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The Appendices to the Gospel according to Mark. 411 



Prof. J. Rendel Harris, on his first visit to the convent of St. Cathe- 

 rine on Mount Sinai discovered, amid a mass of fragments and loose 

 leaves, three leaves, two of them stuck together, containing an ancient 

 text of the latter part of Mark. This he published in 1890 in his 

 Biblical Fragments from Mount Sinai, pp. xii, xiii, 45—52. 



Upon a second visit in the spring of 1893 by holding up the com- 

 pacted leaves of thin vellum in the strong sunlight he was able to read 

 most of the closing words of Mark, and found a text containing both 

 the Shorter and Longer Endings which he published in 1893 in the 

 Journal of Biblical Literature (xii, Pt. II, p. 96). It is also pub- 

 lished b}' Mrs. Lewis in her Catalogue of Syriac MSSon Mt. Sinai, 

 {p. 103 f.). 



The text is closely allied to that of certain of the great uncials. 

 When first discovered Harris thought it comparable to 8 but Hort 

 considered that it had closer affiliations with L, a surmise which the 

 later discovery of the double ending confirmed. 



As to the handwriting it is "a looped uncial with strong Coptic 

 characteristics, not unlike that of the famous Codex Marchalianus of 

 the prophets." 



On account of its resemblance to this MS, and because of other 

 signs of antiquity, Harris assigned it to the seventh century. 



From the style of handwriting and the place of discovery the dis- 

 cover assigns to the MS an Egyptian origin. 



The inferences to be drawn from this MS are the same as those we 

 deduced from L. 



Codex Athous Laurae (4'). 

 Mark 16:8. /^ 



Ea)OBOrNT() TAP: ^ 

 IIANTA AE TA llAPHrFEAMENA TOi:^ IIEPl TON 



nETPON XrNTOMQI. ^EHFFEIAAN : META 

 AE TAVTA KAI AlTOI li: Ea)ANH AlIOANATOAHl 

 KAI MEXPI Ar:::EQI EZAIIEITEIAEN Al AfTQN 

 TO lEPON KAI AOOAPTON KllIM-PMA THI AIQ 

 NIOV roTHPlAl AMHN: 



EITIN KAI TAVTA (I>EPOIVIENA 

 META TO E(I>OBorNTO FAP. 



^VNAITA^ AE X. T. X. to end of verse 20. 

 ErAFFEAION KATA MAPKON : 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XVIII. 28 Febrdary, 1915. 



