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Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.5.18

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12002

Contents

Introduction: This manuscript, copied in London in 1634, contains a series of Greek antirrhetical texts, including catalogues of heresies, treatises refuting particular doctrines, excerpts from the decrees of Ecumenical Councils and procedures for receiving former heretics and converts from other religions into the Church. Most of the contents were copied by a deacon of Macedonian origin named Leontios Vyssios. They were selected from a manuscript which had been acquired a few years earlier, in 1629, by the London theological institution Sion College, which is now London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS Sion L40.2/G6. The latter is a composite manuscript assembled from parts of a number of earlier books, whose contents, besides those copied here, included chronographical, catechetical and legal texts. Evidently the patron responsible for the copying of this manuscript was interested only in the content relating to doctrinal disputes and conversion. Within less than two decades of its creation, this manuscript was in the possession of the scholar and royal librarian Patrick Young, who extensively annotated it, including collating the longest text with two other manuscripts. This work was the compendious work on heresies compiled by John of Damascus, which combined earlier texts on the subject, principally that of Epiphanios of Constantia, and added some original material. The component texts appear here under separate headings. The copies with which this one was collated were a manuscript belonging to James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, now in Trinity College, Dublin, and another from the Barocci collection of the Bodleian Library. Young also added a small amount of content which he copied himself from Ussher's manuscript, and a series of lists of heresies gleaned from a variety of different antirrhetical texts. The early date at which he was using the manuscript and his intensive engagement with its contents suggests that Young may have been the patron who arranged for it to be copied. Dr Christopher Wright

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: Codex: i + 1 + 108 + i leaves.
Foliation: The manuscript is foliated with the numbers [a] + i + 1-71, [72-81], 82-83, [84-93], 94-108 + [b] in black ink, in Arabic numerals, recto, upper right. The number 92 also appears to have been placed by this hand on f. 82r and later altered to 93.
Foliation: ff. 72r-106v have subsequently been paginated by another hand with the numbers 73-92, 93[a]-[93b], 94[a]-[94b], 95-140 in brown ink, in Arabic numerals, usually recto only, upper right. This numbering was evidently added to supply the lack of original foliation on ff. 71r-93v, misunderstanding that foliation as pagination. When the original foliation resumed, this was apparently considered erroneous and therefore struck through and replaced or overwritten. The overwriting of the earlier folio numbers on ff. 82r and ff. 83r, present in the middle of a stretch where these numbers are usually absent, perhaps caused some confusion, leading to the error whereby the number 94 has been placed where one would expect 95 and 95 where one would expect 97, leaving the page numbers thereafter too small by two.
Foliation: ff. i, 104r-106v are foliated with the numbers I, 104-106 in pencil, in Arabic and Roman numerals, recto, upper right. The numbers 93A-93B and 94A-94B have also been added to the pagination on ff. 82r-83v, compensating for the error in that sequence.

Condition

f. 14 has become detached. There are minor losses to the corners of some folios, with evidence of singeing on ff. 80-82 (pp. 89-93B). Heavy brown stains appear on the edges of f. 6r and f. 95r (p. 117). There is significant water staining and areas of dirt.

Additions

As part of the original production of the manuscript, items in lists of heresies are numbered in the margin.

There are frequent marginal annotations in Greek and Latin by Patrick Young, including corrections and collations of the first text with Dublin, Trinity College, MS 200 (then belonging to James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (1581-1656) ) and a Barocci manuscript, presumably either Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Barocci 76, MS Barocci 173 or Barocci 185.

Another hand, possibly the one responsible for the partial pagination, has added notes in Greek and Latin regarding the contents and editions (e.g. ff. [a] recto i recto, 49r, 105r, ff. 108r-[b] recto.

Occasional headers in Latin by another hand identify texts or subject-matter (e.g. ff. 13r, 15r, 47r, 49r).

Binding

17th-century binding with skin cover over laminate boards, with plain pastedowns. The classmark appears on patches on the spine.

377 × 240 × 48 mm.

Accompanying Material

A loose note in Latin is inserted between f. i verso and f. 1r, identifying the content of Greek manuscripts at Sion College. These include London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS Sion L40.2/G6, the main exemplar of this manuscript, together with London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G4, Sion L40.2/G5 and Sion L40.2/G7. All of these were donated to Sion College in 1629, together with a manuscript of John Klimakos which was still in the collection in 1658 but subsequently lost, perhaps during the Great Fire of London in 1666.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by the Biblical scholar and royal librarian Patrick Young (1584-1652) .

