A manual of Biblical bibliography : comprising a catalogue ... of the principal editions and versions of the Holy Scriptures; together with notices of the principal philologers, critics, and interpreters of the Bible / [Thomas Hartwell Horne].

  • Horne, Thomas Hartwell, 1780-1862
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1839
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    inne i a . Sect. III.] | Greek Testaments. 19 Accessere in altero volumine emendationes conjecturales virotum doctorum undecunque collect. Londini, cura, typis et sumptibus G. [ulielmi] B. [owyer.] 1763. 2 vols. 12mo. A very valuable edition, and now scarce ; it was reprinted in 1772, but not with the same accuracy as the first edition. The conjectures were published in a separate form in 1772, and again in 4to. in 1782, to accompany a handsome quarto edition of the Greek Testament, which was published by Mr. Nichols in 1783, with the assistance of the Rev. Dr. Owen. It is now extremely rare and dear. The Conjectures were reprinted in 1812, with numerous corrections and additions.. In his edition of the New Testament, Mr. Bowyer adopted the emendations proposed by Wetstein, 1° 20. Novum Testamentum, Grece et Latine, Textum denuo recensuit, Varias Lectiones numquam antea vulgatas collegit—Scholia Greca addidit —Animadversiones Criticas adjecit, et edidit Christ. Frid. Marrumr. Rig, 1782—1788. 12 vols. 8vo. Of Professor Matthzi’s recension of manuscripts some account has already been given in Vol. II. Part I. p. 50. “ The scurrility which the professor mingled in his op- position to Griesbach’s system of classification, tended greatly to injure the work at the time of its appearance, and to lower the author in the esteem of the candid and moderate ; but now that the heat of controversy has cooled down, the value of his labours begins to be more highly appreciated, and more impartially appealed to, on the subject of the various readings of the Greek text.” (Dr. Henderson’s Biblical Researches, p. 53.) The late Bishop Middleton considered it as by far the best edition of the Greek Testament extant; and though Michaelis has criticised it with considerable severity, he nevertheless pronounces it to be absolutely necessary fer every man who is engaged in the criticism of the Greek Testament. As, however, Matthei undertook a revision of the Greek text on the authority of one set of manuscripts of the Byzantine family, Bishop Marsh regrets that he made so partial an application of his critical materials. « And since no impartial judge can admit that the genuine text of the Greek Testament may be established as well, by applying only a part of our materials, as by a judicious employment of the whole, the edition of Mat- thei is only so far of importance, as it furnishes new materials for future uses ; materials, indeed, which are accompanied with much useful information and many learned remarks.” (Bishop Marsh’s Lectures, part ii. p. 31.) 21. Novum Testamentum Grace. Ad Codices Mosquenses utriusque Bibliothecee S. S. Synodi et Tabularii Imperialis, item Augustanos, Dres- denses, Goettingenses, Gothanos, Guelpherbytanos, Langeri, Monachienses, Lipsienses, Nicephori et Zittaviensem, adhibitis Patrum Grecorum Lectio- nibus, Editionibus N. Testamenti principibus et Doctorum Virorum Libellis criticis, iterum recensuit, Sectiones majores et minores Eusebii, Euthalii, et Andrez Cesariensis notavit, primum quoque nunc Lectiones Ecclesiasticas, ex usu Greece Ecclesie designavit, ac Synaxaria Evangeliarii et Praxapos- toli addidit, et Criticis interpositis Animadversionibus edidit Christianus Fridericus Matruz1. Vol. I. Witteberge, 1803; Vol. II. Curie Varis- corum, 1806; Vol. III. Ronneburgi, 1807. 8vo. This second edition of Matthzi’s Greek Testament is seldom to be met with. A copy of the first volume is in the library of the British Museum. The critical annotations of the editor are placed at the end of the volume; the various readings are at the foot of each page. Matthzi is very severe on the editorial labours of Dr. Griesbach. 22. ‘H KAINH AIAOHKH. The New Testament, collated with the most approved manuscripts ; with select notes in English, critical and explanatory, and references to those authors who have best illustrated the sacred writ. ings. By Edward Harwoop, D.D. London, 1776, 2 vols. 12mo.; 1784, 2 vols. 12mo. ; * This edition,” says, the learned annotator of Michaelis, ‘is certain] y entitled to a place among the critical editions of the Greek Testament, though it is not accompanied with various readings: for, though Dr. Harwood has adopted the common text as the basis of his own, he has made critical corrections wherever the received reading appeared to him to be erroneous. The manuscripts, which he has generally followed when he departs from the 1 Dr. Griesbach’s first edition of the New Testament should, in strictness, be noticed here ; but as itis superseded by his second and greatly improved edition, described in pp, 22, 23. infrd, it is here designedly omitted. The edition of Koppe, being accompanied with a commentary, is noticed infrd, among the commentators on the New ‘Testament,