{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/205/2050011.htm","path":"chr/ecf/205/2050011.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/205/2050011.htm","text":"p. XXX Chapter V.\u2014Mss. And Editions.\nFor the 13 Books Against Eunomius, the text of F. Oehler (S. Greg. Nyss. Opera. Tom. I. Halis, 1865) has in the following translations been almost entirely followed.\nThe 1st Book was not in the 1st Paris Edition in two volumes (1615); but it was published three years afterwards from the \u2018Bavarian Codex,\u2019 i.e. that of Munich, by J. Gretser in an Appendix, along with the Summaries (these headings of the sections of the entire work are by some admirer of Gregory\u2019s) and the two introductory Letters. Both the Summaries and the letters, and also nearly three-quarters of the 1st Book were obtained from J. Livineius\u2019 transcript of the Vatican ms. made at Rome, 1579. This Appendix was added to the 2nd Paris Edition, in three volumes (1638).\nIn correcting these Paris Editions (for mss. of which see below), Oehler had access, in addition to the identical Munich ms. (paper, 16th century) which Gretser had used, to the following mss.:\u2014\n1. Venice (Library of S. Mark; cotton, 13 Cent., No. 69). This he says \u2018wonderfully agrees\u2019 with the Munich (both, for instance, supply the lacun\u00e6 of the Paris Edition of Book I: he concludes, therefore, that these are not due to Gretser\u2019s negligence, who gives the Latin for these passages, but to that of the printers).\n2. Turin (Royal Library; cotton, 14 Cent., No. 71).\n3. Milan (Library of S. Ambrose; cotton, 13 Cent., No. 225, Plut. 1; its inscription says that it was brought from Thessaly).\n4. Florence (Library Medic. Laurent.; the oldest of all; parchment, 11 Cent., No. 17, Plut. vi. It contains the Summaries).\nThese, and the Munich ms., which he chiefly used, are \u201call of the same family:\u201d and from them he has been able to supply more than 50 lacun\u00e6 in the Books against Eunomius. This family is the first of the two separated by G. H. Forbes (see below). The Munich ms. (No. 47, on paper, 16 Cent.), already used by Sifanus for his Latin version (1562), and by Gretser for his Appendix, has the corrections of the former in its margin. These passed into the two Paris Editions; which, however, took no notice of his critical notes. When lent to Sifanus this ms. was in the Library of J. J. Fugger. Albert V. Duke of Bavaria purchased the treasures of Greek literature in this library, to found that in Munich.\nFor the treatise On the Soul and the Resurrection, the Great Catechetical Oration, and the Funeral Oration on Meletius, John George Krabinger\u2019s text has been adopted. He had mss. \u2018old and of a better stamp\u2019 (Oehler) than were accessible to the Paris editors. Krabinger\u2019s own account of them is this:\u2014\nOn the Soul. 5 mss. of 16th, 14th, and 11th Cent. All at Munich. In one of them there are scholia, some imported into the text by J. Naupliensis Murmureus the copyist; and Sifanus\u2019 corrections.\nThe \u2018Hasselman,\u2019 14th Cent. J. Christopher Wolf, who annotated this treatise (Aneedota Gr\u00e6ca, Hamburgh, 1722), says of this ms. \u201cvery carefully written.\u201d It was lent by Zach. Hasselman, Minister of Oldenburgh.\nThe \u2018Uffenbach,\u2019 14th Cent., with var. lect. in margin. Lent to Wolf by the Polish ambassador at Frankfort on Main, at the request of Zach. Uffenbach.\nCatechetical Oration. 4 mss. of 16th Cent., 1 of 13th Cent., \u2018much mutilated.\u2019 All at Munich.\nOn Meletius. 2 mss. of 16th Cent., 1 of 10th Cent. All at Munich.\nHis edition of the former appeared, at Leipzic, 1837; of the two latter, at Munich, 1838; all with valuable notes.