Title: Ἠ φερομένη τοῦ ἁγίου Βαρνάβα ἁποστόλου ἐπιστολὴ καθολική. Sancti Barnabæ apostoli (ut fertur) Epistola catholica […] 
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Full title:</b>Ἠ φερομένη τοῦ ἁγίου Βαρνάβα ἁποστόλου ἐπιστολὴ καθολική. Sancti Barnabæ apostoli (ut fertur) Epistola catholica [Ab] Antiquis olim Ecclesiæ Patribus, sub eiusdem nomine laudata &amp; usurpata. [Hanc primum] E tenebris eruit, Notisque &amp; Observationibus illustravit R.P. domnus Hugo Menardus monachus Congregationis sancti Mauri in Gallia. Opus Posthumum.


</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 4to. ff. [3] (blank), pp. [16], 245, [3], ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: ã⁴, ẽ⁴, A-2H⁴ (ẽ4, a blank, bound before ã1). Calf. Tooled spine with red lettering panel and gilt spine title. Printer's device on title page. Headpieces, engraved initials. Printed annotations. Includes indexes. "Domni Hugonis Menardi Monachi congregationis Sancti Mauri: notae et observationes in epistolam catholicam quaes Barnabae Apostoli" has a separate title page. Greek and Latin in parallel columns; in some parts of the Greek columns, text is ommitted and replaced by black dots facing the Latin column. Signature of J. Newcome (1721) and 18th-century bookplate of the ‘Inner Library, bequeathed by the will of Thomas Eyre,’ 1792. “R.H. Robbins” printed. Repair wih loss of text on title page, manuscript partial restitution of text. Some manuscript annotations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">An edition, with commentary by Nicolas Hugues Ménard (1585-1644), of the apocryphal Spanish Northern African Epistle of Barnabas. It itself, the present work is not strictly a forgery, but relates tangentially to the 16th-century ‘Gospel of Barnabas,’ one of the most hotly defended, if patently spurious of ‘sacred’ texts, and Barnabas fragments in Clemens Alexandrinus. Cf. Ignatius, ed. Vossius (1646) (Bib# 4102639/Fr# 95).
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