The Appendices to the Gospel according to Mark. 365 



This MS was never prepared for liturgical use, though a later hand 

 has scrawled roughly here and there indications of the beginnings 

 and endings of a few of the lections. The colophon, on the other 

 hand, as a reference to the accompanying plate will show, is original, 

 and not a later addition. 



Of course both Burgon and Martin argue that here the tsAo? is 

 a vestige of a distant liturgical exemplar, but, as Dr. Hort argues, 

 it is not possible to explain the phenomena of 22 and the other MSS 

 which have -iXoc. at this point simply on the basis of liturgical use. 

 Rather this MS indicates that in some sense the Gospel is understood 

 to end at v. 8, in some sense at v. 20. In time there naturally arose, 

 in all probability, a confusion of this -iXoc, with the liturgical -zi'Koc, 

 which would be the more natural as a lection did end with v. 8. 



This interpretation is supported by the similar but independent 

 testimony of certain ancient Armenian codices where s'jayYsliov 

 /.(XTa Mapxov follows both v. 8 and v. 20. We must infer that such 

 texts were derived ultimately from an exemplar which ended with 

 verse 8. 



In this connection it is interesting to note that precisely the same 

 rubric is found in cursive 15 (Paris 64, Sd s283) at the bottom of the 

 verso of folio 98 (not in the lower margin, see the reproduction by 

 Martin p. 516). The recto of folio 99 reads at the top as the page 

 title the abbreviation for suayysltov ava'jTaG-i[j.ov y xaT« Mapxov in 

 vermilion, followed by the words 'AvaaTa? 6 ' Ic- in gold. The page 

 contains the Longer Ending, immediately followed, whether on the 

 last line or in the lower margin it is hard to determine, by the sub- 

 scription in vermilion, written between ornaments of black 



fe=?fa=?s=*?fe=? : Ti}.oi7:0xaTaij.ap/vOvsuaYYs '■ s==?&^s^8=*^ 



This MS is most interesting as showing how easily and simply, by 

 the loss of a leaf, the last twelve verses could be separated from the 

 rest of the Gospel. 



Cursives 20 and 300 (Paris Nat. Gr. 188 and 186, Sd A 138 and A 141) 

 which are derived from a common exemplar contain the scholion 

 £VT£uO-ev l(^)c, zb xiXoc, £V TIC!, To)v av-!,j'pa''po)v OX) xsTxai . Iv Bs 

 -oXc ocpyuioK; xavTa axapa7.£i7UTa xeTtki, that is to say, "from here to 

 the end forms no part of the text in some of the copies. In the 

 ancient copies, however, it all forms part of the text." 



Burgon makes much of the fact that in both these MSS the scholion 

 appears in the wrong place at the end of v. 15. But Martin shows 

 that this is a mere accident, due to the fact that it was written at 

 this point in the margin, solely because there was a blank space here, 



