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agmip, non uiculup, non hipcup, non caupup. liec epc ppima 

 now cepcamenci pigupa. TYIcmchanup. 6c hoc Oi;cic nenopcpa 

 oubicapecpibep be pacpipicio coOiOiano m ecclepnp quob cop- 

 pup Chpipoi epc, quoniam Chpipcup vn Oe,xcpa Dei pebec. — Gc 

 accipienp calicem. In luca legnmip Ouop calicep qmbup ppo- 

 pmnapec, unum ppimi menpip, ec alcepum pecunoi, uc qui 

 ppimo menpe ajnuin comeOepec non pocuepic pecunOo menpe 

 weep penicencep. 



Simon's " Bibliotbeque Critique," whiph 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 Bibliotbeque 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-t 

 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 Eibliotheque du Roi; Silvestre's Paleographie 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 very MS. with Aymon in 

 Jan. 29, 1711— (Gent. Mag., vol. cii. pp. 30-32.) See also Universal Palaeo- 

 graphy, by M. J. B. Silvestre, translated by Sir Frederick Madden, vol. i. 

 p. 179; vol. ii. p. 472. (Lond 1850.) 



t Nazarenus, Letter II. p. 15. (Lond. 1718.) 



