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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CREEDS AND TO THE TE DEUM - BY A. E. BURN, B.D. Trinity College, Cambridge - Rector of Kynnersley, Wellington, Salop - Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Lichfield. - First published Methuen & Co 1899. - This Edition prepared for katapi by Paul Ingram 2003.http://www.katapi.org.uk/CreedsIntro/Ch7.htm
V. the early commentaries
An important argument, to prove the existence of the entire text of the Quicunque in the eighth century or earlier, may be founded on the early commentaries, and is independent of others. There are some seven which come into consideration here. Four of them (Bouhier, Oratorian, Paris, Troyes) have been published by Ommanney [Early History, pp.1-39, 311-386.] , who has made this subject specially his own, and for whose work as a pioneer all students must be grateful. The others (Orleans, Stavelot, Fortunatus) I have edited (in part from new MSS.) in my book on The Athanasian Creed and its Commentaries. [Texts and Studies, iv.1.] As I shall quote the readings of the texts of the creed embedded in them in my apparatus criticus, it will suffice here to give a short summary of the facts known about each:-4. The Bouhier Commentary.-
The Bouhier Commentary is found in some four MSS., the earliest of which is of the tenth century (Troyes, 1979), and belonged formerly to the Bouhier family of Dijon. The other MSS. also seem to have been written in France. The text of the creed cited in it shows late readings, and I cannot assign to it an earlier date than the beginning of the ninth century. It is mainly founded on the Oratorian Commentary, and was constructed with some literary skill. The personal statements of the preface are omitted or changed, e.g. "in ueteribus codicibua inuenitur praetitulatum" for "eum uidi praet. etiam in uet. cod."
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