Author : A. E. Burn
Release : 2015-08-04
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Facsimiles of the Creeds, Vol. 36 by : A. E. Burn
Download or read book Facsimiles of the Creeds, Vol. 36 written by A. E. Burn. This book was released on 2015-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Facsimiles of the Creeds, Vol. 36: From Early Manuscripts The task which I have attempted in this book of facsimiles has grown more serious during the past eight years. It sprang from a desire to collect some photographs of early MSS. of the Quicumque uult. While I was puzzling over Cod. Petriburg., Q. i. 15, it was my good fortune to obtain an introduction to Dr. L. Traube. His interest in the photograph led him to write his most suggestive article Perrona Scottorum. Everyone who knew him personally found a fascination in his treatment of the subject of palaeography, which has been too often at the mercy of theorists, who possessed neither his mastery over details nor his sure grasp of principles. He was qualified to be a pioneer in the laying of foundations of what is still a new science. When he consented to write palaeographical notes for this book it entered on a new phase of potential usefulness. Despite increasing weakness he took an interest in it to the end of his life. His heirs and his literary executor, Dr. P. Lehmann, have been most kind in putting at our disposal all his papers which had reference to the subject. In Dr. Traube's own words, palaeographical notes on a collection of photographs made to serve other than palaeographical ends must be something of a tour de force. But many of the MSS. in question are of more than average palaeographical interest, and some of them have not been reproduced in any collection of facsimiles, so it seemed worth while to take the risk of producing a book without much unity from the palaeographical point of view. The venture has been justified, as I believe, by the interest and importance of Dr. Traube's discussions of at least three of the MSS., Cod. Einsidlensis, 199, Cod. Paris. lat. 13246, and Cod. Petriburg., Q. i. 15. My own notes on the historical interest of the creed forms published in facsimile (with two exceptions) for the first time are of necessity brief. My theories about the more obscure forms are only put forward as working hypotheses until the evidence is better explained by some other. We must be content to let many problems in the history of the creeds remain unsolved for the present, but we shall make no progress unless some theory is provided by which to test the facts collected, or to point in the direction in which new facts may be searched out. Each group of MSS. has been selected with reference to some problem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
