fathers, especially of Gregory Nazianzen; to which are an- college of the Propaganda, at Rome, contains sections from nexed some fragments of an evangelisterium. This manu- the Gospels and Epistles, written in the eleventh century. script was collated by Mill and Wetstein, and subsequently It agrees for the most part with the Alexandrine family, and by Griesbach, who collated many readings of which they was collated by Dr. Birch. had taken no notice. 38. and 39. The CODICES, Florentinus 1. and 2., were col 23. The CODEX MEADII, which successively was the pro-lated by Birch. perty of Dr. Askew, and of M. d'Eon, by whom it was sent into France, was seen by Wetstein, who, however, has not specified its date. 24. The CODEX MONACENSIS 333. (Augustanus 4. of Bengel), of the tenth century, is correctly written, and is imperfect in John i. 1-14. Luke xxiv. 23-35., and Matt. xviii. 14-30. It was inspected by Bengel, and minutely examined by Scholz. 25. The CODEX Harleianus 5650. in the British Museum, of the twelfth century, is a codex rescriptus, but very few traces of the ancient writing are legible. 25. According to Griesbach is part of the same manuscript, written by another hand, in a smaller and more elegant character, and containing lessons concerning the resurrection of Christ. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated by Griesbach. 26. The CODEX BODLEIANUS 3390. noted sup. Seld. 2. was written, or rather re-written, in the fifteenth century; but almost every vestige of the more ancient writing (which seems to have been of the ninth or tenth century) has disappeared. Some lessons are added from the Acts and Epistles. The text of this manuscript is mixed: it was collated by Griesbach, who has described it at great length. 27. The CODEX BODLEIANUS 3391. noted sup. Seld. 3. is of the thirteenth or fourteenth century according to Griesbach, but of the fourteenth century according to Scholz. It was written in large characters by some illiterate monk over a more ancient evangelisterium, in uncial letters of the ninth century. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was first collated and described by Griesbach. 28. The CODEX MARSHI 22., now in the Bodleian library, was written in the thirteenth century by two different hands, neither of whom was very careful or accurate. It is imperfect at the end, and has a mixed text. Both this and the following manuscript were collated and minutely described by Griesbach. 29. The CODEX MARSHI 23., also in the Bodleian library, was elegantly written in the thirteenth century, but the letters have become so faint as to be legible with difficulty. It is imperfect at the end, and follows the Constantinopolitan re cension. 30. The CODEX BODLEIANUS 296., now marked Cromwelli 117., from Oliver Cromwell, to whom it formerly belonged, and with the rest of whose manuscripts it came into the Bodleian library, was written in the year 1225. It contains Greek liturgies and forms of public prayers. At page 149 commence sections of the Gospels and Epistles. Scholz has not stated with what recension its text coincides: but as it was written in Greece, we may conclude that it follows the Constantinopolitan family. 31. The CODEX NORIMBERGENSIS is of the twelfth century: it was collated by Doederlein. Michaelis states that its readings have a great conformity with those of the Codices Cantabrigiensis, Stephani », Basileensis, and Leicestrensis. 32. The CODEX GOTHANUS, now in the library of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, was written by a careless and illiterate Greek scribe. This manuscript was collated and described in a treatise published at Leipzig in 1791. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. 33. Is an EVANGELISTERIUM, belonging to Cardinal Alessandro Albani, written in the ninth century, in uncial characters. It was edited in 1788 by Stefano Antonio Morceli, at Rome, and belongs to the Constantinopolitan recension. 34. The CODEX MONACENSIS 229., formerly Evangelisterium Mannhemense 19., is in three volumes quarto, which were written in uncial characters in the ninth century, and, in Dr. Scholz's opinion, founded on internal evidence, for the use of some monastery on mount Athos. After a careful collation, he found very few readings different from the received text. 35. The CODEX VATICANUS 351. was written in the year 949, by one Michael, a monk: it follows the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated by Birch. 36. The CODEX VATICANUS 1067. contains lessons from the Gospels, very correctly written in uncial characters, in the tenth century. 37. A manuscript numbered 287., in the library of the VOL. I. 2 K 40. The CODEX ESCURIALENSIS 1. is an evangelisterium, supposed by Moldenhawer (by whom this and the other manuscripts in the Escurial were collated for Birch) to be written in the tenth century. It is in uncial characters. 41. The CODEX ESCURIALENSIS X. III. 12., written in the tenth century, in uncial characters, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. 