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The word dicit has no other support, and was probably added by a later 

 scribe. 



Ps. xviii. A : propheta operantem Jiortattir. 



E : de aduentu christi per quern reseratur psahmis cxviii ihi 

 coniunyitv/r nouurn et v.ehis testametiti. 

 The heading in A is inappropriate. It is doubtless borrowed from Ps. six. 

 where it appears in AE, as in other authorities. The words de aduavtu christi 

 in E are in harmony with the use of Ps. xviii as a Christmas psalm, and have 

 good support. They were almost certainly in a. I am less confident about 

 the following clause. It is badly copied, and should, perhaps, run thus : ^jer 

 qncm referatur pscdimis ad p)salmurii cxviii. iii C07iiu7igitur nouum et uetus 

 testamentu7n. It has a parallel in Bede's argumentum to Ps. xxxiv : per 

 christum ad omnis psalmos referri potest ; and the comparison of Ps. xviii with 

 Ps. cxviii is not unhappy. On the whole, it is probable that the clause 

 comes from a. 



Ps. XXXV. A : propheta cum laiide opera ipsius iudae dicit. 



E : propheta cum laiide dei opera ipsixis iudeae dicit. 

 The reading iudeae in E is certainly wrong. The word dci is doubtful. 

 It has some support from other MSS., but it may have arisen from a 

 repetition of de. 



Ps. xxxvi. A : ortcdur omties admonstrans sahdem ecdesiae credeidevi nionet 

 ad fidci finnavunturn. 

 E has ad ficUm demonstrans for admonstrans. 

 The reading of A is, so far as I know, without support. The scribe has 

 appai'ently omitted fidem de, confused, it would seem, by the repetition of 

 the letters dem,, or by the words ad fidei below. E is certainly not derived 

 fi'om A, and probably follows a. 



Ps. xxxix. A : paticidia popidi est. 

 E : paticntia est populi. 

 E might have been derived from a text identical with A ; but it is 

 equally possible that it follows a more exactly than A. 



Ps. xliv. A : Icgcndtis ad cuangeliuiii iruitliei de rcgina axistri propheta. 



E adds pro poire de christo ct ecclesia dicit. 

 A is almost certainly incorrect ; for tlie words dc regina austri define the 

 passage of St. Matthew refeiTcd to (xii. 42),' and ^wo2J7i<;te is thus without 

 meaning. In E propJieta begins a new clause, which fonns an appropriate 

 heading for the psalm. Thus E, if it does not exactly reproduce a, is much 

 nearer to it than A. We may suspect, however, that pro patre, whether it 

 was in a or not, is not original. 



' So the phrase is obviously taken in B, which has the second clause of R in a slightly 

 diflferent form, but puts it before hgendus. 



