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MISCELLANIES1850

MSS. of Casaubon

By T. (Bath)

There is a short statement respecting certain MSS., now existing, of the great critic Casaubon, in a recent volume of the Parker Society—Whitaker's *Disputation on Holy Scripture*, edited and translated by Professor Fitzgerald, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Dublin, which I conceive is one of those facts which might be of service at some future time to scholars, from having been recorded in your columns:— Whitaker having observed— "One Herman, a most impudent papist, affirms that the scriptures are of no more avail than Aesop's fables, apart from the testimony of the church."—(Parker Soc. tran…

Topics: Manuscripts, Biblical Criticism, Historical Scholarship

Locations: Dublin, St. Sepulchre's