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APPENDIX 



Ojf THE System of Spelling adopted in this Edition, and on the 



UNIMPORTANT YaRIANTS OF THE MSS. 



In view of the unique interest attaching to A, and its gi'eat 

 antiquity as compared with that of the other mss. of the Zihri S, 

 Fatricii, it has been thought best to present to the reader, either in 

 the text or in the foot-notes, the word-forms of that ms. wherever it 

 is available. 



At the same time it would be unreasonable to burden the foot- 

 notes, except in a very few cases, with details of the deviations in 

 spelling of the other mss. Accordingly the reader may assume, in 

 the case of the words here subjoined, that the other mss. present the 

 usual spelling, unless it is expressly stated to the contraiy. The 

 mere blunders of the scribe of A are not here recorded, as they have 

 been noticed in the foot-notes. The peculiar forms of words found in 

 A are, with very few exceptions, those found in the version of the 

 jS'ew Testament contained in the Eook of Armagh. Those not so 

 found are marked with an asterisk. 



The numerals refer to the sections of the text. 



Consonants Doubled. 

 missertus, 2 ; uissibilia, 4 ; otiossum, 7 ; onim ; *hessitaui, 9 ; excussatio, 

 10 ; missericordia, 12 ; querella, 13 ; *intermissi, 17 ; nissi, 24, 41 ; uissu, 29 ; 

 promisserat, 38; Issac, 39; copiossa ; dissiderantem, 40; occassio, 64, 55; 

 pussUlura, 62. 



a substituted for e. 

 reuerantia, 13. 



e substituted for a, 

 seperaui, 18. 



e substituted for i. 

 incederem (so relL except E,) ; dedici, 9 ; desertus, 10, 11 ; itenere, 18, 22 ; 

 *mammellas, 18; conuertemini, 19; intellegere (so CF3), 24; expremi, 25; 

 expremere, 35 ; dilegenter ; indegentem, 40. 



i substituted for e. 



dilicta, 2; adoliscentiae, 2 ; adoliscens, 10 (for speUings in other mss., see 

 further on) ; uehimenter, S, 10 ; cicidit, 20 ; disertum, 19, 22 ; interficerunt, 

 siluistre, 19 ; susciperunt, 28 ; gaudibundus, 24 ; dissiderantem, 40 ; diliciae, 65 ; 

 *internicionem (not in X.T.), 65. 



u substituted for 0. 

 consulatus, 2 ; consulationera, 14 ; inductus, 12 {but indoctus, 62) ; idula, 41 

 {but idola, 38). 