42. The CODEX ESCURIALENSIS X. III. 13., of the tenth century, contains an evangelisterium written in uncial characters in the tenth century. It is imperfect in the beginning; follows the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 43. The CODEX ESCURIALENSIS X. III. 16., of the eleventh century, was written for the use of some church in Constantinople. It is imperfect in the beginning. 44. The CODEX HAUNIENSIS 3., of the fifteenth century, contains an imperfect evangelisterium. It follows the Constantinopolitan recension. 45. The CODEX VINDOBONENSIS, Lambecii 15., among the Greek law MSS., is a fragment of an evangelisterium, consisting of six leaves, and written in uncial characters in the eight century. 46. The CODEX CESAREUS OF VINDOBONENSIS (Kollarii 7., Forlosia 23.) contains fragments of an evangelisterium, written on purple vellum in the ninth century. 47. A manuscript in the LIBRARY OF THE HOLY SYNOD at Moscow, numbered 23. (b. of Matthaei's notation), is in uncial characters, written in the eighth century. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan family. This and the ten evangelisteria following (to No. 57. inclusive) were collated by Matthaei for his critical edition of the Greek Testament. 48. A manuscript in the LIBRARY OF THE HOLY SYNOD, No. 44. (c. of Matthaei), was written in 1056 by one Peter, a monk: it subsequently belonged to Nicephorus, metropolitan of the island of Crete, and agrees with the Constantinopolitan text. 49. Is a manuscript in the library connected with the PRINTING OFFICE of the Holy Synod, No. 11. (f. of Matthaei.) The former part of it is of the tenth century; the latter part is of a later date. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. 50. Is a very ancient manuscript, probably of the eighth century, in the same library, No. 12. (h. of Matthaei): it is written in uncial characters, and agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. 51. Is a manuscript in the same library, No. 9. (t. of Matthaei): it is of the sixteenth century, and agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. It contains part of an evangelisterium." 52. A manuscript in the LIBRARY OF THE HOLY SYNOD, No. 266. (. of Matthaei), written in the fourteenth century, contains lessons from other parts of the New Testament, besides an evangelisterium or lessons from the Gospels. 53. A manuscript in the same library, No. 267. (x. of Matthaei), of the fifteenth century, contains an euchologium, or collection of Greek prayers, and lessons from the New Testament. 54. A manuscript in the same library, No. 268. (4. of Matthaei), written in 1470, also contains an euchologium, and lessons from the New Testament. 55. Is a manuscript in the library connected with the PRINTING OFFICE of the Holy Synod, No. 47. (w. of Matthaei) it was transcribed by an ignorant and very careless copyíst from a more ancient manuscript, and contains an euchologium, with lessons from the New Testament. 56. Is a manuscript in the same library, No. 9. (16. of Matthaei), of the fifteenth century. It contains fragments of ecclesiastical lessons from the New Testament. 57. Is a manuscript in the LIBRARY AT DRESDEN, No. 256. (19. of Matthaei), of the fifteenth century. It formerly belonged to Count Bruhl, and contains an euchologium, in which are many lessons from the New Testament. V. Evangelisteria, first collated by Dr. Scholz for his critica 58. The CODEX REGIUS 50. a:, of the fifteenth century, was written for the use of some church in Greece. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated by Scholz. 59. The CODEX REGIUS 100. A., of the seventeenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. 3. 3. 60. The CODEX REGIUS 375. (formerly 2572., Colbertinus 4954.) was written in 1022. It contains lessons from the New Testament, and agrees with the Alexandrine recension. The whole of this manuscript was collated. 61. The CODEX REGIUS 182. contains fragments of the Gospels, viz. Matt. xxvi. 67. to the end, and John xix. 10 -20. It is written in uncial characters, and agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. 62. The CODEX REGIUS 194. A., of the thirteenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. 63. The CODEX REGIUS 277., formerly 2493., was brought from the East into the royal library at Paris. It was written in the ninth century in uncial characters, and is mutilated at the beginning and end. It agrees with the Constantinopo litan recension. 64. The CODEX REGIUS 281. was also brought from Constantinople; it is written in uncial letters of the ninth century, and many of the leaves are torn. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, but has a few Alexandrine readings. Very many sections of it were collated. 65. and 66. The CODICES REGII 282. and 283. are both palimpsest manuscripts, the more ancient writing of which appears to have been an evangelisterium written in uncial characters in the ninth century. Over this an ecclesiastical office was written in the thirteenth century; its text agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. The ecclesiastical office in No. 293. is imperfect at the end. Dr. Scholz states that he collated these two manuscripts with great labour, but discovered very few readings different from those of the received text. 67. The CODEX REGIUS 284., of the eleventh century, is written in uncial letters: it very rarely departs from the received text. 5. 