter Coll 
 Robert Smith, Elq- 
 ^ Rev. Dr. Sturges 
 James Sutton, Lfq. 
 Rev. Mr. Taylor 
 Henry Thornton, blq 
 Rev. Mr. Travel 
 
 + Rev. Dr. Valpy 
 
 t Dr. Wall 
 
 ■\- Samuel Weag, t^lq- 
 
 Rev. Mr. Wefton 
 
 Rev. Dr. White • 
 
 Rev. Mr. O.Wight 
 
 William Wilberibrce, LIq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Winile 
 
 ^ Rev. Mr. Wray 
 
 Rev. Dr. Wynne 
 
 ^~T H E Eighth, Year, fince ithe commence- 
 -A- ment of this undertaking,, has now nearr 
 ly arrived at its clpie. .It therefore again be- 
 comes', my oblijgatidriito fubmit an Account; of 
 thei»:ork, and to, ftate, what .farther progrefs 
 bas-dheeri, made,:, in it, duriiig; ithe year. lafl: 
 elapfcdii and wha^ " are i the rprefent circum-» 
 ftarieeSof it. .1 '1,> .orar.-.i ■■ .-.,,1 .-i.i-. - .'■■ 
 
 U'i- 
 
 i.ijni 
 
 0/ On, the difchafgeiofriiy duty in, this refpedt 
 I fhall enter accordingly, .when the imentlon 
 of fome few neeeffary matters fliall have .been 
 pre.yipufly made,.ii;.c> J... . !:■::•.•. 
 
 :: For the continuance of that fupport, with 
 which the undertaking has been favoured, my 
 inoft thankful acknowledgments are due ; and 
 on this occafion I beg leave to repeat my 
 offer of them to all, who have aflifted it, ei- 
 ther by pecuniary aid, or by good offices of 
 equal, and perhaps greater, value., 
 
 Under a wifli to alleviate, as foon and as 
 much as poffible, that burden of expence, to 
 
 a which 
 
■■^•»-»M}, 
 
 [ 
 
 ] 
 
 which the Publick. has fo gencroufly fub- 
 mitted in behalf of the work, it was propofed 
 in the laft Account, that thofe Individuals, 
 who had either continued to make a yearly 
 fubfcription to it during eight years j or had, 
 on becoming Subfcribers thereto in any year 
 fince its commencement, contributed the 
 amount of eight yearly fubfcription sj (hould 
 in the ninth year difcontinue their contribu-' 
 tion. Accordingly, in the lift of Subfcribers, 
 which is prefixed tol this Account, a mai'k is 
 placed oppofite the name of feveral Indivi- 
 duals, intended to apprize them, that they, 
 for one or- other ofjhe reaforis ftated, have 
 no depofit to make, in the ninth year now 
 commencing. I fhall, however, fubmit to 
 them each Annual Account, as ufual; and 
 confider myfelf under a refponfibility to them, 
 in all refpedls, as if their yearly fubfcription 
 had continued. 
 
 To the reft of the Individuals, named in 
 the lift, who do not as yet come under, either 
 of the above defcriptions, I prefent my re^ 
 fpe(ftful requeft for the continuance of their 
 feveral contributions, for the prefent. 
 
 To Univerfities, Chapters, and Colleges, 
 
 lalfo 
 
 ^''^y given tf^i^^'^" »»y be 
 
 work. . ' r^'.ftpport of the 
 
 Place, a/d l^lS'a "t f "''"^^ ""^^ "^ 
 »"«, as on foTOer occafions. 
 
 FLORENCE, 
 pad year ™'^"°" """"S *= "hole of the 
 THE Monastery op Saint 
 
 ~:i!rLto^rrtht's:-''-- 
 
 «> icatea to contain on v the fira ■ . 
 books of Scripture. The MS L 'f^' 
 '" it not only the O^l ^^ however has 
 
 fubfequentbook? wT;-^^^'°^'^ 
 «'c. i, ii. Efdr J • fr /' * "'' '''■ Chro- 
 
 juaitl^. Tobit, m part. The 
 ^ ^ collation 
 
[ 4 ] 
 
 collation had, about March laft,. proceeded to 
 the end of the Oitateuch ; and as the packet, 
 containing the collations of this MS. as far as 
 the end of Neherhiah, was made up for me 
 about the end of December laft, there is rea- 
 fon to think that by this time all, or very 
 nearly all, of it has been collated. 
 
 Medicean Library. 
 
 The following MSS. have been collated 
 here fmce the "delivery of the laft Account; 
 
 Codex X, Plutei viii, Sasculi xi; continet 
 Efaiam, Jeremiam, Ezekielem, Danielem, et 
 Prophetas Minores duodecim, cum Scholiis 
 marginalibus. 
 
 Codex xxvii, Plutei viii -, continet Libros 
 Jobi, Parabolarum Salomonis, Ecclefiaftis, 
 Cantici Canticorum. Eft Sasculi vel ix vel 
 X, Codex prsftantiffimus, cum ,fragmentis 
 verfionum Aquilae, Symmachi, Theodotionis, 
 et Scholiis marginalibus. 
 
 Four other MSS. each containing the 
 Pfalms, have been alfo collated. 
 
 The collation of Codex xi, Plutei iv, con- 
 taining 
 
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 taining the whole of the Prophetical books, is 
 now going on. 
 
 To Canon Bandiqi I continue to be under 
 great obligation; not only "for the diligence 
 and ability with which he has perfonally pro- 
 moted.the collation, but alfo for the addi- 
 tional care and trouble, to which he is fo 
 kind as to fubmit, in receiving, making up, 
 and forwarding to me the materials of the 
 work ; and for other- fervice* which he is 
 daily contributing to it. 
 
 ROME. 
 
 Vatican Library. 
 
 Here the collation has been carried on 
 during the whole of the year part, with little 
 or no interruption, by Elias Baldius. 
 
 . Dominicus Calabrefi, Secretary to Cardi- 
 nal Zelada, has undertaken, under the per- 
 miffion of His Eminence, to employ upon 
 the collation -all the time, which his office 
 will allow him to do. He is accordingly 
 
 making 
 
tnakjqg jftpm tjnje tp time the beft advances 
 he can. 
 
 Having tranfmitted to the Cardinal a let- 
 ter of thanks for his favour in permitting 
 his -Secretary to act for this work inftead of 
 Spajleitti, who was deceafed, His Eminence 
 obligingly returned me the following letter : 
 
 DocTORi R. H. 
 
 FrANCISCUS XaVIER CaRDINALIS JDE 
 
 Zelada S. 
 " Humaniffimas tus literae data; poflridie 
 Idus prasteriti Menfis Decembris redditae mihi 
 funt, atque ex iis fingularem tuam in me be- 
 nevolentiam conftantem effe, maxima cum 
 voluptate percepi. Jllud enim mentis meis 
 adfcribis, ac propterea te mihi gratum profi- 
 teris, quod Dominicus 'Calabrefi, vir tibi fatis 
 notus, .cqm in ii^une^-e Scriptoris Linguas 
 Grascae Jpfepho Spalletti in Jiac Bibiliotlieca 
 Vaticana f^ccel|erit, fqam tibi praeftet ope- 
 ram in Librorum Sacrorum Collationibus. 
 Fateor equidem mihi hoc p^rgratum fuilTe, et 
 eo pagis quod tu hoc ipfo, dpled-^ris ; illud- 
 que fn^xinie ppto, ut quamvis ipfe aliis in re- 
 bus apud me fit pccupatus, fua t^men inde- 
 fefla; cura et diligentia fa^isfacere tibi etiam 
 
 pofiit. 
 
 ~ — '•*-^**-|i 
 
 [ 7 J 
 
 poffit. Si autem alia in re me tibi defervire 
 poffe cognofcis, illiid tibi perfuadeas velim, 
 me tibi praefto femper futurum ; quare mihi 
 occafiones id tibi opere oftendendi ' pr^beas ; 
 atque interim vale. ' Dat. R6in« xi Kal. Fth- 
 riiariij 1796. • 
 
 ^, ,Thp advanc,es_ rnade in the Vatican Library 
 were reported in laft year's Account as far as 
 the Chriftmas preceding. From that period 
 to the end of January laft, a further progrefs 
 has been made, of which the following are 
 the particulars: 
 
 There have been collated, (excepting only 
 e book) Kings, i,*;ii, lii, iy, in, Six M^S. 
 of that Library. ' ■ -■ ct^ . 
 
 Chronicles, i, iij in Four MSSi 
 
 Efdras, i, ii, in Five MS S. Efdras, i, in One 
 
 MS. 
 Nehemiahy in Three MSS. 
 Tobit, in Six MSB. - 
 Judith, in Six MSS. 
 Efther, in Six MSS. 
 Job, is in hand. 
 
 The above Collators will continue to adt 
 with all pofiible difpatch. 
 
 RUSSIA. 
 
 one 
 
mmm 
 
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 RUSSIA. 
 
 Moscow. 
 
 Jmrn.ediately after the laft year's Account 
 had been deUvered, I wrote to Profeflbr Mell- 
 man at this place, exprefling my hope that he 
 had already begun, or would forthwith begin, 
 the collation of the MS., which had been pre- 
 vioufly named to him j and repeating my en- 
 treaty, that he would make all poffible pro^ 
 grefs. Money in advance was fent to him at 
 the fame time. 
 
 In the letter to the Profeflbr there was in- 
 clofed another,, which he was defired to put 
 into the hands of that additional Afliftant, 
 whom the Holy Synod had appointed, and to 
 whom he might be directed by enquiring of 
 the Procurator. In this inclofed letter it was 
 fpecified, on what MS. this fecond Collator 
 was firft to proceed, and in what manner the 
 various readings were to be fet down. 
 
 They were defired, for the prefcnt, to fend 
 me by Poft as many fheets of their refpedlive 
 collations, as a cover would conveniently 
 hold. 
 
 Mr. 
 
 to which he h:jH ■/"""7"P««"ig the place 
 he would.rCut ""'' "*= "•■"= when 
 
 Upon this, by letter addrelTed f„ ,1, d 
 
 ftnt at the raa,e .i„e two letto rf d"^' ^° 
 one for that Collar^r u , ' ^"^'""si 
 appointed a^ ' "f""" "''>' '"•d already 
 i it wa. W^u*^', ""*" Collator! 
 
 •ndre,ne«:a'';St'?o:r:t^^''t'-' 
 -rpedlive collation, withourdd:;.'"^'"*^'' 
 
 Since thefc applications were made „ • 
 '=%nce has reached me. ' '"■ 
 
 Mabrid. Copekhaoen. 
 ' (fee p™ T:i 'I "t '■■^"' y^''^ Account, 
 
 I- "^^^^^^ -x?h?sr 
 
 of 
 
[ »o ] 
 
 of the MSS. in the Library of the Efcu- 
 rial at Madrid, and of an Hexaplar MS. of 
 his own ; and that the collation of the MSS. 
 in the Royal Library at Copenhagen was in 
 hand and advancing in January 1794. Not 
 having received any thing from him before 
 the clofe of laft year, I then wrote to him. 
 In the courfe of the year laft: elajifed, he 
 obligingly returned me the following anfwer:. 
 
 R. H. 
 
 D. G. MOLDENHAWER, &C. 
 
 Culpa, quam diuturniore filentio contraxe- 
 ratn, fenfum excitarunt litteraj tu<£, Vir Ami- 
 ciflime, et ad earuqi afpedtum pene erubul. 
 Effidem verp ob humanitatem lenitatemque 
 in lis expreflam, mira me voluptate affece- 
 runt ; unde fummas tibi gratias ago habeo- 
 que. Neque ad tuas priores refpondiflc, ne- 
 que ad Syngrapham nummariam, ad me be- 
 nevole tranfmiffam, debitam animi grati pro- 
 feffionem edidifle, doleo : hujufque levitatis 
 et oblivionis, quam fenlim fenfimque induxit 
 otii liberalioris vana expedlatio, veniam abs te 
 impenfe expeto. Interea nihil intermifi, quo 
 quantocyus ad finem perduceretur coUatio- 
 num mihi demanda'arum negotium : certoque 
 
 tibi 
 
 X H J 
 
 tibi fpondep, iUud omne fub menfis Odlobris 
 Opc anno initJH/n its abfolutum iri, ut nihil 
 mm, qua m m^rcfft exiftimem, defiderari 
 patiar - Qmnes tym fjnguliqye eollationum 
 fai^icul,. fuccindla Codicum defcriptione ad- 
 jedla, tradentur Illuftri et Offiaofiffimo Craw- 
 ford, Magna Britannia ad Aulam Dania Le- 
 gati nunc vice fungenti, cujus opera eofdem 
 mcolumes in manus tuas perventuros effe 
 plane confido. In qua quidem fponfione mea 
 ut tuto acquiefcas, meque porro benevolentia 
 tua, qua ne indignus videar diligenter cavebo, 
 compledti velis, omnibus abs te precibus con- 
 tendo. 
 
 Solpitet Deus Oxonium tuum, cujus me- 
 monam jucundiffimam nunquam deponam : 
 teque omni profperitatis genere uti et frui 
 quam diutiffime. jubeat. Hafnia, die i Aue. 
 
 The above collations from Copenhagen are 
 not yet come to hand ; but I am of courfe in 
 daily expedation of receiving them. 
 
 Moldavia. 
 It was flated in laft Account, that Five 
 c 2 LXX- 
 
[ 12 3 
 
 LXX-MSS. had been difcovered in this pro- 
 vince, and that they had been all or nearly 
 all collated by ProfefTor Matthasi. What then 
 remained to be done towards completing the 
 collation of them, he has fince performed. 
 
 BASIL. 
 
 PuBLicK Library. 
 
 It was ftated in the fourth year's Account, 
 that Four MSS. had been difcovered in this Li- 
 brary. And in the fixth year's Account it was 
 alfo ftated, that thefe Four had all been collated 
 by Profeflbr Hertzog : and that intelligence 
 had been received of a Fiftli. 
 
 Since that report was made, the collation 
 of that Fifth MS. had been completed, and 
 put on its way to me. But by fome acci- 
 dent it happened that this collation, together 
 with another in the fame parcel, was loft be- 
 tween Hanover and this country. Applica- 
 tion was therefore made to ProfefTor Hertzog; 
 and he has confented to make a new collation 
 of this Fifth and laft Bafil MS. and it has 
 been during fome time in hand. 
 
 MUNICH. 
 
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 M.U.N I C.H. 
 Electoral Library. 
 
 Whether there are here any LXX-MSS k 
 "ot certainly known at prefent. Butfs L 
 
 hav'e be n a^n f " " ''''"^^' "^^^^-" 
 
 Piaces and it has been fettled that he fhall 
 fet out immediately after Eafter. 
 
 VIENNA. 
 CESAREAN Library. ■ 
 
 fh l\7' f,''"^ ^" '^^ ^''"^^^^ of Jaft year 
 that Mr. Alter had then nearly colla ed X' 
 
 whoeof,hebookofNumbers/l„"i;n^^^^^^^ 
 of the prefent year he has gone through the 
 -mainmg part of Numbers? and the whde 
 '•°^ Deuteronomy, in the C^farean MSS that 
 contain thofe books. That he hJ ? 
 
 thus far h. -J '^^^ proceeded 
 
 thus far, he apprized me fix months fince • 
 
 and as he then a/Tured me that he would con: 
 
 tinue. 
 
[ H ] 
 
 tinue without interruption to carry on hi$ 
 collation, it has in all probability by this time 
 been forwarded through the book of Jofliga, 
 and fome part of the book of Judges. 
 
 The packet of collations from Mr. Bolla, 
 which are now produced, came early in the 
 winter -, and as he had promifed to continue 
 his efforts, as far as health and unavoidable 
 avocations would permit, it may be hoped 
 that fome further advances have been made 
 and are making by him. 
 
 MILAN. 
 
 Ambrosian Library. 
 
 No packet having reached me from Milan 
 in the courfe of the year immediately preced- 
 ing the lafl: Account, I wrote to Dr. Buga- 
 tue, of the Ambrofian College, refpedling the 
 matter. He wrote me an anfwer in Oftober 
 laft, of which the following is an extradt : 
 
 " Qui porro conferendi reftant Codices 
 funt quatuor, quorum duo Libros Salomonis 
 compleduntur ; reliqui nonnullos de Prophe- 
 tis Majoribus et Minoribus. Atque his qui-- 
 
 deni 
 
 [ «5 ] 
 
 dem conferendis Benedidtus de Perego nofter 
 alacr. animo operam dabit, ftatim ac a multis, 
 quibus diftinetur, occupationibus h'ber eva- 
 
 So far as to Greek MSS. I proceed now to 
 a reprefentation of the advances of the work 
 With refped 'to Verfion.s, &c. 
 
 CoPTicK Version. 
 
 ^n^y'/T^'f'"'"' Euchologium has been 
 collated through all the extrads it contains 
 from the latter part of Numbers; from the 
 whole of Deuteronomy ; and from part or all 
 
 Judges '"'^ ^''^'^' '^' ^'^'""^"S «^ 
 
 Arabick Version. 
 
 It was ftated in laft year's Account, that 
 the collation of the two MSS. of the Penta 
 teuch. Laud 146, ,47, had been loft in its 
 way to this country ; and that the firft half 
 of Genefis had been re-collated in both MSS 
 In the courfe of this year, the latter half of 
 Genefis in both MSS. has been alfo done; 
 and the whole collation of that book in both 
 Mbb. has now come to hand. 
 
 In 
 
 I 
 
[ i6 ] 
 
 In the MS. of the Pentateuch, Laud A. 1 82, 
 nearly all of Genefis had been collated, when 
 the laft Account was delivered. Since that 
 time, there have been further collated in it, 
 the books of Exodus, Leyiticus, and Num- 
 bers. 
 
 Dr. Schnurrer is proceeding with the col- 
 lation, of the remaining parts of the three 
 above-named MSS. 
 
 Armenian Version. 
 
 This Verfion, in the Ca?farean MS. 3270, 
 and in the Edition printed at Venice 17331 
 apd through' the feveral citations of the Ar- 
 menian writer Jacobus Nifibenus in another 
 MS; of the Caefarean Library, has been col- 
 lated during this year through the latter part 
 of Numbers J the whole of Deuteronomy; 
 part or all of Jofliua, and perhaps the begin- 
 ning of Judges. 
 
 Of one Armenian MS. intelligence has 
 been lately received. The Superior of a Mo- 
 naflery of Armenian Religious has obligingly 
 communicated a written Catalogue of the 
 Printed and MSS. books in the Library of the 
 Houfe over which he prefides. In this Cata- 
 logue one MS. occurred with the title of 
 
 " Annota- 
 
 I »7 j 
 
 « Annotations on the Various Readings of the 
 '• Holy Bible." The Superior, on^equeft 
 being made to him to tranfmit this MS. for in- 
 ipedlion, fent a defcription of it, together with 
 an extraft of fome of its readings ; but added, 
 that, without the permiffion of the AfTem- 
 u ^L "".'''^^^ Armenians at Conftantinople. 
 theMS.itfeifcouldnotbefent. It was eafy 
 he faid, to have it copied at an inconfider- 
 able expence by a learned Armenian under his 
 own eye. This was accordingly ordered to be 
 done; and as the order was given in May Jaft, 
 It may be fuppofed that by this time much of 
 the tranfcript has been made. 
 
 Sergius Malea, Superior of a Monaftery at 
 Jerufalem in the year 1773, was the Author 
 01 the " Annotations/' and the writer of the 
 MS He carried his collation through the 
 Old and New Teftament. Of the Armenian 
 Verfion of the Old Teftament he collated, at 
 the time of drawing up his «' Annotations," 
 Fifteen MSS. and of the New Teftament, 
 Twenty. He was affifted by a learned Dea- 
 con of the Houfe, of which he was Superior. 
 The Fifteen MSS. of the Old Teftament he 
 collated with the Armenian Bible, printed at 
 Venice, 1733 j and he noted in how many 
 
 ^ Armenian 
 
[ i8 ] 
 
 Armenian MSS. every difference from the 
 printed Armenian was found j and when the 
 difference occurred in any MS. of higher im- 
 portance and authority than the reft, he par- 
 ticularized that MS. 
 
 
 As this is a Angular MS. and feems of con- 
 fequence in afcertaining the ftate of the Ar- 
 menian Copies, Mr. Alter will collate this, 
 as well as the other Armenian MSS. with 
 which he is proceeding. 
 
 Slavonian Version. 
 
 In the courfe of the year part;, this Verfion 
 has been collated in the latter part of Num- 
 bers i in the whole of Deuteronomy ; in the 
 whole or part of Jofhua, and probably in the 
 firft part of Judges. The collation of it is 
 going on. 
 
 Georgian Version. 
 
 This Verfion has been collated, during the 
 year part, in fome part of Numbers to the 
 end ; in the whole of Deuteronomy ; in part 
 or all of Jofhua, and perhaps the beginning of 
 Judges. The collation of it is going on. 
 
r 
 
 . i^-i n*-nvi"uii 
 
 J 1. 1 ■iiyj.inwiiiiuujyMiiu.L^,^ ,-)■ 
 
 J 
 
 C >9 
 
 So far as to Verfions. There are other re- 
 fpeds alfo in which fome further advances 
 have been made. The Citations in the firft 
 and fecond volume of Gyril of Alexandria, 
 from the text of Ifaiah, and of the Twelve 
 Minor Prophets, have been collated. And 
 fome progrefs alfo has been made in collating 
 the text of Exodus, with the Citations made 
 from it, by Cyril of Alexandria ; by Chry- 
 foftom; by Gregory of NyfTa ; by Athanafius; 
 by Eufebius in his Prasparatio and Demon- 
 ftratio Evangelica ; by Ifidore of Pelufium j 
 and by other Greek writers. 
 
 It required far more time and deliberation, 
 than could have been expefted, to determine 
 what Form was moft fit, all circumftances 
 confidered, to be adopted in the Impreflion of 
 the work. The Form of the. Edition being 
 now however fettled, the iirft Sheet is here 
 annexed for infpeition. It may be fufficient 
 to obferve for the prefent, that as inedited 
 fragments of other Greek Verfions affeft not 
 the Septuagint-Text, they will not be placed 
 among the Various Readings, but diftindly 
 exhibited in a Supplement to each Scriptural 
 Book. 
 
 D 2 
 
 COL- 
 
'^'"V^'^* 
 
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 March i8, 1 796, 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited before 
 the Delegates of the Clarendon- Prefs, and 
 then depofited in the Bodleian Library, in 
 feparate volumes in folio, with pdfteboard 
 covers, are thefe : 
 
 Vol. LXXIV, Numeri, Dcuteronom. 
 Jofua ad Cap. 11. 9. 
 In a MS. of the Library of St. Mark, Flo- 
 rence. 
 
 Regg. I, II. III. IV. 
 In the fame MS. of the fame Library. 
 
 Chronic, i. ir. 
 In the fame MS. of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. LXXV. Job, Proverb. Ecclef Can. 
 tic. Cantic. 
 
 In MS, xxvii, Plutei yiii, of the Medi- 
 pean Library, 
 Pfalmi. 
 In MSS. XXX, Plutei v — and ccxxii — and 
 XI v, Plutei v — and v, Plutefxi — ■ 
 and II, Plutei ix — and iir, Plutei 
 VI — and XXXVII, Plutei v — of the 
 fame Ljbrary. 
 
 Voi,, • 
 
 [ 21 ] ' 
 
 ""in M^ ^'' ^''^' ^' "• -• -. 
 vrP'' °^ '^' ^^^-^« Library. 
 
 J" MSS. 330. 10. of the fame Libi^ry. 
 
 Vol. LXXVIL Re^^ i ,, 
 in MSS 1209. 1^38. 2j^^^ 
 
 Vatican Library, ^^^' ^ *^ 
 
 Vol. LXXVIIL Ree^ ,\, ' 
 
 Tn A^^QQ ^^&&- I- II. HI, IV. 
 
 In MSS ,,330, of ,he Vatican Library 
 Chronicorum i. n ^' 
 
 J" MS. 2106. ofthe fame Library. 
 
 Vo-LXXIX. ^I~,,„^ 
 
 Librarr^^"^^°^- 330. of the Vatican 
 
 In A/f.f '' '' "• Nehemias. 
 in MSS. 120Q. 2iofi o.r r , 
 Library. 9- 2106. 331. of the fame 
 
 Efdras i. n. 
 
 In MS. of S. MarkVLibrary, Florence. 
 
 VoLLXXX. Pfai„i. 
 LibtrVic;„:."'-""-^*=<^-'--n 
 
 Jfaias, 
 
^m^^^^^^m^ 
 
 [ 22 ] 
 
 Ifaias. 
 In MSS. Demetrii i. ii. 
 
 Pfalmi. 
 In MS. Demetrii v. 
 
 Daniel. 
 In MS. Demetrii in. 
 
 Jeremias. 
 In MS. Demetrii ir. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 In MS. Demetrii iii. 
 
 Proph. Minor, xii. 
 In MS. Demetrii iv. 
 
 OXFORD, DELEGATES' ROOM. 
 
 March i8, 1796. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day ex- 
 hibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch col- 
 lations as have been made of the Septuagint 
 MSS. in the year laft paft, as ftated in his 
 Annual Account ; it is the opinion of this 
 Board, that he has fo far fulfilled the condi- 
 tion upon which the fubfcription to the faid 
 Collation was made and renewed, and that a 
 competent and laudable progrefs has been 
 made in the work. 
 
 The Delegates, therefore, think it Incum- 
 bent upon them to recommend the prefent 
 Annual Account to the confideration of the 
 Public ; hoping that Dr. Holmes will meet 
 with fuch farther encouragement, as will en- 
 able him to bring the work to its completion. 
 
[ U ] 
 
 Account of Expences incurred dur- 
 ing the Eighth Year. 
 
 REMAINDER in full for collation 
 of the MS. of St. Mark's Libra- 
 ry, Florence 15 o o 
 
 Remainder in full of 103I. for col- 
 lation of Sixteen Copies of the 
 Pfalms in the Medicean Library 52 00 
 
 Collation of Job, Prov. Ecclef. Can- 
 tic. Cantic, in a MS. of the Me- 
 dicean Library 1500 
 
 Remainder in full for collation of 
 the whole Prophetical Text in 
 Two MSS. of the Medicean Li- 
 brary 20 o 
 
 To Canon Bandini for agency dur- 
 ipg one year, from March 1795, 
 to March 1796 500 
 
 To Dominicus Calabrefi for collat- 
 ing Kings, III, IV. Efdras, i, 
 II. Jx>b. in One Vatican MS. 10 00 
 
 ,t^P^tatei^.i,^^'^33 ' 
 
 ft>rcollatf9,^, .^^^f^^^ 
 
 AmbrofianLibrar^ ^ ■' "^ 
 
 ^-^ p^. or;^ua,,,i;, i^ - 
 
 J-^l?rafy, Vienna; and in the aI 
 
 ;;menx^Verfion, prints^ ^d MS. 
 
 o a;ic( ^ the S^^^snian ,anc};Q^r. 
 
 gian Verfioj^s . . ■ _■ ^■■>^^' ■ - 
 
 , o(,^rpienian cpiWps "'" , , 
 f-,colJation of-Thr.e A,^^ '" 
 
 T H^M47. W furtbw part ,. 
 
