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agnup, non wiculup, non hineup, non caupup. hee ept ppima 
nou cepcamenci pigupa. Manchanup. Ec hoc o1xit ne noptpa 
oubicanet ploep de pacpipicio codrorano m ecclepup quod con- 
pup Chpipe: epc, quomam Chpiptup m vexcpa Oe1 pevet.—Cc 
acerpienp calicem. In Luca legimup ouop calicep quibup ppo- 
pimnanes, unum ppimi menpip, ec alcepum fecunoi, ut qui 
primo menpe agnum comedvepet non potuepit pecunoo menpe 
imcepn pemcencep. 
Simon’s ‘ Bibliotheque Critique,” which was published in 
1708, seems to have drawn some attention to this manuscript ; 
and his account of its age and origin, coupled with its beauty 
and compactness, recommended it to the cupidity of one who, 
about that time, was carrying on an infamous traffic in manu- 
scripts, which he purloined from the Bibliotheque du Roi. This 
was the miscreant John Aymon, whose morality was as loose 
as his religious principles, and whose depredations on the 
King’s Library have been made the subject of well-earned re- 
probation.* In 1708 our countryman, John Toland, was living 
at the Hague, where he became acquainted with Aymon, and 
obtained a loan of the manuscript under consideration. This 
we learn from Letter II. in his Nazarenus, where he states 
that he had it in his custody about half a year, and adds in a 
note that he wrote his dissertation upon it in the year 1709.f 
He must have been aware also of the depository to which it 
* See Biographie Universelle, voce Aymon (vol. iii. p. 137); Le Prince’s 
History of the Bibliotheque du Roi; Silvestre’s Paléographie Universelle, 
vol. ii. p. 31; vol. iii. under ‘* Bible dite de Saint-Denis,” about the middle. 
A more particular account of the MSS. stolen by him (nearly all of which 
are now in the British Museum) was printed by Sir Frederick Madden in the 
Gentleman’s Magazine for 1832, translated from the German of Uffenbach’s 
Travels, published in 1753. Uffenbach saw this Yery MS. with Aymon in 
Jan. 29, 1711—(Gent. Mag., vol. cii. pp. 30-32.) See also Universal Palzo- 
graphy, by M. J. B. Silvestre, translated by Sir Frederick Madden, vol. i. 
p. 179; vol. ii. p. 472. (Lond. 1850.) 
+ Nazarenus, Letter If. p. 15. (Lond. 1718.) 
