Church History (Historia Ecclesiastica)

tains on fol. 1^r—125^r exactly the same as B, only the subscription under the Basilikos is missing; fol. 125^r—178^r, the Vita Constantini with the Oratio ad sanctum coetum Oration to the Holy Assembly, which is counted as the fifth book of the Vita; fol. 180^r—281^r, Socrates; fol. 281^v—282^r, dogmatic material regarding the two natures. After fol. 25, a leaf has been cut out, which contained p. 250.13 "of those of John" to 258.17 "slaughters of priests," and replaced by two leaves [26 and 27] by a different hand; on the margin of fol. 25^v, the scribe of these leaves notes: "Leaves 2 were missing; therefore, one of the studious Christians transcribed them for the sake of the text of the book and philology." The supplement must have been made from a manuscript originating from A. Conversely, the manuscript itself is copied from B; the proof can be easily demonstrated from spot checks:

p. 132.17—134.18 all readings = B, including those that only B has, such as 134.8 gitton neighbor, 17 tatheisan stretched out: no deviations from B.

p. 314.6—320.7 likewise; the special readings of B all return: 314.15 ginomenos becoming, 17 kata touton according to this, 320.1 apokrinesthai to answer; axios echein to have worthy, 4 ti something om: no deviations.

p. 324.10—332.2 likewise; singular readings of Bb are 324.16 meizon greater (B meizo by conjecture, b meizona the rest), 326.12 syrias tes of Syria, 13 poioumai I do/make.

Deviations: p. 324.14 gnorizomenou being recognized corr. from gnorizomeno BDM. 326.8 oukrisimo misspelling typo for ouerissimo Verissimus. 330.3 axioute you deem worthy corrected from axioutai (thus B).

p. 354.15—366.24 likewise; singular readings Bb 354.15 tousde these, 19 epei since, 356.10 pollo much, 21 ei om., 23 me om., hon om., 358.10 megalei greatly, 360.7 elpidas hopes, 10 apengellon they reported, 362.5 exetason examine, 364.6 auton esti it is of them, 9 men add., 11 ta om., 27 epi upon, 366.3 ou om., 19 oud' nor.

Deviations: 356.8 tes for tois. 14 elatton lesser (correct conjecture). 358.10 krises judgment corrected from chrises use. 360.5 peras end for porous paths/means. 21 synechorese granted corr. from synechoresas (false conjecture). 362.9 exarchos leader for exarnos denying. 13 oukibion likely a corruption. 364.13 tes for tois.

Codex Marcianus 339 plays a role in the hodgepodge of readings and conjectures that have circulated as Codex Gruteri g in Burton and Codex Castellani N in Burton ever since Stroth swept this refuse into separate heaps. These were never manuscripts in the strict sense, but rather marginal notes to the Stephanus edition, which partly contained manuscript variants. The Codex Gruteri stems from marginal readings in the Geneva reprint of the 1612 Stephanus edition; the Codex Castellani from a...