Editing Muratorian fragment (section)

==Manuscript history==
The Muratorian fragment was discovered in the [[Biblioteca Ambrosiana|Ambrosian Library]] in [[Milan]] by Father [[Ludovico Antonio Muratori]] (1672–1750), the most famous Italian historian of his generation.  Realizing its significance and antiquity, he published it in 1740.<ref>Muratori, ''Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevii'' (Milan 1740), vol. III, pp 809–80. Located within ''Dissertatio XLIII'' (cols. 807-80), entitled 'De Literarum Statu., neglectu, & cultura in Italia post Barbaros in eam invectos usque ad Anum Christii Millesimum Centesimum', at cols. 851-56.</ref>  The manuscript was likely copied sometime during or near the 8th century at [[Bobbio Abbey]].<ref>{{harvnb|Tregelles|1867|pp=1–3}}</ref>  A few lines of the Muratorian fragment were later found preserved in some codices of Paul's Epistles at the Benedictine abbey of [[Monte Cassino]].<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10642a.htm ''The Catholic Encyclopaedia'' ("Muratorian Canon")]</ref>  These documents date from the 11th and 12th centuries, and the copied lines largely concur with the Bobbio version with minor variations.<ref name="eckhardt">{{Cite journal |last=Schnabel |first=Eckhard J. |author-link=Eckhard J. Schnabel |date=2014 |title=The Muratorian Fragment: The State of Research |journal=[[Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society]]  |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=231–264 |url=https://etsjets.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/files_JETS-PDFs_57_57-2_JETS_57-2_231-64_Schnabel.pdf}}</ref>