 ^^ii.-The payment, which was 
 made Jaft year, related only to 
 the book of Genefis, and fhould 
 have been fo ftated. 
 To ProfefTor Matth^i for the ex 
 Pences of his journey to infpedt 
 
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 the Electoral Library at Munich, 
 and other Libraries in Germany^ 
 in fearch of Septuagint MSS. 60 
 Afliftants in collating, reading and 
 
 tranfcribing: 33 
 
 Journeys and expences in London, 
 and other charges incurred in 
 profecution of the work, 49 H 
 
 Poflage at home and abroad, and 
 carriage of MSS. and collation- 
 packets, &c. ' I ' ■ .34 15 
 
 Paper, Fafteboard, &c. ' 5 
 
 Printing the Second Specimen 7 
 
 Printing the Firft Sheet of the' Edi- 
 tion, annexed to this Account, 
 and Two Hundred Copies 3 10 
 
 Printing this Account " 3 2 
 
 Folding and making up the Second 
 Specimen, and alfo this Account 9 
 
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 407 15 9 
 
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 Subscriptions, 
 Firft Year, 442 o 
 
 Second Year, 576 9 
 
 Third Year, 634 3 o 
 
 EXPENCEJ. 
 
 o Firft Year, ~ 433 12 1 
 Second Year, 745 9 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 2d Year yet 
 
 unpaid, — 5 S f 
 Third Year, — 620 4 ; 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 3d Year yet 
 
 (unpaid, — 22 i c 
 Fourth Year, — 405 14 3 
 Subfcriptions, for 
 
 4th ye?r yet 
 
 unpaid, — 5190 
 Fifth Year, — 446 15-7 
 Si)bfqriptiQns\ for 
 
 5th year yet 
 
 unpaid, — 106 . 3 
 Sixth Year, 654 19 i 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 6 th year yet 
 
 unpaid, — 137 u o 
 Seventh Year, jjz 13 10 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 7th year yet 
 
 unpaid, 149 2 o 
 
 Eighth Year, 407 I j 9 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 8 th year yet 
 
 unpaid 252 14 o 
 
 ■»n hand 126 14 4 
 
 Fifth Year, 696 ■ 2^ 
 
 Sixth Year, with the 
 additions, 713 15 
 
 Seventh Year, 686 1 3 o 
 
 Eighth Year, 673 o o 
 
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 THE 
 
 NINTH ANNUAL ACCOUNT 
 
 Q F 
 
 THE COLLATION OF THE MSS. 
 
 The Suhfcribtrst if they approve of the Progufsmade 
 in the work, are very refpeStfuUy requejied to make an 
 early depjit of their Subfcriptions for the ninth year, 
 in fke[ hands, eftknr fif the Editor, or J.,.(;ip9KPi 
 Fletcher and^ Hanwell, Oxford •, or T. Payne, 
 B. White,- London -, or Mr. Jones, Bookfeller, 
 Dublin. ' ' ;.;,:,.,;.,,;;. 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SEPTUAGIN T-VE R S I O N. 
 
 BY ROBERT HOLMES, D.D. 
 
 CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH. 
 
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 THE HONOURABLE 
 
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 RIGHT REVEREND 
 
 SHUTE HARRINGTON, LL.D. 
 
 LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM, 
 
 THIS 
 
 NINTH ANNUAL ACCOUNT 
 
 OF A WORK, 
 
 VERV GREATLY INDEBTED 
 
 TO THE FAVOUR AND RECOMMENDATION 
 
 OF HIS LORDSHIP. 
 
 I S 
 
 MOST RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULl 
 INSCRIBED, 
 
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 LIST 
 
 O F 
 
 SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 Thofe Individuals, who had been Subfcribers during the 
 firft Eight years of the work, and, according to the li- 
 mitation propofed by the Editor, had no Sublcription to 
 make in this Ninth year of it, have no Sum oppofite 
 Their Names. 
 
 The Univerfityof Oxford 
 The Univerfity of Cambridge 
 The Univerfity of Dublin 
 The Univerfity of Glafgow 
 
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 His Grace the Duke of Leeds ■ 5 5° 
 
 His Grace the Duke of Marlborough 10 10 o 
 
 His Grace the Marquis of Buckingham 5 5 ^ 
 
 His Grace the Primate of Ireland 
 
 His Grace, Dr. Fowler, A-Bp of Dublin 
 
 His Grace, Dr. Agar, A-Bp of Cafhell 
 
 Right Hon. Earl of Abingdon lO 10 
 
 Right Hon. Earl Spencer 10 10 o 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Sydney ■ 5 S 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Sandys 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Grenville, Secretary of State 
 
 Right Rev. Dr. Porteus, Ld Bp of London 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Barrington, Ld Bp 
 
 of Durham 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. North, Ld Bp of 
 
 Winchefter S 5 o 
 
 Right Rev. Dr. Butler, Ld Bp of Hereford 
 Right Rev. Dr. Bagot, Ld Bp of St. Afaph 
 
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 Right Rev. Dr. Cleaver, Ld Bp of Chefter 
 Riglit Rev. Dr. Watfon, Ld Bp of LandafF 
 Right Rev. Dr. Prettynian, Ld Bp of Lincoln 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Yorlce, Ld Bp of Ely 
 Right Rev. Dr. Douglas, Ld Bpof Salifbury 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Coriiwallis, Ld Bp 
 
 of Litchfield 
 Right Rev. Dr. Warren, Ld Bpof Bangor 3 3 
 Right Rev. Dr. Courtenay, Ld Bp of Briftol 2 2 
 Right Rev. Dr. Law, Ld Bp of Elphin 
 Right Rev. Dr. Percy, Ld Bp of Dromore 
 
 Lord Monboddo i i 
 
 The Bifhop of Beja, Portugal — _ jq 10 
 Right. Hon. William Pitt, Firft Lord of the 
 Tieafury, and Chancellor of the Ex- 
 chequer ■ 330 
 
 Right Hon. i'hc Speaker of the Houfe of 
 
 Comnicns . — . 10 10 
 
 Sir William Dolben, Bart. 2 2 
 
 Rev. Dr. Proby, Dean of Litchfield 2 2 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Chrift-Church 21 O 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Weftminfter 6 6 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Windfor 5 5 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Exeter 5 5 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Hereford 6 6 
 
 Rev. 'ihe Dean and Chapter of Winchefter 5 .5 
 
 Rfv. The Dean and Chapter of Durham 10 10 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury 5 5 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Salifbury 5 5 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Gloucefter 5 5 
 
 Rev. The Dean and Chapter of Ely 3 3 
 
 New College ■ 
 
 All Souls' College 
 
 Oriel College — 
 
 Brazenofe College 
 
 Trinity College, Oxford — — ^— 
 
 Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford 
 
 Balliol College 
 
 Univcrfity College 
 
 Ciueen's College, Oxford 
 
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 Worcefter College 
 
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 King's College . 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge 
 St. John's College, C3mbridee 
 Eton College' ^ 
 
 College-Library, Manchefler 
 
 Rev. The Warden of New College 
 
 P ''vT''d^'°':°^,°''Q-"""'* College, Oxford 
 Rev The Principal of Jefus' College, Oxford 
 Rev. The Warden of Wadham College 
 Rev. The Redor of Exeter Colle<>e _ 
 
 Rev. The Warden of All Souls College 
 
 Rev. The Principal of St. Mary Hall 
 
 Rev. The Principal of Magdalen Hall _ 
 
 Hely.Addington, Efq. 
 
 Thomas Babington, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Banks - 
 
 Rev. Mr, Barnes, Balliol College 
 
 Rev. Dr. Bathurft _! 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Benet - 
 
 John Black burne, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Bouchier 
 
 Rev. Mr. Boys 
 
 James Brown, Efq, , 
 
 Rev. Dr. Buckner __ __ 
 
 Rev. Mr. Burgefs 
 
 William Burgh, Efq. . __ 
 
 Dr. Charles Burney, Greenwich 
 
 Rev. Mr. Crachercde 
 
 John Englifli Dolben, Efij. 
 
 Rev. Francis Egerton 
 
 Rev. Mr. Foley , 
 
 Rev. Dr. Gabriel 
 
 Rev. Mr. Gifborne 
 
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 Rev. Dr. Goffet 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Green, Harlmghatn, Norfolk 
 F.ev. Thomas Heathcote 
 Dr. Heberden 
 Rev. Mr. Heberden 
 Rev, Dr. Home 
 Rev. Mr. Jeffreys, Win. Coll. 
 Edward King, fc-fq- 
 , Rev. Richard King 
 Bennet Langton, Efq. 
 Charles Lawfon, Efq. 
 Rev. Mr. Leigh — 
 
 Dr. Loveday 
 
 Rev, Mr. Matthew, Bal). Coll. 
 Rev. Mr, Morgan, Hereford 
 
 Rev. Mr. R. Morres 
 
 Rev, Mr. Morres, Brazenofe Coll. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Oglander, Win, Coll. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Parker 
 
 Rev, Mr. Parfons, Ball, Coll, 
 
 Rev Mr, Proffer, Ball. Coll. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Sarraude, Exeter Coll. 
 
 Robert Smith, Efq. 
 
 Rev, Dr. Sturges 
 
 James Sutton, Efq. ■ 
 
 Rev. Mr. Taylor ■ 
 
 Henry Thornton, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Ml. Travel 
 
 Rev. Dr. Valpy 
 
 Dr. Wall 
 
 Samuel Wcitg, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Weiton — 
 
 Rev. Dr. White 
 
 Rev. Mr. O. Wight 
 
 William Wilberlorce, Efq. — 
 
 Rev, Mr. Wintle 
 
 Rev.- Mr. Wray 
 
 Rev. Dr. Wynne 
 
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 THE Ninth Year of the Collation of 
 Septuagint-MSS. has now elapfed. It 
 becomes therefore incumbent upon me to de- 
 liver a Ninth Account, and to ftate the pro- 
 grefs which has been made in the work du- 
 ring the year paft, and the prefent ftate and 
 circumftances of it. I fhall accordingly pro- 
 ceed to the difcharige of my obligation in 
 this refpedt, as foon as the neceflary men- 
 tion of fome few particulars has been made. 
 
 To the Whole Body of Subfcribers to the 
 undertaking my moft thankful acknowledge- 
 ments are again duly offered, for that Pa- 
 tronage and Subfcription, with which it has 
 been hitherto fo liberally favoured : and my 
 utmoft efforts have been, and fhall be, devoted, 
 to juflify, as far as may be,, that fupport, 
 which has b^n already granted me; and that 
 farther afHftance, for which an application 
 mufl yet be made. 
 
 s 
 
 To 
 
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 To Univerfities, Colleges, and Chaptefs, 
 my mofl earneft and refpedful entreaty is 
 now repeated, for the continuance of their 
 Bounty to the work, till it fliall have reached 
 fuch a ftate of advancement, as to admit of 
 my carrying it on, without making it any 
 longer a, burden upon their Generofity, 
 
 To Individual Subfcribers to the work a 
 foUicitation fomewhat different is to be pre- 
 fented. — They, according to an intimation 
 made in the Seventh Account, and repeated 
 in the Eighth, are to be at no farther ex- 
 pence, after they either have contributed an- 
 nually during a term of eight years, to be 
 computed inclufively from that year of the 
 undertaking, in which they refpediveiy made 
 their Firft Subfcription; or, have in one or 
 two payments contributed the fum, to which 
 that annual Subfcription, which they re- 
 fpetlively intended to grant me, would have 
 amounted in eight fucceffive years. 
 
 To Individual Subfcribers, therefore, I am 
 now to prefent mofl refpeftfully that particu- 
 lar entreaty, which the above limitation re- 
 quires. 
 
 Thofe 
 
 i 2 1 
 
 Thofe Friends gf 'the work, who became 
 Individual Subfcribers thereto in its Firft year, 
 which was current' from March 1788 to 
 March 1789, are earneftly requefted to make 
 good, if they have not as yet done fo, their 
 annual Subfcription for the feveral fubfequent 
 years, (each reckoned from Mdfch to March) 
 till the Eighth' year' expired,- 'namely; till 
 March'1796 J and frbm'that'time their bon- 
 tribution was'bcdafeV'' ''^' ■■•''' -'-^^ ^'- -'' ■ 
 
 Thofe Individiaals; who Firft= became Sub- 
 fcribers to the work .in its Second year, which 
 \yas ciirrent from March' 1789^0- March 1790, 
 arealf6=earn?ftlyfe,itr^a'ted"td"'ii]i]ce good, if 
 the)^ have 'nof as' yet' done^^fo, -their annual 
 Subfcripti6n for the 'feveral 'fubfequent years 
 till the end of the Ninth, year,^ 'at March 
 1797''' and Yroih -that- tiiiie'^tiieir Contribu- 
 tion is in like'bil^nn'eV'ttrceafe.'' '"''■'■ ' : ' ■■ ' 
 
 :',) 
 
 ■i ■: 
 
 Thofe Individuals,' '"who ifirft becaine Sub- 
 fcribers to the Wk-ln Its 'Third year; which 
 was current > from;'March ' 1 790' to March 
 1791, • are- alfo'^eariieftly follicited to 'ma¥e 
 gopd^if they have not as yet'^aoneTo; Thtir 
 annual Siibfcriptiohsfoi-' the' fix < years of the 
 work iminediate'ly'fubfe'quent "to the Third, 
 B 2 and 
 
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 and to continue it to the end of tliis Tenth 
 year now enfqjng; and fronn that time, as 
 they will then haye contributed eight anr 
 nual Subfcriptions, their Contribution is, un- 
 der the fame rule, to be difcontinued. 
 
 Thofe Individuals, who firfl became SubT. 
 fcribers to the work in the Fourth or ^ny 
 fubfequent year pf it, arp in like manner en- 
 treated to favour me with the continuance of 
 their Benefadlion, till they fliall have feve-- 
 rally granted me^ eight anqpal Subfcriptions, 
 
 The ^boye ,|imitatipq. is. hazarded, in con-r 
 
 fpc^uepcp both. of my obljgatipn^ and my wifli 
 
 to render this 'work as light a. burden, as it 
 
 can be made^, ij|?on the liberality of its fub-. 
 
 fcribing Friends, In purfuit of this purpofe, 
 
 one ftep hap thus b^en taken, by affigning ^ 
 
 certain period to the ^enefaftions of Indi.v;^ 
 
 DUAL Subscribers ; on many or mpft of 
 
 whom, as bpa^ing fingly and alone the ex- 
 
 peqce of Su^fcription, there feemed to lie a 
 
 charge fpmevvhat greater, in general, than 
 
 what falls on Thofe whp Join with others in 
 
 a common Subf^rjption. In purfuit of the 
 
 fajiie purpofe, it y^ill be another ftep, to mak^ 
 
 fpme fimilar alleyiatjop gs.tp Parties in a Joint 
 
 .Subfcripi' 
 
 ■liMiM 
 
 t 5 J 
 
 Subfcription : zn^ this ftep will be taken 
 as fpon as it ih^ll be.ia any degree poffibk ' 
 
 Submitting i^^yffirin ti^eCe:an4 In all re- 
 ?' A n -Su^ • ^^^#^^?io?>.ai}4 ,th€. Gflpdnefs 
 ot All Thofe, who,.Jiave fo generoufly f^p^ 
 ported me in profefi^tjon of jjifs^prk, I fhall 
 proceed ^0 ptl^^qr p^rtic^la^s in fhe reprefeflta- 
 tjpn wjiich, is iipw,, tp tie , ma4e, , diftributing 
 thpni qq^?r ^i%6^ J^^ads of J>Jace« and Li, 
 braries, as pn former occafions. 
 
 ^fmmrm—Trr . .. '.'■ 
 
 'F-'ri'd'R'^^ctf'''' 
 
 11) .:j 
 
 Here the Cpll^tioq has'.Be^cairled oii 
 without interruption duf iqg' the ' whoje oif 'the 
 yea'rpaft. ■• ■"''' ■'''■^ •■•-'■'■. -■'-' ■'•■' 
 
 '1- 1 
 
 J.IB,RA^V OF TflE A^pnAStJeRV Of SajNT 
 
 .... MA^^.t 
 
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 f 
 ■1 ..'/. 
 
 ^,' ^^^ ftatpd. ip, lgft„yegr's Afcoi^n^i that 
 Jt the^time^of deHve^,ng,it,_ the gpU^ip^ p/ ^^e 
 ^7 Wfi '^^^ '^^ff^iftly prq?fieip4^s,fw ,s the 
 mpi.l^mi^a)?,^!)^ prpbaWyjtkpugh all 
 
 the 
 
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 the fubfequent Books which it contained. 
 This was nearly, but not abfolutely, the cafe. 
 With refpedl to this MS. the language of the 
 Canon Bandini was, ** lente opus progreditur, 
 hec line magna temporis jadtura, ob perplexos 
 et multis in locis evanefcentes charadleres : et 
 praster evanidam fcripturam, pleraeque paginae 
 atramento corrofae funt." From fuch circum- 
 ftances as thefe it happened that the collation 
 of the MS. was not completely finiflied tiU 
 the month of July laft, 
 
 Medicean Library. - 
 
 In the laftyear's Account it was ftated that 
 a Medicean" MS. "containing the whole of 
 the Prophetical Text, was then under col- 
 lation It has been finiflaed in the courfe 
 of the laft year. This MS. and alfo that 
 which is marked x, Plutei viii, and which 
 contains in like manner the whole of the Pro- 
 phetical iT'ext, were found to require in col- 
 lating fo much more both of time and labour, 
 than it had been fuppofed they feverally 
 would, when agreement was made for the 
 refpedtive price of collating them, that appli- 
 cation was earneftly made for an addition to 
 the feveral fums which it had been agreed 
 
 the 
 
 iMMMMM 
 
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 the Collator of th^m ihould receive. To this 
 requeft it feemed.fair to accede. 
 
 There have been further collated in this 
 Library, during the courfe of the year laft 
 clapfed, the following MSS. 
 
 - Codex II, Plutei IV. It contains only 51 
 part of the Text of Ifaiah. - - 
 
 Codex XXII, Plutei xr. -It contains the 
 Text of the Twelve Minor Prophets. 
 
 Codex XXVII, Plutei v, Saec. xiv. It con- 
 tains the book of Job. ' 
 
 There remain, according to the advices 
 fent me, only Three more MSS, to be col- 
 lated in this Library. They are. Codex xxx, 
 Plutfei VII, Saec. xiv. It contains Ecclefiaftes, 
 the Book of Wifdom, Ecclefiafticus, and Job. 
 
 Codex VIII, Plutei v, Sxc. xii. It coijl 
 tains Ifaiah. ' • 
 
 Codex XXII,, Plutei xi, Saec. xni. It con- 
 tains the Tvyelve Minor Prophets. The Col. 
 
 lation 
 
 iaBb^. 
 
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 htion of thefe MSS. will be proceeded on 
 
 without delay. 
 
 To Canon Bandini this work continues 
 
 under great .obligation j not only for the dih- 
 
 "n and ability with which he has perfon- 
 
 f,;romotedtheCoUation.butalfoforh. 
 
 additional care and trouble in receiving, mak- 
 ng up. and forwarding hither the materials of 
 the work, and for many other fervices which 
 he is daily contributing to it. 
 
 ROME. 
 
 Vatican Library. 
 
 Here the Collation has been carried on by 
 Elias Baldius without interruption during the 
 yihoh of the year paft. 
 
 Dominicus Calabrefi has ^Ifo fen Jt as 
 n,uch of his time, as his office of Secretary to 
 The Cardinal Zelada would permit him to 
 fpare. 
 
 Since the delivery of the laft Account, there 
 have been collated in this Library, ^^^^^^ 
 
 U^9 H 
 
 ■.:> Efther, in OnciMS.-.n'^ :o bnii .r.::i ;;.m ^ 
 ^i I Efdras, in One MS* ; nsiniju! .^ . 
 Efaias, in One MS. .5 .-• ...::v. • 
 Job, in Two MS. in Uncial letters, and 
 .'certainly. in N^ncyt arid probably, Ten, other 
 
 i.'i-The-Book.bf.PMmsin Seicn.MSS. \ 
 
 .}■.): 
 
 .■Jij.r.Ji 
 
 Thefe advances: had beenCmade more than 
 three months ilnce; and as no interruption 
 has, during that intefval, taken place as to 
 Elias Baldius, a further progrefs has certainly 
 been made by this time. ' '' " 
 
 The above Collators will continue to a<S 
 with allj the difpatch, that fhall be refpedliy^Iy 
 poffible to them.;_. '_^ ...•.,..:,. 
 
 ■.ul ..-•-.-', 
 
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 ■::!'■.. uiu:-' 
 
 COPENHAGEN. 
 
 : 1 ' 1 1 ; I J ! J o 
 
 Ktj r ry 
 
 At no great diftance of time from the de- 
 livery of laft Account, a letter came to my 
 hands ftom Prof^flpr Mold?hhawer. .; 
 
 • - -rv 
 
 The MS. of the Heyapl^r Text has been 
 collated, through the Book of Jeremiah from 
 Chap. XXIII, 17, inclufive, through the Book 
 
 c of 
 
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 of Baruch, and of the. Lamentations, and the 
 Letter, of Jeremiah ; and the Collation fo far 
 has fafely come to hand. ' 
 
 , ■ ' ' ' ' 1. 
 
 •Since thq arrival of this packet, mymoft 
 urgent requeft has been repeated to the Pro- 
 feffor, to expedite the:reft ofthofe communi- 
 cations, which are, according to agreement, to 
 be further expe^ed from him. • - i' 
 
 BAVARIA. 
 
 IVjuNICH. 
 
 ', It was ftated in laft year's Account, that 
 Profeffor Matthsi had agreed to repair to Mu- 
 nich, and fome other places, for the purpofe 
 of afcertaining whether Septuagint-MSS. were 
 depofited ii) any.of/their refpeaive Libraries, 
 and that he was to fet out immediately after 
 Eafter. ' •'•' ' ■; ' ',■ 
 
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 At that time he ' accordingly did fet out j 
 and what he faw, and what he did, at Munich 
 and elfewhere, will be ftated under this and 
 the fubfequent article. ' 
 
 Electoral 
 
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 Electoral Library at Munich. 
 
 i .'.; (^ ;.'. . . ■;..i > . . .; 
 
 . A Catalogue of th& Greek MSS. in this 
 Library was printed at Ingoldftadt, in 4to, in 
 the year 1602, by an anonymous Editor. 
 Montfaucon, in his Bibliotheca "Bibliotheca- 
 rum, Tom. i, p. 587, repeated this Cata= 
 logue, omitting only The Preface.' The niim^ 
 ber of Greek MSS. in this Library is- ' ftated; 
 both by the Author of the 'abQve- Catalogue^ 
 and by Montfaucon after him, to be only two 
 hundred and fixty two. But fince that time 
 large additions have been made. Some further 
 MSS. were brought hither from the Dutchy 
 of Wurtemberg, from a place in the neigh- 
 bourhood of- Tubingen, which is called, Arx 
 Ludovici. Some alfo came hither from the 
 Library of Petrus Vidtorius, which was pur- 
 chafed at Florence for fouf hundred florins. 
 The Greek MSS. in the Library at this time 
 are three hundred and twenty. Ignatius Hardt, 
 a Greek Scholar of eminence,' has now the 
 charge of the Library. He has -drawn up a 
 new Catalogue ; and to the numbers, i as they 
 ftand in his Catalogue, and which are all of 
 them different from thofe in the Old one, the 
 prefent arrangement of the Greek MSS. in the 
 Library is adjufted. This new Catalogue wjU; 
 
 c 2 as 
 
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 as it is fiippofed, be publifhed ; but the re- 
 quifite leave for its publication not having 
 hitherto been granted, it has not as yet ap- 
 peared. 
 
 There is in this Library a very confiderable 
 number not only of Greek, but alfo of Latin 
 MSS, And probably; there might be dravs^n 
 from thence copious materials for the Emen-F 
 dation of many Writers, i ' , i ,] 
 
 The Greek MSS. in it, which relate to 
 the Septuagint-Text, are thefe ; 
 
 Codex, nunc 9, olim 275, membranaceus, 
 Sfficuli X. Eft in folio, foliorum 227. Conti- 
 net Genefin et Exodum, cum ingenti Catena 
 Patrum et variis prologis. Prologi leguntur a 
 folio primo ad vigefimum, Initium eft ab 
 Epiftola Arifteasad Philocratem. Folio 21 in- 
 cipit GenefiS] folio 121 Exodus. Venit hiq 
 Codex ex Arce Ludovici Wurtembergenfi. 
 Eft optima; notae, et multas fingulares ledtio- 
 nes exhibet. 
 
 The above MS. has been this year collated 
 by Profeflbr Mattha?!, and the Collation is in 
 
 my hands. 
 
 Codex, 
 
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 -Codex, nunc 129, olim 276. Eft in charta 
 bombycina. Sseculi xiv, in folio.. Continet in 
 foliis 39 Syracidem. Incipit a Prologoj deficit 
 in cap. 43, verfu ultimo inlverbis xa) roTs^su- 
 o-iQia-i Si^uKs fl-offnai'.". Prologue indicem habet, 
 'sf^oXoyoq T^s ovruf irQ<pias ^'itirS vlS.Eipx^, Iktb- 
 ^stira KKt, avyypx^eirx •af»p uvtou Sig woXXuv ei- 
 (piktuxv, .-.Caput primum indic^ habet, u^x^ 
 TV XoyH Ttig TVTV (rof(dg. 1 Deinceps a folio 40 
 ad 43, funt varii prologi in Proverbia.fi Inci* 
 piunt, Mavor^ i^lv &60i mxtipiii(r6 rav iioftov^ 
 
 ^- \ 1::;. ■::!;. .i ■ .'.\:J ■'- '-.i''; '(j7 'li";; . k ■ 
 
 Eft Codex valde ptasftahs^ etfi^'interdumi 
 confundat fyllabas ejufdem foni. - 
 
 This MS. has been collated : in ^he courf^ 
 of laft year by Profeflbr Matthaei -, and the 
 'Collation is nov/ in myha/ids. ,. ^,- , 
 
 Codex, nunc 148, oUm 5. Eft in charta 
 bombycina, Saeculi xiv, excepto tantum folio 
 primo, quod, quoniam perierat,,fcriptum eft a 
 manu recentiori Sajculi xvi. Continet in fplii? 
 8 1 librum Jobi. In hoc notatae funt ledtiones 
 Aquilae , et aliorum* quae tamen maxima ex 
 parte evanuerunt. Multa autem, quas apud 
 alios Codices Aquijae, Symmacho, Theodo- 
 
 tioni 
 
[ 14 ] . 
 
 tioni tribuuntur, in hoc Codice, tanquam ex- 
 plicationes,' fine au<5toris nomine leguntar. ■ ' 
 
 ,,i 
 
 This MS. has been collated in the courfe of 
 the year paft by ProfeiTor Matthaei, and the 
 Collation is now in my hands. 
 
 '. Codex, nunc 251, olim 96. Membranaceus, 
 in 4to, foliorum 361. Eft Saeculi x, aut xi. 
 Continet Plalmos cupi Canticis Scripturae. 
 Scriptus eft .Uteris luculentis et ita magnis, ut 
 in fingulis fere paginis tantum quatuor verfus 
 ex Pfalmis reperiantur. . 
 
 In this MS. Profeflor Matthasi collated 
 Pfalm 118, by way of Specimen as to the 
 text, which the MS. contains. 
 
 Codex, nunc 252, olim 42. Eft in 4to, et 
 continet Pfalmos 151 et Cantica Scripturae, 
 cum Catena. Folia priora 39, ufque ad prio- 
 rem partem Pfalmi xvii, et ultima a 206, in 
 Cantico Ifaiae, ad 221, fcripta funt recentiori 
 manu Saculi xvi, in charta. Reliqua omnia 
 funt membranacea, et Ssculi x aut xi. Hie 
 Codex imprimis accurate fcriptus eft. 
 
