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Notes on the early history of the Vulgate Gospels

CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Preliminary. 1. The Northumbrian text of the Vulgate Gospels is said to be from South Italy 1 2. The Codex Amiatinus and the Codex grandior of Cassiodorus 2 3. The Lindisfame Gospels and Naples 8 4. Other connexions between England and South Italy 14 II. The Cassiodorian Origin of the Northumbrian Text. 1. The text of the Codex Amiatinus is Cassiodorian 16 2. The Prologue on the purple leaf of A is the introduction to the nine volumes 20 3. The Neapolitan lessons were marked in the margin of the archetype of A 23 4. The Echtemach Gospels have a Northumbrian element, to which the note about Eugipius may well belong 26 III. Cassiodorus and Eugipius. 1. It was not St. Victor of Capua who collated the Codex of Eugipius 30 2. The note in the Echtemach Gospels was written by Cassiodorus 31 3. On the date of Cassiodorus's Institutio 33 4. Eugipius and his friends 39 5. The Manuscript of Eugipius and St. Jerome 42 IV. The Neapolitan Lectionary in Northumbria. 1. The Gospels of St Burchard contain a undamen tally English text 45 2. The Naples lectionary and the Northumbrian summaries 51 3. The Naples liturgy in use at J arrow 65 4. The feasts in St. Bede's Homilies

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