1 Introduction
1.1 Introducing the Corpus Paulinum: A Historical Sketch of the Earliest Latin Prologues
Part I. Text and Manuscripts
2 The Montecassino Codices
Figure 1: Montecassino, Archivio dell'Abbazia, 552, p. 56. The Benedictine Prologue - 2.1 Historiography on the Benedictine Prologue: Harnack, Batiffol, Amelli, Brown - 2.2 The Codicological History of the Montecassino Bible Group
3 A New Witness: Codicology and Context of the Manfred Bible
Figure 2: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 522v. Dedication scene - 3.1 Related Bibles in the Manfred and Conradin Groups - 3.2 The Creation of the Manfred Bible - 3.3 Codexin Comparison with the Montecassino Codices
4 A New Collation of the Benedictine Prologue
Figure 3: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 442r. The Benedictine Prologue - Figure 4: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 442v. The Benedictine Prologue - 4.1 Text - 4.2 Translation - 4.3 Variants in the Five Witnesses to the Benedictine Prologue: Preliminary Remarks - 4.4 Variants in BP II in Relation to its Parallel Transmission in S 651/659 - 4.5 Variants in BP I-VI across the Prologue's Codices - 4.6 Summary
5 The Benedictine Prologue and the Muratorian Fragment: Texts Compared
Figure 5: Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I 101 sup., fol. 10v. The Muratorian Fragment - Figure 6: Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I 101 sup., fol. 11r. The Muratorian Fragment - 5.1 Variants in BP I and III-V Compared to the Muratorian Fragment as Preserved by - 5.2 Critical Principles for Evaluating Variants
Part II. Sources and Implications
6 Heber, Abraham, and the Hebrew of the Hebrews: BP VI
7Omnis textus uel numerus epistolarum : S 651 §3 and BP II
Figure 7: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 435v. Prologue S 651 - Figure 8: Vatican, B.A.V., Vat. lat. 36, fol. 436r. Prologue S 651 - 7.1 The Content, Language, and Themes of S 651 §3 - 7.2 The Manuscript Transmission of S 651 §3
8 Prologue S 659
9 Latin Euthaliana I: S 651 §3
10 Latin Euthaliana II: S 651 §1
10.1 The Strife between Jews and Gentiles in Euthalian and Latin Traditions - 10.2 Concluding Remarks on the Presence of Euthaliana in S 651
11 Conclusion