\np. XXXI For the treatise Against Macedonius, the only text available is that of Cardinal Angelo Mai (Script. Vet. Nova Collectio, Rome, 1833). It is taken from the Vatican ms. \u2018on silk.\u2019 The end of this treatise is not found in Mai. Perhaps it is in the ms. of Florence.\nFor fourteen of the Letters, Zacagni (Pr\u00e6fect of the Vatican Library, 1698\u20131713) is the only editor. His text from the Vatican ms., No. 424, is printed in his Collectan. Monument. ret. (pp. 354\u2013400), Rome, 1698.\nHe had not the use of the Medicean ms. which Caraccioli (see below) testifies to be much superior to the Vatican; there are lacun\u00e6 in the latter, however, which Zacagni occasionally fills by a happy guess with the very words supplied by the Medicean.\nFor the Letter to Adelphius, and that (on Church Architecture) to Amphilochius, J. B. Caraccioli (Professor of Philosophy at Pisa) furnishes a text (Florence, 1731) from the Medicean ms. The Letters in this collection are seven in all. Of the last of these (including that to Amphilochius) Bandinus says non sincer\u00e2 fide ex Codice descriptas, and that a fresh collation is necessary.\nFor the treatise On the Making of Man, the text employed has been that of G. H. Forbes, (his first Fasciculus was published in 1855; his second in 1861; both at Burntisland, at his private press), with an occasional preference for the readings of one or other of the mss. examined by him or by others on his behalf. Of these he specifies twenty: but he had examined a much larger number. The mss. which contain this work, he considers, are of two families.\nOf the first family the most important are three mss. at Vienna, a tenth-century ms. on vellum at S. Mark\u2019s, Venice, which he himself collated, and a Vatican ms. of the tenth century. This family also includes three of the four Munich mss. collated for Forbes by Krabinger.\nThe other family displays more variations from the current text. One Vienna ms. \u201cpervetustus\u201d \u201cinitio mutilus,\u201d was completely collated. Also belonging to this family are the oldest of the four Munich mss., the tenth-century Codex Regius (Paris), and a fourteenth-century ms. at Christ Church, Oxford, clearly related to the last.\nThe Codex Baroccianus (Bodleian, perhaps eleventh century) appears to occupy an independent position.\nFor the other Treatises and Letters the text of the Paris Edition of 1638 (\u2018plenior et emendatior\u2019 than that of 1615, according to Oehler, probably following its own title, but \u201cmuch inferior to that of 1615\u201d Canon Venables, Dict. Christ. Biog., says, and this is the judgment of J. Fessler) and of Migne have been necessary as the latest complete editions of the works of Gregory Nyssene. (All the materials that had been collected for the edition of the Benedictines of St. Maur perished in the French Revolution.)\nOf the two Paris Editions it must be confessed that they are based \u2018for the most part on inferior mss.\u2019 (Oehler.) The frequent lacun\u00e6 attest this. Fronto Duc\u00e6us aided Claude, the brother of F. Morel, in settling the text, and the mss. mentioned in the notes of the former are as follows:\n1. Pithoeus\u2019 \u201cnot of a very ancient hand,\u201d \u201cas like F. Morel\u2019s (No. 2.) as milk to milk\u201d (so speaks John the Franciscan, who emended \u2018from one corrupt mutilated manuscript,\u2019 i.e. the above, the Latin translation of the Books against Eunomius made by his father N. Gulonius.)\n2. F. Morel\u2019s. (\u201cDean of Professors\u201d and Royal Printer.)\n3. The Royal (in the Library of Henry II., Paris), on vellum, tenth century.\n4. Canter\u2019s (\u201cingens codex\u201d sent from Antwerp by A. Schott; it had been written out for T. Canter, Senator of Utrecht).\n5. Olivar\u2019s. \u201cMulto emendatius\u201d than (2.)