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258 Vallarsi has no mark. C is right.

Ps. lxxxix. 17. Cathach: ÷ et opera manuum nostrarum direge super nos: et opus manuum nostrarum direge.

Vallarsi: et opera manuum nostrarum dirige super nos * et opus manuum nostrarum dirige:

The Heb. has both clauses: LXX (. B) omits the second. C is wrong.

Ps. xci. 10. Cathach: ÷ quoniam : ecce inimici tui domine ÷ quoniam : ecce inimici tui peribunt.

Vallarsi: * quoniam ecce inimici tui domine : quoniam ecce inimici tui peribunt.

Several MSS. of LXX read as C: while St. Jerome's Heb. differs only in omitting quoniam twice. Thus C is apparently right. But Vallarsi is not without justification: the Hebrew as now read has quoniam in both places, while LXX (MS. B) omits the whole of the first clause.

Ps. xciv. 9. Cathach: probauerunt ÷ me : et uiderunt.

Vallarsi has an asterisk; rightly, since LXX (ms. B, &c.), against Heb., omits me.

Ps. xcvii. 5. Cathach: Psallite domino in cythara ÷ in cythara :

Vallarsi has again an asterisk; no doubt rightly, though in cythara is repeated in LXX as well as in Hebrew. Cp. above on liii. 3.

Ps. ciii. 7. Cathach: a uoce tonitrui * tui: formidabunt.

Vallarsi has no mark : C is probably right, though both LXX and Heb. have tui.

In seven of these twelve cases our verdict has been given in favour of C against Vall., in four against in favour of Vall.; and in two of the latter C has merely misread the asterisk of his exemplar as an obelus. Once both C and Vall. are slightly astray. Thus it would seem that C has gone astray only five times, and its exemplar only twice or thrice out of forty-six. This is a fairly good record.

The Cathach is by no means a pure Gallican Psalter. It has some mixture of Old Latin readings. Sufficient proof of this may be gathered from an examination of the text of Pss. xc–xciii. I have selected these psalms at random from the latter part of the manuscript, in which investigation is less impeded by lacunae than elsewhere. Excluding mere variations in orthography, we find in them the following readings, which differ from the Clementine Vulgate:—

xc. 4 in scapulis*; te. 9. om. es. 10. accedent ad te mala*; flagillam.