5. 68. The CODEX REGIUS 285., formerly 1884. (Colbertinus 3006.), of the eleventh century, is imperfect at the beginning and end. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was cursorily collated by Scholz. 69. The CODEX REGIUS 286., of the eleventh century, is imperfect at the end. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. 70. The CODEX REGIUS 288., of the eleventh century, on vellum, was brought from the East in 1669. A few leaves at the beginning and end have been written by a later hand. This manuscript was cursorily collated. 71. The CODEX REGIUS 289., formerly (Colbertinus 4123.), written in 1066, is partly on vellum and partly on cotton paper. It agrees with the Alexandrine recension, and was collated in select passages. 2466. 5. 5. 72. The CODEX REGIUS 290., written in 1257, follows the Constantinopolitan recension. Three leaves annexed to this manuscript, and containing John v. 1-11. vi. 61–69. and vii. 1-15., are written in uncial characters, of the ninth century. The text of these fragments also corresponds with the Constantinopolitan recension. 73. The CODEX REGIUS 291., of the twelfth century, is imperfect. It follows the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. 74, 75, 76, and 77. The CODICES REGII, 292 (formerly 2466.) 293, 295, and 296., are all of the twelfth century, and agree with the Constantinopolitan recension: they were cursorily collated by Dr. Scholz. 5. 5. 78. The CODEX REGIUS 298., formerly 2466. (Colbertinus 4123.) is written on vellum, in the twelfth century a few chasms are supplied on cotton paper. This manuscript for the most part agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, but it has some peculiar readings. 79. and 80. The CODICES REGII 299. and 300. (formerly 2467.) are both of the twelfth century: they follow the Constantinopolitan family, and were cursorily collated. 81. The CODEX REGIUS 305., on vellum, Dr. Scholz thinks was written in Egypt; but it has supplements added on paper, of the fifteenth century. Its text for the most part agrees with the Alexandrine recension, and the greater part of it was collated. 82. The CODEX REGIUS 276., of the fifteenth century, on paper, contains lessons from the prophets, as well as from the New Testament. It follows the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. 83. The CODEX REGIUS 294., of the eleventh century, contains lessons from the New Testament. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. 84. and 85. The CODICES REGII 32. a. and 33. a. are both of the twelfth century, and contain lessons from the Old and New Testaments. They agree with the Constantinopolitan recension, and were cursorily collated. 86. The CODEX REGIUS 311., formerly 1884. and 548., was written in 1336, and agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. The chief part of this manuscript was collated by Dr. Scholz. At the end is placed the section concerning the adulterous woman, with obelisks before each line, but without any indication of the holiday on which it was read. 87, 88, and 89. The CODICES REGII 313, 314. (formerly 2166. Colbertinus 3715.) and 316. (formerly 2464. and 4266.) are respectively of the fourteenth century. They agree with the Constantinopolitan recension, and were cursorily collated. Numbers 88. and 89. are both imperfect. 3. 3. 4. 90. The CODEX REGIUS 317. (formerly 2494, Colbertinus 638.) was written in 1533. It follows the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. 91. The CODEX REGIUS 318. (formerly 2468. Colbertinus 3017.) was written in the eleventh century. The subscription and other additions, which were made by Leontius, a Palæographia Graca, p. 89. This manuscript agrees with monk, in the isle of Cyprus, may be seen in Montfaucon's the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily colcollated by Scholz) contains lessons from the New Testa92. The CODEX REGIUS 324. (No. 35. of the Lectionaria ment, with fragments of the liturgy of Basil. Its text agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. lated. collated by Scholz), of the fourteenth century, contains les93. The CODEX REGIUS 326. (No. 36. of the Lectionaria sons from the New Testament; the text of which agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. This manuscript also contains the liturgies of Chrysostom and Basil. 94. The CODEX REGIUS 330., of the thirteenth century, contains lessons from the New Testament, together with an euchologium. It follows the Constantinopolitan family, and was cursorily collated. 95. The CODEX REGIUS 374., of the fourteenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 96. The CODEX REGIUS 115., of the twelfth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was cursorily collated. It is imperfect at the beginning and end. 97. The CODEX REGIUS 376. (No. 32. of the Lectionaria collated by Scholz) almost always agrees with the received text in the sections relating to the passion of Jesus Christ. 