The Marc mu l t i l i n g u e Pro j e c t 11 have been introduced. The European tradition itself is best represented by the text in ms. b, to which ff2 and i may be allied. It is in these three witnesses that one may find the kernel of the European text, or to be more precise the Italian text of c. 350-380. Manuscript d often has unique readings which justifies its text appearing on its own. Amongst other European mss., which will be shown in the apparatus, one ought to note on the one hand c and on the other a (with n and o) because these mss. stand in varying degrees on the hinge of the two traditions - their text is European but they contain many African readings. Finally, the Vulgate concludes the development of the Latin tradition although one needs to remember that this is merely Jerome’s somewhat hasty revision of one form of the Old Latin. Patristic citations have already been subjected to a preliminary study19 – but for practical reasons this evidence will not appear in Marc multilingue and awaits the Beuron edition of Mark. Each version has been allocated to a researcher who is responsible for the separate fascicule to be dedicated to that version. The collaborators recruited so far are Jean-Claude Haelewyck (Latin), Christian Peeters (Gothic), Anne Boud’hors (Coptic), Bernard Outtier (Georgian and with oversight of the Armenian), Samir Arbache and Adel Sidarus (Arabic), Alain Desreumaux (Christian-Palestinian Aramaic), Alain Martin and Albert Frey (Syriac) and José Johannet (Slavic). Work on the Armenian and Ethiopic has still be assigned, but work on the other versions is in progress. The collaborators meet on a regular basis to discuss matters of common concern for Marc multilingue. Some of their results may be seen in the volume of Mélanges de science religieuse referred to above. A conference on the early history of the New Testament text was held in Lille in July 2000, attended by (among others) several members of the Marc multilingue team. Issues relevant to the versions of Mark were presented by collaborators on the project20. Where the fascicules on the Greek and the versions may be seen to be related is in the French translation facing each page of the Greek, Latin, Coptic etc. Table 2 shows a French translation that will face a page of the Latin text. (This Table and Table 1 are, of course, merely samples of work 19 See J.-C. Haelewyck, “La Vetus Latina de l’Évangile de Marc: Les rapports (ed entre les témoins manuscrits et les citations patristiques”, in C.-B. Amphoux and J. Keith Elliott s .), The New Testament Text in Early Christianity (Lausanne, 2003) 150-193 (=Histoire du Texte Biblique 6). 20 The proceedings of this conference were published in 2003 and they include contributions by several of the collaborators of Marc multilingue by Zèbre (Lausanne) under the title The New Testament Text in Early Christianity: Proceedings of the Lille Colloquium, July 2000. Le texte du Nouveau Testament au début du christianisme: Actes du colloque de Lille, Juillet 2000 ed. C.-B. Amphoux and J.K. Elliott.