Church History (Historia Ecclesiastica)

copy of the Editio princeps of 1544, which Mericus Casaubonus [1599–1671], son of the famous Huguenot philologist, and his friends had annotated. Among these were the readings of a Codex episcopi Castellani, designated with C. From a certain John Jones, who seems to have acquired this copy, Reading obtained permission to transcribe the marginal notes and collected them at the end of his reprint of the Valois edition (Cambridge 1720), retaining the siglum C for the "Codex episcopi Castellani." In the episcopus Castellanus, one likely finds none other than the Grand Almoner of France and Bishop of Orleans, Petrus Castellanus [d. 1552]. The two collections of variants were connected, as Stroth already noted; they very frequently show the same notes and correct each other. Thus, Gruter correctly refers the variant eugeneias nobility to 892.16, whereas in Castellani it is placed at 892.14; Gruter provides the variant from B completely at 90.4, while Castellani provides it mangled. Most instructive is 881.1. There, Gruter has, for the text of Stephanus basileion oikon probolais hekaterthen royal house with projections on both sides, the note hoion hekaterose i.e., on both sides: that is the reading of TERBDM hekaterose, in contrast to probolais hekaterthen A, which had entered the Stephanus text via Parisinus 1434. Castellani gives only basileion hoion prob-: thus, a typo in the collation became a variant and the most important part was omitted. This agreement partly goes back to the manuscript they used, which must have been a descendant of B: special readings of B are found in both of them at 82.18, 20; 90.4; 120.1; 156.20; 232.20; 364.6; 372.2/3; 416.9 [= B^1]; 420.13; 834.23; 858.11; 864.18; 869.5; in Cod. Grut. alone p. 82.6 (with the slight deviation enkatelexthenta enlisted), 316.5, 554.4, 600.20; in Codex Castellani 8.1 [= B^1], 18.13 [combination of B^1 and B^c], 84.13, 730.10, 856.4. In addition, there is a large number of coincidences with B and other MSS: in cod. Cast. and cod. Grut. together 82.20 = BD, 204.4 = BDM, 204.12 likewise, 226.15/16 = T^1B, 250.4 = BD, 268.18 = BDM, 282.18 = BD, 304.18 = TERBDM, 306.16 = BD, 344.22 = TERB corr., 362.8 = T^cERBDM, 388.15 = TERB, 562.1 = T^cEBD, 618.17 = BD, 620.6 = TERBDM, 646.1 = BD, 662.19/20, 668.15, 680.3 [where eis into is a conjecture for eis], 706.4/5 likewise, 708.4 = RB, 728.3/4 = BD, 742.15, 744.9 likewise, 748.12 = AT^cERDM, 788.5 = T^1BDM, 802.12 = ATERBD, 804.1 = BDM, 806.5 = BD, 818.22, 822.29 likewise, 834.28 = B^cD, 836.16 = BDM, 840.12 = TERBDM, 840.22 = BD, 842.26 = BDM, 844.13 and 846.21 = TERBDM, 848.21 = BD, 850.8 likewise, 858.13 = BDM, 864.23 = BD, 865.22