Excerpt from Notes on the Early History of the Vulgate Gospels This essay does t aim at any form of completeness, and is published only in the hope that it may be found suggestive. Having opportunity of working new material, I have tried to do my best with the riches amassed by Bishop Wordsworth and the late M. Samuel Berger. I kw the result must be full of errors; but I hope the search for these will lead others to further stages on the same road. More comprehensive and more certain conclusions will be reached when t only the whole New Testament but the Old Testament too have been critically edited from a large number of manuscripts. After writing the last page of the last chapter this morning, I saw in the Times the anuncement that Pope Pius X has ordered a new edition of the Vulgate to be undertaken, and has confided the work to the Benedictine Order. My labour has therefore perhaps been more to the purpose than I expected. It is by accident that I have dealt with the Vulgate, my former studies having, on the contrary, delighted in the Old Latin versions and the Greek text. It was in reviewing Dr. Kunstle's Antipriscilliana that the idea struck me that Priscillian must be the author of the Monarchian Prologues. The paper I published on the subject is reproduced in this volume as Chapter xiii. 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 techlogy 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.