418 Clarence Russell Williams, 



page. Tlu- I'2uscbian Sections are written in the margin, but rather 

 irregularly. As to the text, it is disfigured by the boldest itacisms. 

 There are a number of readings which are peculiar, or which link it 

 with the oldest group of MSS. Martin places it in the same family 

 with X B. It does not contain Luke 22 : 42, 43 but includes John 

 5 : ,'5, \ and the j)erico]X' adulterae with the title xepi -%c \y.'J'/otX\brjc, 

 (sic) ^(\j^ot.w.rjc, (f. 134b). The MS seems only partially adapted to 

 liturgical use, the itkoc, being found in the text, but seldom the ap/Vj, 

 and there being no evidence of modifications at the beginning or end 

 of the lessons. It was made, Martin thinks, for the use of some 

 Melachite Christian. 



The date assigned 579 is the thirteenth century. 



This seems to be the only cursive known which contains the Shorter 

 Conclusion in the text, as 274, the other cursive which contains it, 

 relegates it to the margin. It is therefore the only cursive which 

 seems to prefer this conclusion . Further it shows that this form of the 

 Gospel persisted as late as the thirteenth century. While we must of 

 course assume that it was either immediately or ultimately copied from 

 an uncial of the L type, it is most interesting to note that even at this 

 relatively late date the Shorter Conclusion had not become so entirely 

 discredited as to forbid a scribe copying a text which contained it,- — in 

 other words as late as the thirteenth century a MS could contain the 

 Shorter Ending and still be considered worthy of being used as an 

 exemplar. 



This cursive is also an additional witness to the fact that the Shorter 

 Ending was appended to a type of text represented by S B, and that 

 there were MSS which appended it to v. 8 without explanatory note. 



For further discussion of this cursive see Martin's "Description 

 technique des manuscnts grecs du N.T." — Paris, Maisonneuve, 1884, 

 pp. 91-94. 



Cursive 274'^^«. 



Cursive 274 = Paris. Nat. Suppl. Gr. 79 (Sd.sl024). 



This " pecuharly interesting and important " (Burgon) cursive of 

 the tenth century is unique among Greek MSS in containing the 

 Shorter Conclusion in the margin. 



In the lower margin of folio 104 recto is found the Shorter Ending 

 in the same form as in L save that avaTo)^wv is written for ot-vx-oXr^c, 

 and the Amen is appended. (It seems to us quite possible that the 

 Amen was added by a later hand, see the fascimile). The writing 

 is in small capitals, unlike the cursive hand of the text, which Dean 

 Burgon considered belonged to the transition ]ieriod between uncial 



