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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...should be made have not yet been finally determined. In the case of the LXX. we are at least one step further back. The materials have yet to be collected. They are of three kinds (i) Greek MSS., (ii) Versions, (iii) Quotations. i. The MSS. of the whole or parts of the LXX. enumerated by Holmes and Parsons, and wholly or partially collated for their great Thesaurus1, amount to 313, of. which 13 are uncials. Since the publication of that work many additional MSS. have come to light, and among them several uncials of great importance: of the 29 MSS., including fragments, in Lagarde's list of MSS. written before A. D. 10002, 13 were unknown to Holmes and Parsons. The addition of this new material to the apparatus criticus would be a work of moderate compass, if 1 Vetus Testamentum Graecum cum variis lectionibus: Editionem a Roberto Holmes inchoatam continuavit Jacobtts Parsons: Oxonii, MDCCXCVIIIMDCCCXXVII. 2 Lagarde, Genesis Graece (Lipsiae, 1868), pp. 10-16. the existing basis were trustworthy: but it is unfortunately the case that Holmes and Parsons entrusted no small part of the task of collation to careless or incompetent hands: consequently before any final inductions can be made the whole of the MSS. must be collated afresh. The extent and nature of the deficiencies in Holmes and Parsons will be seen from the following comparison of a few verses, chosen at random, of the collations made for Holmes and Parsons with the collations made by Lagarde. The passage chosen is Gen. xxvii. 1-20: in it Holmes and Parsons mention various readings from, and must therefore be presumed to have collated, 36 cursives: of these Lagarde has collated three, viz. a Munich MS., H. and P. No. 25; a Venice MS., H. and P., No. 122; and a Vienna MS., H. and P., No. 130. This more...

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