Purchased after his death by the antiquary Thomas Gale (c. 1635-1702) , Fellow of Trinity and Dean of York. It appears in the 1697 catalogue of Gale's collection contained in Trinity College MS O.5.38 (pp. 149-150).

Donated to Trinity College by Thomas's son, the antiquary Roger Gale (1672-1744) , in 1738.

Part 1 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.5.18, ff. i, 1-106]

Contents

1. f. i recto
Contents list
Language(s): Latin

f. i verso is blank

2. ff. 1r-46v
John of Damascus (675-749), De haeresibus
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Incipit: f. 1r Βαρβαρισμὸς· ἥτις καθ'ἑαυτὴν ἔστι, διαρκέσασαν ἀπὸ τῶν ἡμερῶν
Explicit: f. 46v τὰ ἐκ διαμέτρου κακὰ καὶ ὁμότιμα τὴν ἀσέβειαν

TLG 2934.006; CPG 8044; PG 94, coll. 678-790

No rubric is given for the work as a whole, only for sections and works excerpted or incorporated into the compilation

3. ff. 46v-48v
Acts of the Third Council of Constantinople
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek

Excerpt from Act XI: ed. Riedinger, pp. 476-485

Rubric: f. 46v Ἔτι περὶ αιρέσεων καὶ αἱρεσιαρχῶν ἐκ τῶν συνοδικῶν τοῦ ἁγίου Σοφρονίου πατριάρχου Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ προεθήκη ἀπ'ἐκείνου καὶ δεῦρο
Incipit: f. 46v Ἀνάθεμα τοίνυν εἰσαεὶ καὶ κατάθεμα ἀπὸ τῆς ἁγίας καὶ ὁμοουσίου
Explicit: f. 48v καθέστηκε δυσσεβὴς καὶ θεήλατος αἵρεσις

TLG 5000.009; CPG 9430

Attributed to Sophronios of Jerusalem (c. 560-c. 638)

4. ff. 48v-64r
Timothy, presbyter of Constantinople, De iis qui ad ecclesiam accedunt
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. 48v Τιμοθέου πρεσβυτέρου τῆς ἁγιωτάτης μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας Κωνσταντινουπόλεως πρὸς Ἰωάννην πρεσβύτερον τῆς αὐτῆς ἁγιωτάτης τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκκλησίας καὶ σκευοφύλακα τῆς ἁγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν τοῖς Χαλκοπρατίοις· περὶ διαφορᾶς τῶν προσερχομένων τῆ εὐαγεστάτη ἡμῶν πίστει
Incipit: f. 48v Τρεῖς τάξις[sic] εὑρίσκομεν τῶν προσερχομένων
Explicit: f. 48v κράτος τιμὴ καὶ προσκύνησις· νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων ἀμήν

CPG 7016; PG 86, coll. 12-68

5. ff. 64v-[84v], (f. 64v-p. 96)
Germanos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 634-c. 733), De haeresibus et synodis
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. 64v Τοῦ εν ἁγίοις πατρὸς ἡμῶν Γερμανοῦ οἰκουμενικοῦ πατριάρχου πρὸς Ἄνθιμον τὸν θεοφι- λέστατον διάκονον τῆς καθολικῆς ἐκκλησίας, λόγος διηγηματικὸς· περί τε τῶν ἁγίων συνόδων καὶ τῶν κατὰ καιροὺς ἀνέκαθεν τοῦ ἀποστολικοῦ κηρύγματος ἀναφυεισῶν αἱρέσεων
Incipit: f. 64v Σοφῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐν ἐρωτήσεις μελέτης δέονται
Explicit: f. [84v] τῇ πλάνῃ τῶν ἐναντίων μὴ συμφθαρεῖσαν

TLG 2933.003; CPG 8020; PG 98, coll. 40-88

6. ff. [84v-85r] (pp. 96-97)
Methodios I, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 789-847), De iis qui abnegarunt secundum diversas personas, et aetates, et ad orthodoxam veramque fidem revertuntur
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. [84v] (p. 96) Μεθοδίου τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου καὶ οἰκουμενικοῦ πατρι- άρχου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως· διάταξις περὶ τῶν ἀρνησαμένων διαφόρῳ τρόπῳ καὶ ἡλικίᾳ καὶ ἐπιστρεφόντων
Incipit: f. [84v] (p. 96) Εἰ μὲν παιδίον συνελήφθη καὶ ἠρνήσατο
Explicit: f. [85r] (p. 97) εἴτε ἄνδρες εἶεν εἴτε γυναῖκες· μόνον τέλειοι τὴν ἡλικίαν

