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«* m ~ na sentence from > svhicfe so many consequences ere < Jeduced . —That sentence forrras the conclusion of a short tract whrch is prefixed to the Gioswt Ordinarha , and entitled " Translatores Bi < blS # s" Had Mr . Travis taken
the precaution of reading the entire tract , he would have found that the writer , in his account of the Septuaginc translation , quotes , as his authority , a person whom he calls ' *
Magister in Historiis . " This appellation had been given to Petrds Comestor , who flourished in the latter part of the twelfth century , and wrote a history of the Bible under the title of Historia Sehatastica . The tract in
question , therefore , could not have tieen written by Walafrid Strabo , who lived in the ninth century . What now becomes of Mr . Travis ' s argument founded on the ancient Greek MSS .
which had been examined , with the most critical exactness , by Walafrid Strabo ? * As much importance has , by several writers , been attached to the supposed testimony of Walafrid Strabo , we have taken some p&ins to ascertain the real author of the tract from which Mr .
Iravis drew his quotation . We have now before us an edition of the Vulgate Bible , with the Glossje and the . Exposition of Nicholas de Lyra , printed at Venice by Pagninus , in the year 1495 . Prefixed to the work is a letter
addressed to Cardinal Francis Picolhomini , by Bernardinus Gadolus , Brixianus . In this letter Gadolus describes the great care and diligence which he had employed , at the request of Pag-ninus , in preparing * the edition ; and concludes with the following- sentence : " Conscripsi praeterca , sive ex multis auctoribus et
praecipue ex Hieronymo excerpsi , tractatulum de Libris Bibliae Canonicits et non Canonicis ; qui si tuae
To leave no room for uncertainty on this subject , we compared the Tract entitled " Translatores Jiibliae , " with the " llistoriri Scbolastica ; " and found the most complete agreement between them . We may here remark , that the
appellation " Magister in Historiis" for a long tract of time as clearly designated Peter Comestor , as the appellation " Magi . ster Seuteiitiaruiu , " or «« Magister in Sententiis , " designated his contemporary Peter Lombard .
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rererendiseiiri ^ < k > ttrinati 6 nis judic | 0 -cui otnnia suttffcfo , cofaprobatus faerit , earn ad utilitatera legentium imprimi permittam ; sin nimi $ ( 1 .. minus ) cellula coiitineBitur . " Then " follows the Tract , alluded to in ttie letter
entitled De JLAbf i * Vnnonicis et non Canonich > to which is subjoined the Tract entitled Tramlatores BibUa which furnished Mr . Travis with his quotation . If any of our reader * win take the trouble of examining these two tracts , we are convinced that not
one of them will hesitate in attributin g them to the same pen . In both , the style of composition is precisely the same , and the same authorities are alluded to , viz . Origen , Jerome , Magister in Historiis . We must ,
therefore , conclude that , instead of affording a proof of the critical attention of Walafrid Strabo in the ninth century , Mr . Travis ' s quotation will be found to attest the editorial diligence of Bernardinus Gadolus at the clos-c of the
fifteenth . * Of his own care and diligence , indeed , this learned Editor has written in high terms of commendation ; but in terms which , we have no doubt , were well deserved . € * Conquisiri , " he writes , " haud parvo certe labore , omnes jam ante a impressos Sacrae
bcriptun « libros , et manu senptos ad quinque numero ; et percurrens codicem quo erant pro archetypo usuri , ubicunque aliquid vel errati vel dubii apparebat , diligentissime sin-^ ulos codices iaspectavi ; ct quw ex his in meo codice errata inveni ( inveni
autem quam plurima ) accuratiS 3 ime sustuli : in quibus illud Deo tcste proiiteor , me nilil penitus addidissc aut immutassc quod non ex aliqno * In the Bibliothecii of Sixtus Scnensis , tliere is the following : notice of Gadolus , whom he calls Gaidolus : —"
Bernardinus Galdolus , Brixianus , Camaldulen . sis Abbas , vir boriaruin litterarum , pliilo . sopluae , et juris canonici apprime eruditus , scripsit in omnes Bibliorciru libros insigne annotationum opus . CJaruit sub Maximilu | BO Imp . I . A . D . 1496 . of
We will take thid ^ pportimity stating that , in a subsequent edition of the Uiblia cum Qlossis , we find tlie two tracts above-rneutioned inserted without the prefatory letter of Gadohis to C ardinal Picolhomini . Perhaps Mr . Travis was misled by an edition of this kind .
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336 Quarterly Review on Bishop t > f Si . ZfeittrfV Pindie * tfoto ' nf \ John v . 7 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/16/
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