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Excerpt from Two Treatises on the Hierarchies of Dionysius: By John Colet
The original Of the first Treatise, on the Celestial Hierarchy, is found in the manuscript marked Gg. Iv. 26 in the Cambridge University Library; and this has afforded the means Of correcting the text in some places, as well as Of supplying one considerable omis Sion.
The second Treatise, on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, is nowhere else to be met with, SO far as I am aware. Although, therefore, this is the one on which the author evidently bestowed most care, yet the fact of its existing in but one copy (and that made, as I Should infer, by a not very intelligent scribe), is a disadvantage, which may be pleaded in excuse of occasional errors.
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