Similar to PG 100, coll. 1300-1308, but differing in its later part

7. ff. [85r-85v] (pp. 97-98)
Methodios I, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 789-847), Oratio pro Christianis gentilium seductione subactis
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. [85r] (p. 97) Εὐχὴ πρὸς Χριστιανὸν ὑπαχθέντα μὲν ἐθνικῇ πλάνῃ ἐπιστρέψαντα δὲ ἐξ αὐτῆς καὶ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ προσδράμοντα
Incipit: f. [85r] (p. 97) Κύριε Κύριε ὁ τῶν απάντων[sic] ποιητὴς καὶ δεσπότης
Explicit: f. [85v] (p. 98) Ὅτι συ εἶ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν Θεὸς τοῦ ἐλεγεῖν καὶ σώζειν καὶ σοὶ τὴν δόξαν

PG 100, coll. 1312-1314

8. ff. [85v-86r] (pp. 98-99)
Methodios I, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 789-847), Oratio propitiatoria pro eis qui post abnegationem revertuntur
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. [85v] (p. 98) Εὐχὴ ἱλασμοῦ εἰς τοὺς ἀπὸ ἀρνήσεως ἐπιστρέφοντας
Incipit: f. [85v] (p. 98) Δίκαιος εἶ Κύριε καὶ εὐθεῖς αἱ κρίσεις
Explicit: f. [86r] (p. 99) σὺν τῷ ἀνάρχῳ σου Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ ζωοποιῷ σου Πνεύματι, νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων ἀμήν

PG 100, coll. 1308-1309

9. ff. [86r-88v] (pp. 99-104)
Methodios I, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 789-847), Ex Euchologio patriarchali, qua ratione ex haeresi in sanctam Dei catholicam ecclesiam remigrantes suscipere oporteat
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. [86r] (p. 99) Ὅπως χρὴ δέχεσθαι τοὺς ἀπὸ αἱρέσεως μετερχομένους ἐν τῇ ἁγίᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ καθολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ
Incipit: f. [86r] (p. 99) Ἀρειανοὺς μέντοι καὶ Μακεδονιάνους ἤγουν πνευματομάχους
Explicit: f. [88v] (p. 104) ὡς ὁμοουσίου καὶ τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ ἡμῖν τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχοντος

PG 100 coll. 1317-1324

10. ff. [88v-90v] (pp. 104-108)
Nikephoros I, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 758-828), Antirrheticus tertius adversus Constantinum Copronymum
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek

Excerpt: coll. 428-433

Rubric: f. [88v] (p. 104) Νικηφόρου πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως διαφορὰ εἰκόνος Χριστοῦ καὶ σταυροῦ ἐνδέκα ἀποδείξεων συλλογισμῶν τρόποις
Incipit: f. [88v] (p. 104) Ὅτι ἡ εἰκὼν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁμοίωμα αὐτοῦ ἐστι
Explicit: f. [90v] (p. 108) ἢ καθαιροῦντας τὴν εἰκόνα, συγκαταβάλλειν καὶ τὸν σταυρὸν

TLG 3086.005; PG 100, coll. 376-533

11. ff. [90v]-96r (pp. 108-119)
Nikephoros I, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 758-828), Apologeticus minor pro sacris imaginibus
Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. [90v] (p. 108) Ἀπολογητικὸς τοῦ ὁσίου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Νικηφόρου πατριάρχος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, πρὸς τὴν καθολικὴν ἐκκλησίαν, περὶ τοῦ κατὰ τῶν σεπτῶν εἰκόνων πάλιν νέον σχίσματος
Incipit: f. [90v] (p. 108) Ἐπειδὴ ἡ ἁγία τοῦ Θεοῦ καθολικὴ ἐκκλησία, ἐν τῷ θεμελίῳ
Explicit: f. 96r (p. 119) καὶ τὴν εἰρήνην χάριτι καῖ εὐδοκίᾳ Θεοῦ βραβευθῆναι ἐν αὐτῇ

TLG 3086.006; PG 100, coll. 833-849

12. ff. 96v-101r (pp. 120-129)
Rite of renunciation for Jewish converts to Orthodoxy Appendix monumentorum ad recognitiones Clementinas

Excerpt: PG 1, col. 1456

Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. 96v (p. 120) Πως δεῖ δέχεσθαι· τὸν ἐξ Ἑβραίων τῇ τῶν Χριστιανῶν πίστει προσερχόμενον
Incipit: f. 96v (p. 120) Ἐξαγορεύειν ἀυτὸν χρὴ καὶ θριαμβεύειν πᾶν ἔθος Ἑβραϊκὸν
Explicit: f. 101r (p. 129) πιστεύομεν εἰς ἕνα Θεὸν Πατέρα παντοκράτορα