\n6. J. Vulcobius\u2019, Abbot of Belpr\u00e9.\n7. The Vatican. For the treatise On Virginity. (The Paris Editors used Livineius\u2019 Edition, based on (7) and (8).\n8. Bricman\u2019s (Cologne). For the treatise On Virginity. (The Paris Editors used Livineius\u2019 Edition, based on (7) and (8).\n9. \u0152gidius David\u2019s, I.C. Paris. For the treatise On Virginity. (The Paris Editors used Livineius\u2019 Edition, based on (7) and (8).\np. XXXII 10. The Bavarian (Munich) for Books II.\u2013XIII. Against Eunomius and other treatises; only after the first edition of 1615.\nOther important mss. existing for treatises here translated are\nOn Pilgrimages: ms. C\u00e6sareus (Vienna): \u201cvalde vetustus\u201d (Nessel, on the Imperial Library), vellum, No. 160, burnt at beginning.\nmss. Florence (xx. 17: xvi. 8).\nms. Leyden (not older than fifteenth century).\nms. Augsburgh, with twelve Homilies of Basil, the two last being wrongly attributed to Gregory (Reizer).\nms. Ambrosian (Milan). See Montfaucon, Bibl. Bibliothec. p. 498.\nmss. Augsburgh, Florence, Turin, Venice.\nmss. Augsburgh, Florence, Turin, C\u00e6sareus.\nMany other mss., for these and other treatises, are given by S. Heyns (Disputatio de Greg. Nyss. Leyden, 1835). But considering the mutilated condition of most of the oldest, and the still small number of treatises edited from an extended collation of these, the complaint is still true that \u2018the text of hardly any other ancient writer is in a more imperfect state than that of Gregory of Nyssa.\u2019\nVersions of Several Treatises.\n1. Of Dionysius Exiguus (died before 556): On the Making of Man. Aldine, 1537. Cologne, 1551. Basle, 1562. Cologne, 1573. Dedicated to Eugippius.\u2019 This Dedication and the Latin of Gregory\u2019s Preface was only once printed (i.e. in J. Mabillon\u2019s Analecta, Paris, 1677).\nThis ancient Latin Version was revised by Fronto Duc\u00e6us, the Jesuit, and Combeficius. There is a copy of it at Leyden. It stimulated J. Le\u00fcnclaius (see below), who judged it \u201cfoeda pollutum barbari\u00e2 planeque perversum,\u201d to make another. Basle, 1567.\n2. Of Daniel Augentius: On the Soul. Paris 1557.\n3. Of Laurent. Sifanus, I. U. Doct.: On the Soul and many other treatises. Basle, 1562 Apud N. Episcopum.\n4. Of Pet. Galesinius: On Virginity and On Prayer. Rome, 1563, ap. P. Manutium.\n5. Of Johann. Le\u00fcnclaius: On the Making of Man. Basle, 1567, ap. Oporinum.\n6. Of Pet. Morelius, of Tours: Great Catechetical. Paris, 1568.\n7. Of Gentianus Hervetus, Canon of Rheims, a diligent translator of the Fathers: Great Catechetical, and many others. Paris, 1573.\n8. Of Johann. Livineius, of Ghent: On Virginity. Apud Plantinum, 1574.\n9. Of Pet. Fr. Zinus, Canon of Verona, translator of Euthymius\u2019 Panoplia, which contains the Great Catechetical. Venice, 1575.\n10. Of Jacob Gretser, the Jesuit: I. e. Eunom. Paris, 1618.\n11. Of Nicolas Gulonius, Reg. Prof. of Greek: II.\u2013XIII. c. Eunom. Paris, 1615. Revised by his son John, the Franciscan.\n12. Of J. Georg. Krabinger, Librarian of Royal Library, Munich: On the Soul, Great Catechetical, On Infants\u2019 Early Deaths, and others. Leipzic, 1837.\n1. Of Glauber: Great Catechetical, &c. Gregorius von Nyssa und Augustinus \u00fcber den ersten Christlichen Religions-unterricht. Leipzic, 1781.\n2. Of Julius Rupp, K\u00f6nigsberg: On Meletius. Gregors Leben und Meinungen. Leipzic, 1834.\n3. Of Oehler: Various treatises. Bibliothek der Kirchenv\u00e4ter I. Theil. Leipzic, 1858\u201359.\n4. Herm. Schmidt, paraphrased rather than translated: On the Soul. Halle, 1864.\n5. Of H. Hayd: On Infants\u2019 Early Deaths: On the Making of Man, &c. Kempton, 1874.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. V: Prolegom...","type":"page"}