98. The CODEX REGIUS 377. (formerly 3011.) is of the thirteenth century. Part of this manuscript is rewritten, and the ancient writing appears to exhibit sections of the text: it was cursorily collated. Gospels. The text very seldom departs from the received 3012. 99. The CODEX REGIUS 380., formerly (Colbertinus 4691.), of the fifteenth century, was cursorily collated. 100. The CODEX REGIUS 381., formerly 3012. (Colbertinus 4588.), was written in 1550, by one Michael Maurice, as appears from the subscription. It follows the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 5. 5. 101. The CODEX REGIUS 303. is of the thirteenth century. Dr. Scholz has not indicated what recension it follows. 102. The CODEX AMBROSIANUS 62., in the Ambrosian library at Milan, was written on paper in 1381: it contains an evangelisterium, with a commentary, and other lessons. At the beginning and end, respectively, there are two leaves of vellum. This manuscript agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 103. The CODEX AMBROSIANUS 67., of the thirteenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. It was collated in select passages. 104. The CODEX AMBROSIANUS 72., of the twelfth century, contains an evangelisterium and other lessons from the New Testament. It is imperfect at the beginning and end, and was collated in select passages. 105. The CODEX AMBROSIANUS 81., of the thirteenth century, is well and correctly written on vellum, with the exception of the first nineteen leaves, which are written on paper, in the sixteenth century. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was collated in select passages. 106. The CODEX AMBROSIANUS 91., of the thirteenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 107, 108, 109, and 110. The CODICES VENETIANI 548551. are all of the thirteenth century. Dr. Scholz has not specified to what recension they belong. 111. The CODEX MUTINENSIS 27. is an evangelisterium, written in uncial characters in the tenth century. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was collated in select passages. 112. The CODEX LAURENTIANUS 2742. (No. 48. of the Lectionaria cited by Scholz) contains lessons from the New Testament, neatly written in the thirteenth century. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 113. Of the CODEX LAURENTIANUS VI. 2. the former part, as far as the two hundred and thirteenth leaf, was written in the twelfth century, and the latter part, to the end, in the fourteenth century. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was collated in select passages. 114. The CODEX LAURENTIANUS VI. 7., of the twelfth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan family. 115. The CODEX LAURENTIANUS VI. 21., elegantly written in uncial characters in the eleventh century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension. It was cursorily collated. 116. The CODEX LAURENTIANUS VI. 31., elegantly written in uncial characters, in the tenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was cursorily collated. 117. The CODEX LAURENTIANUS 244., beautifully written. with gold cursive letters, in the twelfth century, with illuminations, follows the Constantinopolitan recension. It was cursorily collated.1 118. The CODEX LAURENTIANUS (not numbered) is elegantly written in uncial characters, in the twelfth century. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was collated in select passages.' 119, 120, and 121. The CODICES VATICANI 1155. 1256. and 1157. are all of the thirteenth century, and agree with the Constantinopolitan family. They were collated in select passages. 122. The CODEX VATICANUS 1168., written in 1175, agrees with the Constantinopolitan family. It was collated in select passages. 123. The CODEX VATICANUS 1522., very correctly written in uncial characters, in the eleventh century, without any points, was collated in select passages. 124. The CODEX VATICANUS 1988. (Basil. 27.), of the thirteenth century, is imperfect at the beginning and end. It was collated in select passages. 125. The CODEX VATICANUS 2017. (Basil. 56.) is of the twelfth century. 126. The CODEX VATICANUS 2041. (Basil. 80.), of the twelfth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan family. It was collated in select passages. 127. The CODEX VATICANUS 2063. (Basil. 102.), of the ninth century, is in uncial characters: it is imperfect in the beginning. The leaves at the commencement of the second part (a menologium) are of the fourteenth century. This evangelisterium agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was collated in select passages. 128. The CODEX VATICANUS 2133., of the fourteenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was collated in select passages. 129. The CODEX ALEXANDRINO-VATICANUS 12., which formerly belonged to Christina, Queen of Sweden, was written by two different hands. The first forty leaves are of the thirteenth century: the hundred and eight following leaves were written by another hand, in the same century; and the seventy-one leaves following to the end (Dr. Scholz thinks) were added in the fifteenth century. The first forty leaves Both these evangelisteria, which are among the most precious in the library of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, were specially described by the canon Angelo Bandini, in a volume intituled "Illustrazione di due Evangeliari Greci del Seculo XI." Venezia, 1787, 4to. exhibit the Alexandrine text, and appear to have been written in France. The remainder agrees with the Constantinopolitan text. This evangelisterium was collated in select passages. 