PG 1, coll. 1456-1461

13. ff. 101r-104v (pp. 129-136)
Emperor Basil II (958-1025), Novellae constitutiones

Excerpt: PG 117, coll. 621-629

Filiation: Copied from London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS Sion L40.2/G6.
Language(s): Greek
Rubric: f. 101r (p. 129) Νομοθεσία νεαρᾶ Βασιλείου πορφυρογεννήτου δεσπότου ἐκφωνηθεῖσα κατὰ τὸν Ἰαννουάριον μηνὸς τῆς Θʹ ἰνδίκτου τοῦ ͵ϚΦΔʹ ἔτους τὸ ἡμισυ[sic]
Incipit: f. 101v (p. 130) Εἰ γὰρ μὴ διορθωσόμεθα ἄρτι ὅσα κινοῦνται ἀπὸ τῶν παρελθόντων
Explicit: f. 104v (p. 136) εἰ γὰρ ἀληθῆ ἦσαν, προεκομίσθησαν ἂν παρὰ τῶν ἐχόντων αὐτὰ

PG 117, coll. 613-633

14. f. 104v (p. 136)
Language(s): Greek
Colophon: Λέοντιος Βύσσιος, ταπεινὸς ἱεροδιάκονος ὁ Μακεδόνιος μετέγραψε ταῦτα· εὑρισκόμενος ἐν τῇ τῆς μεγάλης Βρεττανείας περιφήμῳ πόλει Λονδόνι· Μαΐῳ κηʹ ἐν ἔτει σωτηρίῳ ͵αχλδʹ· καὶ εἴ τι ἂν σφαλερὸν εὕρητε συγγνώμην μοι παρέξητε διὰ τὸν Κύριον· ὁ γράφων γὰρ καὶ παραγράφει
15. f. 105r (p. 137)
Epistula de eis qui ad ecclesiam accedunt
Filiation: Copied from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 200.
Language(s): Greek

Traditionally attributed to Gennadios I, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 471)

Rubric: f. 105r (p. 137) Επιστολὴ γραφεῖα ἀπὸ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Μαρτυρίῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Αντιοχείας, περὶ τοῦ ὅπως χρὴ δέχεσθαι τοὺς αἱρετικοὺς προσερχομένους τῇ ἁγίᾳ καὶ καθολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ
Incipit: f. 105r (p. 137) Τινὰ διελέχθη μοι ὁ θεοφιλέστατος πρεσβύτερος Αντώνιος
Explicit: f. 105r (p. 137) ταῦτα ὡς ἡμέτερος ἐσπούδασα σημᾶναι

TLG 2762.014; CPG 5983

16. f. 105r (p. 137)
Acts of the Council of Chalcedon
Language(s): Greek

Action VI, excerpt: Acta Concilia Oecumenica II, 1, 2, pp. 155-156

Rubric: f. 105r (p. 137) Τὰ ἐκφωνηθέντα ἐν τῇ ἐκθέσει τῆς πίστεως παρὰ τοῦ τότε βασιλεύοντος πρὸς τοὺς ρνʹ ἁγίους πατέρας τοὺς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἀθροισθέντας, καὶ ἀπὸ τούτων αὖθις πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα
Incipit: f. 105r (p. 137) Ο[sic] θειότατος καὶ εὐσεβέστατος βασιλεὺς πρὸς τὴν ἁγίαν σύνοδον εἶπε, λέγετω ἡ ἁγία σύνοδος εἰ κατὰ συναίνεσιν πάντων τῶν ἐπισκόπων
Explicit: f. 105r (p. 137) ἐπὶ πᾶσιν εἰρήνην ἡμῖν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ δωροθήσεται

TLG 5000.003

17. f. 105v (p. 138), coll. a-b, line 8
List of heresies from Epiphanios of Constantia (c. 310-403) , Panarion (Adversus haereses)
Language(s): Latin

Source text TLG 2021.002; CPG 3745; PG 41, coll. 156-1200, PG 42, coll. 9-832

18. f. 105v (p. 138), col. b, lines 9-69
List of heresies from Theodoret of Cyrrhus (c. 393-c. 466) , Haereticarum fabularum compendium
Language(s): Latin

Source text TLG 4089.031; CPG 6233, PG 83, coll. 336-556

19. f. 106r (p. 139)
List of heresies from Niketas Choniates (c. 1140-1213) , Panoplia dogmatike
Language(s): Latin

Source text TLG 3094.006 (extract); PG 139, coll. 1093-1444; PG 140, coll. 9-284

f. 106v is blank

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: ff. 1-94 (p. 116) Western paper, folded in folio. Watermark: Crown ( 89 × 42 mm. ) in the centre of the folio. f. 95 (p. 117)-f. 106 (p. 140) Western paper, folded in folio. Watermark: Coat of arms ( 107 × 60 mm. ) in the centre of the folio, similar to Heawood 658. This example is undated, but of a broader type dating to 1675-1700.
Extent: 372 × 231 mm.

