textuary

& 8. [Fr. textuaire.] IMG:content-0959.png:[blocks in formation] "The little our Savior could prevail about this doctrine of charity against the crabbed textuists of his time."- Milton : Doctrine of Divorce. (To the Parliament.) těx-tu-lär-i-a, *těx-ti-lär-I-a, s. [Mod. Lat., dim in. from text us =woven, pa. par. of texo to weave.] 1. Zool .: A genus of Globi ger in ide. Test generally conical or wedge-shaped, consisting of numerous chambers arranged in two alternate, parallel series; aperture lateral, not beaked, situated beneath the apex. 2. Palæont.: From the Carboniferous onward. Biblical Criticism : A received text; one from which, as being the best acce ible, translators recept us of the Old Testament is the Hebrew text, from which the Authorized English Version of that portion of the Bible was made. The text us recept us of the New Testament is the Greek text, from which the Authorized English Version was produced. The term text us might also, without impro priety, be used of the Hebrew and Greek texts chosen by the revisers as the basis of the Revised Version. The text us recept us of the Old Testament in the A. V. rested on the Hebrew Masoretic Text, which has come down in manuscripts of no great an tiquity, and all of the same family or recension. The oldest Hebrew manuscript of which the age is known, bears date A. D. 916. There are not materials to submit the Hebrew text to proper critical revision, and the revisers adhere to it nearly to the same extent as the translators of the Authorized Version. The case is different with the New Testament. The text us recept us on which the A. V. was constructed was chiefly that of Beza, published in 1589. It had been based on Stephen's edition of 1550, and this again on the fourth edition of Erasmus, A. D. 1517. None of the manuscripts used were of first rate authority. The revisers had the advantage of Codex A (the Alexandrian manuscript) of the fifth century; Codex B (the Vatican manuscript) of the fourth century, or earlier; Codex C (the Ephraim manuscript) of the fifth cen tury; Codex D (the manuscript of Beza) of the sixth century; and Codex Aleph (the Sinaitic manuscript) of the fourth century, discovered by Count Const an tine Tischendorf at the convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, in 1844, and published by the discoverer in 1862. Numerous improved readings have therefore been introduced. The text which they chose was published separately by the Clarendon Pre at Oxford, England, in 1881.