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University of Birmingham the Garland of Howth (Vetus Latina University of Birmingham The Garland of Howth (Vetus Latina 28): A Neglected Old Latin witness in Matthew Houghton, H.A.G. License: Other (please specify with Rights Statement) Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (Harvard): Houghton, HAG 2019, The Garland of Howth (Vetus Latina 28): A Neglected Old Latin witness in Matthew. in G Allen (ed.), The Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship From H. C. Hoskier to the Editio Critica Maior and Beyond. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, vol. 417, Mohr Siebeck, pp. 247-264. Link to publication on Research at Birmingham portal Publisher Rights Statement: Checked for eligibility: 25/02/2019 Houghton , H. A. G. (2019) The Garland of Howth (Vetus Latina 28): A Neglected Old Latin witness in Matthew. In G. V. Allen (Ed. ), The future of New Testament textual scholarship (pp. 247-264). 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Allen, born 1988; 2015 PhD; Lecturer in New Testament Studies at Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland. orcid.org/0000-0003-4428-1775 ISBN 978-3-16-156662-2 / 978-3-16-156663-9 DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-156663-9 ISSN 0512-1604 / eISSN 2568-7476 (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament) The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliographie; detailed bibliographic data are available at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2019 Mohr Siebeck Tübingen, Germany. www.mohrsiebeck.com This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that permitted by copyright law) without the publisher’s written permission. This applies particularly to reproduc- tions, translations and storage and processing in electronic systems. The book was printed on non-aging paper by Gulde Druck in Tübingen, and bound by Groß- buch binderei Spinner in Ottersweier. Printed in Germany. Author´s e-offprint with publisher´s permission Table of Contents Preface ......................................................................................................... IX Intellectual History of Textual Scholarship Garrick V. Allen The Patient Collator and the Philology of the Beyond: H. C. Hoskier and the New Testament ........................................................... 3 Juan Hernández Jr. Hoskier’s Contribution to the Apocalypse’s Textual History: Collations, Polyglots, Groupings ................................................................... 39 Martin Karrer Herman Charles Hoskier and the Textual Criticism of Revelation .................. 51 Jan Krans Hoskier in the Spiritual World ...................................................................... 69 Jennifer Wright Knust On Textual Nostalgia: Herman C. Hoskier’s Collation of Evangelium 604 (London, British Library Egerton 2610; GA 700) Revisited ........................... 79 Peter J. Gurry ‘A Book Worth Publishing’: The Making of Westcott and Hort’s Greek New Testament (1881) ..................................................................... 103 The Status Quaestionis and Future of Textual Scholarship Stanley E. Porter The Domains of Textual Criticism and the Future of Textual Scholarship .... 131 Author´s e-offprint with publisher´s permission Table of Contents Gregory Peter Fewster Finding Your Place: Developing Cross-reference Systems in Late Antique Biblical Codices ................................................................ 155 Christina M. Kreinecker Papyrology, Papyrological Commentary, and the Future of New Testament Textual Scholarship ....................................................... 181 Jacob W. Peterson Patterns of Correction as Paratext: A New Approach with Papyrus 46 as a Test Case ............................................................................................. 201 Dirk Jongkind Redactional Elements in the Text of Codex B ............................................. 231 H. A. G. Houghton The Garland of Howth (Vetus Latina 28): A Neglected Old Latin Witness in Matthew .................................................................................... 247 Curt Niccum Hoskier and His (Per)Version of the Ethiopic .............................................. 265 Thomas J. Kraus Ostraca and Talismans: The Story of Two Former Text-Critical Categories and What to do with Them Today .............................................. 283 An-Ting Yi The Critical Apparatus of Stephanus’ Greek New Testament of 1550: Early Printed Editions and Textual Scholarship ........................................... 305 Tommy Wasserman Methods of Evaluating Textual Relationships: From Bengel to the CBGM and Beyond........................................................................... 333 J. K. Elliott Thoroughgoing Eclectic Textual Criticism: Manuscripts and Variants of Revelation .............................................................................................. 363 Jill Unkel Speaking in Tongues: Collecting the Chester Beatty Biblical Manuscripts ... 379 Author´s e-offprint with publisher´s permission Table of Contents Editing the New Testament in a Digital Age D. C. Parker The Future of the Critical Edition ............................................................... 395 Catherine Smith Old Wine, New Wineskins: Digital Tools for Editing the New Testament.... 407 Klaus Wachtel The Development of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), its Place in Textual Scholarship, and Digital Editing ....... 435 Annette Hüffmeier Apparatus Construction: Philological Methodology and Technical Realization ........................................................................... 447 Contributors ............................................................................................... 461 Bibliography .............................................................................................. 463 Ancient Sources Index ................................................................................ 503 Modern Author Index ................................................................................. 513 Subject Index ............................................................................................. 521 Author´s e-offprint with publisher´s permission The Garland of Howth (Vetus Latina 28): A Neglected Old Latin Witness in Matthew H. A. G. Houghton* Research on the textual tradition of the Latin New Testament has been slower to integrate digital approaches than comparable investigations of the Greek evi- dence. Bonifatius Fischer’s computer collation of substantial test passages in over four hundred and fifty Latin gospel manuscripts from the first millennium was a notable but isolated early achievement.1 It was only two decades later that this was used to identify new witnesses to the Old Latin textual tradition and the tables of overall statistical agreement were published.2 The Verbum Project, run- ning at the University of Birmingham between 2002 and 2005, made full-text electronic transcriptions of manuscript witnesses to the Old Latin version of the Gospel according to John.3 Even so, these were not integrated into a single, au- tomated workflow for producing the Vetus Latina edition of John. Other recent projects to produce volumes in this series have made only limited use of software tools.4 * The present study uses material prepared for the Irish Latin Gospel Books Transcription Project (www.insulargospels.net), and is offered in gratitude to Professor Martin McNamara. The author would also like to thank Dr Garrick Allen for the invitation to deliver this paper at the conference Herman Hoskier and the Future of Textual Scholarship on the Bible held in Dublin in August 2017. 1 Bonifatius Fischer, Die lateinischen Evangelien bis zum 10. Jahrhundert, AGLB 13, 15, 17, 18 (Freiburg: Herder, 1988–1991). 2 H. A. G. Houghton, “A Newly Identified Old Latin Gospel Manuscript: Würzburg Uni- versitätsbibliothek M.p.th.f.67,” JTS 60 (2009):
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