The Politics of Philo Judaeus: Practice and Theory, with a General Bibliography of Philo

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MANUSCRIPTS OF PHILO 179


LATIN MANUSCRIPTS, B.

CODICES related to those of section A but not listed by Cohn and Wendland,
or James.



  1. Escurialensis lat. d II 5.
    Contains: (fols. 169-181) Ex Philone Judeo character antiquissime
    eiusdemque apostolice ecclesie. Begins, "cum de Esseis hactenus
    egerim,"... ends, "summumque obtinet principatum"; (fols. 182-


194) De Aegyptiis illis quorum historiam philo judeus conscripsit,
deque eorum vetustissimis iisdemque ecclesiasticis ritibus et cerimoniis.
This seems to refer to Philo's Cont.
See P. Guillermo Antolin, Catalogo de los cddices Latinos de la Real

Biblioteca del Escorial, Madrid, 1910,1, 416 f.
321. Berolinensis Gorres 132, paper, 144 folios, XV. century.
Contains: (fols. 2-79V) Antiquitates; (fols. 114 -143V) QG.
See Fritz Schillmann, "Die Gorreshandschriften," Die Handschriften
Verzeichnisse der Preussischen Staatsbibliothe\ zu Berlin, Vol. XIV,
Lateinischen Handschriften, Vol. Ill (Berlin, 1919), p. 187 f.
321a.* Mel\ 324, now in the H. L. Goodhart collection, parchment, 303
folios, double col, XV. century, written in a beautiful and calligraphic
Gothic script in Austria, with two fine painted initials at the beginning.
Contains: Antiq. (fols. 216-244).
322. Vaticanus Ottobonianus lat. 870, a miscellaneous codex in two vols, all of
the XVI. century, vol. I (fols. 1-178), vol. II (fols. 179-361); once be­
longed to Joannes Angelus, duke of Altaemps.
Contains: Cont. (fols. 240-258V).
See above, p. 140, n. 1; cf. Conybeare, no. 20, p. 145, who thinks the
text may be the "work of Lilius Typhernas, of die rest of whose Latin
versions I have seen copies in the Barberini and Vatican Libraries [i.e.
nos. 330 to 333]."
323. Urbinas lat. 73.
Contains: a portion of QG and a frag, of Cont.
See Conybeare, no. 20, p. 142.
324. Vaticanus lat. 382.
Contains: a portion of QG and a frag, of Cont.
See ibid.


LATIN MANUSCRIPTS, C.

CODICES containing the Seven Eusebian Extracts from Cont. included in the
works of Dionysius Areopagita (see above, Greek Manuscripts, C).

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