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We have here 28 pairs of alternative readings. It appears that in 14 of 

 them C is to be preferred to V (including Ixxxiii. 8, and xcvii. 4) ; and that 

 in the remaining 14 V is to be preferred to C. 



The general result of our comparison of V and with the Hebrew and 

 Greek may now be stated. We have examined 119 pairs of readings. In 62 

 of these C has seemed better than V, and in 57 V has seemed better than C. 

 C, therefore, is apparently a somewhat better witness to the Galilean text 

 than V. The preponderance of good readings in it, or rather in the exemplar 

 from which it was copied, would have been more marked if lapsus calami of 

 its scribe had been excluded from consideration.' Both V and C show signs 

 of mixture. We have recorded in the immediately preceding table 14 

 readings in each which we may suspect to be survivals from an Old Latin 

 text ; and, looking at the matter from a slightly different point of view, we 

 have noted in the last three lists 23 apparently non-Hieronymian readings of 

 V and 18 of C, which are supported by Sabatier's Old Latin.' Thus it would 

 seem that the pre-Hieronymian element is slightly larger in V than in C. 



The Kubrics. 



The conclusions which can be deduced, as may hereafter appear, from a 

 discussion of the rubrics, warrant a treatment of them somewhat more lengthy 

 than might at first sight seem to be necessary. These rubrics are not, in all 

 eases, easy to read ; and a good many have balHed my efforts to decipher them. 

 But when I discovered that those which presented little difficulty were very 

 similar to the corresponding rubrics of the Codex Amiatinus, I obtained a clue 

 which enabled me to read, or reconstruct with some confidence, most of those 

 that remained. The greater number of those that proved absolutely illegible 

 are, in whole or in part, lost through mutilation. 



Speaking generally, a complete rubric consists of three parts:— (a) the 

 title of the psalm, from the Septuagint ; (6) a few words indicating its mystic 

 or spiritual interpretation ; and (c) a direction as to its liturgical use. These, 

 in the absence of more satisfactory terms, we may call respectively — (a) the 

 titulus, (b) the heading, and (c) the liturgical note. Thus, for example, in the 

 rubric of Ps. Ixviii the titulus is infinem pro his quae cummotalu,iitu,r losahnus 

 clauid, the liturgical note legendus ad kctionem ionae profdae et ad euaiigelium 

 iohannis, and the heading, iwx christi cum }Mteretur. Here the liturgical (or, 

 as in this case we might term it, lectionary) note seems to connect the psalm 

 with certain lessons. But it is not always of this character. At Ps. Ixxxv, 



' Discounting such lapses, there would remain about 113 pairs, in 62 of which C is 

 superior to V, and in 51 V is superior to C. 

 ^ They are marked with asterisks (*). 



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