 In this 'MS. Profeflor Matthai collated 
 
 Pfalm s 
 
 
 I \15 ] . . 
 
 ,Pfalra|.xviu, .^cix^txx, by;, way ;of, Specimen 
 as ta the.tex,t,.whick:ihQ_MS..CQntains.h . i. 
 
 -' Codexj ' in'duobus; vbluntiinibus; Durici' ''i 2, 
 -13, blim,'6, 7. Saeculiixvi, chartaccus. Con- 
 tinet volumeh primum' Pfalmos ^ 641 pofterius 
 reliquos. Habet ubique Catenarii Patrum. His 
 duobus voluminibus ufus eft Corderius in e- 
 denda Catena' in PfalmoS. 
 
 ^ t.\ii •lii.^/i^ 
 
 /( / 1 . i 
 
 1 1 ' i -> i' iwv)^ -H ; .0^ it ill i i V I- 
 
 r 
 
 ■ Codex, " in' ' duobus' v'olumihibUS'/'nUhc 14, 
 15, olim 9, i6. Catena 'in Efai^m.'cEft in fo- 
 lio, Sxculi XVI, chartaceus. 
 
 .:'":.'C 
 
 ,..;!,[ 
 
 "Codex, nunc I7,'61im'i6. Cyrillus^'in Pro- 
 phetas Minores : et Theodoretus in Hofeam. 
 Eft in folio, Saeculixvi, c,hartaceusi 
 
 Codex, nunc 19, olim 35, Bafilius in Efai- 
 am, Theophyladus in Hofeam,^abaccucum, 
 Naum, Michaearn. Ert'in folio. Sae'ciili xvi, 
 chartaceus. 
 
 .,■ . , 'i ' ... J. -■- . ..' ' 
 
 Codex, nunc 32, olim 8. Continet Pro- 
 verbia, et Jobum, cum Catena Patrum, . Eft 
 in folio, Saeculi XVI, chartaceus. ; 
 
 Codex, 
 
.^J*,.i>JI>fc-»^.;JJjTO 
 
 [ i6 ] 
 
 i Codex,: nunc 34, olitn 44. Procopiiis in 
 Efaiam. Eft in folio, Saeculixvi, chartaceus. 
 
 .Codex, nunc 38, bUm.31. Continet. Pro- 
 verbia cum Catena PatrUm r Bafilium.in Efai- 
 am: Chryfoftomum et alios in Eundem. Eft 
 in folio,'. Ssculi x vi, chartaceus., 
 
 t 
 
 Codex, nunc 41, olim 17. CyrilluS in Pro- 
 phetas Minores. Theodoretus in Hofeam. Eft 
 in folio, fcriptus in charta Venetiis anno mun- 
 di,^7« (7058) ergo anno Chrifti 1550. 
 
 Codex, nunc 42, olim 18. Theodoretus in 
 Pfalmos. Eft in folio, Sasculi xvi, chartaceus* 
 
 Codex, nunc 44, olim 27. Chryfoftomi Ho- 
 milis in Genefin. Eft membranaceus in folioj 
 Saeculi x. 
 
 Codex, nunc 47 j olim 70. Theodoretus in 
 Exodum, Leviticum, Numeros, Deuterono- 
 mium, Judices, Ruth. Caret autem Textu 
 perpetuo. Eft in folio, Saeculi xvi, chartaceus. 
 
 Codex, nunc 49, olim 95. Bafilius in Efai* 
 am. Eft in folio, fcriptus in charta Venetiis 
 
 anno 1548. 
 
 Codex, 
 
 t ?7 3 
 
 .'.Godex, nunc 5i,;..jDlim iot5,;;;;]procopius in 
 Oendin. Eft in, folio, ,Sa5puJi;xyj,^cIiiartapeus, 
 
 '■■•- -: ■-■■ - •'■u- ■:. ■ : I.. :\u.:v .. ,. _ . 
 
 Codex, nunc ^6, olim; ijfl,.,lCqntine.l^ Pfal- 
 mos cum Scholiis Variorum. Eft in folio, 
 ic;iptus i^.cliarta;ainno,i547,( ., ,., ., •, , 
 
 Codex, nunc 64, olim 99. (ppritjnet Can- 
 ticum Canticorum, cum interpretatione Theo- 
 dpreti et aliorum. Eft in folioi, ^secu^ :jfvi, 
 chartaceus. , . ,..., -,, ■ 1 ,. ^., 
 
 Codex, nunc 82, olim 3. Catena in Ge- 
 nefin et Exodum. Eft in folio, Saeculi xvi, 
 chartaceus. - , ,,; 
 
 Codex, nunc 84, olim 39. Gregorius Nyf- 
 fequs, et Nilus, . in Canticum , Canticorum, 
 Eft in folio, Saeculi xvi, chartaceus. 
 
 Codex, nunc Jiy, olim 2^. '|'heoj3oretUs 
 In Ezechielem. Chryfofloipi^s in Jcremian^. 
 Theodoretus in Danielem. Eft in folio, Sx- 
 cuU XVI, chartaceus. 
 
 Codex, nunc 119, olim 33. .Chryfoftomus 
 in Genefin. Eft membrana9^us, in folio, Sae- 
 culi X, a principio mutilus. 
 
 D Codex 
 
•^fnSWll-Jt'j: 
 
 [ i8 ] 
 
 '■" Codex, nunc 131, olim. 128. Contlnet 
 Ganticum Canticorum, Proverbia, Ecclefi- 
 aften, Sapientiam Salomonis. Eft in folio, 
 SaKTuli XVI, chartaceus. 
 
 Codex, nunc 178,- olim 46. Theophyladus 
 in Prophetas Minores. Eft in folio, Ssculi 
 XV, chartaceus. 
 
 Codex, Tiunc 189, olim 51. Pfellus in Can- 
 ticum Canticorum. Eft in folio, Sasculi xvi, 
 
 chartaceus. 
 
 • Codex, nunc 194, olim 47. Euthymius 
 in Pflihnos. Eft in folio, Sasculi xvi, aut 
 forte XV, chartaceus. 
 
 Codex, nunc 225, olim io8. Continet, ut 
 index notat, N<xij(pop5f [x.ovxs'S kcci •srpiO'QvTipov 
 tS /GAEjMfVa (ut videtur) i^'^iyw^ £*? rivug tuv 
 ^xXjA-uv. Hie explicantur Pfalmi a primo ad 
 decimum. Item Pfalm. xiv. l. lxxxiii. Eft 
 in charta bombycina, in quarto, Saeculi xv. 
 
 Codex, nunc 292, dim 50. Polychronius 
 in Ecclefiaften, et Canticum Canticorum. Eft 
 in 8vo, Sasculi xvi, chartaceus. ' 
 
 Codex, 
 
 r ^9 I 
 
 Codex, nunc 293, olim 48. Michaelis 
 Pfelli explicatio Cantici Capticorum. Eft in 
 8vo, fcriptus in charta Madriti anno 1579. 
 
 ^ .Codex, nunc 294, olim 49' ' Polychronius 
 in Canticum Canticorum. Eft in 8vo, S^- 
 culi xvi, chartaceus. 
 
 Codex, nunc 295, olim 37." Marccllini, 
 Athanafii, Bafilii, Gregorii Nyflenj, Eufebii, 
 et aliorum, Explanationes Pfalmorum. Eft 
 in 8vo, fcriptus in charta anno i^yg. 
 
 Codex, nunc 296, olim 15. Continet Can- 
 tica Scripturae.-cum Sphpliis. Eft in 8vo, Sa- 
 culi XI. Praecedit, Lexicon in Pfalmos, 
 
 Codex, nunc 314, dim 36. Continet 
 Anonymi Homilias in, Pfalmos, a Pfalmo xv. 
 ad Lxxxi. Eft membranaceus, in folio, Ss, 
 culi xn, 
 
 So far as to the Eledtoral Library at Mu- 
 nich. Of tbefe thirty-five MSS. twenty, 
 feven are pofterior to the origin of printing. 
 Five may be of ufe ; and three of them are 
 collated. 
 
 D 2 
 
 AUGS- 
 
[ 2a X 
 
 AUGSBURG. 
 
 It was ftated in the third year's Account, 
 that intelligence' had reached me of one MS, 
 being depofited in the Publick Library of 
 this place. But Profeflbr Matthasi having 
 now obliged me with particular and full in^ 
 formation as to the Septuagint-MSS. which 
 are here preferved, I accordingly proceed to 
 the communication of it. 
 
 Library of the Church of St. Anne, 
 
 A Catalogue of the Greek MSS. here de- 
 pofited, was publiflied by David Hoefchelius 
 at Auglburg, in 410, in the year 1595. 
 
 Another Catalogue was publi(hed by An* 
 tonius Reiferus, at Augfburg, in the year 
 
 A Catalogue of them was alfo inferted by 
 Montfaucon, in his Bibllotheca Bibliotheca- 
 rum, Tom. i. p. 59?. 
 
 Upon examination made by Profeflbr Mat. 
 thffii in the courfe of the paft year, it appeared 
 
 that 
 
 [ 21 ] 
 
 that there are in this Library the following 
 Septuagint-MSS* 
 
 Codex I, (in Catalogo Reiferi 17) mem- 
 branaceus, in 4to, Saeculi x aut ix, foliorum 
 375. Continet Hofeam, Joelem, Aniofum, 
 Abdiam, Jonam, Micham, Naumum, Haba- 
 cucum, Sophoniam, Aggaeum, Zechariam, 
 Malachiam, Efaiam, leremiam, Baruchum, 
 Threnos et Epiftolam Jeremiae, Ezechielem, 
 Danielem, ufque ad cap. xi, 24., Praefiguntur 
 Prophetarum lingulis Libris Indices Capitum, 
 et Prolog! Patrum, Hefychii, Theodoreti, Po- 
 lychronii. 
 
 In principle et fine hujus Codicis inferta 
 funt duo folia membranacea ex quodam Evan- 
 geliftario. 
 
 In this MS. Profeflbr Matthael has collated 
 the book of Habakkuk, and the book of Ba- 
 ruch. 
 
 Codex 2, (in Catalogo Reiferi 25) mem-f 
 branaceus in 4to, Saeculi xi aut xii. Continet 
 in foliis 232, Jofliuam, Judices, Ruth. i. 11, 
 J 1 1. IV. Regg. I. II. Chronic. Poft folium 
 49 perditum eit folium unum. Folium 228 
 
 ab 
 
[ « ] 
 
 ab alia manu eft, et poftea infertum. Eft 
 Codex diligentiflime fcriptus, ac multas pro- 
 bas ledliones habet. 
 
 In this MS. Profeffor Matthoei has collated 
 the firft chapter in each of the four books of 
 Kings. 
 
 Codex 3, (in Catalogo Reiferi 28) mem- 
 branaceus, Sasculi x aut xi, in folio. Continet 
 in foliis 237, Jofuam, Judices, Ruth. i. 11. 
 III. IV. Regg. Tobiam. Continet praterea 
 fragmentuniGregorii Nazianzeni: Fragmen- 
 tum Maximi : Variorum vocabulorum expli- 
 cationes et definitiones. 
 
 In this MS. Profeflbr Matthasi has collated 
 the book of Ruth, 
 
 Codex 4, (in Catalogo Reiferi 33) mem- 
 branaceus, in folio, Saeculi x aut ix. Continet 
 Procopii Scholia in Odlateuchum, libros Re* 
 gum et Chronicorum : et Fragmenta Qua- 
 dam Sacri Textus. 
 
 Nicephorus, in publifhing his Catena, at 
 Leipfic 1772, ufed and printed from a tran- 
 fcript which he had made of this MS. In his 
 
 Preface, 
 
 Preface, at page, ,^. 3, Jve gives an account 
 
 of it. ,z^-. 'I 
 
 - Codex 5, (in Catalogo Reiferi 38) mem- 
 Jjranaceus, in.foljp, ^culi x, aut xi. Singulas 
 paginas binas columnas habent. , Continet ca- 
 pita priora fexdecim Efais cum explicatione 
 Bafilii. Codex eft accuratiilinie fcriptus. Plu- 
 res funt hie illic Codices Efaias, cum Scholiis 
 Bafilii i fed vix uUus eft hoc aut vejuftioi; aut 
 prasftantior. 
 
 ..):. 
 
 In this MS. Profeflbr Matthaei cpllated the 
 XV th and xvith chapters of the Prophet. 
 
 Codex 6, (in Catalogo Reiferi 1) membra- 
 naceus, in folio, Ssc. x. Singulas pagins bi- 
 nas columnas habent. Continet Pfalmos, a 
 Pfalmo IX, 15, ad finem Pfalmi l. Codex hie 
 cum fumma cura et diligentia fcriptus eft. 
 
 In this MS. Profeflbr Matthasi collated the 
 xth and xith Pialm. 
 
 Codex 7, (in Catalogo Reiferi 2) membra- 
 naceus, in 4to, Saiculi xii. Continet Theo- 
 doretum in Pfalmos. Habentur mox Can- 
 tica Scripture. 
 
 This 
 
■MM 
 
 [ H ] 
 
 This MS. was ufed in the laft new edi* 
 tion of Theodoret* 
 
 Codex 8, (in Catalogo Reiferi 3) charta- 
 ceus, in 4to, Saeculi xvi. Continet Theodo- 
 returti in Pfalmos. 
 
 Codex 9, (in Catalogo Reiferi 74) mem- 
 branaceus, in 410, Ssculi xi aut xii. Continet 
 Pfalmos 151, et Cantica Scripturje. Ad Pfal- 
 mos, ufque ad lxxii, adfunt fcholia breviora. 
 Adfcripfit aliquis " S. Athanafii Paraphrafis 
 in Pfalmos." 
 
 A tranfcriptof this MS. feems to have been 
 ufed in the lafl edition of Athanafius at Pitau. 
 
 In this MS. Profeflbr Matthasi collated the 
 71ft, and the laft, Pfalm. 
 
 Codex 10, (in Catalogo Reiferi 8) char- 
 taceus, in folio, Sasculi xvi. Continet Theo- 
 phyladlum in Prophetas Minores duodecim. 
 In margine nonnunquam notantur VarisE Lec- 
 tiones a prima manu. 
 
 In this MS. Profeflbr Matthaei collated the 
 
 Prophet Habakkuk. 
 
 Codex 
 
 Godex II, (in Catalogo Reiferi 17) charta- 
 ceus,- in 4to,.S^culi xvi. Continet Variorum 
 l^atrum Scholia in Jobuni a principio ad cap. 
 xi,^ cum aliquibus particulis Sacri Textus. 
 i* uit ohm Davidis Hcefehelii. • 
 
 Codex 12, (in' Catalogo Reiferi 8) charta- 
 ceus, in folio, S^culixvi. Continet Canticum 
 Canticorum cum Scholiis Patrum Variorum. 
 
 Codex 13, (in Catalogo Reiferi ai)' char- 
 taccus, m folio, Ssculi xvi. Gregorii NyfTeni 
 exphcationes Ecclefiaft^, cum aliquibus frag- 
 mentis Sacri Textus. 
 
 Codex 14, (in Catalogo Reiferi ^6) char- 
 taceus, in 410, S^culi xvi. Continet Cateham 
 in Proverbia, cum aliquibus fragmentis Sacri 
 Textus. 
 
 Codex 15, (in Catalogo Reiferi cr) char- 
 taceus, in 8vo, Sa^cuIi xv. Continet Prover- 
 bia a Capite xxv ad initium xxviij. Syraci- 
 dem In finehujus Libelli legitur h=.c nota 
 Davidis Hoefchelii, - contuli cum Editions 
 Komana qus hinc emei:dari et augeri alicubi 
 poteft. D. H. pridie Pentecofles 1603." 
 
 From this MS. H^fchelius published Ec 
 clefiafticus at Augfburg, in the year 1604. 
 
 ^ Codex 
 
 i 
 
 C( 
 
[ 26 ] 
 
 Codex 1 6, (in Catalogo Reiferi i8) char- 
 taceus, in 8vo, Saeculi xv. Continet Jobum 
 cum Scholiis Variorum. 
 
 So far as to the Library of the Church of 
 St. Anne. Eight of thefe M-S. are pofterior 
 to the origin of Printing. Of the reft, three 
 have been printed. 
 
 Library of the Benedictine Monas- 
 tery AT Augsburg. 
 
 Upon infpedion, no Greek MS. was found 
 here. 
 
 As to other places, the reprefentation of 
 ProfefTor Mattha3i is this : 
 
 " Illud moneo, me adhuc in nulla alia Bib- 
 liotheca aliquid invenire potuifle, quod ad 
 Lxx pertineat. Adhuc ergo refpedu aliarum 
 Bibliothecarum tantum ambitum itineris, varia 
 oppida adeundo, fruftra feci. Propero nunc 
 per Ingolftadium. Ratilbonam, et reliqua op- 
 pida, domum. Si nihil ultra Codicum repe- 
 rero, annuente Deo domi ero poft duas Sep- 
 timanas." 
 
 The 
 
 [ 27 ] 
 
 The Profeflbr reached Wittemberg in fafe- 
 ty, without having found Septuagint-MSS. in 
 any of the Places, through which he after- 
 wards pafled. 
 
 VIENNA. 
 
 CESAREAN Library. 
 
 Mr. Alter's collation of Deuteronomy was 
 not completed fo foon, as he and I apprehend- 
 ed it would be. This was occafioned partly 
 by unavoidable avocations of his j and in a 
 great degree by the very labour and ampli- 
 tude of the thing itfelf. To place this matter 
 in a clearer light, there is here fubjoined his 
 own account of what is contained in that col- 
 lation : 
 
 " Mitto tibi librum Deuteronomii, et ita 
 totum Pentateuchum habes. Contuli in hoc 
 fafciculo cum editione Romana codices Lam- 
 becii I. et in. Contuli Verfionem Armenia- 
 cam, tum illam contentam in codice Arme- 
 niaco n. 3270, tum illam contentam in edi- 
 tione Vene.ta Abbatis Petri Mechitar I733> 
 in folio. Contuli Verfionem Georgianam edi- 
 
 E 2 tionis 
 
[ 28 \ 
 
 tionis Mofqaenfis in folio, et editionem $Ia- 
 vonicam Oftrogienfem 1581, in folio. Neque 
 aliis fubfidiis caret coUatio uiea. Citavi lec- 
 tiones Jufteni Martyris, quas coUegit F. A. 
 Strothius, jj,(x.Kx^lTVji, pra;matura mofte litte- 
 ris biblicis ereptus ; has impreflas reperi in 
 parte 11, Repertorii pro biblica et orientali 
 Iltteratura, Lipfiae, 1778, Bvo. Contuli penfa 
 leftionum ecclefiafticarum, in prandio Arme- 
 niaco, libro ecclefiaftico, in ufum chori, ex 
 quo lediones Armeni in choro Ecclefiae ftatis 
 diebus feftivis ante prandium legunt, contenta. 
 Eft hie codex MS. Armeniacus folio maximo 
 immenfa; molis inter codices recentiores Bib- 
 liotheca; Palatini Vindobonenfis num. 3274. 
 Citavi ledliones Jacobi Nifibeni ex iUius Ser- 
 monibus Araieno-Latinis, impreffis Romas 
 1756, fol. Contuli leftiones Cantici Moyfis 
 Dcuteronomii xxxii : quod canticum inveni 
 poft Pfalterium in codicibus Lambecii i. xx. 
 XXIV. XXIII. XIII. XXII. XXI. ct in codice Kol- 
 larii Supplementoriim i. Contuli GloRluia duo, 
 inter codd. MSS. Philologicos Neflelii clxxi. 
 et CLXXViii. in quibus inveni Xi^sig rr,g ^£u- 
 ri^xg uS~o?. Contuli Euchologium Coptico- 
 Arabicum imprcirum Romae 1761, 4^0- et 
 lei^tiones fuis locis notavi. Scripfi Vienna; 
 28 Tuhi. 1796." 
 
 [ 29 ] 
 
 It was dated in laft Account, that ihe 
 collations by Mr. Bolla, which were then 
 produced, came early in the winter j and that, 
 as he had promifed to continue his efforts, as 
 far as health and unavoidable occupations 
 would permit, it might be hoped that fome 
 further advances had been made, and were 
 making, by him. 
 
 Accordingly, there are now brought up the 
 collations of his that follow. 
 
 In the MS. xvt, (and by the new number, 
 cccxi) the book of Pfalms, beginning from 
 Pfalm IX, 16. 
 
 In the MS. xxiv, (and by the new num- 
 ber, cccxxvii) the whole book of Pfalms. 
 
 In the MS. c, the text of Ifaiah, to chap. 
 
 VI, II. 
 
 In the MS. xxiii, the whole text of Ifaiah. 
 
 In the MS. xxiv, the whole text of Ifaiah. 
 
 " Vacat nunc Bibliotheca noftra ufque ad 
 Oitobrim, g[uum Bolla Jeremiam aggredietur. 
 
 Superfunt 
 
[ 30 ] 
 
 Superfunt nunc a^ris tui apud me Floreni 
 80, cum 5y Cruciferis. Neque multo plus 
 jam opus erit, cum Codices noflri jam finem 
 profpedent. Tu tameii quid porro defideras, 
 libere fignifica, nam ego tui caufa cupio om- 
 nia, Scripfi ad diem 7. Id. Septembr. 1796." 
 
 From the above extract of a letter fent me 
 by the Abbe Denis, Imperial Librarian, it 
 may be concluded, that the collation of Jere- 
 miah in the Caefarean MSS. has been going 
 on fmce the month of Odtober lall. 
 
 Since the collation of the Greek Septua- 
 gint-MSS. in the Caefarean Library was draw- 
 ing near to its clofe, it appeared moft for the 
 intereft of this work, to leave entirely to Mr. 
 Bolla the collation of fuch parts of Greek MSS. 
 as yet remain to be collated in this Library, 
 and to turn the whole attention of Mr. Alter 
 to the collation of Verfions, for which he is 
 not only eminently, but perhaps fingly, quali- 
 fied. What is now brought up of his Greek 
 collations, reaches to the end of Deuteronomy. 
 He has done more, even in this way : but the 
 effed of his affiftance, during this year, will 
 chiefly appear in what I fhall have to fay re- 
 fpeding the collation of Verfions. 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 [ 31 ] 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 It was ftated in the fixth Accpunt, that the 
 collation, of Parifian MSS. was at that time 
 proceeding; and that fpflie hope might ftill 
 be entertained that it would not be entirely 
 difcontinued. 
 
 Againft. any interruption of it,. I had ufed 
 my utmpft. endeavours to, g.uard; and reafons 
 were given me a^t tjie, tifpe to exped that 
 none would take place. From a letter, then 
 recently received, the following extradl is 
 made ; 
 
 " Je vous ecris, Monfieur, de la campagne, 
 ou je fuis retire depuis quelques femaines a caufe 
 de ma fante. Je rejois votre lettre aujourd'hui, 
 et je vous reponds a I'inftant pour que vous 
 ne foyez point en peine, en me refervant le 
 plaifir de vous ecrire plus au long a la pre- 
 miere occafion. L'Ami de Paris, qui m'envoje 
 votre lettre, me marque que Porcelli avoit 
 refu votre lettre de. change, et, qu'il m'en re- 
 mit deja une partie. J'efpere de retournir dans 
 peu de temps a Paris i mai? avant cette epoque 
 vos pacquets partiront cpnditipnnes et adrefles, 
 
 comme 
 
 jiir 
 
[ 3^ ] 
 
 comme vous le defirez, dans une caiffe qui eft 
 deftinee pour Porcelli. Ce fera a mon retour 
 a cette ville, que je fongerai aufli a la nouvelle 
 collation des MSS. No. 3 et 6, dont vous me 
 chargez. Je vais les commencer au plutot que 
 je pourrai. 26 Odlobre 1793." 
 
 It lately appeared, however, that foon after 
 that time the Collation was difcontinued. 
 Earneft foUicitation was immediately made 
 that it might be refumed. To that foUicita- 
 tion the following anfwer was returned : 
 
 " Prefle de recommencer vos collations, j'ai 
 cru a-propos de vous expofer les veritables 
 raifons, pour lefquelles je ne I'ai pas fait jufqu'a 
 prefent. Les obftacles, que vous eprouvez de- 
 puis pres de 4 ans a me donner diredlement de 
 vos nouvelles, m'ont fait craindre que vous ne 
 pourrez point me faire pafTer le prix des col- 
 lations futures. A Dieu ne plaife, Monfieur, 
 que je manque de confiance pour vous ; mais 
 circonftances me font une loix de ne point 
 quitter le certain pour I'incertain. Pour re- 
 commencer votre travail, il me faudra quitter 
 cclui qui m'occupe aftuellement, et qui me 
 fournit dequoi pourvolr a mes befoins. Vous 
 fentez trop la jufteiTe de cette rnifon, pour que 
 
 [ 33 ] 
 
 je vous en dife davantage. Ainfi, mon cher 
 Monfieur, fi vous etes moralement sur de pou- 
 ^ voir me remeltre promptement, et fans me 
 faire trop attendre, le prix des collations fu- 
 tures, ayez la complaifance de me le marquer; 
 et auffitot que j'aurai votre reponfe, je re- 
 prendrai vos collations en commenfant par le 
 No. 6. 27 Decembre 1796." 
 
 This letter was anfwered without delay; 
 and the proper fteps have beep taken to give 
 in every refped: the fatisfadlion required. It 
 feems therefore reafonable to hope, that the 
 collation of Parifian MSS. will be refumed, 
 and forwarded without further interruption. 
 
 There are now on their way to me colla- 
 tions, which were made before this interrup- 
 tion took place, of Three Parifian MSS. Of 
 MS. XIV, containing Amos. Michaas. Joel. 
 Abdias. Jonas. Nahum. Habacc. : Sophonias. 
 Aggasus.- Zacharias. Malachias. . Efaias, a 
 Cap. XIX. Jeremias. Baruch. Fragmentum 
 Jeremiae. Jeremia Epiftola, Ezecfeiel. Of 
 MS. XVI, containing Efaias, a Cap, 11, 2. 
 Ezechiel. Of MS. vii, containing Regg. i. 
 11. III. IV. Chronic, i. 11. Efdr. i. h. 
 Nehemias. 
 
 F As 
 
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 As thefe collations are- coming to me by a 
 channel, which I have conftant reafon to de- 
 pend upon, it may be expeded that they will 
 fpeedily and fafely arrive. 
 
 So far as to the collation of Septuagint- 
 MSS. 
 
 In collating Citations of fome Greek Fa- 
 thers, a beginning had been made when the 
 laft Account was delivered. Advances m 
 this refpea have now taken place, of which 
 the particulars are thefe : 
 
 Athanafius Alexandrinus, ex Editione re- 
 petita Bern, de Montfaucon. Patavu, Tomis 
 quatuor, in folio, 1777- 
 
 There are now completely collated The 
 Citations. herein made from the Books of 
 Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 
 Jofliua, Judges. Ruth, Kings, L. ^^J' "^'Z^; 
 Chronicles, I. u. Efdras, Nehemiah Efther 
 Job, The Pfalms, Proverbs, Ecclefiaftes, The 
 Song of Solomon. 
 
 Gregorius 
 
 [ 35 ] 
 
 Gregorius Nyflenus, Ed. Parif. 1638,' 
 folio, Tomis tribus. 
 
 in 
 
 ; There are now completely collated The 
 Citations herein made from all the above 
 books of Scripture. 
 
