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The Codex Vercellensis is shown by Blanchini, and gene- 
rally believed, to be the autograph of Eusebius, first bishop 
of Vercelli, in the diocese of Milan, who died in the year 371. 
Having been banished from his see by the Arians, he em- 
ployed his retirement, at the suggestion of Pope Julius, in 
the revision of the Latin versions then in use, which were, for 
the most part, full of errors, interpolations, and solecisms ; 
and his recension became afterwards very generally received 
throughout the West, having been adopted by St. Hilary of 
Poictiers as the text from which he quotes in all his writings. 
The Codex Veronensis is a purple manuscript, written 
in letters of gold and silver, and is assigned by Blanchini to 
the beginning of the fifth century: its text is generally con- 
sidered to belong to the Eusebian recension, but it has mani- 
festly been corrected by the Greek text of Hesychius, and is 
no where indebted to Jerome’s revision. 
An examination of the foregoing table, in which these two 
very ancient specimens of the Vetus Itala, or old italic Latin 
version, are compared with the fragment, will prove that Dr. 
Todd’s fragment is also a manuscript of that version; and many 
of its peculiarities are such as would naturally be expected in a 
manuscript of the same age. It is curious that in all the three 
manuscripts the word inéelligo is uniformly spelt intellego, 
showing that this variation from the usual spelling was not 
the mistake of a copyist, but the spelling of the same period 
and locality. 
Again, it will be seen that the fragment sometimes agrees 
with the Verona manuscript and differs from the Vercelli ma- 
nuscript; sometimes agrees with the Vercelii manuscript and 
differs from the Verona manuscript ; and, in some cases, even 
where the two other manuscripts agree with the modern Vul- 
gate, it differs from them all. 
The conclusion, therefore, is inevitable, that this is a leaf 
of a purple manuscript of the fourth or early part of the fifth 
century, of the Eusebian revision,—one of those which were 
