380 



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 37 1 . 

 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 intelligo 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 Vercelli 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 