 Eufebius, Prasp. Evang. etDemoftr. Evang. 
 Edit. Colon, in folio, 1688, quae exprefla eft 
 ex Parifina 1628. 
 
 The Citations herein made from all the 
 above Scriptural Books, are now completely 
 collated. 
 
 Chryfoftom. Ed. Bern, de Montfauc. Pa- 
 rif. 1788, in folio, in Tomis tredecim. 
 
 There are now completely collated The 
 Citations herein made from all the above 
 Books of Scripture. 
 
 Cyrillus Alexandrinus, Ed. Jo. Auberti, 
 Parif. 1638, in folio, Tomis fex. 
 
 The Citations herein made from all the 
 above Scriptural Books, are now completely 
 collated. 
 
 F 2 Ifidori 
 
L 36 1 
 
 Ifidori Pelufiota3 Epiftolas, Ed. Parif. 1638, 
 in folio. 
 
 Such Citations from all the above Books of 
 Scripture, as are contained in thefe Epiftles, 
 are now completely collated. 
 
 So far as to the Collation of Fathers. The 
 advances which have been made fince the de- 
 livery of the laft Account, in collating Ver- 
 fions, are thefe that follow : 
 
 Arabick Version. 
 
 It was ftated in the laft Account, that Ge- 
 nefis had been collated in the two MSS. of 
 the Pentateuch, Laud 146, 147. In the 
 courfe of the prefent year. Exodus has been 
 collated in both the above MSS. 
 
 In the Pentateuch, Laud A. 182, the col- 
 lation had proceeded, as the laft Account 
 ftated, to the end of the Book of Numbers.. 
 In the courfe of the paft year, the Book of 
 Deuteronomy has been collated. 
 
 With the remainder of the collation in the 
 
 two 
 
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 two firft-named MSS. Dr. Schniirrer is now 
 proceeding. Of all that remained to be tran- 
 fcribed in either of &.:m, a tranfcript has been 
 made and fent to him. 
 
 Armenian Version. 
 
 It was ftated in the laft Account, that direc- 
 tions had been given for making a tranfcript 
 of Sergius Malea's " Annotations on the Va- 
 rious Readings of the Holy Bible." With 
 refped: to this matter, I fhall prefent a {hort 
 extradt from a letter fent me by Mr. Alter : 
 " Habeo adhuc coUationem Sergii Maleae apud 
 me : et in Vacationibus Autumnalibus totam, 
 Deo volente, finiam." Aug. 6. 1796. 
 
 This collation, in the Book of Genefis, has 
 been fent me. 
 
 To thefe " Annotations" there ftands the 
 following fliort Preface. 
 
 Fuit anno 1773. 
 
 " Biblia impreffa a Mechitar Abbate con- 
 tuli cum Manufcriptis Biblicis, quae erant in 
 Bibliotheca Sandlorum Jacoborum (i. e. Jacobi 
 majoris et minoris) in Sanda Civitate Jerufa- 
 
 lem. 
 
[ 38 ] 
 
 lem. Et quicquid diflbnum aut abundans aut 
 deficiens iuventuin eft in Manufcriptis, cuna 
 Capite et cum Verfu congregavi ; et poft lec- 
 tionem pofiti funt numeri Armeniaci, qui in- 
 dicant numerum Bibliorum, in quibus ita vi- 
 dimus." 
 
 Ex Hatfchin Sergius Monachus. 
 
 With refpedt to the remainder of this col- 
 lation, I fubjoin an extradl from another letter 
 fent me by Mr. Aher : 
 
 *• Genefis, collata a Sergio Malea Varias 
 habet (ab Editione Armena Veneta) 122. 
 Exodus Varias habet in eadem collatione 58. 
 Proverbia habent Varias apud Sergium Male- 
 am, loi. Sergius Malea non contulit Eccleli- 
 afticum cum Veneta. Sapientia habet Varias 
 in collatione Sergii Malea; c[6." Aug. 13, 
 1796. 
 
 I fliall alfo fubjoin an extradt from a fubfe- 
 quent letter which he fent me. 
 
 " Collationem Sergii Males ex Armeniaco 
 in Gra;cum verfam tradidi Confiliario Denifio 
 19 Odobris hujus annij proxima occafione 
 illam tibi mittet." 5 Novembris, 1796. 
 
 What 
 
 liA:: 
 
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 What Mr. Alter delivered in 0<flober laft 
 to the Abbe Denis, I have not yet received. 
 But it appears that the whole tranfcript of 
 Sergius Malea's MS. had come to his hands, 
 and that he had completed the Tranilation of 
 It from the Armenian, 
 
 In the Cafanatan Library at Rome, there is 
 a MS. of the Armenian Verfion of fome Scrip- 
 tural Books. It is not itfelf of any antient 
 date J but the Original MS. of which it is a 
 copy, was written at Sis, in the year of the 
 Armenians 512, that is, in the year 1087, ac- 
 cording to fome Armenian Writers, or, ac- 
 cording to others, whofe opinion is generally 
 acceded to, in the year 1063, of the Chriftian 
 sra. The Books of Scripture contained in 
 this MS. ftand in the following order : Ge- 
 nefis. Ecclefiafticus, not agreeing at the end 
 with printed Copies, and without the Pro- 
 logue. Proverbs. The Book of Wifdom. Ex- 
 odus. 
 
 From the comparative ftate of Sergius Ma- 
 lea's MSS. and the printed Armenian Text, 
 Jt was to be expedled, that between the print- 
 ed Armenian and this MS. of the Cafanatan 
 Library, there would not be found variations 
 
 fo 
 
 d 
 
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 lb many, that much expence and time would 
 be required for coUeding them. That MS. 
 has therefore been collated with the Armenian 
 Bible, printed at Venice, through the book of 
 Exodus, by Gregorius Baghinanti, a learned 
 Armenian, now refident at Rome. His Ar- 
 menian collation was tranfmitted to Vienna j 
 and a Tranflation of it has been made by Mr. 
 Alter, and by him fent to me. 
 
 If, upon comparing the variations from the 
 printed Armenian, which Sergius Malea's 
 MSS. have in the Book of Exodus, with 
 thofe which the Cafanatan MS. has in that 
 Book from the fame Text, it fliall appear that 
 the Cafanatan MS. is not one of thofe which 
 Sergius Malea collated; then, Gregorius Bag- 
 hinanti will be employed to collate the other 
 Books, which it contains. 
 
 Slavonian Version. 
 
 Refpedling the Oftrogoth and Mofcow E- 
 ditions of this Verfion, there is one point of 
 difference but lately known, upon which 
 much of the critical application of that Ver- 
 fion may perhaps depend. The Oftrogoth 
 Edition is not ufed by the Slavonians in their 
 
 Sacred 
 
 -^^•>" 
 
 I 
 
 [ 41 ] 
 
 Sacred Service,- and it is by the learned among' 
 them umverfally held in difrepute. Their ob- 
 jeftion is, that Bafil Conftantine, Duke of 
 Oflrogoth and Waiwode of Kiow, and Gera- 
 fimus Danielowitfch, by whom, and by adhe- 
 rents of theirs, that Edition 'was conduced, 
 were of the Romifli Church; and corredted 
 the Text of the Verfion from the Vulgate. 
 On the contrary, the Mofcow-Edition is re- 
 ceived by the Slavonians as authentick ; and 
 they ufe it every where in their Publick Wor- 
 ftip. Of the third Edition at Mofcow they 
 particularly afTert, that it was corredted from 
 Greek MSS. Into the ground of thefe opi- 
 nions this is not the place to enquire: but it 
 ^emed at all events requifite that attention 
 Ihould be paid to the third Mofcow-Editioa 
 of this Verfion. It was difficult to procure a 
 copy: but one being at length obtained, it 
 was put into the hands of Mr. Alter, that it 
 might be collated with the Oftrogoth- Edi- 
 tion He has accordingly colledlcd and fent 
 me the Variations between thefe two Editions 
 through nearly the latter half of the Book of 
 Geneiis;^and he is now carrying on the colla- 
 fon of tnem through the Pentateuch, to the 
 end of which his Greek collations have .one 
 In the collation of Jofliua, Judges &c. whfch ii 
 
 '^ now 
 
[ 42 J 
 
 now under his hands, he is in time to join 
 the Variations of this Mofcow-Edition of the 
 Slavonian Verfion with other Variations, and 
 will accordingly do fo. His own words are 
 thefe : " Rogo mihi fignifices, quid cum Ex- 
 odo, Levitico, Numeris, Deuteronomio, facere 
 debeam. Expedlo juiTum tuum, et omnia con- 
 feram. Pro reliquis libris certc, puta Jofua, 
 Judicum, &c. Editionem Mofquenfem confe- 
 ram. Habeo enim nunc earn indulgentia amici 
 mei, quam ante non habui, et jufl'ui tuo ob- 
 temperare ante non potui." Viennas, 2 No- 
 vembris 1796. 
 
 The Impreflioii of Genefis, according to the 
 Specimen annexed to laft Account, has been 
 going on during a part of the year part. It 
 has now reached through one half of that 
 Book ; and the whole of it fliall be printed 
 and publidied as foon as it can be done. 
 
 COL 
 
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 March 28, 1797. 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited be- 
 fore the Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs, 
 and then depofited in the Bodleian Library 
 in feparate volumes in folio, with pafteboard 
 covers, are thefe: 
 
 Vol. LXXXI. Numeri. 
 In MSS. I, HI. of the C^farean Library, 
 Vienna : and in the Slavonian, Ar- 
 menian, and Georgian Verfions : 
 and in a Copto-Arabick Pontificale, 
 printed at Rome. 
 
 Vol. LXXXII. Deuteronomium. 
 
 In MSS. I, III. of the C^farean Library, 
 Vienna : and in the Slavonian, Ar- 
 menian, and Georgian Verfions: 
 and in the Citations of Juftin Mar- 
 tyr : and (as to the Song of Mofes 
 
 inch.xxxii.)inMSS, i.xx. XXIV. 
 XXIII. XII. XXII. XXI. of the Ca?- 
 farean Library : and in MS. i. of 
 Kollar's Supplement to the Cata- 
 logue of that Library. 
 
 G 2 
 
 Vol. 
 
[ 44 ] 
 
 Vol. LXXXIII. Pfalmi. 
 
 In MSS. XVI. XXIV. of the Cafarean Libra- 
 ry, Vienna. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Vol. LXXXIV. Efaias, ad cap. vi. ii. 
 In MS. c. of the Csfarean Library, Vi- 
 
 enna. 
 
 Efaias. 
 In MSS. XXIII. XXIV. of the Same Library. 
 
 Vol, LXXXV. Efdras. Nehemlas. 
 
 In MS. cccxLYi. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Judith. 
 In MSS. I Pii Secundi. x. cccxxx. cccxxxi. 
 cccxL. Mccix. of the Same Li- 
 brary. 
 
 Tobias. 
 In the Six laft mentioned MSS. of the 
 Same Library. 
 
 Efther. 
 In the Six laft mentioned MSS. of the 
 Same Library : and once more in 
 One of them, viz. cccxxx, which 
 contains two different Verfions of 
 this Book. 
 
 Vol. 
 
 [ 45 ] 
 
 Vol. LXXXVL Genefis. Exodus. 
 
 In MS. IX. of the Electoral Library, Mu- 
 nich. 
 
 Job. 
 In Seven MSS. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Jeremias a cap. xxiii, 17. Thren. 
 Baruch. Epiftol. Jerem. 
 In a Hexaplar MS. at Copenhagen. 
 
 Genefis. 
 In the Armenian Verfion, Venice-Edition, 
 Collated with Fifteen Armenian MSS. 
 preferved at Jerufalem. 
 
 Jeremias a cap.xxxii. (In 0'. xxxix.) 
 In the Armenian Verfion. 
 
 Vol. LXXXVIL Job. 
 
 In MS. cxLViii, (olim v) of the Eledoral 
 Library, Munich. 
 
 Job. 
 In MS. XXVII, Plutei v. of the Medicean 
 Library, Florence. 
 
 Efaias, ad cap. xvi, 14. 
 In MS. II, Plutei iv. of the Medicean Li- 
 brary, Florence. 
 
 Efdras. i. 
 In MS. cccxxxiv. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Nehe- 
 
1 
 
 [ 46 ] 
 
 Nehemias. Macchab. i. ii. m. 
 Eflher. Judith. Tobias. 
 In MS. of St. Mark's Library, Florence. 
 
 Ecclefiafticus. 
 In MS. cxxix, (olim cclxxvi) of the 
 - Eledtoral Library, Munich. 
 
 Vol. LXXXVIII. Prophets Minor, xii. 
 Elaias. 
 In MS. VIII, Plutei x. of the Medicean 
 Library. 
 
 Jeremias. Baruch. 
 Lament, Jerem. 
 Epiflola Jerem. in part, 
 la the Same MS. of the Same Library. 
 Epiftola Jerem. in part. 
 Ezechiel. Daniel. 
 In the Same MS. of the Same Library. 
 
 Vol. LXXXIX. Prophetae Minores xii. 
 Efaias, ad cap. iv, i. 
 In MS. IV, Plutei xi. of the Medicean Li- 
 brary, Florence. 
 
 Efaias, cap. iv, i. 
 
 Jeremias. Baruch. Thren. 
 
 Ep. Jerem. Ezechiel, ad cap. xii, 
 
 4.0. Daniel. 
 
 ^ In 
 
 •s 
 
 4- 
 
 [ 47 ] 
 In the Same MS. of the Same Library. 
 
 Vol. XC. Genefis, a cap. xxxiii. 
 Exodus, ad cap. xxiv, 21. 
 In the Slavonian Verlion, Mofcov^^-Edition, 
 Collated with the Oftrogoth-Edi- 
 tion. ■ 
 
 Exodus. : ; . , 
 
 In Two Arabick MSS., Laud. 146. 147. of 
 the Bodleian Library.' 
 , Exodus, ad cap. xxviii, 30. 
 In the Armenian Verfion, Venice-Edition, 
 Collated with an Armenian MS. in 
 the Cafanatan Library, Rome. 
 
 Deuteronom. 
 In the Arabick MS. Laud. 182. of the 
 Bodleian Library. 
 Regg. I. II. III. IV. 
 In MS. II, of the Library of the Monaftery 
 of St. Anne, Augfburg. 
 Ruth. Efaias, in capp. XV. XVI. Pfalmus 
 IX, parte poflrema. Pfalm. cxviii. 
 Pfalmi I. II. III. Pfalmi lxxi, 
 CLi. Syracidis cap. i. Ecclefiaf- 
 tes. Cantici Canticorum cap. i. 
 Habaccuc. Jobi cap. 42. 
 Ill Twelve other MSS. of the Same Library. 
 
 Vol. 
 
[ 48 ] 
 Vol. XCI. Exodus. Levit. Numeri. Deu- 
 
 teron. 
 
 Collated with CITATIONS made by 
 Gregory of Nyffa, Athanalius, Eu- 
 febius, Chryfoftom, Cyril of Alex- 
 andria, Ifidore of Pelufium. 
 
 Vol. XCII. Jofua. Judic. Ruth. Regg. i. 
 II. III. IV. Chronic, i. ii. Efdras. 
 Nehemias. Efther. Job. Proverb. 
 Ecclefiaftes. Cantic. Cantic. 
 Collated with CITATIONS made by 
 Gregory of Nyffa, Athanafius, Eu- 
 febius, Chryfoftom, Cyril of Alex- 
 andria, Ifidore of Pelufium. 
 
 Vol. XCIII. Pfalmi. 
 
 Collated with CITATIONS made by 
 Gregory of Nyffa, Athanafius, Eu- 
 febius, Chryfoftom, Cyril of Alex- 
 andria, Ifidore of Pelufium. 
 
 1 
 
 i 
 
 :[ 49] 
 
 Since the reprefentation, made in page 9, of 
 advances in the Vatican Library, had paffed 
 through the Prefs, further advices have been 
 received from Rome, which enable me to be 
 more particular as to the progrefs of Domini- 
 cus Calabrefi. ■ He has collated during laft 
 year,~ the Book of Job in the Two Vatican 
 MSS. cccxxxvm. dcxcvii. and the Book 
 of Pfalms, in MS. cccxli. The concluding 
 words of his letter are thefe : " Qua mihi 
 fas eft, opus non intermittens, illud fempcr 
 ftudebo, ut tibi obfequium, ac promptam et 
 conftantem tibi inferviendi voluntatem meam, 
 oftendam. Vale. Dabam Romas, pridie No- 
 nas Februarii 1797." 
 
 P. 47, line 3, for cap. xxiv. read cap. xv. 
 
 line 4 from bottom, read Baruch. Sy- 
 
 racidis cap. i. 
 
 H 
 
[ so ] 
 
 Delegates' Room, Marth 28, 1797- 
 
 THE Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day 
 exhibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch 
 Collations as have been made of the Septu - 
 gint MSS in the year laft. paft; together wih 
 Collations of the Ancient Fathers, as- ftated 
 in his Annual Account; and having alfo re- 
 ported that forr^e progrefs has been made^ m 
 printing the work j It is the opinion of this 
 Board, that he has fo far fulfiUed.the condi- 
 tions upon which the Subfcription to the faid 
 Collation was made and renewed and that a 
 competent and laudable progrefs has been 
 
 made in the work. , , , . • 
 
 The Delegates therefore think it incum- 
 bent upon them to recommend the prefent An- 
 nual Account to the confideration of the Pub- 
 lick, hoping that Dr. Holmes will meewnh 
 fuch farther encouragement as will enable him 
 to bring the work to its completion. 
 
 [ 51 ] 
 
 Account of Expences incurred dur- 
 ing the Ninth Year. 
 
 ADDITION made to the price 
 originally fixed for collating the 
 MS. of St. Mark's Library, 
 Florence,' including Gratuities 
 to the Keeper and Attendants 
 of that Library, 16 lo o 
 
 Addition made to the price origi- 
 nally fixed for collating Two 
 MSS. of the Medicean Library, 
 each containing the Text of all 
 the Prophets 16 o o 
 
 Collation of MS. 11, Plutei iv, 
 and MS. xxvii, Plutei v, in 
 the Medicean Library 400 
 
 Collation of MS. vii, Plutei xxx, 
 
 in the Same Library 15 o o 
 
 To Canon Bandini for agency dur- 
 ing one year, from March 1796 
 to March 1797 500 
 
 H 2 To 
 
[ 52 ] 
 
 To Elias Baldius, in further part, 
 for collations in feveral MSS. of 
 the Vatican Library 55 ° ° 
 
 To Dominicus Calabrefi xo o o 
 
 Remainder of the expences attend- 
 ing Profeflbr Matthaei's Journey 
 to Munich, Augfburg &c. 33 o 
 
 For various collations made by 
 
 him during the year 25 o 
 
 For collations, of Ifaiah in Three 
 Vienna-MSS. and of different 
 parts in the Slavonian and Ar- 
 menian Verfions 1 5 ^ ^ 
 For collations of One Book in the 
 Arabick Pentateuch, Laud 182: 
 and of One Book in each of 
 the Two Arabick Pentateuchs, 
 Laud 146. 147. 15 ° ° 
 To Profeflbr Moldenhawer, for the 
 collation of part of Jeremiah, 
 Baruch, Lamentations, and the 
 Epiftle of Jeremiah, in an Hex- 
 aplar MS. of Copenhagen, and 
 on further account for tranf- 
 cripts, with which he agreed 
 to furnifh me, of his collations 
 ofEfcurial-MSS. 10 o 
 
 For 
 
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 For collation of Paris MS. No. vi, 
 
 in advance i j o o 
 
 For Fac-iimile Tranfcript (to be 
 fcnt to Dr. Schnurrer for colla- 
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 part, 2:? 8 pages, in the Arabick 
 Pentateuch, Laud 146. 22 16 O 
 
 For additional Sorts of Letter for 
 
 Printing 4 u 3 
 
 Printing Paper, loB Reams at 
 
 1I7S 141 5 o 
 
 Printing Twenty-five chapters of 
 
 Genefis 39 o 6 
 
 AfUflants in collating, reading, and 
 
 tranfcribing 49 i^ ^ 
 
 Journies and expences in London, 
 
 and other charges incurred in 
 
 profecution of the work 4^ ^9 o 
 
 Poilage at home and abroad, and 
 
 carriage of collation packets, 
 
 &C. 31 JO 4 
 
 Printing this Account, &c. 615 o 
 
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 ^rtWMMM 
 
 THE Tenth Year fince the commence-, 
 ment of this undertaking having now 
 elapfed, it becomes my obhgation to prefent 
 another Account, and to ftate the farther ad- 
 vances, which have been made in the work 
 during the courfe of the part year, and arc 
 now making in it. 
 
 For the Public Patronage and Support, 
 which have been with the greateft kindnefs 
 and hberality continued to me in this purfuit, 
 and for other Services, by which many Indi- 
 vidual Friends of the undertaking have greatly 
 contributed from time to time towards for- 
 warding its progrefs, my moft thankful ac- 
 knowledgments are again duly prefented j and 
 I cannot omit expreffing them more particu- 
 larly to His Grace the Chancellor of the Uni- 
 verfity, and to the Delegates of the Clarendon- 
 Prefs, for allowing to the Impreffion of the 
 B work 
 
*';-;7i,4iSiS 
 
 iiM-'-ir . 
 
 [ 2 ] 
 
 work the honour of their Sandion and Au- 
 thority. 
 
 In the lafl; Account, at p. 42, it was ftated 
 that the impreffion of Genefis had at that 
 time reached through half the Book; and that 
 the whole of it would be printed and pub- 
 lifhed as foon as it could be done. The re- 
 mainder has accordingly been printed in the 
 courfe of the pafl year, and the publication 
 of the Book has lately taken place. 
 
 With refpedl to the intended means of de- 
 fraying the expence that will attend the whole 
 fubfequent impreihon of the work, 1 cannot 
 particularize at prefent. I have ftated my views 
 and hopes on that fubject in a letter of requeft 
 to the Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs : but 
 as that letter was but very lately fubmitted to 
 the Board, it remains as yet under Their con- 
 fideration. 
 
 I proceed to the reprefen ration v/hich is 
 now to be made, and fliall diflribute the fub- 
 ftance of it under diftindt heads of Places and 
 Libraries, as upon fonner occafions. 
 
 FLO- 
 
 [ 3 ] 
 
 
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 FLORENCE. 
 
 Medicean Library. 
 
 It was intimated in the lafl Account, at 
 p. 7, that the MSS. which then remained to 
 be collated in this Library, were three; one, 
 containing the Books of Ecclefiaftes, Wifdom, 
 Ecclefiafticus, and Job ; another, containing 
 the Book of Ifaiah ; another, containing the 
 Books of the Twelve Minor Prophets : and it 
 was added, that the collation of thefe MSS. 
 would be proceeded upon without delay. This 
 was accordingly done ; and the collation has 
 been carried through them during the paft 
 year. In this Library, then, and in the two 
 other Libraries at Florence, the collation has 
 been completed. 
 
 To Canon Bandini this undertaking has 
 ever been, and continues to be, greatly in- 
 debted. In the midft of official labour and 
 attendance, he has given to it fo much of his 
 time, as to have collated, in a period of about 
 eight years, the whole, excepting a fingle 
 Book, of Twenty Eight MSS. Three or four 
 of them are among the largeft any where to 
 B 2 be 
 
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 hg to the 
 
 fuiuid- fie i£, rnoreovji', daiiy contribut- 
 ed vTinccs of the v/oik, by recciv- 
 ini;, making up, and forwarding hither the 
 collation-packets, and by other valuable fer- 
 vices. 
 
 ROME. 
 
 Vatican Library. 
 
 Since the delivery of the laft Account, 
 Elias Baldius has met with no interruption, as 
 far as I 'have yet heard, in carrying on the 
 collation in this Library. The advices, which 
 were laft received from him, were dated De- 
 cember 9th, 1797} and from them it appeared 
 that he had till then regularly proceeded in 
 the collation, and his letter implied that he 
 intended and expeded to do fo flill. 
 
 Dominicus Calabrefi had alfo to the period, 
 at which- the letter from Elias Baldius was 
 dated, given to the collation as much of his 
 time, as his official duties would permit. With 
 refpedt to him, " Calabrefius fuas jam de Pfal- 
 mis et Proverbiis coUationes perfecit," was the 
 
 intelli- 
 
 i. 
 
 intelligence conveyed 
 letter from Rome. 
 
 to me by the above 
 
 During that portion of the laft year, which 
 preceded the date of the letter from Elias Bal- 
 dius, the two Collators had finifhed Six MSS. 
 containing each the Book of Pfalms; and in 
 Five MSS. the Book of Proverbs. Of what 
 has been done fince, no advices have come to 
 me. 
 
 It appeared by very recent advices from Flo- 
 rence, that packets of collations from the Va- 
 tican MSS. had been there received, and lay 
 waiting for a fafe conveyance to this Country. 
 
 Bareerini Library. 
 
 There is in this Library an antient and va- 
 luable MS. containing the Prophetical text, 
 with Hexaplar Readings in the margin. In 
 this MS. all the Books, excepting that of 
 Hofea, were collated, and the collation was 
 brought up, in the Third year of this work. 
 Exception was then made as to Hofea, be- 
 caufe the text of that Prophet had been al- 
 ready publiflied from this very MS. But flill, 
 when it became known to me that a Tran- 
 fcript of the text of Hofea, as it ftands in the 
 
 MS. 
 
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 MS. had been made many years fince by a 
 learned hand, and could be obtained, the proba- 
 bility that it might prove of ufe induced me to 
 procure it. It is accordingly now brought up. 
 
 COPENHAGEN. 
 
 Royal Library. 
 
 It was ftated in the Sixth Account, that 
 there were in this Library Four Septuagint- 
 MSS. Collations have been made and fent 
 me during the paft year, from fome of thefe 
 MSS. Though the intelligence, which ac- 
 companied the collations, has not put it in 
 my power to fpeak pofitively, yet I believe 
 that Three of the above Four MSS. are col- 
 lated. One of them contains the Pfalms — 
 Another, the Books of Proverbs and Job — • 
 Another, the Book of Ifaiah. 
 
 To ProfefTor Moldenhawer my carncft fol-' 
 licitation has been made, to complete, as foon 
 as poffible, the collation of the MSS. under 
 his charge, as far as it remains to be done. 
 
 VIENNA. 
 
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 VIENNA. 
 CESAREAN Library, 
 
 It was ilated in laft Account (fee pages 29, 
 30 that the collation of Jeremiah was next 
 to be proceeded on by Mr. Bolla. Accordingly 
 the collation of that Book, and of the IL 
 mentaticns, has been completed in the courfc 
 of the paft year. He had in the month of 
 July laft aifo completed the collation of 
 Jofhua, and was proceeding to other colla- 
 tions. 
 
 _ With refpe<5l to Mr. Alter it was intimated 
 in the laft Account, that his attention had 
 been, and flill would be for fome time, exclu- 
 lively direded to the collation of Veriions It 
 IS therefore under another head, that the pro- 
 grefs made by Jnm will be flated. But the 
 middle of the laft year had fcarcely paffed, be- 
 fore his collation of the Slavonian Verfion, in 
 the Molcow Edition, had reached as far as Jiis 
 Greek collations had gone, that is, to fome 
 part of the text immediately fubfequent to the 
 Pentateuch. Since that time, therefore, his 
 collations of the Greek text, and of the feve- 
 
 ral 
 
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 ral Verfions, have been carried on together 
 through the book of Joflhua, and through part 
 or the whole of the Book of Judges, 
 
 Mr. Alter's letter, dated July i, 1797, re- 
 prefents the ftate of the cafe, both with rc- 
 fpedl to Mr. BoUa and himfelf. His words 
 are thefe : 
 
 *« Clariffimus Bolla proxime finiet collatio- 
 nem hbri Jofuae, et continue perget. Sic ego 
 liniam hodie collationem ejufdem libri Jofuae, 
 et continenter pergam." 
 
