Canon Muratorianus: The Earliest Catalogue of the Books Of the New Testament

Those who have any acquaintance with modern researches into the history of the Canon of the New Testament, are well aware that a little before the middle of the last century, the learned Muratori, in collecting materials for his great work, Antiquitates Italicæ Medii Ævi, discovered in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, a curious fragment written in barbarous Latin, which contained a list of books used in the early Church. This he gave to the world in the year 1740 at Milan, in the third volum...