130. The CODEX VATICANO-OTTOBONIANUS 2. is beautifully written in uncial letters of the ninth century. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 131. The CODEX VATICANO-OTTOBONIANUS 175., of the fourteenth century, contains part of an evangelisterium. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 132. The CODEX VATICANO-OTTOBONIANUS 326., written in silver characters, in the fifteenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 133. The CODEX VATICANO-OTTOBONIANUS 416. is a lectionarium of the fourteenth century. 134. The CODEX BARBERINIANUS 15., of the thirteenth century, agrees with the Constantinopolitan family. The first eight and last three leaves are written on paper; the remainder on vellum. This manuscript agrees with the Constantinopolitan recension, and was collated in select passages. 135. The CODEX BARBERINIANUS 16. is a palimpsest manuscript of the sixth century, in uncial letters. 136. Is the later writing of the twelfth century, superadded to the more ancient writing of the same manuscript. Both these manuscripts contain lessons from the Gospels. 137. The CODEX VALLICELLIANUS D. 63., of the twelfth century, is imperfect in the beginning. It agrees with the Constantinopolitan family, and was collated in select passages. 138. The CODEX NEAPOLITANUS 1. B. 14., of the fifteenth century, was presented to the church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul at Naples, by Christopher Palæologus, May 7th, 1584. 139. The CODEX VENETIANUS 12. is an evangelisterium of the tenth century. 140. The CODEX Venetianus 626. is an evangelisterium of the thirteenth century. 141. The CODEX BIBLIOTHECA NANIANE 2. at Venice, is of the eleventh century. 142. The CODEX BIBLIOTHECE NANIANE 16. is of the fourteenth century, and imperfect. 143. Is an evangelisterium, formerly belonging to the monastery of St. Michael, Venice, and numbered 29.: it is imperfect. 144. The CODEX BIBLIOTHECA MALATESTIANÆ CESENATIS XXVII. 4. is written in uncial letters of the tenth or (as Dr. Scholz thinks) of the twelfth century. 145. The CODEX BIBLIOTHECA MALATESTIANÆ CÆSENATIS XXIX. 2. is of the twelfth century. Scholz has not indicated to what class of recensions Nos. 143–145. belong. 146. The CODEX CANTABRIGIENSIS Dd. VIII. 23. is neatly written in the eleventh century, for the use of the church at Constantinople. 147. The CODEX HARLEIANUS 2970. is an evangelisterium of the eleventh century, with pictures of the four evangelists, and elegant ornaments of a gold and purple colour. 148. The CODEX HARLEIANUS 2994. is of the eleventh century. 149. The CODEX HARLEIANUS 5538. is of the fourteenth century. 150. The CODEX HARLEIANUS 5598. is a splendid evangelisterium in uncial letters, written in 995. See it more fully described in pp. 237, 238. supra. 151. The CODEX HARLEIANUS 5785. is beautifully written in cursive letters, of the tenth century. It has pictures and ornaments prefixed to the different sections; and the initial letter of each section is gilt. 152. The CODEX HARLEIANUS 5787., of the eleventh century, is in uncial letters, not unlike those in No. 150. It is defective in the beginning and in various other parts. 153. The CODEX MEERMANNIANUS 117. is of the eleventh century. 154. The CODEX MONACENSIS 326. (formerly Mannhemensis 20.), written in small and neat characters in the thirteenth century, contains that part of a synaxarion which exhibits the sections which are to be read during Lent and at Easter, and part of a menologium from September to December. Dr. Scholz is of opinion that this manuscript was written for the use of the Constantinopolitan church. [PART I. CHAP. III. 155. The CODEX CESAREO-VINDOBONENSIS, Nessel. Theol. | isle of Patmos, written in uncial letters, and (according to 209. Lambecii 41., is a codex rescriptus of the tenth cen- Scholz) in the fourth century. tury for the more ancient writing. The later writing, which 173. Is a manuscript in the same library, of the ninth is of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, is a commentary century, and in uncial letters. on the Gospel of Saint Matthew. 156. The CODEX ROMANO-VALLICELLIANUS D. 4. I. is an evangelisterium, which is fully described by Blanchini in his Evangeliarium Quadruplex, part i. pp. 537. et seq. Dr. Scholz does not know where it is now preserved. 157. The CODEX BIBLIOTHECA BODLEIANE Clarkii 8. is imperfect at the beginning and end. 158. Is a manuscript belonging to the library of the great monastery of the Greeks at Jerusalem. It was written in the fourteenth century. 159. Is a manuscript belonging to the Library of the Virgins, της μεγάλης παναγιας, erected by Saint Melana. It was written in the thirteenth century, and not in the eighth, as the recluses imagine. 