 [ 9 ] 
 
 them, are thefe : In One MS. he has collated 
 Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 
 Jofhua, Judges, Ruth, Kings, i, 11, in, iv — ■ 
 In another MS. he has collated Exodus, Levi- 
 ticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Jofhua, Judges, 
 Ruth, Maccabees, to Ch. x, 16, in the firft 
 Book; and from Ch. v, 10, to Ch. vi, 7, in 
 the fecond Book — In Another MS. he has 
 collated Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deute- 
 ronomy, Jofhua, Judges. The above colla- 
 tions will be forwarded to me by a channel, 
 the fafety of which has been afcertained by 
 frequent experience. 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 It was ftated at page 33 of laft Account, 
 that efforts had been made to put the colla- 
 tion here again in progrefs, and to prevent a 
 future interruption of it. Accordingly, it was 
 refumed about the end of January, 1797 j and 
 from that time to the prefent it has been un- 
 interruptedly purfued, and is now going on.' 
 
 In the courfe of that time the Collator has 
 proceeded to the end of Three MSS. The 
 Books of Scripture which he has collated in 
 
 them. 
 
 It was further flated at p. 33 of laft Ac- 
 count, that, before the interruption of the 
 collation at Paris had taken place, there had 
 been collated there Three MSS. feverally num- 
 bered VII, XIV, XVI, and that thefe colla- 
 tions were on their -way to me. They have 
 fafely come to hand, and are brought up this 
 year. 
 
 There is alfo now brought up the collation 
 of another very valuable Paris-MS. through 
 the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deute- 
 ronomy, accompanied with a tranfcript of the 
 
 c Hexaplar 
 
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 Hexaplar Readings, which were preferved in 
 the margin of the MS. 
 
 So far as to the Collation of Septuagint- 
 MSS. 
 
 The collation of Citations from the Septua- 
 gint-Text, which occur in the works of Gre- 
 gory of Nyfla, Eufebius, Athanafius, Chryfo- 
 flom, Cyril of Alexandria, and Ifidore of Pe- 
 lufium, was brought up in part laft year, as 
 far as the Book of Pfalms. It is now brought 
 up through the fubfequent parts of the Greek 
 Text J namely, The Pfalms. Ifaiah. Jeremiah. 
 Baruch. Lamentations, and Epiftle, of Jere- 
 miah. Ezekiel. Daniel, and the Song of the 
 Three Children. The Twelve Minor Prophets. 
 Efdras. Tobit. Judith. Wifdom of Solomon. 
 Ecclefiafticus. Sufanna. Bel and the Dragon. 
 Maccabees. The collation, then, of the above 
 fix Fathers is completed. 
 
 So far as to the collation of Greek Citations. 
 Advances, which have been made in collating 
 Verfions, are thefe. 
 
 Arabick 
 
 
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 Arabick Version. 
 
 The Two Arabick MSS. Laud, 146, 147, 
 have been under collation in the Books of Le- 
 viticus and Numbers, during this year ; and 
 though no particular advices from Dr. Schnur- 
 rer have come to my own hands, and enabled 
 me to fpeak with precifion, yet fjom the turn 
 of his expreffion in a letter to a friend, I think 
 there is reafon to conclude that his collation of 
 both thofe Pentateuch-Books is nearly com- 
 pleted in the two MSS. 
 
 Armenian Version. 
 
 This Verfion, in the Edition and in MSS. 
 has been collated through the Book of Jo/huaj 
 and the collation of it is going on in the Book 
 of Judges. The printed Armenian alfo has 
 been collated in the Lamentations of Jere- 
 miah. 
 
 Slavonian Version. 
 
 It was ftated, in lafl: Account, that the col- 
 lation of the Oftrogotl^ and Mofcow Editions 
 of this Verfion were under collation through 
 the Four laft Books of the Pentateuch. Ac- 
 cordingly, in the courfe of the year paft they 
 have been collated to the end of Deutero- 
 c 2 nomy j 
 
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 nomy ; and they have been further collated in 
 the Book, of Jofhua, and partly in the Book of 
 Judges. 
 
 Georgian Version. 
 
 This has been collated through the Book 
 of Joftiua, and through part of the Book of 
 Judges. 
 
 COL- 
 
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 March ■^0, 1798. 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited be- 
 fore the Delegates of the Clarendon- Prefs, 
 and then depofited in the Bodl?ian Library, 
 in feparate volumes in folio, with pafteboard 
 covers, are thefe : 
 
 Vol. XCIV. Exodus. Leviticus. 
 
 In a Tranfcript from a MS. of the Colber- 
 tine Library, Paris. 
 Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. 
 In MS. I. of the Coiflinian Library, Paris. 
 
 Vol. XCV. Hexaplar Remains, in the Pen- 
 tateuch. Jofhua. Judges. Ruth. 
 Kings I. 
 In a Tranfcript from the margin of MS. i, 
 of the Coiflinian Library, Paris. 
 Exodus, from chap, ii, i. Leviticus. 
 Numbers. Deuteronomy. 
 In the Slavonian Verfion, Mofcow-Edition. 
 Exod. Levit. Numb. Deut. Jo- 
 fhua. Judges. Ruth. Kings, i, 11, 
 III, IV. Chronicles, i, 11. Efdras, 
 I, II. Tobit. Judith. Eflher. Mac- 
 cab. I, II, III. Job. Pfalnis. Pro- 
 verbs. 
 
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 verbs. Ecclefiaftes. Song of So- 
 lomon. Wifdom. Ifaiah. Jeremi- 
 ah. Lament. Prayer of Jeremiah. 
 Baruch. Ezek. Dan. 12 Minor 
 Prophets. 
 In Fifteen Armenian MSS. collated by 
 Sergius Malea at Jerufalem. 
 
 Vol. XCVI. Kings, i, n, ni, iv. Chroni- 
 cles, I, II. Efdras, i, n. Nehe- 
 miah. 
 In MS. VII, of the Library, Paris. 
 
 Efdras, 11. Tobit. Judith. 
 Wifdom. Son of Sirach. Sufanna. 
 Bel and the Drag. Maccab i. 
 In the Citations of Gregory of NyiTa, Eu- 
 fcbius, Athanafius, Chryfoftom, Cyril of Alex- 
 andria, and Ifidore of Felufiym. 
 
 Vol. XCVII. Job. 
 
 In a MS. of the Royal Library, Copenha- 
 gen ; and 
 In the MS. 338, of the Vatican Library, 
 
 Rome ; and 
 In the MS. 697, of the Same Library. 
 
 Proverbs. 
 In a MS. of the Royal Library, Copenha- 
 gen. 
 
 Proverbs.. 
 
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 Proverbs. \ Ecclefiaftes. ' 
 
 Wifdom« Job. 
 In the MS. xxx, Plutei vii, of the Medl- 
 cean Library. 
 
 Ecclefiaftes. Song of Solomon. 
 In the Citations of Gregory of Nyfta. 
 
 Vol. XCVin. Pfalms. 
 
 In MSS. 1542. 1541. 1927. 1873. 1870. 
 1848. 341. of the Vatican Library; and 
 In a MS. of the Royal Library, Copenha- 
 gen ; and 
 In the Citations of Athanafius, and Chry- 
 foftom. 
 
 Vol. XCIX. Hofea. 
 
 In a Tranfcript of a MS. in the Barberini- 
 Library, Rome. 
 
 Minor Prophets. 
 In the MS. xxii, Plutei xi, of the Medi- 
 
 cean Library ; and 
 In the MS. xiv, of the Library, Paris j and 
 In the Citations of Cyril of Alexandria. 
 
 Vol. C. Ifaiah. 
 ' In a MS. of the Royal Library, Copenha- 
 gen ; and 
 
 In 
 
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 In the Citations of Chryfoftom, vol. 6th. 
 and in the Citations of Cyril of Alexandria, 
 vol. 2. 
 
 Ifaiah, to chap, xxxix. 
 
 In the Citations of Gregory of NyiTa, Eu- 
 febius, Athanafius, Chryfoftom, Cyril of Alex- 
 andria, Ifidore of Pelufium. 
 
 Vol. CI. Ifaiah, from Chap, xxxix. 
 Minor Prophets. 
 In the Citations of Gregory of Nyfla, Eu- 
 febius, Athanafius, Chryfoftom, Cy- 
 ril of Alexandria, Ilidore of Peleu- 
 fium. 
 Lament, of Jeremiah. 
 In the printed Arm. Verfion. 
 
 Vol. CII. Jeremiah, from Ch. vii, i. 
 Baruch, Lament. 
 Epiftle of Jeremiah. 
 In the MS. XIV, of the Library, Paris. 
 Jeremiah. Baruch. 
 Lament. Daniel. 
 Song of the Three Children. 
 In the Citations of Gregory of NyfTa, Eu- 
 febius, Athanafius, Chryfoflom, Cy- 
 ril of Alexandria, Ifidore of Pelu- 
 fium. 
 
 Daniel. 
 
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 Daniel. 
 In the Citations of Chryfoflom, vol. 6. 
 
 Vol. cm. Ifaiah, from Chap, 'ix, 8. 
 Jeremiah, to Chap. vii. 
 
 In the MS. XIV, of the Library, Paris. 
 Jeremiah. 
 
 Lament. , 
 In the MS. XXIII, of the C^farean Libra- 
 ry, Vienna. 
 
 Vol. civ. Ifaiah. Ezekiel. 
 In the MSS. XVI. of the Libraiy. Paris 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 In the MS. XIV, of the fame Library • 
 and ' ' 
 
 In the Citations of Gregory of NyfTa, Eu- 
 febius, Athanafius. Chryfoflom. Cy, 
 ril of Alexandria, Ifidore of Pelu- 
 fium. 
 
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 Delegates' Room, March 30, 1798. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day 
 exhibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch 
 Collations as have been made of the Septua- 
 gint MSS. in the year pad ; together with 
 Collations of the Ancient Fathers, as ftated in 
 his Annual Account ; and having alfo pro- 
 ceeded in printing the work to the end of the 
 Book of Genefis ; it is the opinion of this 
 Board, that he has fo far fulfilled the condi- 
 tions upon which the Subfcription to the faid 
 Collation was made and renewed, and that a 
 competent and laudable progrefs has been 
 made in the work. 
 
 The Delegates therefore think it incum- 
 bent upon them to recommend the prefent 
 Annual Account to the confideration of the 
 Public, hoping that Dr. Holmes will meet 
 with fuch farther encouragement as will ena- 
 ble him to bring the work to its completion. 
 
 [ 19 ] 
 
 Account of Expences incurred 
 during the Tenth Year. 
 
 FOR Collation of Three MSS. in 
 the Medicean Library, and for 
 Agency to Canon Bandini during 
 laft year ^^ 
 
 For Collation of MSS. in the Va- 
 tican Library, and for Tranfcript 
 of Hofea in the Barberini Library, 
 Rome .y 
 
 For Collation of the Coiflinian MS. 
 through feven Books of the Odta- 
 teuch, and for Tranfcript of the 
 Colbertin MS. in the Library, 
 Paris j^ 
 
 For Collation of Three other large 
 
 MSS. in the Library, Paris 98 
 
 For Collation of Greek MSS. and 
 Verfions, in the Caefarean Libra- 
 ry, Vienna ^o 
 For Collation of Proverbs, Ifaiah, 
 Job, in MSS. of the Royal Li- 
 brary, Copenhagen i^ 
 
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 p'or Printing Remainder of Genefis, 
 including 12I los for niaking up 
 Copies thereof, and 4I us for 
 Printing- Paper, omitted in laft 
 year's Charge 85 
 
 For Afliftants in collating, reading, 
 and tranfcribing 47 
 
 For Poftage at home and abroad, 
 carriage of Copies of Genefis 
 and Collation-Packets, Adver- 
 tifements, &c. 35 
 
 For journeys and expences in Lon- 
 don, and other charges incurred 
 in profecution of the work 43 13 
 
 For Printing and making up the 
 Tenth Account 4 
 
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 449 6 4 
 
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 Subscriptions, 
 Firft Year, 
 Second Year, 
 
 Third Year, 
 Fourth Year, 
 Fifth Year, 
 Sixth Year, 
 
 Seventh Year, 
 Eighth Year, 
 
 Ninth Year, 
 
 Tenth Year, 
 
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 745 9 
 
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 Firft Year, — 433 12 
 Second Year, 
 Subfcriptions for 
 2d Year yet 
 unpaid, — 
 Third Year, — 
 Subfcriptions for 
 3d Year yet 
 unpaid, _ .^ .^ 
 Fourth Year, — 405 14 
 Subfcriptions for 
 4th year yet 
 unpaid, — 
 Fifth Year, — 
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 Sth year yet 
 unpaid, — 
 Sixth Year, 
 Subfcriptions for 
 6th year yet 
 unpaid, — 
 Seventh Year, 
 Subfcriptions for 
 7th year yet 
 unpaid, — 
 Eighth Year, 
 Subfcriptions for 
 Sth year yet 
 unpaid — 
 Ninth Year, 
 Subfcriptions for 
 9th year yet 
 unpaid 
 Tenth Year 
 Subfcriptions for 
 loth year yet 
 unpaid — 
 
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 TH E Eleventh year from the commence- 
 ment of the Septuagint-Collation being 
 now elapfed, it is become incumbent upon 
 me to deliver another Account of the work ; 
 and to ftate what has been further done in 
 profecution of it during the courfe of the laft 
 year. 
 
 To Individual-Subfcribers my grateful ac- 
 knowledgments are here renewed, in confe- 
 quence of that Patronage and Jjiberality, for 
 which this undertaking is indebted to them. 
 And among them, I am bound efpecially to 
 mention the Reverend Dr. Smalbroke. To 
 him I muft profefs myfelf under great obli- 
 gation, for his favourable confideration of 
 what has been thus far done in the work; and 
 efpecially for the very generous Contribution, 
 with which, in the courfe of this year, he has 
 been pleafed to promote its future advances. 
 
 To Univerfities, Colleges, and Chapters, in 
 particular, my moft thankful acknowledg- 
 
 p ments 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 ments are now again prefented, for the mu- 
 nificent fupport, which they have moft kindly 
 continued to this undertaking. I would fay 
 more — but Their own Goodnefs, and the 
 neceflities of the work, muft fay it for me, 
 
 It was ftated in thp fecond page of the 
 laft Account, that, with a view of providing 
 for the expence of printing the Collations, I 
 had addrefled to the Delegates of the Claren- 
 don-Prefs a letter of requeft, which was at that 
 time under the confideration of the Board. 
 That letter was to the following effed; : 
 
 " It is the wi(h of Dr. H. to prefent 
 the Univerfity with the copy-right of the 
 work. He therefore now refpedlfully offers 
 it to the Delegates of the Prefs. To leave 
 the Board an indemnification for incurring 
 the expence of paper and printing, and to 
 enable himfelf to difcharge the Publick from 
 further SubfcrJption, are equally objedls with 
 him. 
 
 " The following particulars are therefore 
 fubmitted to the confideration of the Board. 
 
 " The Collation flwll ftand on the obli- 
 gation 
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 §ation originally entered into by Dr. H. 
 He Will, at his own expence, carry on the 
 Impreffion to the end of the Pentateuch -, and 
 when it (hall have proceeded fo far, all copies 
 of the Pentateuch-books, remaining at that 
 time unfold, (hall be the property of the 
 Board ; and what may have been received in 
 the meanwhile for copies fold, he will ac- 
 count for in the ufual way, as for other mo- 
 nies received to the ufe of the work. 
 
 " He will then prefent the Board with the 
 Fount of Letter, which has been bought for 
 printing the work. 
 
 " From the end of the Pentateuch to the 
 end of the whole Impreffion, the expence of 
 paper and printing (hall be defrayed by the 
 Delegates j and the copy-right of the whole 
 fliall be theirs, they allowing Dr. H. the fmal- 
 left number of copies which they ever allowed 
 to any Editor. Dr. H. fuppofing life and health 
 to continue, will prepare the Copy throygh- 
 out, and corredl the prefs,' and pay his own 
 affiftants, whether it fhall pleafc the Board to 
 continue to him their prefent annual allow- 
 
 ance or not. 
 
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 The 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 The Anfwer with which I was favoured is 
 here fubjoined ; 
 
 FilJay, June 8, 1798. 
 
 ** At a . Meeting of the Delegates of the 
 Prefs in the Delegates' Room — 
 
 *' The Propofal of Dr. Holmes, refpeding 
 the future publication of the Collations of 
 the Septuagint, fubmitted to the Board, Feb. 
 2, 1798, having this day been taken into con- 
 fideration ; the Vice-Chancellor was requeu- 
 ed to inform him of the opinion of the Board'; 
 that, with every good vvifli for the advance- 
 ment of a work of fuch magnitude and im- 
 portance, as that in which he is engaged, 
 from a variety of circumftances it does not 
 feem expedient to them that they (hould 
 pledge the Revenues of the Prefs to fo large 
 an expenditure as would be necefiary, in cafe 
 the Propodil of D,r. Holmes was acceded to 
 — at the fame time, that, if Dr. Holmes 
 fhould judge it right to folicit the Subfcrip- 
 tions of the Learned to the publication of the 
 Collations, they are entirely difpofed to give 
 to fuch Subfcription every afiiftance in their 
 power." 
 
 I am 
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 I thank the Board moft fincerely for having 
 Ihewn me, in every inftance, all the favour in 
 their power : and particularly for intending to 
 fupport, with their utmoft afliftance, my ap- 
 plication to the Learned Publick, for the 
 means necefiary towards printing the work. 
 Such an application will be made accordingly, 
 as foon as the Addrefs, proper^ for that pur- 
 pofe, can be drawn out and printed; and 
 while that (hail be lying before the Publick, 
 to await their Confideration and Patronage, I 
 (hall carry on the Impreflion, as far as I can. 
 
 The lafl year has produced difficulties ahoge- 
 ther unprecedented, and of various kinds; and 
 they have greatly affedied the advances of the 
 work. This may be eafily fuppofed, and will 
 indeed appear at every turn in the courfe of the 
 prefent Account. Under the delays, and dif- 
 appointment^, which have of late accrued, 
 it will be fufficient for me '.to fay, ■ that as 
 it never lay within my power to prevent 
 them, I have nothing to do but to furmount 
 them as foon and as far as Lean. 
 
 The reprefentation, upon which I am now 
 to enter, will be diftributed under diftindt 
 heads of Places and Libraries, as on former 
 occafions. 
 
 FLO- 
 
( 6 ) 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
 jVIedicean Library. 
 
 The Collation of all the Septuagint-MSS. 
 prelerved in this Library had been complet- 
 ed, as I intimated in a former Account. 
 But in the courfe of the paft year, an acci- 
 dental circumftance placed another Septua- 
 gint-MS. in the Library of the Grand Duke. 
 Of this the Canon Bandini fent me intelli- 
 gence. Hi^ letter, dated Aug. 25, 1798, 
 did not reach me till feveral months fubfe- 
 quent to its date ; and therefore much time, 
 which might have been fpent to advantage in 
 collating this MS. was unavoidably loft. Of 
 the MS. itfelf, the Canon's letter contains 
 the following reprefentation : 
 
 *f In hac Italica coUacrumanda rerum om- 
 nium perturbatione, hue miflus fuit venum. 
 datus ex Liguria Infignis Codex Biblicus, 
 Membranaceus in folio maximo, Sasculo cir- 
 citer X""" exaratus, quantivis pretii, conftans 
 paginis 768. Praecurrit in primis undecim 
 paginis Arifteae ad Philocratem Hiftoria de 
 ^ Scp- 
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 Septem-Virali Sacrorum Librorum Verlione. 
 Subfequitur accuratiflima totius Pentateuchi 
 recenfio, in qua, non modo fmguli ejufdem 
 Libri referuntur, fed ratio denominatipnum, 
 et fingulorum argumenta, dilucide explicantur 
 et exponuntur. His prasmillis .paginis quin- 
 decim, occurrit Fentateuchus. Adeft in me- 
 dio paginEB Sacer Textus, rotunda, grandiori 
 littera, fubflava, abfque ullis compendiariis 
 notis diligentiflime exaratus. Ampliffimos 
 autem margines undequaque ambit uberrima 
 Graecorum Patrum Catena, feu potius perpe- 
 tuus Commentarius, minutiflimis fed perfjji- 
 cuis litteris, ejufdem aetatis, mire perfcriptus, 
 quorum nomina haec funt j Theodoretus, Ba- 
 filius, Chryfoftomus, Severianus, Acacius Cs- 
 farienlis, Diodorus, Gennadius, Hippolytus, 
 Gregorius Nazianzenus, Apollinaris, Didy- 
 mus, Eufebius, Cyrillus, Origenes, Ephraim, 
 Theophilus, Gregorius Nyflenus, Serapio, 
 Philo Epifcopus, Euftathius Antiochenus, 
 Philo Hebrasus, Jofephus, Ifidorus, Meletius, 
 Aquila, Symmachus, Severu8,^t alii. Accedit 
 pagina 621, purus Textus, el^lem perquam 
 exiguo etnitidiffimocharadVere,fequentiuni Li- 
 brorum ; Jofuae, Judicum, Reg. i. ii.iii. iv. 
 Chronicorum. Efdraj i. 11. in. Efther. Ju- 
 dith. Macchab. i. 11. iii. iv, Explet tan- 
 dem 
 
( 8 .) 
 
 ^em hoc ingens volumen Tobia3 Liber in fiire 
 rnutilus. liic avitem pretioiiiliaius Codex, 
 quum forte fortuna in manus meas incidjfiet, 
 antequam in aliorum notitiam veiiiret, confti- 
 tuto pretio, curavi ftatim, ut ilium Ferdinan- 
 dus III, Magnus Dux nortcr, fibi compararct^ 
 ac fingulari nmnere huic ditiflimgs Medicea? 
 Bibliotheca; donaret. Si vis igitur, tann in- 
 fignis. Codicis, omnibus. adhuc ignoti, coUatio 
 peragetur." 
 
 On receiving this intelligence, I apprizeci 
 the Canon Bandini of my acceding to the 
 price ;he had fixed on for the collation of this 
 MS. and, in compliance with his particular 
 requeft, and under a thankful fenfe of his fer- 
 vices, advanced him a great part of it. I de- 
 fired him to begin with the four lafl Books 
 of the Pentateuch, and to fend me by the 
 Port hi« collations of Exodus and Leviticus, 
 by five or fix chapters at a time, as faft as 
 he could poffibly get them ready. By thefe 
 means I hope that thefe Various Readings 
 may come in time to take their place in the 
 Imprcffion, delayed, as it has been, by the 
 want of fome other materials, which, although 
 I had good reafon to exped their arrival from 
 day to day during more than the whole of the 
 
 paft 
 
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 part year, had not found their way to my 
 hands till the twenty fourth day of March 
 laft. V ' • r 
 
 ROME, 
 
 Vatican Library. 
 
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 It was ftated in the l^ft,. Account, that 
 about Dec. 9, 1797, there hfid been collated 
 jn this Library, The Book of Pfalms, in Six 
 MSS. and The Bogk of Proverbs, in Five. 
 
 The ColUtion proceeded there without in- 
 terruption during fomewhat more than twp 
 months fubfecjuent to that datq j and by Elias 
 Baldius the whole of his time, was devoted to 
 Jtj and by Dominjcus Calabrefi more was 
 done, than his official duty, as Secretary tp 
 Cardinal Zelada, had commonly left him at 
 liberty to do. 
 
 But in the courfe of February I79^fr^ter- 
 ruptions took place, and afFeded both the Va^ 
 tican Collators. Thefe interruptions it may 
 
 Q be 
 
 
 iH 
 
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 be beft to reprefent in words of their own : I 
 fliall therefore fubjoin the following extrads 
 from the letters of both the Vatican Col- 
 lators.- 
 
 Dominicus Calabrefi S. D. 
 •* Dum Romae effem prseterito menfe Fe- 
 bruario, accepi humaniffimas literas tuas, quod 
 et eodem die contigit noftro Johanni Elias Bal- 
 dio, et fimul de eo gratulati fumus. Cumque 
 invenerimus adnexas Syngraphas nummarias, 
 eag exegimus, et contenti fuimus tua erga nos 
 liberalitate. Pod id tempus, fubita evenit iUic 
 rerum omnium mutatio, et Bibliotheca obfig- 
 nata, neque nobis liberum fuit tibi, ut par 
 erat, rcfpondere, et gratias agere. Mihi au- 
 tem ex improvifo necefle fuit fequi Eminen- 
 tiflimum meum Dominum hue Florentiam, 
 ubi adhuc degimus. Jam non efl tempus 
 procedendi in Collattonibus, quia nemini datur 
 acceffus in Bibliothecam, de quo ingemif- 
 cimus, prasfertim Baldius ipfe, et ego. Hie, 
 ut feribit, quam primum tuto poterit, mittet 
 ad me Collationes, quas jam perfedas.in 
 promptu habet, et ego ipfas una cum caeteris 
 meis, quas mecum attuli.a me confedas, fi- 
 mul ac pofteriorem ex origlnali tranfcripfero, 
 Eruditiffimo noftro Canonico Bandinio tra- 
 
 dani, 
 
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 MmJ. 
 
 ( ^ " ) 
 
 dam, ut eas omnes ad te tranfmitti curet. Si 
 Romam rediero, quod opto, et faeultas nobis 
 fada fuerit munus noftrum iterum refumendi, 
 ne dubites fore, ut lubentiflimo animo tibi de- 
 fervire pergamus. Hoe mihi veriffime augu- 
 ror J atque interim precor Deum Opt. Max. 
 ut, aeque ac nos, te fofpitem incolumemque 
 diutiffime fervet. Vale ! Dabam Florentis, 
 die 20 Martii 1798." w- 
 
 J. E, B: 
 
 *• Acceptis tuis gratiffimis literis, poft tres 
 et amplius menfes in iftis difficillimis tempo- 
 ribus. Codices tandem conferre mihi permif- 
 fum eft J et ficut ex iifdem literis te Prophe- 
 tarum collationes cupere intellexi, ftatim opus 
 in Ifaiam aggre/Tus fum, et primum collatio- 
 nem cum Codice olim Bafiliani Monafterii in- 
 choavi. Ego juxta Catalogum Editionis Ro- 
 mans Libros Sapientiales poft Pfalmorum Li- 
 brum contuleram, et duo Sapientije Sirach 
 Codices mihi fuperfunt. Calabrefius Floren- 
 tise moratDr; et quando -Romam redibit, Deus 
 fcit. Collationes ex Codice 1209 non amplius 
 fperandffi funt, quia Codex ifte e Roma in 
 Galliam nuper ablatus eft. 
 
