Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 by Various
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Ecclesiasticæ_, 1676, and in the _Appendix Addendorum_, 1678, 4to.
With regard to the MSS. used in the formation of the text of the _Complutensian Polyglot_, Mr. Jebb will find an account of their discovery in a letter addressed by Dr. James Thompson to the editor of _The Biblical Review_. See also _The Irish Ecclesiastical Journal_ for April 1847. R.G. _Complutensian Polyglot_.--The following extract from "The Prospectus of a Critical Edition of the New Testament," by the learned Mr. S. Prideaux Tregelles, affords a satisfactory reply to Mr. Jebb's query, No. 14. p. 212.:-- "However there is now more certainty as to the MSS. belonging to the University of Alcala. Dr. James Thompson has published (_Biblical Review_, March, 1847), the result of inquiries made thirty years ago by Dr. Bowring, and more recently by himself. Hence it appears that all the MSS. which formerly were known as belonging to Cardinal Ximenes, and which were preserved in the library of Alcala, are now with the rest of that library, at Madrid....Dr. José Gutierrez, the present librarian at Madrid, communicated to Dr. J. Thomson a catalogue of the Complutensian MSS., and from this it appears that the principal MSS. used in the Polyglott are all safely preserved." J. MILNER BARRY. |
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