Church History (Historia Ecclesiastica)

[I] fol. 76r, IA fol. 84r, IB fol. 92r, IE fol. 116r. On fol. 144r, the Church History concludes with and already some [have] a newer [898.13]; the rest is lost. What now stands in the manuscript is the epitome of the Clementines and Palladius' Historia Lausiaca, written by other scribes, and it has nothing to do with the codex of the Church History.

A = Codex Parisinus 1430 [old numbers 1902, 2343, 2440; C in Burton], formerly in the possession of Cardinal Mazarin, parchment, s. XI. The format and ductus resemble B. The manuscript is written extraordinarily correctly; corrections by an older and a very young hand are rare. I have collated the manuscript in Paris. It contains only the Church History on fol. 3r–345v with the appendix to the 8th book and the writing on the martyrs after the 8th book; the beginning with the capitulatio of the first book and a small piece of the text [cf. the apparatus p. 6], as well as an equally not extensive section of the fourth book [cf. the apparatus pp. 360, 362], have been lost through the loss of one leaf each; the second piece was added by a young hand on fol. 117, specifically from the Parisinus 1437. Old quaternion numbers found are Δ f. 26r, Ζ f. 50r, Η f. 58r, Θ f. 66r, IA f. 82r, IB f. 90r, ΙΓ f. 98r, ΙΔ f. 106r, ΙΕ f. 114r, ΙϚ f. 122r, ΙΖ f. 130r, ΙΗ f. 138r, ΙΘ f. 146r, Κ f. 154r, ΚΑ f. 162r, ΚΓ f. 178r, ΚΔ f. 186r, ΚΕ f. 194r, ΚϚ f. 202r, ΚΖ f. 210r, ΚΗ f. 218r, ΚΘ f. 226r, Λ f. 233r [sic, the quaternion consists of only 7 leaves instead of 8; nothing is missing in the text], ΛΓ f. 257r, Λ[Ϛ] f. 281r, ΛΖ f. 289r, ΛΗ f. 297r, ΛΘ f. 305r, ΜΑ f. 321r, ΜΒ f. 329r. On fol. 226v [p. 786] there stands in the lower margin a note by an old hand, which is also found identical at the same place in the Laurentianus T [see below]: how does this one accept those who have destroyed themselves in many ways, even though the judgment of the church does not inscribe among the martyrs those who have shown the deeds of the executioners against themselves? For to snatch death beforehand for fear of punishments is more a matter of cowardice than of courage, but [it records] those who, because of their confession to the Lord, consider nothing to be fearful, but willingly suffer everything that the tyrannical and demonic inventiveness brings as instruments of torture [sic]: —

From A is copied
a = Codex Vaticanus 399, parchment, s. XI. The manuscript breaks off with the god-hatred of life [902.21]; the end was added by a young hand. On fol. 204v, not by the hand of the scribe, is written in the margin good paper: good letters: the writer Eusebius Pamphili is a bad heretic (read heretic). The same orthodox monk also wrote the subscription: the present book belongs to the monastery of the Peribleptos, situated nearest to the Psamatheion; which Romanos raised... [a monogram which I cannot decipher] Lord Jesus Christ.