 " Gratias agere non defino Divinje Proyi- 
 <^ 2 dentiae, 
 
( 12 ) 
 
 dentijE, qu£ te inihi opem ferre in tot anguf- 
 tiis elegit ; fi enim ipfe fuae vindidae minif- 
 tros poftea comburit, te fuae beneficentiae mi- 
 niftrum poftea bcatum faciet. Mei nmneris 
 Aipendiuin, ac meae domus cenfus arnifi j et 
 iiifi tu per Syfigrapham tunc me adjuviffes, 
 ftipem rogare, ut vivere, contigifTet. Tibi 
 ergo me in perpetuum devinxeris. Vale. Da- 
 bam Romas i8 Maii 1798-" 
 
 J. E. B. 
 Petenti modo Florentiam cuidam Amico 
 tradidi omnes CoUationes, quae apud me e- 
 rant, ut ferret CI. Bandinio, communi Amico, 
 ct advenientibus iliic tuis Tabellariis, fecure 
 in tuas manus idx pervenire pofTent. CoUa- 
 tiones funt Librorum Sapientialium, ut in al- 
 tera mea litera ad te jam fcripfi — AccefTere 
 nunc alias Ifaiae cum duobus Codicibus, quo- 
 rum unus habet obelos et afterifcos, alter af- 
 terifcos tantum. Si ifte meus Amicus noH 
 coadus efiet tam' cito e Roma difcedere, ter- 
 tium quoque addidificm. Codices pro tua 
 opera non fuerunt ablati prater unum 1209, 
 ut in alia mea litera te monui. Ne mireris fi 
 tam parvum pro te hac tempeftate laboravi. 
 Poft captam urbem primum contigit mihi dif- 
 ponere pro Gallis omnia antiqua numifmata 
 
 Bib- 
 
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 Bibliothec^, ab infciis olim confufa, ut abfcon- 
 derent in cucullis involuta : deinde totam 
 evolvere Vaticanam Bibliothecam, ut ratio- 
 nem de ornnibus redderet Jofeph Antonius 
 Reggius, olim Cuftios (qui nuper ex hoc mu- 
 nere expulfus eft) et nondumicompletum eft. 
 Spero tamen poft aliquot dies quiete me fore 
 tuum opus profecuturum. Durum eft max- 
 imis laborare calamitatibus, fed fiat voluntas 
 Dei. Vale, et me ama." Dabam Romas 
 9"^ Augufti 1798. 
 
 Dominicus Calabrefi S. D. 
 Florentias dum agebam elapfo menfe Sep- 
 tembri. Lex ibi nuntiata eft, Romae lata, ex 
 qua omnes, prceter expulfos, Reipublicas Ro- 
 manas fubjedtidomum fuam intra menfem re- 
 dire cogebantur, nifi ■ perpetuo exulare atquc 
 omnia amittere vellent, quas poflidebant. Ex- 
 poftulavi primum ut a lege folverer, ne me- 
 um defererem Eminentiffimum ; fed cum ni- 
 hil obtinendum, Romam Idibus Odobris de- 
 veni. Nunc ego, non fine mea voluptate, 
 quanquam non fine maximo incommodo ob 
 rcrum indigentiam qua? ad cibum et vidum 
 pertinent, Roms potius quam in patria mea, 
 non procul hinc diftante, moror, quod ad Bib- 
 liothecam Vaticanam pene quotidie accedo— 
 
 atquc 
 
 s 
 
 n 
 
( 14 ) 
 
 atque.ibi confuetas Sacrorum Codicum per- 
 ago collationes. Quod tibi teftimonio fit be- 
 nevolentia3 mea3 erga te, et finceri mei defi- 
 derii tibi deferviendi. Romas, Januarii menfis 
 25'^ die, 1799." 
 
 J. E. B. 
 " IfaiiE collationes, de quibus te monui in 
 meis literis datis ineunte Januario proxime 
 piffiterito, apud me adhuc funt, cum expec- 
 tem donee compleat unum Codicem Calabre- 
 fius, qui habet Tabellarium Hifpanum iidum 
 Florentiam adeuntem, et iftas fimul ad CI. 
 Bandinium conferet. Praster illos Codices a 
 me in praefata EpiHiola enunciatos, addidi col- 
 lationem textus Ifaiae apud Bafilium Magnum 
 ex duobus Codicibas, fed didlus textus in am- 
 bobus ufque ad Caput 16. in uno tamen ex 
 his fequitur etiam Ifaiae textus abfque ulla ex- 
 pofitione a cap. 17. ufque ad finem, in quo 
 nonnulla a Bos non obfervata reperi, et fatis 
 de codicibus Ifaix, quia alii in dida Biblioth. 
 funt recentes. Jeremiam nunc confero. 
 
 " Deus Optimus Maximus retribuat tibi 
 propter tuam in me miferationem innumera 
 bona in hoc feculo, et in futuro vitam aeter- 
 ham. Vale, Prasftantiflime Vir, et me ama, 
 
 tuifque 
 
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 ( 15 ) 
 
 tuifque favoribus me profequere, atque iterum 
 Vale. Dabarti Romje 25 Februarii 1799." 
 
 Of what has been done in the Vatican Li- 
 brary fince the lafl: Account, the reprefen- 
 tation is as follows : 
 
 Dominicus Calabrefi has collated, The 
 Pfalms, in Four MSS. The Proverbs, in One 
 MS. 
 
 This carries up the matter, as to him, only 
 to the middle of Odober lail. At that time, 
 as appears by his letter, he returned to Rome^ 
 and remained there with no engagement on 
 his hands, but that of collating for this work. 
 As to the further progrefs he may have made 
 during the fubfequent five months, I cannot 
 particularly fpeak.- But it appears from the 
 laft letter of Elias Baldius, that he has made 
 fome further collation. 
 
 Elias Baldius has collated fince the laft Ac- 
 count, 
 
 The Book of Job, in One MS. 
 The Pfalms, in One MS. 
 Ecclefiaftes, in Four MSS. 
 
 Cantic. 
 
 
 
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 Cantic. Cantic. in Three MSS. 
 Sapient. Salom. in Three MSS. 
 Ecclus; in Three MSS. 
 Ifaiah, in Eight MSS. or Ten. 
 
 Far the greateft part of the above Colla-' 
 tions was at Florence on Aug. 25th laftj 
 but, fuch are now the difficuhies of foreign 
 communication, either no fafe conveyance has 
 been found for them, or they are yet on their 
 way to this country. 
 
 ( ^7 ) 
 five ex Codicibus Efcurialenfibus five ex Haf- 
 nienfibus enotatas, adhuc defideras, mittam 
 abfque mora, eoque modo de quo me certio- 
 rern fecifti. Codicis mei Hexaplaris collatio 
 dudum eft ad finem iv Prophetarum perdufta. 
 'Vale,harumque literarum brevitatem, ad quam 
 invitum cogit occupationum moles, hac qui- 
 dem vice $qui bonique confule. Scripfi Haf- 
 nis, 29 Dec. 1798." 
 
 CfpPENHAGEN. 
 
 Under this article the only intelligence I 
 have to give, is contained in a letter but 
 very lately received from Profeflbr Molden- 
 hawer. 
 
 " Variantes Ledliones ad Pentateuchum, 
 prster eas, quas fide integerrima mifi, apud 
 me nuUas exftare, monitu tuo excitatus fandte 
 profiteor. Quas ad reliquos Bibliorum libros, 
 
 five 
 
 VIENNA. 
 CESAREAN Library. 
 
 It was ftated in the laft Account, that Mr. 
 Bolla had collated the Book of Jofhua in fuch 
 MSS. of this Library as contained it. He 
 has fince collated the Book of Judges : and 
 thefe collations are now brought up. As to 
 his further progrefs no later intelligence has 
 been received, than by letter, dated Nov. 14, 
 1798. He was at that time entering upon 
 the fecond Book of Kings. 
 
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 Profeffpr Alter has regularly proceeded in 
 his collations for the work. What he has 
 done will be fpecified under the article of 
 Vcrfions, to which his attention has during 
 the year been exclufively applied. 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 During the year paft the Collation has been 
 carried on here without interruption: and fincc 
 the delivery of the laft Account, MS. xiii, 
 and One other, have been collated. 
 
 There have alfo been collated, the Books 
 of Exodus and Leviticus, in Tvi'o MSS. of 
 the Coidinian Library, feverally marked ii, 
 III. The fubfequent Books in thefe Two 
 MSS. are now under collation. 
 
 The collations of MS. v, vi, of which 
 mention was formerly made, have been re- 
 ceived in the courfe of the laft fortnight, and 
 are now brought up. 
 
 Thus far as to the collation of Septuagint- 
 
 MSS. 
 
 ( 19 ) 
 
 MSS. I proceed, to fliew the progrefs made 
 refpedling Verfions. 
 
 Arabick Version. 
 
 It was flated in laft Account that there 
 appeared fome reafon to conclude, that the 
 Books of Leviticus and Nupbers had been 
 nearly, if not entirely, completed in the Two 
 Arabick MSS. Laud, 146, 147. That was 
 very nearly the cafe ; and the collation of thefe 
 two Books in both MSS. has been complet- 
 ed in the courfe of the year. 
 
 Profeffor Schnurrer will employ in collat- 
 ing Deuteronomy, as much of his time as he 
 has at command. 
 
 Syriack Version. 
 
 Bar-Hebraeus, in his Horreum Myfterio- 
 rum, occafionally cites this Verfion. Thofe 
 parts, which he produces from the Book of 
 Exodus, have been very obligingly collated 
 for my ufe, by Mr. ProfefTor Ford, Principal 
 of Magdalen-Hall. 
 
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 Arme- 
 
 
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 Armenian, Slavonian, Georgian, 
 Bohemian, Versions. 
 
 It was ftated in the laft Account that Pro- 
 feflbr Alter had nearly or quite finifhed his 
 collation of the Book of Jofhua, in the Ar- 
 menian, Slavonian, and Georgian, Verfions. 
 His collations of that Book have fince ar- 
 rived, and are now brought up. 
 
 Every flep of advance made in a collation, 
 wherein different Verfions are at once en- 
 gaged, muft unavoidably be attended with 
 much expence both of time and labour. Of 
 this matter a more intelligible reprefentation 
 cannot be made, than in ProfeflbrAlter's words. 
 I fhall therefore fubjoin his own fhort enu- 
 meration of the copies. Printed and MSS. 
 which he had ufed in his collation of Jofhua. 
 
 " Contuli, I. Armeniacam Verfionem, in 
 Codice MS. numero 3270, contentam. 11. 
 Armeniacam Verfionem Editionis Venetas, 
 1733. III. Lediones Ecclefiafticas, quae ha- 
 bentur in Codice Armeniaco, numero 3274. 
 IV. Locos Armeniacos, qui in Sermonibus 
 Armeno-Latinis Jacobi Nifibenfis, Editionis 
 Romanae 1750, citantur. v. Verfionem Geor- 
 
 gianam 
 
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 gianam, Editionis Mofquenfis 1743, vr. Ver- 
 fionem Slavonicam, Editionis Oftrogienfis 
 1 58 1. VII. Verfionem Slavonicam corredlam, 
 Editionis Mofquenfis 1759. , Contuli quo- 
 que Ledtiones quafdam Bohemicas in Bib- 
 liis Bohemicis MSS. Strackianis, quod eft 
 cimelium Bibliothecs Palatini : et in Bibliis 
 Bohemicis, impreffis Pragae 1549, apud Me- 
 lantrichium." 
 
 With refped to his fubfequent progrefs. 
 I fhall reprefent that alfo in words of his 
 own : " Clariffimus Denilius accepit tuas in 
 £Bftate literas. Ego illi tradidi in Odobri Li- 
 brum Ruth, et nunc laboro in primo LibYo 
 Regum. Novembr. 14, 1798." 
 
 So far as to the collation of Septuagint- 
 MSS. and Verfions. 
 
 To the further Impreflion of the work 
 during this year, infuperable obftacles have 
 occurred, in confequence of the difficulties 
 and delays, which have for a length of time 
 attended all foreign communication. One or 
 
 two 
 
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 two collations, \yithout which Exodus could 
 not be printed, did not, as I obferved before, 
 come to hand till very lately, although their 
 arrival was an objed: of continual expectation 
 for more than a year paft. Of this unavoid- 
 able delay it is fome alleviation, that now the 
 collations of the Ligurian MS. newly difco- 
 vered at Florence, may be joined with the 
 reft in the printed copy of Exodus. The firft 
 part of thofe collations may be expedled every 
 day by the Poft ; and when it comes the Im- 
 preffion fhall immediately go on. From the 
 ftate of preparation for printing, in which the 
 copy of Exodus is this day produced, it will, 
 I truft, appear that the Impreffion of that 
 Book might have been by this time far ad- 
 vanced, if caufes, altogether independent of 
 any attention and labour on my part, had not 
 impeded it. 
 
 COL. 
 
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 Aprils, 1799. 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited before 
 the Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs, and 
 then depofited in the Bodleian Library, in fe- 
 parate volumes in folio, with pafteboard co- 
 vers, are thefe : 
 
 Vol. CV. Exodus. 
 
 In MSS. V, VI, of the Paris-Library j 
 
 and in MS. 
 Library. 
 
 II, of the Coiflinian 
 
 Vol. CVI. Exodus. 
 
 In MS. III. of the Coiflinian Library. 
 
 Leviticus. 
 
 Numbers, to chap, xxvi, 8. 
 In MS. V. of the Paris Library. 
 
 Leviticus. 
 
 Numbers, to chap, iii, 15. 
 In MS. VI. of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. CVJI. Exodus, from chap, xxxiv, 20. 
 Leviticus, to chap. xx. 37. 
 In the Arabick MSS. Laud 146, i^^. of 
 the Bodleian Library. 
 Numbers, from chap, iii, 15. 
 Deuteronomy. 
 
 Jofhua. 
 
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 Jofhua. 
 
 Judges. 
 In MS. vr, of the Paris-Library. 
 
 Job. 
 In MS. ccxxxi of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. CVIII. Jofliua. 
 Judges. 
 InMSS. XXIII, LVii, of the Cffifarean Li- 
 brary. 
 
 Vol. CIX. Jofhua. 
 
 In the Armenian, Georgian, Slavonian, 
 Bohemian, Verfions. 
 
 Vol. ex. Proverbs. 
 
 In MSS. Lvi, cccxxxvii Palatine, 
 cccxxxvii Vatican, cccxxxvi. 
 MDCccii. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 The Pfalms. 
 In MSS. ccxLvii. XL. cccxcviii. 
 
 CCCLXXXI. MMCI. CCXCIV. MMLVII. 
 
 of the Same Library. 
 
 The (late in which the copy of Exodus for 
 printing was this day exhibited, is as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 From 
 
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 From chap, i, to chap, xx inclufive, tran- 
 fcribed for the Prefs. 
 
 From thence to the end of the Book, the 
 whole nearly ready for tranfcribing ; and par- 
 ticularly fo from chap, xxi, to chap, xxx in- 
 clufive. 
 
 The 
 
 
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 Delegates' Room, April j, 1 799. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day ex- 
 hibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch 
 collations as have been made of the Septua- 
 gint-MSS. in the year laft part:, as flated in 
 his Annual Account ; and having alfo exhi- 
 bited the copy of part of the Book of Exodus 
 prepared for the Prefs, as ftated in the fame; 
 it is the opinion of this Board, that he has fo 
 far fulfilled the conditions upon which the 
 Subfcription to the faid Collation was made 
 and renewed, and that a competent and laud- 
 able progrefs has been made in the work. 
 
 The Delegates therefore think it incum- 
 bent upon them to recommend the prefent 
 Annual Account to the confideration of the 
 Public, hoping that Dr, Holmes will meet 
 with fuch farther encouragement as will en- 
 able him to bring the work to its comple- 
 tion. 
 
 % 
 
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 Account of Expences incurred during the 
 Eleventh Year. 
 
 Mr. Bandini for Agency during laft 
 
 y^^' 500 
 
 Collation (in part) of the Ligurian 
 MS. newly difcovered at Flo- 
 .'■^"ce 50 o o 
 
 Elias Baldius, for Collations in the 
 
 Vatican Library 40 o o 
 
 D. Calabrefi for collations in the 
 
 Same Library or q o 
 
 Profeflbr Alter, and Mr. BoUa, for 
 collations in the Casfarean Li- 
 brary, Vienna 24 o o 
 
 The Collator in the Paris-Library 60 o o 
 
 Profeflbr Schnurrer, for collation of 
 Leviticus, and Numbers, in the 
 Arabick MSS. Laud, 146, 147 20 o o 
 
 Alfiftant in collating, reading, and 
 
 tranfcribing 30^00 
 
 Poflage, at home and abroad, par- 
 cels, &C. 17 J. 10 
 
 E 5 Jour- 
 
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 Journeys, and expences in London, 
 and other charges incurred in the ' 
 profecution of the work 37 
 
 Printing, and making up, the Ele- 
 venth Account 5 
 
 8 8 
 
 II 4 
 
 3H 
 
 12 10 
 
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 Subscriptions. 
 Firft Year, 442 o 
 
 Second Year, 576 9 
 
 Third Year, 634 3 
 
 Fourth Year, 6g6 2 
 
 Fifth Year, 696 2 
 
 Sixth Year, 713 15 
 
 Seventh Year, 686 13 
 
 Eighth Year, 673 o 
 
 Ninth Year, 461 8 
 
 Tenth Year, 376 18 
 
 By Drawback on 
 
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 Eleventh Year 342 b 
 
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 Second Year, 745 9 
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 Third Year, — 620 4 
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 3d year yet 
 
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 William Burgh, Efq. 
 
 Dr. Charles Burney, Greenwich 
 
 Rev. Mr. Cracherode 
 
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 THE Twelfth Year fince the commence- 
 ment of the Septuagint- Collation has 
 now elapfed.. It is therefore become incum- 
 bent upon me to deliver another Account of 
 the undertaking, that the further advances 
 made in it during the paft year, and the pre- 
 fent ftate and circumftances of it, may be 
 made known. 
 
 To the Public I repeat my moft thankful 
 acknowledgments, for having thus continued 
 to me from year to year its generous Sub- 
 fcription ; and have great pleafure in faying 
 that the Collation has now advanced fo near 
 its conclufion, that it may be poffiblc for me 
 to make my own way to its termination, 
 without any farther contribution of the Pub- 
 lic to it. The Subfcription thereto is ac- 
 cordingly clofed. 
 
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 To ProfefTor Ford, Principal of Magdalen 
 Hall, I have been in the courfe of the year 
 paft much indebted, for his favour and affift- 
 ance in collating the Syriac Citations of Bar- 
 Hebraeus. By Profeflbr White I have alfo 
 been greatly obliged for feveral valuable fer- 
 vices refpedting fome Bodleian Manufcripts 
 of the Arabic Verfion. 
 
 The particulars of the reprefentation, now 
 to be made, vs^ill be ftated under diftindl heads 
 of Places and Libraries, as on former occa- 
 fions. 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 
 Medicean Library. 
 
 In the laft Account it was ftated, that a 
 valuable MS. from Liguria, containing twen- 
 ty three books of Scripture, had been recently 
 depofited in this Library ; and that an agree- 
 ment had been made with Canon Bandini for 
 collating it. Accordingly, his collations of it 
 through the books of Exodus, Leviticus, 
 Numbers, and Deuteronomy, have in the 
 
 courfe 
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 courfe of the paft year reached my hands. 
 Since this packet was put on its way to me, 
 a period of confiderable length has elapfedj 
 and though the want of .further advices has 
 put it out of my power to ftate the particu- 
 lars of the Canon's fubfequent progrefs, yet 
 there can be no doubt but that feveral other 
 books have been by this time collated. 
 
 ROME. 
 
 In the laft Account it was ftated, that 
 Dominicus Calabrefi had returned to Rome, 
 aod would ftay there, with no engagement 
 on his hands but that of carrying on the Va- 
 tican Collations. From him therefore greater 
 advances in collating were of courfe expefted 
 during the paft year, than it had been in his 
 power to make during any preceding year. 
 That expedlation has not failed as to him. 
 But to that affiftance, which it was hoped that 
 Elias Baldius would continue to afford me, 
 death has put an end. A letter from Canon 
 Bandini contains the following words ; 
 
 •* Monuit me Dominicus Calabrefius lit- 
 B 2 teris 
 
 
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 teris fuis Julii vicefima die datis, die tredcci- 
 ma ejufdem menfis, languore confedtum, ad 
 fuperos evolaffe Eliam, Baldium. Hoc me 
 maxime perturbavit. Adibat ille, licet aegro- 
 tans, et omnibus reditubus Vaticanae Biblio- 
 thecse cuftodibus aflignatis privatus, Vatica- 
 nam Bibliothecam j immo tribus ante obitum 
 diebus in excipiendis Biblicis coUationibus 
 operam fuam pro Te de more praeftiterat. 
 Variorum Codicum Biblicas collationes reli- 
 quit, partim numeris omnibus abfolutas, par- 
 tim elegantiori charadlere defcribendas, quas 
 filius fuperftes perficere poterit. Numerofam 
 prolem reliquit, omni prorfus humano fubfidio 
 deftitutam ; quare miferatione motus curavi, 
 ut aliquid pecunis hasredibus optimi viri per- 
 folvatur, pro laboribus jam adlis, et in pofte- 
 rum peragendis." 'Florentl^ Septembris die 
 vicefima prima, 1799- 
 
 On receiving this intelligence, I imme- 
 diately fent the family of Elias Baldius a pe- 
 cuniary remittance on his account j and hav- 
 ing previoufly know^n that Jofeph Baldius had 
 ufually affifted his father in collating, I re- 
 quefted Dominicus Calabrefi to engage him 
 to proceed with the Collation inftead of his 
 father. Not many days after my own letter 
 
 had 
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 had been forwarded, the following one from 
 Jofeph Baldius came to my hands. 
 
 *• Gratiffimas humanitatis Tax literas, Pra;- 
 ftantiflime Vir, Patri meo miflas die 22 Junii 
 ^nudius tertius recepi una cum Syngrapha 
 nummaria decem lib. fterl. Puto perlatum 
 ad te eflc acerbum nuncium mortis ejus. Sci- 
 tQ ex quo Galli Urbem invafere ftatim ipfe eft 
 asgritudine affedus, videns praetiofa Vaticanae 
 BibliothecjB monumenta, quas ejus animus 
 erant, efle ablata, perditiflimos homines ibi 
 praspofitos, ipfum vero tot, tantifque labori- 
 bus per annos fex, et quinquaginta in fuo mu- 
 nere pofitis deftitutum, pras fame cmori, et fi 
 quid in fupelleftili habebat alienare coadlum. 
 Haec animo volvens magis angebatur, ae in 
 dies ingravefcente morbo fupremum diem 
 claufit Idibus Juliis. Memoria dulciflimi Pa- 
 rentis quoties mihi fe offert a lacrymis conti- 
 nere non valeo. Sed quid' ego fuperftes.^ 
 Nunc alendas familiae onus meum eft. Sorores 
 quatuor habeo, qu£e jam astate proceflerunt ; 
 fpes non eft eas collocandi in alias familias, 
 Fratrem juniorem, et Matrem fexagenariam. 
 Quid agam afperis hifce temporibus ? Fortu- 
 nae noftrae exigua:, quas nee pro mea quideni 
 alimonia fufficiunt. Patrimonium nobis re^ 
 
 lidtum 
 
( ^ .) 
 
 lidlum eft quidam cenfus cum Camera, et ex 
 eo affis exigi nequit. Additur etiam quod 
 neque adeft Summus Pontifex qui Patris con- 
 fideratione aliquod ftlpendium nobis conferret. 
 Sed jam ad nos. 
 
 In promptu habeo Jeremiae collationes per- 
 adas a Patre Codd. Vatt. 1794 et 106. Pa- 
 triis veftigiis inhaerens quotidie in Bibliotheca 
 aliorum Codd. collationibus operam do. Com- 
 plevi Collat. Codd. 347. 556.1154. quas cum 
 tranfcripfero ad Te mittam. Ezechielem nunc 
 confcro. 
 
 Pro Syngrapha grates innumeras agOj ac te ob- 
 fecrOjVir Praeftantiflime, fi nunc colligendis ra- 
 tionibus deprehenderis labores Patris mei om- 
 nino non efle fatisfadtos, curse Tibi fit ejus fa- 
 milia, quas Te femper novit Mecasnatem be- 
 neficum : neque nobis deeris in maximis cala- 
 mitatibus. Id fpero. B'^pua-o. 
 
 Deum rogo ut iftae noftrse literae ad te tuto 
 perveniant. 
 
 Dabam Romas nonis Odlobris 1799." 
 
 This letter was anfwered without delay. 
 Another pecuniary remittance was made, and 
 Jofeph Baldius was requefted to profecute the 
 Collation. 
 
 With 
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 With refpedt tQ Dominicus Calabrefi, I fub- 
 mit the following letter : 
 
 *' Roberto ^loLMES in Oxonienfi Academia 
 , Dominicus Calabrefi $. D- 
 
 Humaniffimam epiftolam tuam die 23 
 prjeteriti Junii. datam una cum Syngrapha 
 nummaria decern librarum fterlingarum acce- 
 pi die 5 Odtobris, tertio ab abfceiTu Gallo- 
 rum, qui evenit ' port adventum Neapolitano- 
 rum in urbem, aliorumque fociorum in fub- 
 urbia. Ante hoc tempus nullee a menfe Ju- 
 nio reddebantur litters. Epiftolam autem, 
 quam eodem tempore dedifti Jo. Elite Baldi, 
 pariter cum Syngrapha nummaria decem 
 librarum fterlingarum, accepit Jofeph ipfius 
 filius, qui erat una mecum in Bibliotheca 
 Vaticana, incumbens in confuetas collationes. 
 Casterum jam profedo cognoveris mortem 
 praefati amiciflimi mei Jo. Elias Baldi, quam 
 Tibi ut fignificaret Canonicus Bandinius nof- 
 ter jam inde a prajterito menfe Julio, operam 
 dedi, rogans eundem, ut fimul Te admoneret, 
 non folum me, fed etiam Jofephum ejus fi- 
 lium ferio et continuo incumbere operi a Te 
 commiflb coUationum. 
 
 Has 
 
 J 
 
"^ 
 
 ( 8 ) 
 
 Has literas dediflem Tibi multos dies ante, 
 fed admonitus, nondum liberum efle ac tutum 
 earundem curfum, diftuli ad banc diem. In- 
 terim vale; vir optime, meque Tibi devotifli- 
 mum, atque amiciffimum femper fore exifti- 
 ma. Iterum vale. Dab. Romae die ix No- 
 vembris 1799." 
 
 The Collations of Elias Baldius and Cala- 
 brefi, which are now exhibited, do not carry 
 the matter, with refpedt either to the one or 
 the other of them, entirely up to the end of 
 March laft. They had done more at that 
 time, than has been yet received. They had 
 alfo continued the Collation from the end of 
 March laft, to July loth, three days before 
 the death of Elias Baldius j and accordingly. 
 Canon Bandini, in confequence of information 
 fent him by Calabrefi, mentions collations 
 which Elias Baldius had left behind him. From 
 July laft to the prefent time, during a period 
 of eight months, Calabrefi and Jofeph Baldius 
 have carried on the Collation, Of the whole, 
 then, that has been done in the Vatican Li- 
 brary by two Collators during the twelve laft 
 months, it is not, as yet, in my power to 
 make any produdion. None of it had reach- 
 ed the hands of Canon Bandini in September 
 
 laft. 
 
 A 
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 when his laft packet to me was forward- 
 ed from Florence. AH that can be ftated, is 
 fuggefted in the clofe of the letter from Jo- 
 feph Baldius : that in the month of Odlober 
 laft the book of Jeremiah had been collated 
 jn the Vatican MSS, and that the collation of 
 Ezekiel was then begun, and has been going 
 on, durmg near five months paft. 
 
