Text
The Text of The
Epistle to Diogentus was preserved in a single manuscript dating from the
thirteenth or fourteenth century, Codex Argentoratensis Graecus ix, which
ultimately found a home in Strasbourg. But even this manuscript is no longer
extant, for it was lost to fire in 1870 when Strasbourg was shelled during the
Franco-German War. Fortunately, competent scholars have made a number of copies
(some of which are referred to in the critical apparatus) and issued printed
editions of the manuscript prior to its destruction, so the text of this unique
document has been preserved.
A Codex
Argentoratensis Graecus ix
h a copy made by H.
Haus (1580)
b readings noted by
J. J. Beurer (ca. 1590)
Unfortunately, the
exemplar from which Codex Argentoratensis was copied appears to have been
defective at a number of points, so that scholars have had to resort to
conjecture more often than usual to make sense of the text. (Michael W. Holmes,
The Apostolic Fathers: Greek and English Translations [3d ed.; Grand
Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2007], 689-90)
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