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Discussion. 



In his interesting discussion of the Shorter Conclusion, Swete has 

 presented in parallel columns the evidence of the four Greek uncials 

 in which it is found preceding the Longer Conclusion. But he does 

 not tell us that these uncials are supported by cursive 579 although 

 Zahn had previously referred to the fact in his discussion (GK. II, 

 p. 921). 



This cursive resembles T in having the word -ziXoc, (in red) written 

 in the text at the close of v. 8 followed immediately by the Shorter 

 Ending with the Amen. This finishes the recto of folio 70. On the 

 verso is found the Longer Ending. It is not accompanied by the final 

 TsXoc but neither is this found at the close of the other Gospels. 

 No word of explanation accompanies either ending. But at the end 

 of Mark is written, as regularly elsewhere at the close of the other 

 Gospels, txvr,(7S'Y]i:i xupis ti^v BouXyjv gou bXu]XTi(x.v in red. ^I' contains 

 a few explanatory words before the Longer Ending but none before 

 the Shorter. In the latter respect, therefore, this manuscript agrees 

 with it, but in text, as far as we can learn, it agrees completely 

 with L. 



This manuscript was discovered by Abbe Martin while preparing 

 his technical description of the Greek MSS of the N.T. in the Biblio- 

 theque Nationale. It had been listed in the Catalogus Codicum Manu- 

 scriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, Tome II, published in 1743, as num- 

 ber 97, but most curiously overlooked by Griesbach, Scholtz, and even 

 Tischendorf. It is to be classed with Gr. 96 (cursive 286) and Gr. 98 

 (cursive 287) . The very enumeration here adopted shows its omission 

 by early editors from the hst of cursives. However it is mentioned 

 in the lists of Scrivener, Gregory, Kenyon, and von Soder, usually 

 with the note that it contains the double ending of Mark. 



Before discovering it Abbe Martin had completed his elaborate dis- 

 cussion of the end of Mark contained in his Introduction a la Critique 

 textuelle du N.T., Tome II, but found room to note and describe 

 it in his preface (pp. iv— viii), and our discussion is little more than 

 a translation and condensation of the material there presented. 

 Martin gave to this cursive the number 743 which was followed by 

 Scrivener, but Gregory calls it 579 and von Soden s 376. 



The ]\IS is written on rather coarse parchment, and one or two 

 folios are lacking at the end (John 20 : 28 — end) as well as Mark 

 3 : 28—4 : 8. The first folios of Matthew have been slightly injured 

 by dampness, but the titles are found at the beginning of the last 

 three Gospels, and are also repeated at the top or bottom of each 