 The difficulties and the delays of foreign 
 communication have thrown, of late, great 
 embarraffments in my way. The evil may, it 
 IS to be hoped, end there j and my pack- 
 ets, though long and anxioufly expefted, may 
 yet at laft come fafe. 
 
 Dec 
 
 COPENHAGEN. 
 
 The letter of Profeftbr Moldenhawer, dated 
 29, 1798, which was infertcd in the 
 
 laft Account, gave me fufficient reafon to ex- 
 ped, that in the courfe of the paft year fome 
 further parts of his collations would be fent 
 me. Nothing more, however, has yet come 
 to my hands. 
 
 VIENNA. 
 
 1| 
 
 H!> 
 
 lli 
 
( 10 ) 
 
 VIENNA. 
 
 Cesarean Library. 
 
 It was ftated in the laft Account, that Mr. 
 BoUa had finiihed the collation of the firft 
 book of Kings, and was proceeding to collate 
 the fecond. Accordingly, his collations of 
 Ruth, in two MSS. and the firft book of 
 Kings, in two MSS. are now brought up. 
 His collation of the fecond book in the Caefa- 
 rean MSS. that contain it, had been finifhed, 
 and the fair tranfcript of it was making, in 
 October laft. No intelligence fubfequent to 
 that date has been received ; and I am there- 
 fore unable to ftate particularly what further 
 advances he has made. 
 
 The progrefs made by Profeflbr Alter will 
 appear under the article of Verfions. 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 The Collation has been carried on here 
 without any interruption during the year paft. 
 
 It 
 
 J 
 
 ( " ) 
 
 It was ftated in the laft. Account, that the 
 books of Exodus and Leviticus in the Coifli- 
 nian MSS. ii, iii, had then been collated, 
 and that the collation of the fubfequent books 
 in both MSS. was going on. Accordingly, 
 there are now brought up the collations of 
 both thofe MSS. in the books of Exodus, 
 Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and in part of Num- 
 bers and Joftiua. 
 
 The Paris-packets were put on their way 
 to me in July laft ; and as the Collation was to 
 be carried on there from that time regularly as 
 before, more has without doubt been done, 
 though nothing further has been yet received. 
 
 Thus far as tp the collation of Septua- 
 gint-MSS. I proceed to the advances, which 
 have been made in collating Verfions. 
 
 Arabick Version. 
 The collation of the two Arabick MSS. 
 Laud 146. 147. has now been entirely com- 
 pleted. 
 
 Armenian, Slavonian, Georgian, 
 Versions. 
 
 It was ftated in the laft Account, that Pro- 
 c 2 fefl"or 
 
 I' 
 
 ii 
 I 
 
-^. 
 
 ( 
 
 12 
 
 ) 
 
 feflbr Alter had collated thefe three Verfions 
 as far as the firft book of Kings. Accord- 
 ingly, his collations of the books of Judges 
 and Ruth are now brought up. 
 
 The further advances, which he has made, 
 in the collation of the above Verfions, will 
 appear from his own words, in his letter of 
 October 23, 1799. " Tradidi Domino Con- 
 filiario Denis 21 Odtobris Fafciculum, qui li- 
 brum primum Regum continet ; et fcribo 
 nunc alterum Fafciculum, librum fecundum 
 Regum continentem." Between that and 
 the prefent time, he has certainly made feme 
 further progrefs. 
 
 So far as to the collation of Septuagint- 
 MSS. and Verfions. 
 
 As foon as the collation of the Ligurian 
 MS. mentioned in page 22 of laft Ac- 
 count, arrived, the Impreffion of Exodus was 
 entered upon ; and at the prefent time two 
 thirds of that book have been printed. 
 
 COL- 
 
 ( 13 ) 
 
 March 28, 1800. 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited before 
 the Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs, and 
 then depofited in the Bodleian Library, in fe- 
 parate Volumes in folio, with pafteboard 
 covers, are thefe ; 
 
 Vol. CXL 
 
 Leviticus. 
 
 Numbers, to Chap, xix, 5. 
 Deuteronomy. 
 Jofua, from Chap, xv, 37. 
 In MSS. II, III. of the Coiflinian Library. 
 
 Vol. CXII. 
 
 Exodus. 
 Leviticus. 
 Numbers. 
 Deuteronomy. 
 In the Ligurian MS. now in the Medicean 
 Library, Florence. 
 Leviticus. 
 In the Arabick MSS. Laud. 146. 147. of 
 the Bodleian Library, 
 
 Vol. 
 
( H ) 
 
 Vol. CXIII. 
 
 Numbers. 
 In MS. III. of the Paris- Library. 
 Numbers. 
 Deuteronomy. 
 In MS. ^. of the Paris-Library. 
 
 Numbers, from Chap, xxxvi, 8, 
 Deuteronomy. 
 In MS. V. of the Paris-Library. 
 
 Deuteronomy. 
 Jofliua, to Chap, ii, 8. 
 In MS. III. of the Paris-Library, 
 
 Vol. CXIV. 
 Jofliua. 
 Judges. 
 Ruth. 
 In MS. V. of the Paris-Library. 
 Judges. 
 Ruth. 
 In MSS. 11. and iii. of the Paris-Library, 
 
 Vol. CXV. 
 
 Judges. 
 In the Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonian 
 Verlions. 
 
 Vol. 
 
 ( 15 ) 
 Vol. CXVL 
 
 Leviticus. 
 In MS. III. of the. Paris-Library. 
 Exodus, from Chap, xl, 35. 
 Leviticus, 
 In MS. U. of the Paris-Library. 
 
 Ruth. 
 In MSS, XXIII. Lvii. of the Vienna-Li- 
 brary, 
 
 Kings I. 
 In MSS. XXIII. cxxxv. of the Vienna- 
 Library. 
 
 Ruth. 
 In the Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonian, 
 
 Verfions. 
 
 Vol. CXVII. 
 Jofliua. 
 In MS. '^. of the Paris-Library. 
 Jofliua, from Chap, ii, 8, 
 Kings I. II. III. IV. 
 Chronicles i, 11, to Chap, xii, 35. 
 Maccab. i, to Chap, x, 16. 
 Maccab. 11, from Chap. 11, 5, to 
 Chap. VI, 5, 
 In MS. III. of the Paris-Library. 
 
 Vol. 
 
( i6 ) 
 
 Vol. CXVIII. 
 Proverbs. 
 In MS. 346. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Ecclefiaftes. 
 In MSS. 1694. 336. 337, Palatine Clafs, 
 337, Vatican Clafs. of the Vatican 
 Library. 
 
 Song of Solomon. 
 In MSS. 337, Palatine Clafs. 337, Vatican 
 Clafs. 336. 1802. of the Vatican 
 Library. 
 
 Ecclefiaftes. 
 Song of Solomon. 
 In MS. 346. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Ecclefiafticus. 
 In MSS. 337. 336. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Wifdom of Solomon. 
 In MS. 346. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Ecclefiafticus. 
 In MS. I, Queen Chriftina's Clafs. of the 
 Vatican Library. 
 
 Wifdom of Solomon. 
 In MSS. I, Queen Chriftina's Clafs. ^-i^-j. 
 Palatine Clafs. 337, Vatican Clafs. 
 336. of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. 
 
 ( 17 ) 
 
 Vol. CXIX. 
 
 Exodus. ' 
 In the Syriack: Citations of Bar-Hebraeus. 
 Nuntibers, from Chap.. xix, 5. to. the 
 ' end**^;--- ■ - ■ 
 
 In MSS.<n.'iii>-of the Coiflinian Library. 
 
 Joftiuajto Chap, xv, 36*. 
 In the fame two MSS. 
 
 The Pfalms. 
 In MSS. 44. 1874. 1804. 1747. of the 
 Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. CXX. 
 
 Ifaiah. 
 \xi MS. of the Univerfity, Dubhn ; and in 
 
 MSS. 1153- 755- 17^4- 347- 2067. 
 1794. 430. 1509. 55^. of the Va- 
 tican Library. 
 
 * Since the Paris- Article, at page 10 of 
 this Account, was printed, thefe collations of 
 part of Numbers and Jofhua with the two 
 Coiflinian MSS. have come to my hands. 
 
 aj 
 
( i8 /) 
 
 Delegates' Room, Marcl) 28, 1800, 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmeis !ia!ving this day ex- 
 hibited to the DelegftieP of. the Prefs fuch 
 collations as have been m^de .of the Septua- 
 gint-MSS,. in! the- yeai'vla/tipafl:, as^ftated in 
 the Annual Account ;. rand .having filfo exhi- 
 bited the Impireflion of the,, .Boole pf Exodus 
 to the 26th Chapter, as fluted in die fame ; 
 it is the opinion of this ^oard, that he has fo 
 far fulfilled the conditions upon which the 
 Subfcription to the faid Collation was made 
 and renewed, and that a" "competent and laud- 
 able progrefs has been made in the wdrk. 
 
 The Delegates therefore' think, it incum- 
 bent upon them to recommend the prefent 
 Annual Account to the confideration of the 
 Public. 
 
 A Propofal.fora Silbfcriptioji in order to 
 the Publication of the Septua'gint-CoUations 
 has been lately fubmitted to the Public ; and 
 it may be had of MefTrs. Hanwell and Parker, 
 and J. Cooke J in Oxford : of MefTrs. Payne ; 
 B. Whites and Bremner; in London: and 
 of Mr. Deighton ; in Cambridge. 
 
 :{ 19 \ . , 
 
 I 
 
 Account of ExPE^cps incnrreel. 
 durfrig t;l)e 'i'welfth Year. 
 
 Mp. Bandini's: Agenc)^ this y^ar ,-..§ . & o 
 Elias Baldius for cdlljations in the 
 
 Vatican Library I 25 o o 
 
 Jofeph Baldius for eo^lations- m thq- 
 
 fame Library- i 20 o o 
 
 Domipicus Calabrefi 'for collations 
 
 in the fame Library 2.5 o o 
 
 Profcffor Alter; and Mr. BoUa, for 
 
 collations in the Vienna-Library 15 00 
 The Collator in" the- Paris-Liitrary 60 Q o 
 AffiftantS in collating, reading, and 
 
 tranfcribing ! — 44 4 o 
 
 Poftage, at home- and abroad, par-r 
 
 eels, &c. ! — 59 19 o 
 
 Journeys, and expences incurred in 
 
 the profecution of the work ..39 3 2 
 Printing 1 7 fheets of Exodus, Pro- 
 
 pofals. Receipts, this Account, 
 
 &c» -j ' 66 12 6 
 
 i 329 iS « 
 
 ID 2 
 
 li 
 
 M 
 
SUBSCRimONS. 
 
 Firft Year, 442 o 
 
 Second Year, 57^ 9 
 
 Third Year, 634 3 
 
 Fourth Year, 696 2 
 
 Fifth Year, 696 2 o 
 
 Sixth Year, 713 15 
 
 Seventh Year, 686 13 o 
 
 Eighth Year, 673 o o 
 
 Ninth Year, 461 80 
 
 EXPENCESJ 
 
 
 
 Firft Year, — 
 
 433 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 Second Year, 
 
 745 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 
 
 
 2d year un- 
 
 
 
 
 paid. — 
 
 5 
 
 S 
 
 
 
 Third Year, — 
 
 620 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 
 
 
 3d year un- 
 
 
 
 
 paid, — 
 
 >7 
 
 «7 
 
 
 
 Fourth Year, — 
 
 405 
 
 H 
 
 S 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 
 
 
 4th year un- 
 
 
 
 
 paid, — 
 
 46 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 Fifth Year, — 
 
 446 
 
 >S 
 
 7 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 
 
 
 5 th year un- 
 
 
 
 
 paid, — 
 
 59 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 Sixth Year, 
 
 654 
 
 19 
 
 .0 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 
 
 
 6th year un- 
 
 
 
 
 paid, — 
 
 68 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 Seventh Year, 
 
 5S^ 
 
 >3 
 
 10 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 
 
 
 7th year un- 
 
 
 
 
 paid, — 
 
 69 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Eiglith Year, 
 
 407 
 
 '5 
 
 9 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 
 
 
 8th year un- 
 
 
 
 
 paid — 
 
 118 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 Ninth Year, 
 
 594 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 
 
 
 9th year un- 
 
 
 
 
 paid — 
 
 90 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 Subscriptions. 
 
 
 
 EXPENCBS, 
 
 
 
 Tenth Year, 
 
 376 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 Tenth Year 449 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 By Drawback on 
 
 
 
 
 lOth year un- 
 
 
 
 Printing-Paper 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 paid — 47 
 
 II 
 
 
 
 Eleventh Year 
 
 342 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Eleventh Year, 314 
 Subfcriptions for 
 I Ith year un- 
 unpaid — 43 
 
 11 
 
 7 
 
 lO 
 
 
 
 Twelfth Year, 
 
 340 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 Twelfth Year 329 
 Subfcriptions for 
 
 18 
 
 S 
 
 By Drawback on 
 
 
 
 
 1 2th year un- 
 
 
 
 Printing-Paper 
 
 7 
 6651 
 
 '3 
 
 4 
 4 
 
 paid 7 1 
 
 IS 
 
 
 
 * 
 
 6594 
 
 2 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 In hand 57 
 
 '5 
 
 II 
 
 6651 18 4 
 
^' 
 
 
 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL ACCOUNT 
 
 OF 
 
 THE COLLATION OF THE MSS. 
 
 OF TH£ 
 
 SEPTUAGINT-VERSION. 
 
 BY ROBERT HOLMES, D.D. 
 
 CANON OP CHRIST CHURCH. 
 
 I!.J 
 
 O X F R D« 
 
 ifT THE CLARENDON PRESSi 
 U DCCCI. 
 

 T O 
 
 THE HONOURABLE 
 
 AND 
 
 RIGHT REVEREND 
 
 SHUTE BARRINGTON, LL.D. 
 
 LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM, 
 
 THIS 
 
 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL ACCOUNT 
 
 OF A WORK, 
 
 VERY GREATLY INDEBTED 
 
 TO THE FAVOUR AND RECOMMENDATION 
 
 OF HIS LORDSHIP, 
 
 I S 
 
 MOST RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULLY 
 
 INSCRIBED. 
 
-™^w 
 
 A 
 
 LIST 
 
 O F 
 
 SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 Ti 
 
 H E Univerfity of Oxford 
 The Univerfity of Cambridge 
 The Univerfity of Dublin 
 The Univerfity of Glafgow 
 
 His Grace, Dr. Moore, A-Bp of Canterbury 
 
 His Grace the Duke of Leeds 
 
 His Grace the Dulce of Marlborough 
 
 His Grace the Marquis of Buckingham 
 
 His Grace the Primate of Ireland 
 
 His Grace, Dr, Fovv'ler, A-Bp of Dublin 
 
 His Grace, Dr. Agar, A-Bp of Cafhell 
 
 Right Hon. Earl of Abingdon 
 
 Right Hon. Earl Spencer 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Sydney 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Sandys 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Grenville, Secretary of State 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Carrington 
 
 Right Rev. Dr. Porteus, Ld Bp of London 
 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Barrington, Ld Bp of Dur- 
 ham 
 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. North, Ld Bp of Winchcf- 
 ter 
 
 Right Rev. Dr. Butler, Ld Bp of Hereford 
 
 Right Rev. Dr. Bagot, Ld Bp of St. Afaph 
 
( vi ) 
 
 Right Rev. Dr. Sinallwell, Ld Bp of Oxford 
 Right Rev. Dr. Cleaver, Ld Bp of Chefter 
 Right Rev. Dr. Watfon, Ld Bp of Landaff 
 Right Rev. Dr. Pretyman, Ld Bp of Lincoln 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Yorke, Ld Bp of Ely 
 Right Rev. Dr. Douglas, Ld Bp of Salifbury 
 Hon. and Right Rev. Dr. Cornwallis, Ld Bp of Litch- 
 field 
 Right Rev. Dr. Warren, Ld Bp of Bangor 
 Right Rev. Dr. Courtenay, Ld Bp of Exeter 
 Right Rev. Dr. Buckner, Ld Bp of Chichefter 
 Right Rev. Dr. Law, Ld Bp of Elphin 
 Right Rev. Dr. Percy, Ld Bp of Dromore 
 Lord Monboddo 
 The Biftiop of Beja, Portugal 
 Right. Hon. William Pitt, Firft Lord of tlie Treafury, 
 
 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 
 Right Hon. The Speaker of ihe'Houfe of Commons 
 Sir William Dolben, Bart. 
 Rev. Dr. Proby, Dean of Litchfield 
 
 Rev. The Dean 
 Rev. The De.m 
 Rev. The Dean 
 Rev. The Dean 
 Rev. The Dean 
 Rev. The Dean 
 The Dean 
 The Dean 
 The Dean 
 The Dean 
 
 Rev. 
 Rev. 
 Rev. 
 Rev. 
 
 Rev. The Dean 
 
 and Chapter of Chrift-Church 
 and Chapter of Weflminlter 
 and Chapter of Windfor 
 and Chapter of Exeter 
 and Ch.ipter of Herefoid 
 and Chapter of Winihefter 
 and Chapter of Durham 
 and Chapter of Canterbury 
 and Chapter of S^lifbury 
 and Chapter of Gloucefter 
 and Chapter of £ly 
 
 New College 
 
 All Souls' College 
 
 Oriel College 
 
 Brazenofe College 
 
 Trinity College, Oxford 
 
 Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford 
 
 Balliol College 
 
 Univerfity College 
 
 Queen's College, Oxford 
 
 Magdalen College, Oxford 
 
 ( ^Vii ) 
 
 Exeter College 
 
 Wadham College 
 
 Merton College 
 
 Jefus' College 
 
 Worcefter College .... 
 
 Winchefter College 
 
 King's College 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge 
 
 St. John's College, Cambridge 
 
 Eton College . . ■ ■ ' 
 
 Truftees of Chetham's Charity, Manchefter 
 
 Rev. The Warden of New CoU^ 
 Rev. The Principal of Jefus' College, Oxford' 
 Rev. The Warden of Wadham College 
 Rev. The Warden of AH Souls' CoUege 
 Rev. The Principal of St. Mary Hall 
 Rev. The Principal of Magdalen Hall 
 Rev. The Proyoft of Oriel College . : 
 
 Rev. The Mafter of BaUiol College 
 
 Hiley Addington, Efq. 
 Thomas Babington, Efq. 
 Rev. Mr. Banks 
 
 Rev. Mr. Barnes, BaUiol College 
 Rev. Dr. Bathurft 
 
 Bayley, Efq. 
 
 John Blackburne, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Bouchier 
 
 Rev. Mr. Boys 
 
 James Brown, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Burgefs 
 
 William Burgh, Efq. 
 
 Dr. Charles Burney, Greenwich 
 
 Rev. Mr. Cracherode 
 
 John Englilh Dolben, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Francis Egerton 
 
 Rev. Mr. Foley 
 
 Rev. Dr. Gabriel 
 
 Rev. Mr. Gifborne 
 
 Rev. Dr. GolTet 
 
 Richard Gough, Efq. 
 
 John Gray, Efq. 
 
( viii ) 
 
 Rev, Mr. Green, Harlingham, Norfolk 
 
 Rev, Thomas Heathcote 
 
 Dr. Heberden 
 
 Rev. Mr. Hebt-rden 
 
 Rev, Dr. Hojne 
 
 Rev. Mr. J.ffreys, Win. Coll. 
 
 Edward Kinu,, l.fq. 
 
 Rev. Richard King 
 
 Bennet Langton, Efq. 
 
 Charles Lawfon, Efq. Manchefter 
 
 Rev. Mr. Leigh 
 
 Dr. Loveday 
 
 Rev. Mr. Matthew, Ball. Coll. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Morgan, Hereford 
 
 Rev. Mr. R. Morres 
 
 Rev. Mr. Morres,, Brazenofe Coll. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Oglander, Win. Coll. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Parker 
 
 Rev. Dr, Proffer 
 
 Rev. Mr. Sarraude, Exeter Coll. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Smalbroke 
 
 Rev. Dr. Sturges 
 
 James Sutton, hfq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Taylor 
 
 Henry Thornton, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Travel 
 
 Rev. Dr. Valpy 
 
 Dr. Wall 
 
 Samuel Weg?, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Mr.Wefton 
 
 Rev. Di , White 
 
 Rev. Mr. O.Wight 
 
 William Wilberlorce, Efq. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Wintie 
 
 Rev. Mr. Wray 
 
 Rev. Dr. Wynne 
 
 \ 
 
 J.ljl;.. r' >. J. ..-J J!^ J .^'■P«^????=?=^^ 
 
 THE' Thirteent'K'yearof the Collation 
 of Septuagint-Manufcripts has now 
 elapfed ; and, although the Subfcription to^ 
 was difcontinued at the' e^d^'bHhe'Twfelfth 
 yiear,' yet' hiy 'dWiganon tlo'delive'r ' an Account 
 df- advances- fdhfbc^ehtly mdde 'in' it, remains 
 in-force. 
 
 :(.:iLi;')j 
 
 ^i 
 
 fivlij 
 
 -/ 1 
 
 lO 
 
 Accordingly, I -proceed to '-ftate what has 
 'been further done in profecution of that part 
 of my undertafeing during the'^ear'paft'; and 
 fhall diftribute' the particulars of 'the fliort' 
 reprefentation, now to be made, uiider diftindt 
 heads of Places ■ and- Libraries^ • as' in former 
 iriftances. ' " ' ' u i. .1 ■. ..,:. 
 
 I l"! /. 'i V 
 
 FLORENCE. 
 Medicean Library. 
 
 In the lad Account it was ftated, that the 
 Ligurian MS; depofited in this Library, was 
 
 c under 
 
^ 
 
 ( 
 
 10 
 
 ) 
 
 under collation through feme Scriptural books 
 fubfequent to the Pentateuch. Canon Ban- 
 dini has fince completed' the collation of thcfte 
 books, and in the courfe of this year it has 
 been fafely tranfraitted to me. 
 
 TT-T- 
 
 :):f". 
 
 ROJytE- 
 
 VATICAN; Library,-, ._ : 
 
 Of the prpf^C]ution of ;th^ Collati,on in this 
 Library, I a^ijiow able to /peak more' fully, 
 than in the laft Account, as collation-parqeljSi 
 of which I was then in anxious expedation, 
 have iince come jto my h^nd^. \ 
 
 , , Jt apppar?;4 by the lettef fi^,m Jofeph Bajdji,^ 
 of, .Qdiobfr ;^7.9j5,^,printed..iq kft Accppnt a^ij 
 p^ge 5, that Elia,s Baldius iiad;iinifhed the^ 
 coUatipn, of^, Jer^mi^h ii^, the, two Vatipant 
 MSS. 1794, and 3067. Thefe collations, toge-: 
 ther with thofe of the book of Lamentations 
 in the former MS. and. of the Epiftle of Jere- 
 miah in the latter, which he had alfo finifhed 
 before his death, are accqr4ingly now brought 
 up. 
 
 It was flat?d, at page 9 of the laft Account, 
 that in the nionth of Qiftober 1 799, the colla- 
 tion 
 
 i 
 
 i'ipri or .the bopk* of Jereiniah in the Vatican 
 MS^.'nad be.eh finTflied/atid "that of Ezekiel 
 begu'n." Accordingly there are now brought 
 up the following collations : of Jeremiah, Ba- 
 ruch, Lamentations, and the Epiftle of Jere- 
 miah, in MS.' 1670- — of Jeremiah, Baruch, 
 Lamentations, in MS. 1764 — all of which 
 have been done by Dominicus Calabrefi. 
 
 There !ar^ alfb now brought up the follow- 
 ing collations made by Jofeph Baldi : of Jere- 
 miah, in MSS. '347> SS^i i 154— Baruch, in 
 MS$i. 3067, 347, ,556, 1 1 54, "1794— Lamen- 
 tations, and the Epiftle of Jeremiah, in MS. 
 
 347- ,' .;..,, I 
 
 - r 
 
 There are now further brought up, as part 
 of what has been done fince Oftober 1799, 
 the following collations j of Ecclefiafticus, in 
 MS. 346 — Ezekiel, in' MS. ■1^64; both of 
 which have" been made by Doininicus Cala- 
 brefi i together with thofe, of Ezekiel, in 
 MSS. 347, 1553,, .(794. 2067 — and of da- 
 
 niel, in MSS. 303, 347, 
 all by Jofeph^'Baidi.; ,. 
 
 866, 1 154,, 1794, 
 
 With refpedt fo collations ^made.fince the, 
 above, I am as yet able to ftate. only that, as 
 s, Doniinicus Calabrefi* has furtHer"c6r- 
 
 appears. 
 
 c 3 
 
 lated 
 
( .12 ) 
 
 kted cue cjopy.of Ezekiel, and another of Pa- 
 niel. ■.TKe"' follovving letter .aiFord? the only 
 injforma,tion as to this point,, which it is at 
 prefent in niy power to produce. 
 
 •"■ Dominicus Calabrefi S. D. 
 
 ' "Humaniffin\as accepi litteras tuas die nona 
 prateriti Junii 'datas, cum Syngrapha numma- 
 ria vigintL hbramni fterlingorum, nominatim 
 contra argentarium Turlonia. Is flatim, ut 
 comparui/folvit mihipecuniam refpondentem, 
 atque ego/tuo nomine illico dono dedi quin- 
 que librarum valorem Miniftris infervientibus 
 in Vaticana, qui adeo contenti fuerunt, ut 
 tibi, liberalitatique tuas quam maximas gra- 
 tias agant, et^^iillies benedixerint nomini tuo, 
 totique genti, Ariglorum. Idem prorfus ago 
 egomet, qui recepi quindecim librarum munus, 
 ac maxime fum contentus generofitate tua 
 in fatisfaciendo meis laboribus. Ilkid graviter 
 fentio, quod hon poflim nunc mittere tibi 
 nifi unam tantum Collationem Jeremi^ cum 
 Baruch et Threnis, quia ex menfe Apriii de- 
 bui laborare pro ipfa Bibliotheca, et ineunte 
 menfe Junio cum Romam redierat nofter Car- 
 dinahs de Zelada, opus mihi fuit.denuo refu- 
 niefe laborem fcribendi pro ipfo Rpiflolas, at- 
 que- alia: omnia qui id oflicium meum perti-. 
 
 ncnt. 
 
 ( 13 ) 
 
 nent. Verum'eft, quod cum mihi maxime 
 cordi effet, rie in re CoUationum tibi aliquo 
 modq deeflem, cpmnyfi;D. Jofepho Baldi, ut- 
 pote libero ab aliis occupationibus> et qui ha- 
 bitat prope Bibliothecam in eodem Palatio, 
 Vaticano, atque^, ideo admodum affiduus.ut 
 opus perageret ;, et egp ipfe tribus fere in heb- 
 domada diebus ad Bibliothecam accefli et acr 
 cedo in adualibus vacatjonibus ; q'uare accipias 
 profedto fafciculum non parvum, CollationUm 
 ab ipfo fadarum, una cuni prsdida mea, et 
 brevi, ut fpero, alias tres meas, fcilicet duas 
 Ezechielis, et unam Danielis, quas etiamfi 
 perfedlas in Vaticana non potui adhuc domi 
 tranfcribere, Petq a tc, ut gratum habeas 
 ftudium meum tibi inferviendi pro tuo me- 
 rito, et ignofcas temporis anguftiaE, qua deti- 
 neor. Interim precor Deum O. ,M. ut tc 
 incolumem, latum, feliciffimumque reddat. 
 Vale, vir cariffime, atque iterum vale. Romae 
 9 Augufti 1800. 
 
