Tractatus de apostasia

INTRODUCTION.
De Apostasia, which is now printed for the first time, has been
hitherto known to the public only by Shirley's valuable catalogue
of Wyclifs works. His notice, however, is not without a few errors,
which ought to be corrected first of all, before I make any further
remarks concerning the editing of the work,
and the work itself.
It runs thus: "De Apostasia. In two chapters. Incipit: Restat
ulterius ponere aliud principium. Desinit: fratrum commodum quoad
deum. — MSS. Vienna: ff. CGXCII, 37—124; CCCX, ff. 49—128.
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niv. Pi-ague: III F. 11, ff. 70 — 134; III G. 11, ff. 208— 220. Trin.
Coll. Dub.: C. 1, 24, pp. 2q3— 3 10. — The Prague MSS. seem both
to be imperfect. — Auth. Author's name on the Vienna MSS.;
Walden, De Sacramentis, passim; Bale, title only."
On p. 63, he quotes the Vienna catalogue: "Undecima, de
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hoc venerabili sacramento \
Apostasia, 18 capp. Restat .... in fine,
The corrections are as follows: There are 17 chapters, not 2
nor 18; the second chapter ends with fratrum commodum &c; the
seventeenth, as in the Vienna catalogue. The Vienna MSS. are re-
spectively CCCXCH (or cod. 1 343) and CCCCX (or cod. 3q35).
There are three MSS. at Prague University, the one omitted here
being C. 73: only one of the three (III G. 11) is imperfect, ending
at about the middle of the second chapter. — G. 1, 24, Tr. Coll. Dub.
is imperfect, breaking off at the end of the second chapter. The
author's name is only in cod. CCGXCII; in CCCCX, C. 73 and
III F. 11. there are his initials.
For the sake of uniformity with the other works published by
the Wyclif Society, I have lettered these MSS. in the various readings.
this was the
Thus, cod. 1343 (or CCCXCII) will in future be A;
MS. copied for the text of the work. God. 3o35 (or CCCCX) is B;
C. 73 is C; III F. 11 is D; III G. 1 1 is E; and Tr. Coll. Dub. C. 1, 24 is F.