160. Is a manuscript in the LIBRARY of THE MONASTERY OF SAINT SABA, numbered 4. and written in the same monastery in the fourteenth century. It contains lessons from the whole of the New Testament. 161, and 162. Are manuscripts in the same library, numbered 5. and 6., both of the fourteenth century. No. 161. contains lessons from the New Testament and sections of the Gospels; No. 162. is an evangelisterium. 163. Is a manuscript in the same library, numbered 13., of the thirteenth century. This and the eight following manuscripts were written for the use of some monastery in Palestine. 164. Is a manuscript in the same library, numbered 14., written in the fourteenth century. 165. Is a manuscript in the same library, numbered 17., written in the fifteenth century. 165. Is a manuscript in the same library, numbered 21., of the thirteenth century. 167. Is a manuscript in the same library, numbered 22., of the fourteenth century. 168, 169, and 170. Are manuscripts in the same library, numbered 23-25., and all of the thirteenth century.. 171. Is a mansscript in the same library, written in g faqa Wimoru Each page contains two columns, the Latin on the left and the Greek on the right: the Latin is in square or Gothic characters. The manuscript seems not to have been finished; for, at the beginning of one or two of the Epistles, the space for the first large letter, occupying the breadth of two lines, is left blank, as well as the top line, evidently showing that the antiquarians intended to fill it up at leisure in a more ornamental style, as is the case in other books. The Codex Ottobonianus has no title. The text begins at once with Primum quidem sermonem. After the Acts come the Epistle of St. James and the other lesser ones; last those of St. Paul. The ink is faded: it is, in fact, become brown, so as to appear much more ancient; in some letters it is completely scaled off, so that it was with the greatest difficulty that Dr. Wiseman could catch the traces of the several letters. This manuscript has been altered in many places, in order to make it harmonize with the Latin Vulgate :2 on this account, as well as its late date, it can be of little value in sacred criticism, except where it corroborates the readings of MSS. of better authority and of earlier date. The specimens of its readings, printed by Dr. Scholz in his Biblico-Critical Travels, are given by D. Dermout in his Collectanea Critica in Novum Testamentum. 174, and 175. Are manuscripts in the same library, of the tenth century, both of which are written in uncial letters. 176. Is a manuscript in the same library, of the twelfth century. 177. Is a manuscript in the same library, of the thirteenth century. 178. Is a manuscript in the same library, of the fourteenth century.3 $5. NOTICES OF MANUSCRIPTS WHICH HAVE HITHERTO BEEN I. The Codex Ottobonianus 298.-II. The Codices MannersSuttoniani.-III. The Codices Burneiani.-IV. The Codices Butleriani. ONLY SLIGHTLY, OR NOT AT ALL, EXAMINED. HOWEVER minute the researches of Scholz and his predecessors have been, many manuscripts, it appears, yet remain to be collated. At Moscow alone there is still an ample field for critical research, in the manuscripts contained in the Patriarchal Library at Moscow, none of which have yet been fully collated. To this class may be referred the Codex Ebnerianus already noticed in p. 244., and also the Codex Ottobonianus 298., the Codices Manners-Suttoniani, the Codices Burneiani, and the Codices Butleriani, of which some account is now to be given. I. The CODEX OTTOBONIANUS 298. is one of the manuscripts preserved in the Vatican library, and was written in the fifteenth century. It is in very small quarto, on vellum, and contains the Acts and Apostolic Epistles in Greek and Latin. It was collated by Dr. Scholz for his edition of the Greek Testament; but as the results of his collation have not yet appeared, this manuscript is noticed on account of its containing the disputed clause in 1 John v. 7, 8., but in a form which renders it of no value or authority in determining the genuine reading of that clause. The following fac-simile of it is copied from the tracing made by the Rev. Dr. Wiseman, vice-president of the English College at Rome, for the Bishop of Salisbury (the Rt. Rev. Dr. Burgess), by whose liberal permission it appears in this work. II. The CODICES MANNERS-SUTTONIANI are a choice collec tion of manuscripts, in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth, which have been purchased and presented to that library by the late archbishop (Dr. Charles Manners Sutton). They are principally the collection made by the Rev. J. D. Carlyle, Professor of Arabic in the university of Cambridge, during his travels in the East, with a view to a critical edition of the New Testament, with various readings; which, however, was never undertaken, in consequence of his lamented decease. Of these manuscripts (which are chiefly of the New Testament) the following are particularly worthy of notice, on account of the harvest of various lections which they may be expected to afford : The preceding catalogue of manuscripts