Collation

The manuscript consists of 10 quires, of which one is a ternion, one a quaternion, two are quinia and the rest are of twelve folios.

  • Quire 16 ff. i, 1-5
  • Quire 28 ff. 6-13
  • Quire 310 ff. 14-23
  • Quire 410+1 ff. 24-34 The last folio is a singleton attached to the quire.
  • Quire 5-1012 ff. 35-106

Layout

ff. 1r-104v (pp. 1-134) A single column of 26 lines. 292 × 163 mm. The margins are ruled in red crayon.

f. 105r (p. 137) A single column of 52 lines. 292 × 164 mm. The margins are ruled in red crayon.

ff. 105v-106r (pp. 138-139) Two columns of 62-70 lines. 306 × 164 mm. The margins are ruled in red crayon.

Hand(s)

ff. 1r-104v were copied by Leontios Vyssios (Hand A) in mixed minuscule script derivative of the Hodegon style, slanting to the right, in black ink, with moderate variation in letter size, usually consisting of the frequent and substantial expansion of the letter tau. There are deletions by expunctuation.

Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings appear throughout the line. Breathings are round and mute iota is subscript. Use of the double dot is functional only, and there is accentuation of all nomina sacra .

Punctuation used includes the upper point, lower comma and full stop.

Headings are written in the same style in red ink.

ff. i recto and 105r-108v were copied by Patrick Young, in black ink. Greek text is in mixed minuscule script, in black ink, with variable slant.

Syllabic abbreviations are very rare and appear only at the end of lines; superscript word endings are not used. Breathings are round and mute iota is subscript.

Punctuation used includes the middle and upper points, lower comma, question mark and full stop.

Decoration

The beginning of the text is preceded by a rectangular plaited headpiece in red ink, topped by a plaited cross-shaped design with the inscription ‘Ἰ(ησοῦ)ς Χ(ριστὸ)ς νίκα’.

Texts begin with ornamented initials in red ink, and some sections with simpler minor initials.

Notes by the scribe on ff. 36r, 37v and 38r have been gilded.

History

Origin:

The main body of the manuscript was copied in London by the Macedonian deacon Leontios Vyssios and completed on 28 May 1634, as indicated by his colophon on f. 104v (p. 136).

The texts on ff. i recto and 105r-106v were added by Patrick Young between 1634 and 1652, the year of his death. His early ownership of the manuscript and engagement with its content suggests that he may have been the patron of its production.

Part 2 [Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.5.18, ff. 107-108]

Contents

20. f. 107r-107v, col. b, line 4
List of heresies from Philastrius (d. 397) , Liber de haeresibus
Language(s): Latin

Source text PL 12, coll. 1111-1302

21. f. 107v, col. b, line 5-f. 108r
List of heresies from Augustine of Hippo (354-430) , De haeresibus
Language(s): Latin

Source text CPL 314; PL 42, coll. 21-50

22. f. 108v
List of heresies from John of Damascus, De haeresibus
Language(s): Latin

Source text TLG 2934.006; CPG 8044; PG 94, coll. 678-790

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: ff. 107r-108v Western paper, folded in folio. Watermark: Pillars ( 44 × 42 mm. ) in the centre of the folio, comparable but not identical to Heawood 3506. This example is dated to 1637.
Extent: 320 × 196 mm.

Layout

One to four columns of 48-62 lines. 302 × 160 mm.

Hand(s)

Copied by Patrick Young.

History

Origin: These folios were were copied by Patrick Young (1584-1652) , royal librarian to King James VI and I, and King Charles I, between 1634 and 1652 and inserted into the original manuscript then or at some later point prior to the most recent binding. While their content is of very similar type to that of the preceding text in the main body of the manuscript, on ff. 105v-106r (pp. 138-139), the amount of intervening blank space suggests that they were not originally intended as a supplement for it, though they could have been a draft for planned copying into it.

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Bibliography

    The western manuscripts in the library of Trinity College: a descriptive catalogue, James, M. R. (Cambridge, 3, Cambridge University Press, 1902)

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