deperdito per mvlta saecvla ad hvnc vsqve diem habitvm. E Litvra Codicis cvivsdam Manvscripti rescripti qvi in Avgvsta apvd
Gvelpherbytanos Bibliotheca adservatvr vna cvm variis variae Litteratvrae Monimentis hvc vsqve ineditis ervit Commentatvs
est datqve foras Franciscvs Antonivs Knittel, Metropolitanae Ecclesiae apvd Gvelpherbytanos Archidiaconvs. L. H. E. C. Principale apvd Brvnovicenses Orphanotrophevm. [Colophon:] Excvdebat totvm hoc opvs litterarvm formis omnino novis Gvelpherbyti
Iohannes Wilhelmvs Bindseil, Dvcis Typographvs. [
1762.]
BS105 .K6 1762
First Edition. 4to. Engraved frontispiece by Beck after v. Pfeiff, 288 leaves, 12 folded and numbered tables at the end, engraved by Ant. Aug. Beck after Brand. Heinr. Meier, woodcut ornaments and initials, some side notes and capitals printed in red, text in
Gothic,
Greek,
Latin and
English, half-title on Ai for Codex Carolinvs. Sive Versio
Gothica Epistolae Pavli ad Romanos regnante serenissimo Brvnovicens. Ac Lvnebvrgens. Dvce Carolo inventa in Bibliotheca Gvelphorvm
Avgvsta svmmiqve hvivs Principis ivssv et avspiciis e litvra palimpsesti primvm foras data. Clavdianvs. Emeritos artus fecunda
morte reformat.
This edition not in Darlow and Moule; mentioned in the note to 4562.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, without price.
Ulphilas, usually Ulfilas, c. 310-c. 381, the Apostle of the Goths, according to tradition was the originator of the Gothic alphabet
which supplanted the use of runes. He succeeded Theophilus as Bishop of the Goths, eventually was forced to leave Dacia, and
settled in Moesia, where he translated the whole of the Bible with the exception of the Book of Kings, which he omitted in
fear of the effect of the narration of the military exploits on the Gothic tribes.
Franz Anton Knittel, 1721-1792, German scholar, edited these fragments of the Epistle to the Romans from the Codex Carolinus, a palimpsest of
the fifth century, in Latin and Gothic, discovered by him in 1756 in the Library of Wolfenbüttel.
In the Jefferson papers in the Library of Congress is a sheet of paper with two lists in Jefferson’s autograph. The one is headed
Runic alphabet, and contains 16 letters in three columns, the symbols, their names, and the English equivalents. The second list is headed
Gothic alph. of Ulphilas, and is in two columns, 25 Gothic letters and the English equivalents.
[4858]
126
Johannis ab Ihre Scripta versionem Ulphilanam illustrantia. à Busching.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 166, no. 121, as above.
IHRE,
Johann.
Johannis ab Ihre . . . Scripta versionem Ulphilanam et Linguam
Mœse-Gothicam illustrantia, ab ipso doctissimo auctore emendata, novisque accessionibus aucta, iam vero ob præstantiam ac raritatem collecta,
et una cum aliis scriptis similis argumenti edita, ab Antonio Friderico Büsching . . .
Berolini: Ex officina Typographica
Bossiana,
1773.
4to. 191 leaves, facsimiles; a copy was not available for examination; the title was copied from the Johns Hopkins University
catalogue card in the National Union Catalog.
Graesse III, 410.
See the note to Darlow and Moule, 4562.
Anton Friderich Büsching, 1724-1793, German scholar, collected Johann Ihre’s treatises on the Gothic version of the fragments of the New Testament,
and published them with specimens of the text. The volume includes also pieces by other authors.
For a note on Ihre see no. 4856.
[4856]
[
i.e. “4859”--
Ed.]
