(Vol. viii., p. 316.)
In answer to Z. I may state that the first attempt of this kind is
attributed to Tatian. Eusebius, in his _Ecc. Hist._ (quoted in Lardner's
_Works_, vol. ii. p. 137. ed. 1788), says, he "composed I know not
what--harmony and collection of the gospels, which he called ~dia
tessarôn~." Eusebius himself composed a celebrated harmony, of which, as
of some others in the sixteenth and two following centuries, there is a
short account in Michaelis's _Introduction to the New Test._, translated
by Bishop Marsh, vol. iii. part I. p. 32. The few works of the same kind
written in the early and middle ages are noticed in Horne's
_Introduct._, vol. ii. p. 274. About the year 330, Juvencus, a Spaniard,
wrote the evangelical history in heroic verse. Of far greater merit were
the four books of Augustine, _De Consensu Quatuor Evangeliorum_. After a
long interval, Ludolphus the Saxon, a Carthusian monk, published a work
which passed through thirty editions in Germany, besides being
translated into French and Italian. Some years ago I made out the
following list of Harmonies, Diatessarons, and Synoptical tables,
published since the Reformation, which may in some measure meet the wish
of your correspondent. It is probably incomplete. The dates are those of
the first editions.
|Osiander, 1537. | Büsching, 1756.
|Jansenius, 1549. | Macknight, 1756.
|Chemnitz, 1593. | Bertlings, 1767.
|Lightfoot, 1654. | Griesbach, 1776.
|Cradock, 1668. | Priestley (Greek), 1777.
|Richardson, 1654.| Priestley (Eng.), 1780.
|Sandhagen, 1684. | Newcome (Greek), 1778.
|Le Clerc, 1699. | Newcome (Eng.), 1802.
|Whiston, 1702. | White, 1799.
|Toinard, 1707. | De Wette, 1818.
|Rein Rus, 1727. | Thompson, R., 1808.
|Bengelius, 1736. | Chambers, 1813.
|Hauber, 1737. | Thompson, C., 1815.
|Doddridge, 1739. | Warner, 1819.
|Pilkington, 1747.| Carpenter, 1835.
|Michaelis, 1750. |