21. The Muratorian Fragment

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Something like a canon is to be found in a document edited, from a manuscript now at Milan, in the last, century by Muratori; hence called the Muratorian Fragment. Its date may be put at about. A.D. 170. This venerable document enumerates all the books of our New Testament, with the exception, it seems, of the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Epistles of James and Peter. It treats as scripture an Apocalypse of Peter, since rejected. We are able to judge from it approximately what the sentiment of the Western. Church was at that time.1
 
1. It is included in Routh's " Reliquiae Sacrae," and has also been edited by Tregelles.