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T H E FRAGMENTS OF HERACLEON

T E X T S AND

STUDIES

CONTRIBUTIONS TO

BIBLICAL AND PATRISTIC LITERATURE

EDITED

BY

J. ARMITAGE ROBINSON B.D. FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE CAMBBIDQE

VOL. I.

No. 4.

THE FRAGMENTS OF HERACLEON

THE FRAGMENTS OF HERACLEON

NEWLY EDITED FROM THE MSS. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

A. E. BROOKE M.A. FELLOW

OP

KINO'S

COLLEGE

CAMBRIDGE

l Gorgias

2004

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TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGES

INTRODUCTION The MSS. of Origen's Commentaries on S. John The Date and Teaching of Heracleon

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TEXT AND NOTES ADDITIONAL NOTES Heracleon and Yalentinus Collation of the'Excerpta ex Theodoto' On the Text of Fragment 24 INDICES Index of passages of Scripture quoted, explained, or referred to by Heracleon Index of Greek words in the Fragments of Heracleon . .

1 31 50-103 104-107 104 105 106 108-112 108 109

T H E MSS. O F O R I G E N ' S C O M M E N T A R I E S ON S. J O H N .

OF the extant manuscripts of the Commentaries on S. John, three only have been used by the editors. So far as I have been able to discover, there are seven in existence. If we count Thorndike's transcription of the Bodleian Manuscript, there are eight. The existence of a ninth is doubtful, but this question will be more easily discussed later on. The three which seem to have been used by the editors are at Paris, Rome and Oxford. The similarity of the text contained in them and the fact that they all contained many common lacunae, pointed to their derivation from a near common ancestor. The following pages are an attempt to shew that this ancestor still exists, though unfortunately in a bad state of preservation, in the Library at Munich. The Manuscripts are as follows:— I. Codex Monacensis. I n the Munich State Library, Graec. c x c i ; thus described in the Catalogue, " Bombycinus charta obsoleta et laesa atramento flavescente literis minutis et elegantibus frequenti abbreviatione in folio, ff. 305, saec. XIII. foliorum ordine turbato male conservatus et inscriptus vX. piß', Origenis Comm. in Matt, et Jn." Of the Commentaries on S. John it contains Bks. 1. 2. 6. 10. 13. 19. 20. 28. 32 (33 according to Hardt's Catalogue, but this is an error). Thus the MS. follows the true division of t h e Books. The Ferrarían division (that invented or adopted by Ambrosius Ferrarius in his translation) into 32 books is added in the margin by a later hand. Minuscules are used, hanging from ruled lines, there being one column of 30 lines on each page, in the Commentaries on S. John. B.

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T H E FRAGMENTS OF HERACLEON.

The Commentaries on S. Matthew are in another hand and contain 36 lines on a page. In both red semi-capitals are often used at the beginning of sentences, but not uniformly. The MS. is stained at the top and bottom, and worm-eaten in many places. The order of the folios in S. Matthew is much confused, and one or two pages are wanting. The title-page of the MS. has the following description: "Origenis in D. Matt. Ev. tomus 11 init. mut. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. et in evang. Johann. torn. 1. 2. 6. 9. 13. 19. 20. 32." In the middle of the page are the arms, below which is written : "Ex electorali Bibliotheca sereniss. utriusque Bavariae Ducum." This description is inaccurate. Most of Bk. x. of the Comm. in Matt, is there, and also Bk. xvii. And with regard to the Comm. in Joann. 9 is a mistake for 10, and 28 should have been inserted. Huet mentions a MS. of the Commentaries on S. Matthew in his Origeniana hi. iii. 12. "In Catalogo librorum ducis Bavariae notatur Tomus Undecimus initio quoque mutilus cum proxime sequentibus quinque." And as to the Commentaries on S. John he was again misinformed "Eosdem (i.e. 1. 2. 6. 10. 13. 19. 20. 28. 32) complectitur Tomos praeter decimum et vigesimum octavum memoratus liber in bibliothecae Bavaricae Catalogo" (ill. iii. 14). The 10th and the 28th books are contained, as well as the rest, in the Manuscript. The Catalogue which he used must have had the same mistakes which occur on the title-page of the MS. The Commentaries on S. John are preceded by a short preface stating that in the archetype of the MS. were several marginal notes drawing attention to Origen's blasphemies, which, the scribe B a y s , he has copied as he found them. II. Codex Venetus. In the Bibliotheca Marciana at Venice, Graec. 32. The title as given in the MS. itself is •J" copiyevov? e£ii