The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Volume 3

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Henry Barclay Swete
University Press, 1899
 

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Page 8 - Lip5- l8S5In the present edition Cod. V has been employed only for the four Books of Maccabees, where the paucity of uncial testimony rendered it necessary to depart from the rule which prescribed the sole use of such MSS. as are accessible in published facsimiles and photographs*.
Page 8 - ... Septuagint version preserved, as well as that last named, in a single MS., in which both the Greek versions are found. This MS. is known as the Chisian MS., Codex 87, from the fact that it once belonged to Pope Alexander the Vllth, a member of the Chigi family.
Page 8 - The fragments (viii. 5, 6, xi, 12, 15, 29: iz. a8 — 30, 31, 32), brief as they are, present some peculiar readings, which seemed to justify their employment in the present edition.
Page 8 - Masius, but seems to have disappeared at his death in 1573. It contained part of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, the four books of Kings, Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Judith, and part of Tobit. The extant volume was brought to the Ambrosian Library early in the 1 7th century from the monastery of S.
Page 3 - MS., are occupied by(i)an extract from the Synopsis printed among the works of St Athanasius, here attributed to En«rhj»ii ; (a) extract« from the 'Lives of the Prophets' which appear in the editions of Epiphanias.

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