I. — Some Itala Fragments in Verona. 



(■With I plate.) 



Daring- the summer of 1899 I had the privilege of making a care- 

 ful study of the valuable librar}- of the Chapter of the Cathedral 

 of Verona. This collection vies with that in Lyons for the com- 

 pleteness of its representation of local types of writing from the 

 sixth century on. My investigations were directed by my beloved 

 master, the late Ludwig Traube, who utilized them especially in 

 his " Nomina Sacra."' Among the manuscripts to which he called 

 my attention was one labeled I (1) app. This proved to consist of 

 several detached leaves which had been torn out of earl}' codices 

 and used as fly-leaves {pagine di gitardia). Three of the folios had 

 belonged to a Bible, written (to judge from the handsome and 

 regular uncials) at Verona about 500 A.D. These were catalogued 

 as from the Vulgate ; but a cursory examination showed that they 

 presented a pre-Jerome version (for which I use the convenient 

 misnomer, Itala). Traube at once connected these fragments with 

 those of Prov. 15—17 discovered by Mone in the monastery of St. 

 Paul in Carinthia (which has Verona Mss.), and published b}- him 

 in his " De Libris Palimpsestis " (1855), pp. 49—51. Certainly these 

 latter stand about in the same relation to the Septuagint as ours. 

 Correspondence with Prof. Thielmann brought out the fact. that he 

 possessed a transcript of two of the fragments (those of Wisdom 

 and Ecclesiasticus), made b}' Dr. Hugo Linke of Breslau, who is 

 thus their original discoverer (cf. the reference in Ph. Thielmann, 

 Uber das handschr. Material zu einer krit. Ausgabe etc., Sitzungsber. 

 der philos.-philol. u. d. histor. Classe der k. ba3'er. Akad. d. Wiss. 1899, 

 Bd. II, Heft II, p. 211, 28). Both Prof. Thielmann and Dr. Linke 

 have kindly encouraged me to publish them. I add an interesting 

 lectio from Ezekiel, written in a cursive hand of the seventh or 

 eighth centur}', on the blank verso of the first folio of the MS. II (2) 

 of the same library. For aid and suggestions I am indebted to all 

 three gentlemen named, and also to the genial and helpful librarian 

 of the chapter, D. Antonio Spagnolo. 



The three fragments contained in I (1) are badly rubbed and 

 torn. Folios 1 and 2 lack side and bottom margins, together with 

 the letters at the beginning and end of several lines, folio 2 being 

 in much the worse condition. Folio 3 lacks the inner, side and 



