![]() The bare undisputed facts in the manuscript's history are few. ![]() ![]() Modest in size and appearance, and with at least eight of its quires now missing, it contains in its present order about half of the Psalms, a series of 18 Canticles preceded by a summary version of part of another, a sort of Calendar of selected Saints, a list of the apostles and the places where they had preached, a list of the liberal arts, and ends with the Passion of Sts. Such a manuscript actually exists, preserved for us as number 5 in the collection of Slavonic manuscripts in the monastery of St. To track down its home and fix its date become an exciting task. And when that manuscript happens to possess palaeographical features that are unique in Latin manuscripts, and contains, besides, a Calendar with a number of saints unrecorded in the vast storehouse of the Ada Sanctorum and unknown to the Bollandists of today, the great experts in hagiography, our curiosity about the history of such a is greatly enhanced. If it is a Latin biblical manuscript, and that in an unfamiliar text, it becomes doubly interesting. ![]() Thou comest in such a questionable shape.Īny Latin manuscript in an oriental convent must arouse interest.
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