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Ulm Manuscript

By O.T. DOBBIN, LL.D. T.C.D. (Hull, Yorkshire)

Can you inform me where the Ulm manuscript is, which was in the possession of Archdeacon Butler, at Shrewsbury, in the year 1832. It is a document of great interest, and some critical value, and ought to be, if it is not already, in public keeping. It is a Latin MS. of the Acts and Epistles, probably of the ninth century, and contains the Pseudo-Hieronymian Prologue to the "Canonical" Epistles. It renders the classical passage, 1 John v. 7, 8., in this wise:— "Quia tres sunt qui testimonium dant, spiritus, et aqua, et sanguis, et tres unum sunt. Sicut in cœlo tres sunt, Pater, Verbum, et Spiri…

Topics: Ulm Manuscript, Biblical Studies, Latin Manuscripts

Locations: Shrewsbury