 ^Vith refpedl to the further progrefs of Jo- 
 feph Baldi, I am not able to fay more, than 
 that he has iince collated, as it appears, the 
 book of Daniel in MSS. 6y5, 1764. The 
 following extradt from a letter of his contains 
 the lateft intelligence on the fubjeft, which I 
 have yet received. ,,• 
 
 Jofeph 
 
( H > 
 
 Jofeph. Baldi S. D. d/ , ,,', 
 
 De collationibus Fafciculiam jam ad'Cl. 
 Bandiniutn rriifi, et "quamprimum ad te perve- 
 niet. Collationes hx funt Ezechielis e^ Codd. 
 Vat. 1553, 1794,' 347. et 2067. Danielis ex 
 Cod. 1554, 1794, 34.7, 303, 866. Addidiffem 
 aliam ex Cod. 1764, fed arripuit me faeviflima 
 febris cum acerbiffimis capitis doloribus, quje 
 me ita per integros quinque'dics torflt, ut ni- 
 hil unquam acerbius fim in hac vita perpefTus -, 
 nunc autem Dei benignitate convalui, et fic in 
 reliquas collationes incumbam. De Prophetis 
 majoribus, praster Cod. 556, et Bafil. io6,' 
 (i, e. Vat. 2067) quamm collationes conficit 
 Calabrefius, in Vat. nob eft aliquid alitid col- 
 latione dignum. Adeft vero Codex 6y^ in 
 Charta Bombycina, qui continef Theodoreti 
 Comment, in Danielem. Danielem penitus 
 abfolvi, et nonnulli verfus interdum defideran- 
 tur. • , ' 
 
 Ex Urbe Roma 16 Augufti 1800. 
 
 , VIEN.NA. . 
 C^sAREANi Library. 
 
 It was ftated that Mr. Bolla had finifhed 
 his collation of the Second book of Kings in 
 
 Odober 
 
 Odtqber 1799,., Jt, )i^s„ ibjepi]i[ -i:^cpivfid,r an'd is 
 now brought, up,, tlii;9^i}ghi tvY9.^S3,.jxxiti, 
 
 cxxxv. 
 
 ■ iAi r;i.;JaGO :c;: a^ab 
 
 r^t, ,the .clofe^ of-l^gyEmber l^ft,'r.he "ihad 
 fiuijhed the C9lUti,oa;, pf;the-, above iMSS. in 
 the ihird book, of -Kings, -^ndrhado Q^rricd It 
 thrpugii, fome chaptei;s ,of ; ^h?( ; Fow,thvBdQk:, 
 M'hen, -illnefs obliged Ipni to deftft fgr jhe pre- 
 fent from proceeding. jHe hasififlce, I itruft, 
 refumed the collation ; but no certain informa- 
 ti9aon the fubjed ha^;b?eofpp.t'm.e. Y 
 
 The progrefs made by Profeflbr Alter will 
 be; ft4jp4 un^P)^ ^k9\ Au\cl^'9f Verfiona* 
 
 •) ;11 'J I. J 
 
 1.,;!/^ .;v 
 
 1 -'"r. VI.-' 
 
 PARIS. 
 
 The 'Colfetlciff herb 'has trier with' no inter- 
 ruption during the "year ^pafti 
 
 It appeare'd %pini tliei:UftjAfiC9uat, that the 
 collation of , the. twq (;;^oiflwjip MSS.i'U, iii,; 
 was, going oft throug|j^ tjiq^ bqoJc^fubfequent. 
 to that of Jofhua, which the MSS. refpe<itively;i 
 contained. 
 
 Thece have) be^ep. collated- the books of 
 
 Judges 
 
( 1^ ) 
 
 Judges and Ruth in both the above MSS. and 
 the four books of Kings in MS. in. The 
 other MS. does not contain them. 
 
 A collation has' alfo been fince made of the 
 whole of another^ Coiflinian MS. numbered 
 VIII. It commences at i- Kings, ch. xiv, 49, 
 and contains the other three books of Kingy. 
 Chron.i. II. Efdr: i. Nehem. Efther, Tobit. 
 Judith. Macchab. i. 11. 
 
 The collation of other Paris MSS. is pro- 
 ceeding. 
 
 So far as to the collation of Septuagint 
 MSS. What advances have been made in col- 
 lating Verfions I proceed to flate. 
 
 Armenian,, Slavonian, Georgian, 
 Versions. 
 
 It appeared from the laft Account, that 
 Profeflbr Alter had collated the Firft and Se- 
 cond books of Kings in the above Verfions. 
 Accordingly, thofe collations are now brought 
 up. 
 
 That the fubftance and extent of thefe col- 
 lations may be more fully feen, his own ftate- 
 
 ment 
 
 ( 17 ) 
 
 ment of the MSS. and Editions, which he 
 ufed, is fubjoined. 
 
 I Kings. 
 
 " Librum primum Rcgum contuli, I. cum 
 Verfione Armeniaca, quas extat in Codice 
 Manufcripto Armeniaco, litteris curfivis fcrip- 
 to, numero 3270, inter Codd. recentiores Bib- 
 liothecas Palatini Vindobonenfis. II. cum 
 Verfione Armeniaca, quae extat in Editione 
 Veneta Bibliorum Armeniacorum in folio anni 
 1733, ^ Petro Mechitar curata. III. Exci- 
 tavi quoque ledtiones Ecclefiafticas, contentas 
 in Libro . Ecclefiaftico. Eft hie Codex MS. 
 Armeniacus, litteris rotundis fcriptus, inter 
 Codices recentiores Bibliotheca; Palatinas Vin- 
 dobonenfis, numero 3274. IV. Contuli et 
 Verfionem Georgianam ex Editione Mofquenfi 
 Bibliorum Georgianorum in. folio anni. 1743, 
 V. Contuli Verfionem Slavonicam ex Editiorie 
 Bibliorum Slavonicorum Oftrogienfi, in folio, 
 anni 1581, et ex Editione Mofquenfi, in oc- 
 tavo, anni 1759. VI. Pro Cantico Anns 
 excitavi ledtiones ex Pfalterio Glagolitico Bro- 
 zlchii imprefifo Venetiis, et ex imprefiTo Gla- 
 golitico Breviario. VII. Pro hoc Cantico 
 etiam excitavi ledliones ex Codice Slavonico 
 Pfalterium complexo, numero 98, inter Codi- 
 
 D ces 
 
( i8 ) 
 
 ces Orientales BibliotheciE PalatiiiJE Vindobo- 
 ncnfis, litteris Cyrillicis fcripto." Thefe feve- 
 ral MSS. and Editions he again applied in his 
 collation of the Second book. 
 
 He has now got through the third book 
 of Kings in the fame Verfions, Printed and 
 Manufcript, and is proceeding on further col-' 
 lations. 
 
 So far as to the Collation of Septuagint- 
 MSS. and Verfions. 
 
 March 30, i8oi. 
 
 COLLATIONS, this day exhibited before 
 the Delegates of the Clarendon-Prefs, and then 
 depofited in the Bodleian Library, in feparate 
 Volumes in folio, with pafteboard covers, were 
 thefe i 
 
 Vol. CXXL 
 Jofhua. 
 Judic. 
 Ruth. 
 In the Ligurian MS. now in the Medicean 
 Library, Florence. 
 Judic. 
 
 Ruth. 
 
 ( ^9 ) 
 
 Ruth. 
 In the CoiQinian MSS. ii, iii. 
 
 Reg. III. 
 In MSS. xxTii. cxxxv. of the Caefarean 
 Library, Vienna. 
 
 Ecclefiafticus. 
 In MS. 346, of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. CXXII. 
 Reg. 1. 
 In the Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonian 
 Verfions. 
 
 Vol. CXXIIL 
 Reg. II. 
 In the Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonian 
 Verfions. 
 
 Vol. CXXIV. 
 
 Regg. I. II. III. IV. 
 Chron. i. 11. 
 Efdr. I. II. Nehem. 
 Efbher. Tobias. Judith. 
 Macchab. i. et 11, ad cap. xiv, 23. 
 In MS. VIII, of the Coiflinian Library. 
 Regg. I. II." III. IV. 
 Chron. i. 11. 
 
 D 3 Efvlr. 
 
-''=^ 
 
 ( 20 ), 
 
 Efdr. II. (fic)— Nehem.— Efther. 
 Efdr. I. (fic)— Judith. 
 Macchab. i. ii. Tobise fragment. 
 In the Ligurian MS. of the Medicean Li- 
 brary, Florence. 
 
 Vol. CXXV. 
 
 Regg. I. II. III. IV. 
 In MS. Ill, of the Coiflinian Library. 
 
 Vol. CXXVI. 
 
 Jeremias. 
 
 Lamentation. 
 
 Ep. Jeremis. Baruch. 
 In MS. 1 1 54, of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Jeremias. 
 
 Lamentation. 
 
 Ep. Jeremiae. 
 In MS. 347, of the fame Library. 
 
 Jeremias. 
 
 Baruch. Lamentation. 
 
 Ep. Jeremise. 
 In MS. 1764, of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. CXXVII. 
 Jeremias. 
 Lamentation. 
 
 Ep. 
 
 ( 21 ) 
 
 Ep. Jeremias. 
 
 Baruch. 
 In MS. 556, of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Baruch. 
 In MSS. 5067, 347, 1794, of the fame 
 Library. 
 
 Jeremias. 
 In MS. 1670, of the fame Library. 
 
 Jeremiah. 
 
 Lamentation. 
 
 Ep. Jeremiae. 
 In MS, 1794, of the fame Library. 
 
 Vol. CXXVIIL 
 
 Jeremias. 
 
 Lamentation. 
 
 Ep. Jeremice. 
 In MS. (formerly Bafilian 106) now 2067, 
 of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Baruch. 
 
 Lamentation. 
 
 Ep. Jeremis. 
 In MS. 1670, of the fame Library. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 In MS. 1 764, of the fame Library. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 In MS. (formerly Bafilian 106) now 2067, 
 of the Vatican Library. 
 
 Vol. 
 
 1 
 
 
( ^2 ) 
 
 Vol. CXXIX. 
 Ezekiel. 
 In MS3. 347, 1794, 1553, °^ *^^ Vatican 
 Library. 
 Daniel. 
 In MSS. 1 1 54, 866, 303, 347, 1794, of 
 the fame Library. 
 
 Delegates' Room, March 30, 1801. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Holmes having this day ex- 
 hibited to the Delegates of the Prefs fuch col- 
 lations of the Septuagint-MSS. for the year laft 
 paft, as are ftated in this Annual Account ; it 
 is the opinion of this Board, that he has 
 made a competent and laudable progrefs in 
 this part of his undertaking. 
 
 ( 23 ) 
 
 Account of ExPENCES incurred 
 during the Thirteenth Year. 
 
 5 
 
 o o 
 
 o o 
 
 o o 
 
 o o 
 
 o 
 o 
 
 Mr. Bandini's Agency this year 
 
 Remainder in full for collation of 
 the Ligurian MS. in the Medi- 
 cean Library - - 50 
 
 Dominicus Calabrefi for collations 
 in the Vatican Library 25 
 
 Jofeph Baldi for collations in the 
 fame Library - - 30 
 
 ProfefTor Alter, and Mr. BoUa, for 
 collations in the Vienna-Library ] 5 
 
 The Collator in the ParisrLibrary 60 
 
 Afliftant in collating, reading and 
 
 tranfcribing - - 10 o o 
 
 Poflage, at home and abroad, par- 
 cels &c. - - 25 17 7 
 
 Transferred to the Publication-Ac- 
 count two drawbacks on Printing 
 Paper - - - 13 18 4 
 
 Further incidental charges incurred 
 
 in profecution of the work 23 83 
 
 Printing and making up this Ac- 
 count - - - 2 17 o 
 
 260 J 2 
 
 __j1 
 

 ( H ) 
 
 !' 'SUBSCSIPTIONS. 
 
 Tofel: received, gs / 
 
 by Twelfth An- • 
 
 nual 'Account 6651 18 4 
 ,,Two Subfcriptions 
 
 for Twelfth 
 
 y^ar, fi nee paid ' -fo 10 o 
 Refunded by ^\>h- 
 
 Jication-Ac- 
 
 foiint eipences 
 
 which' the Col- 
 rjJation-Agcount 
 ' had paid for ' 
 
 Printing the 
 
 work - 5j8 la o 
 
 ExPENCES. 
 
 Total as ftated in 
 Twelfth Annual 
 Account 
 
 Thirteenth year 
 
 6594 2 5 
 
 260 
 
 I 2 
 
 7221 04 
 
 ■:r 
 
 In hand 
 
 68j4 3 1 
 366 16 9 
 
 7221 o 4 
 
 ■^ 
 
 J 
 
 ' 
 
 
 
 -■>;■;■ 
 
 THE 
 
 FIRST ANNUAL ACCOUNT 
 
 OF 
 
 THE PUBLICATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 SEPTUAGINT-COLLATIONS. 
 
 BY ROBERT HOLMES, D.D. 
 
 CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH, 
 
 O X F O R Dt 
 
 i^T TBE CLARENDON PRESSi 
 MDCCCI,. 
 
 2> 
 
 4 . 
 
T O 
 
 THE HONOURABLE 
 
 AND 
 
 RIGHT REVEREND 
 
 SHUTE BARRINGTON, LL.D. 
 
 LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM, 
 
 THIS 
 
 FIRST ANNUAL ACCOUNT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PUBLICATION 
 
 OF A WORK, 
 
 VSRV GREATLY INDEBTED 
 
 TO THE FAVOUR AND RECOMMENDATION 
 
 OF HIS LORDSHIP, 
 
 I S 
 
 MOST RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULLY 
 
 INSCRIBED, 
 
 ^ 
 
A YEAR has elapfed, fince the commence- 
 ment of the Subfcription for the Publication 
 of the Septuagint-CoUations. Accordingly, 
 under this part of the undertaking, as be- 
 fore under the Collation, I am to deliver an 
 Account for the paft year; to notify the pre- 
 fent. ftate of the Subfcription towards the Im- 
 prefTjon of the work ; and to ftate what has 
 been done during the courfe of that time in 
 forwarding the Publication, and what is now 
 doipg in further profecution of that objedl. 
 
 That the whole of the cafe may be placed 
 in a clearer point of view, it may be perhaps 
 advifable for me to accompany this Account 
 with a Copy of the Propofal to The Public. 
 I therefore beg leave to fubmit it here. 
 
 THE Septuagint-Verfion, printed at Rome 
 in the year 1587, has been during eleven 
 years paft under collation with its Manu- 
 fcripts, and with other Editions of itj with 
 
 Citations 
 
( 6 ) 
 
 Citations from it by Greek Fathers ; and alfa 
 with Manufcripts and Editions of the Italic,' 
 Coptic, Syriac, Arabic, Slavonian, Armenian, 
 and Georgian Verfions, all derived from the 
 Greek Text. 
 
 Univerfities, Chapters, Colleges, and Indi- 
 viduals of Eminence in Rank and Learning, 
 have fupported this Collation by their munifi- 
 cent Subfcriptions : and it has been carried on 
 throughout Europe by the ableft Scholars of 
 their time. 
 
 As this part of the undertaking is nov^ 
 drawing towards a conclufion, the Subfcription 
 thereto is clofed, and another part of the work, 
 namely The Publication of the Col- 
 LA.TIONS, is become, in its turn, an objedl 
 of confideration. 
 
 On the expediency of this work fome obfer- 
 vations have been already made in the Firft 
 and Third Annual Accounts of the Collation. 
 Among the points there infilled on, were thefe 
 that follow : 
 
 I. The Antiquity of the Septuagint- 
 .Verfion — As it was made more than a century 
 and a half before the coming of Chrift, it 
 may be fuppofed that the Hebrew Copy, 
 which the Seventy then tranflated, was more 
 pure and perfedt than later tranfcripts of it. 
 
 II. The 
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 II. The Original Fidelity of the 
 Verfion — From the time when it was made, 
 till the fecond century of the Chriftian aera, it 
 was ufed in the Sacred Service of the Jewi(h 
 Church : and therefore it feems to have been 
 deemed originally, and during that period, a 
 juft and faithful Verfion of the Hebrew Scrip- 
 tures. 
 
 III. The Authority of the Verfion it- 
 felf — It was the very inflirument which the 
 Providence of God ufed, in the converfion of 
 both Jews and Gentiles to the Faith of Chrifl: : 
 and the early Chriftians had either that Ver- 
 fion, or Tranflations from it, for their ftanding 
 Bible. 
 
 IV. The Utility of it when applied cri- 
 tically to the Hebrew Text — Through the 
 whole fuccefllon of Biblical Literature, this 
 Verfion has proved of eminent ufe, not only 
 in pointing out places, in which the Hebrew 
 Copy of thefe days differs from that of earlier 
 times ; but even in notifying Original Hebrew 
 Readings, which had difappcared. 
 
 V. The Alterations made in this Ver- 
 fion by Editors, with views o^ accommodating 
 it to the prefent Hebrew Text — As fuch a 
 proceeding has rather tended to difqualify the 
 Verfion for that very purpofe, which it might 
 otherwife be calculated to anfwer, what was 
 
 at 
 
•"-W" 
 
 ( 8 ) 
 
 at tirft itii Own Genuine Text, is become a 
 queftion the more prefling and neceflary. And 
 it feems that the decifion of this queflion muft 
 be rendered more eafy and certain to every 
 BibUcal Scholar, when the tenour of the feve- 
 ral Septuagint- Copies fhall be prefented under 
 one view before him. 
 
 VI. The Differences between the feve- 
 ral Manufcript and Printed Copies of the Ver- 
 fion — Its genuine Text is not, as the Learned 
 well know, contained at prefent in any one 
 Manufcript, or Edition : but lies difperfed in 
 all the Copies, with more or lefs of Omiflion 
 or Interpolation in every one. What has been 
 omitted, and what interpolated, is likely to 
 become more fully known, when thofe Read- 
 ings, in which the feveral Copies differ, flull 
 have been placed in one coUedted view. 
 
 To obtain the means neceflary for publidi- 
 ing the above-mentioned collations, early in 
 the lafl year the following letter of requeft 
 on the fubjed was prefented to the Delegates 
 of the Clarendon- Prefs : 
 
 '• It is the wifh of Dr. H. to prefent the 
 Univerfity with the copy-right of the work. 
 He therefore now refpeftfuUy offers it to the 
 
 To leave the Board 
 
 Delegates of the Prefs. 
 
 an 
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 an Indemnification for incurring the expence 
 of paper and printing, and to enable himfelf to 
 difcharge the Public from further Subfcription, 
 are equally objedls with him. The following 
 particulars are therefore fubmitted to the con- 
 fideration of the. Board. 
 
 " The Collation fliall ftand on the obliga- 
 tion originally entered into by Dr. H. He 
 will, at his own expence, carry on the Im- 
 preflion to the end of 'the 'Pentateuch ; and 
 when it rtiall have proceeded' fo far, all copies 
 of the Pentateuch- books, remaining at that 
 time unfold, fhall be the prgperty of the 
 Board J and wha^ may have been received in 
 the meanwhile for copies fold, he will account 
 for in the ufual way, as for other monies re- 
 ceived to the ufe of the work. 
 , *' He will then prefent the Board with the 
 Fount of Letter, which has been bought for 
 printing the work. ' ■ 
 
 " From the end of the Pentateuch to the 
 end of the whole Impreflion, the expence of 
 paper and printing fhall be defrayed by the 
 Delegates ; and. the copy-right of the whole 
 fhall be theirs, they allowing Dr. H. the 
 fmallefl number of copies which they ever- 
 allowed to any Editor. Dr. PI. fuppofing life 
 and health to continue, will prepare the copy 
 
 B throughout, 
 
( 
 
 10 
 
 ) 
 
 throughout, and correA the prefs, and pay his 
 own afljflants, whether it fliall pleafe the Board 
 to continue to him their prefent allowance or 
 not." 
 
 The Anfwer of the Board was as follows : 
 
 Fbiday, June 8, 1798. 
 
 " At.a Meeting of the Delegates of the 
 Prefs in the Delegates' Room — 
 > "The Propofal of Dr. Holmes refpedting the 
 future Publication of the collations of the Sep- 
 tuagint, fubmitted to the Board, Feb. 3, 1798, 
 having this day been taken into confideration ; 
 the Vice- Chancellor was requefted to inform 
 him of the opinion of the Board ; that, with 
 every good wilh for the advancement of a 
 work of fuch magnitude and importance, as 
 that in which he is engaged, from a variety of 
 circumftances it does not feem expedient to 
 them that they fhould pledge the Revenues of 
 the Prefs to fo large an expenditure as would 
 be neceflary, in cafe the Propofal of Dr. 
 Holmes was acceded to — at the fame time, 
 that, if Dr. Holmes fhould judge it right to 
 folicit the Subfcriptions of the Learned to the 
 publication of the collations, they are entirely 
 difpofed to give to fuch Subfcription every 
 affiftance in their power," 
 
 Under 
 
 ( " ) 
 
 Under thefe circumftances, I have ventured 
 upon an application to THE PUBLIC j and 
 folicit every Friend of Sacred Learning to con- 
 fer upon this concluding part of the work, the 
 generous Affiftance of His Subfcription. 
 
 The collations now intended for Publica- 
 tion have been made from more than three 
 hundred Greek Manufcripts ; " from Coptic, 
 Syriac, Arabic, Slavonian, and Armenian Ma- 
 nufcripts, to the amount of twenty or more j 
 from Editions of the Greek Text, and of Ver- 
 fions, to the number of eleven at leaft j and 
 nearly from thirty Greek Fathers. 
 
 From all the above fources, fuch a body of 
 Various Readings has been derived, that ac- 
 cording to the beft calculation which can be 
 made at prefent, the whole cannot be com- 
 prifed in fewer than Four Volumes. 
 
 The Form and Method, in which it is 
 propofed to print the work, is as follows : 
 
 The Greek Text of the Vatican Edition, 
 without any intended departure from it, ex- 
 cept only as to its typographical miftakes, 
 
 B 2 will 
 
 1 
 
( 
 
 12 
 
 ) 
 
 will be reprinted in Folio, and ftand at the 
 top of the page : and at the bottom of the 
 feveral pages will be placed thofe Various 
 Readings, which belong to the particular 
 Verfes of the Text above. 
 
 Septuagint-Manufcripts will be referred to 
 by Numerical Figures, II, III, X, 29, 32, 
 7S^ 1 36, &c. the Manufcripts in the Uncial 
 charader being fpecified by Numerals of a 
 capital form ; and the Manufcripts not in the 
 Uncial charadley, by Numerals of a fmaller 
 fort. Of the Numbers, apphed to denote 
 every Manufcript refpedively, a Catalogue 
 will be given, together with a Defcription and 
 Account of the feveral Manufcripts, Editions, 
 and Verfions. 
 
 Editions, Fathers, and Verfions, will be de- 
 noted either by Name, or by fome other ob- 
 vious and intelligible reference. 
 
 Proper explanations will be given of the 
 few Symbolical Charaders and Marks, which 
 will occur throughout the work. 
 
 To each Scriptural book will be prefixed a 
 Table, ftating what portions of that book are 
 contained in the feveral Manufcripts or Edi- 
 tions, which are cited in the courfe of it, 
 , To each Scriptural book will be fubjoined 
 fuch Fragments oi Aquila, Symmachus, The- 
 odotion, and other Greek Interpreters, as are 
 
 either 
 
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 either net publifhed hitherto, or, if published, 
 have been reprefented otherwife than they ap- 
 pear in the margins of Manufcripts ufed in 
 this work. 
 
 In engaging the Afliftants neceflary for pre- 
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 great an expence muft unavoidably be in- 
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 Volume, be fubfcribed for One Copy of the 
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 thart One, if defired. And as it would be of 
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 fion, if the above Subfcription could be ob- 
 tained in One fum at the time of fubfcribing, 
 the munificent Friends of this Publication 
 will allow me to . mention preferably that 
 mode of contribution to it — ftill, at the fame 
 time, it is alfo propofed that the above Twelve 
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 Four equal payments early in the years i^oo, 
 i8oi, 1803, 1803, ihould the Subfcriber live, 
 and approve from year to year of the progrefs 
 made in the Publication. And for every fum 
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 curred in it, an Annual Account will be given, 
 as was done in the cafe of the Collation : and 
 if life or health fhould not be continued to 
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 of the Prefs, to whom the Sums received for 
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 Christ-Church, 
 Jan. 20, 1800. 
 
 ROBERT HOLMES. 
 
 OXFORD, Jan. 20, 1800. 
 
 At a Meeting of the Delegates of the Claren- 
 don-Prefs in the Delegates' Room — 
 The Collations of the Septuagint-Verfion, 
 according to the Propofals of Dr. Holmes in 
 1788, having been nearly brought to a con- 
 clufion, and Dr. Holmes having this day laid 
 before the Delegates his Propofals for a Sub- 
 fcription for the Publication of the 
 Collations — 
 
 Resolved : 
 That there be paid to Dr. Holmes in aid 
 of this Publication the fum of One hundred 
 and forty-four Guineas, being the amount of 
 the propofed price of twelve copies j the De- 
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 with fuch further encouragement, as will en- 
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 And they think it right alfo to apprize the 
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 fliall be my earnen; endeavour to carry into 
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 .Afliftant here ;- and an acknowledgment on my 
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 ftill continue, tp"^ ad withrme in forwardino- 
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 is my intention, if the Fund for Publication 
 fliould become fufficient to fupport me in that 
 addition of expence. 
 
 The Account of what has been done durinr^ 
 the year pa(i: in forwarding tiie Ini])rcffion of 
 the work, will of courfe be very fl^ort. 
 
 When the Twelfth Annual Account of the 
 Collation was delivered, the Impreflion of the 
 work, had been, carried through the book of 
 Genefis -, and had then advanced (fee page 9 
 of that Account) through about two thirds of 
 the book of Exodus. Since tliat tinie the re- 
 mainder of Exodus has been printed. 
 
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 Accordingly, t|>e; : printed copy ^ of Q^neCs 
 and Exodus wasthisday jcxhibited Jo.the D&-; 
 legates of 'the Prefs.-V: ..'.'.•.■.•:;.: ;.:::.•.- 
 
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 was then commenced as foon as pofTible, and 
 it has now advanced through about two thirds 
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 be allowed me fay •it, .to myfelf, -that fome 
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 theciccurhftancds' and- probabilities, under 
 which;! am to fbrward^he^Publicatioiil Thus, 
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 I may,.i)e forgiven for preffing. op every Friend 
 of Sacred Learning a moft refpedtful but very 
 earneft entreaty, to favour this Publication 
 with his beneficent aid, by becoming a Sub- 
 fcribcr to it. 1 > ,. 
 
 Delegates' Room, March 20, 1801* 
 
 ; : The Rev. Dr^ Jiolmes having this day exhi- 
 bited to the Pelegates of tjie Prefs fuch parts of 
 the Impreffion of the Septuagint-Collations, as 
 are flated in this Annual. Account to have been 
 printed i, it is their op^pion that he has made 
 all. reafonable Progrefs in; the Publication of 
 the work.:, and the Board being entirely fatif- 
 fied of the. additional and unexpedted Expence, 
 which rnij ft attend the cpmpletion of the fame, 
 froni, the circuniftances ftated by Dr. Holmes, 
 cannot but unife with him in requefting the 
 further Patronage of the Public to a work of 
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