contains those only which comprise the entire New Testament, or the four Gospels, and the evange listeria, or lessons from the Gospels for ecclesiastical use. It was the author's wish to have given a series of all the manuscripts hitherto known to have been collated. When Dr. Scholz's critical edition of the New Testament shall be finished, he proposes to complete such catalogue, and in have the supplementary pages so printed as to admit of being inserted immediately after this page. Dr. Henderson's Biblical Researches, p. 51 Six of these precious MSS. having been reclaimed by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, as having been lent only to Professor Carlyle, they were returned to him in 1817, by his Grace the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. Full particulars relative to this transaction, so honourable to the noble and mu1 The above particulars are abridged from a letter of Dr. Wiseman tonificent character of the Primate of all England, may be seen in the Rev. the Bishop of Salisbury, dated English College, Rome, Sept. 24th, 1829. Dr. W.'s description is more full than that given by Scholz in his BiblischeKritische Reise, p. 105. Scholz, Reise, p. 105. H. J. Todd's "Account of Greek Manuscripts, chiefly Biblical, which had been in the Possession of the late Professor Carlyle, the greater Part of which are now deposited in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace." London. [1818] 8vo. 1. No. 1175. is a manuscript of the four Gospels, written on vellum, in quarto, towards the end of the eleventh or at the beginning of the twelfth century. The first two verses of the first chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel are wanting. At the end of this manuscript, on a single leaf, there are part of the last verse of the seventh chapter of Saint John's Gospel and the first eleven verses of the eighth chapter. 2. No. 1176. is another manuscript of the four Gospels, on vellum, in quarto, written in the twelfth century. On the first leaf there are some figures painted and gilt, which have nearly disappeared from age. This is followed by the chapters of the four Gospels. 3. No. 1177. is a manuscript of the four Gospels, on vellum, of the twelfth century, which is very much mutilated in the beginning. 4. No. 1178. contains the four Gospels, most beautifully written on vellum, in quarto, in the tenth century. The first seven verses and part of the eighth verse of the first chapter of Saint Matthew's Gospel are wanting. 5. No. 1179. contains the four Gospels, mutilated at the beginning and end. It is on vellum, in quarto, of the twelfth century. 6-8. Nos. 1182, 1183. and 1185. are manuscripts, containing the Acts of the Apostles, the Catholic Epistles, and the whole of Saint Paul's Epistles. They are all written in quarto and on paper. No. 1182. is of the twelfth century: the conclusion of St. John's First Epistle, and the subsequent part of this manuscript to the end, have been added by a later hand. No. 1183. is of the fourteenth century. No. 1185. is of the fifteenth century, and is mutilated at the end. .... 9. No. 1186. is a quarto manuscript on vellum, written in the eleventh century, and contains the Epistles of Saint Paul and the Apocalypse. It is unfortunately mutilated at the beginning and end. It commences with Rom. xvi. 15.....ay (that is, Ολυμπαν) και τους συν αυτοις πάντας αγίους, οι pas (that is, Olympas) and all the saints which are with them and it ends with the words, T TW Spare Rejores Aμny, on the throne, saying, Amen. Rev. xix. 4. The Rev. H. J. Todd has given a fac-simile of this precious manuscript in his catalogue of the manuscripts in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth. 10-12. Nos. 1187-1189. are lectionaries from the four Gospels, written on vellum in the thirteenth century. 13. No. 1190. is a manuscript on vellum, written with singular neatness, in the thirteenth century. Formerly it contained the Acts of the Apostles, and the Catholic Epistles, together with the whole of Saint Paul's Epistles. It is sadly mutilated and torn, both in the middle and at the end. 14. No. 1191. is a lectionary, from the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles. It is on vellum, in quarto, of the thirteenth century. It is mutilated both at the beginning and end. All the preceding manuscripts were brought by Professor Carlyle from the Greek islands. 15-17. Nos. 1194, 1195, and 1196. are lectionaries from the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles. They are on vellum, in quarto, and were written in the thirteenth century.-No. 1194. is mutilated at the end: the writing of this manuscript is singularly neat, and many of the letters are gilt. No. 1195. is also mutilated at the beginning, and No. 1196. at the end. 18. No. 1192. is a very beautiful manuscript of the four Gospels, in quarto, written on vellum in the thirteenth century. 