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Pampmilus. a. D. 294. 225
V. There are still extant in the curious collections of
Europe memorials of this library of Pamphilus, and traces
of his ami Kusebius's labour in transcribing- or correcting'
coj)ies of the scriptures or other books.
In the Jesuits' college at Paris,' is a beautiful manuscript
of the prophets, supposed" to have been written in the
eighth century. In that manuscript, as Montfau^on assures
us, there is before the book of Ezekiel a note to this purpose :
' This^ was taken from a copy in such a place, in which
' copy was written : " Transcribed from the Ilexapla con-
' taining the translations; and corrected by Origen's oavii
' Tetrapla, which also had emendations and scholia in his
' own hand-writing. I Eusebius added scholia; Pamphilus
' and Eusebius corrected." '
Huet, speaking of this same manuscript, in one place '"^
says, that note is at the end of Jeremiah; in'' another, before
Ezekiel. I have put his words at the bottom of the page.
In the French king's library, as we are informed by Montfaucon,
isy a very ancient manuscript, written in the fifth or
' Vetustissimum, pulchernmumque codicem Prophetarura.—Mont. Praef. in
Hex. Orig. p. 4. " Hsec porro omnia discimus ex NotisCodicis
Marchaliani, nunc R. R. P. P. Jesuitarum Collegii Liidovici Magni, quas
adtnlimus supra, p. 14. lUe vero Codex saeculo circiter viii. ut ex characteris
forma existimatur, ad fidem exeraplaris Apollinarii exscriptus est. Montf.
Praelim. in Hex. Orig. cap. 11. sect. iv.
" Deinde vero ante Ezechielem haec nota legitur :
* Desumptus est [Ezechiel] ab Exemplari Abbatis Apollinarii, Coenobi-
* archae, in quo haec subjiciuntur : Exscriptus est ab Hexaplis editione com-
' plectentibus : et correctus est ad fidem Tetraplorum Origenis, quae etiam manu
* ejus emendata et scholiis illustrata erant. Ego Eusebius scholia adjeci,
' Pamphilus et Eusebius correxerunt.'
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Montf. in Orig. Hex. c. 1. sect. v. p. 14.
" Hujus editionis et emendationis luculentum extat inonumentum in Codice
Renati Marchali, jam saepe laudato, in quo post Jeremiae librum adnotatum
est descriptura eum esse ex Origenis Hexaplis, et emendatum ex Tefraplis manu
ipsius exaratis, idque opera Pamphili et Eusebii. Huet, Orig.l. iii. c. 2. p. 262. in.
" Editioni tojv 6, quae erat m Tetraplis, scholia ad linibum aliqua adjecisse
Origenem discimus ex memorato Codice Marchali, quem habent Claromontani
Patres Societatis Jesu. Adnotatum enim est ante Ezechielem, librum hunc ex
Hexaplis descriptum esse, correctum vero ad Tetraplorum fidem. Postmodum
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