19. No. 1193. is a lectionary from the four Gospels, also written on vellum, in the thirteenth century. It is mutilated at the end. The last six manuscripts, Nos. 1191-1196., were brought from Syria.1 III. The CODICES BURNEIANI form part of the Collection of Classical and other Ancient Manuscripts, now deposited in the Library of the British Museum. They were purchased, under the sanction of parliament, of the representatives of the late Rev. Dr. Charles Burney, in the year 1818. In this collection there are many valuable Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Scriptures. The following are those which contain the New Testament, entire or in part, which do not appear to have been hitherto collated: 1. No. 18. contains the four Gospels, elegantly written on vellum, by one Joasaph, in the year 6874, or a. D. 1366. The letters in the first pages of the sections are of gold. To each Gospel is prefixed an index of chapters; and a menologium is subjoined. 1 Catalogue of the MSS. in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth. By the Rev. H. J. Todd, pp. 261, 262. London, 1812. folio. 2. No. 19. is a manuscript of the four Gospels, written on vellum in the eleventh century. It has pictures of the evangelists and ornaments prefixed to the sections. This manuscript formerly belonged to the library of San Lorenzo in the Escurial. 3. No. 20. is a manuscript of the four Gospels, on vellum, written in the year 6793, or A. D. 1285. It has pictures of the evangelists, and the Eusebian canons are prefixed. 4. No. 21. is a manuscript of the four Gospels, written on paper in the year 6800, or a. D. 1292. 5. No. 22. is an evangelisterium, on vellum, written in 1330. 6. No. 23. is an imperfect manuscript, on vellum, containing the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and John i.-viii. 14. It was written in the thirteenth century. IV. The CODICES BUTLERIANI are a choice collection of manuscripts in the library of the Rev. Samuel BUTLER, D.D., of Shrewsbury, Archdeacon of Derby, to whom the author is indebted for the following critical notices of them. 1. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM, Græce. This manuscript is a very thick octavo, of the twelfth century, on vellum. It contains the whole of the New Testament, except the Apocalypse, and has, generally, the best readings. At the beginning it has the Eusebian canons; and at the end there are several Psalms and extracts from the Old Testament. This manuscript is written in a small clear black character, with a few illuminations; one of which (among the Psalms and extracts from the Old Testament) is a representation of David slaying Goliath, who is bearing the kite-shaped shield, which went out of use about the middle of the twelfth century. This manuscript has not been collated. 2. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM, Græce. It is a large folio volume on vellum, containing the entire text of the New Testament, including the Apocalypse, and is written in a initial letters and running titles at the top, and often at the fine bold hand, with stops and accents throughout the bottom of each page, are in characters of gold. It has the of the whole before each book, in gold letters. The Gospels Eusebian TiT and xep in the margins, and a collection are placed first: to that of St. Matthew is prefixed a table of ecclesiastical lessons. To the Gospels succeed the Acts of the Apostles, the seven Catholic Epistles, and the Epistles of Saint Paul, at the end of which is the date, Oct. 11. 1368. Last of all comes the Apocalypse. The disputed clause in 1 John v. 7. is omitted. This most splendid manuscript, which is uninjured by worm or damp, is marked in Griesbach's Prolegomena (sect. vii.), No. 107. and 201. It has been very imperfectly collated. 3. QUATUOR EVANGELIA, Græce. This fine manuscript, which is a short thick folio on vellum, dated A. D. 1326, has not yet been collated: it is interesting, as having been brought to the Rev. Dr. Butler from Mount Sinai. It is in the original thick wooden binding, ornamented with silver knobs, which (it is believed) are designed to represent pomegranate flowers. This manuscript is written in a bold hand, with black ink, and is illuminated with rude portraits of the Evangelists. 4. QUATUOR EVANGELIA, Græce. This manuscript, written on cotton paper, in quarto, is of the latter part of the fifteenth century. It is evidently the work of two different transcribers, and has not been collated. 5. EVANGELISTERIUM, Græce. This manuscript is a fine folio volume, on vellum, of the eleventh century it was brought from Constantinople, and has not yet been collated. 6. Some FRAGMENTS OF THE GOSPEL OF SAINT MATTHEW, comprised in six leaves of vellum, in small folio, of the twelfth century. They are beautifully written in double columns. SECTION III. ON THE ANCIENT VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES. NEXT to manuscripts, VERSIONS afford the greatest assistance in ascertaining critically the sacred text, as well as in the interpretation of the Scriptures. "It is only by means of versions that they, who are ignorant of the original languages, can at all learn what the Scripture contains; and every version, so far as it is just, conveys the sense of Scripture to those who understand the language in which it is written." Versions may be divided into two classes, ancient and |