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any traces of the Eusebian numbers to be found in this manu- 
script. Dr. Todd, having exhibited the manuscript to the 
Academy, proceeded to adduce some of the proofs of its great 
antiquity. ‘These were derived, 
1. From the character in which it is written, and the form 
of the letters, which agrees exactly with those manuscripts 
that are known to be of the fourth or beginning of the fifth 
century as, for example, the Codex Vercellensis and the 
Codex Veronensis, as also from the absence of all stops, divi- 
sions of the words, or ortxou. 
The following wood-cut is an accurate representation of 
the first five lines of the first column : 
2. From its text, which is the ancient Italic version prior 
to St. Jerome’s revision. This will appear from the following 
_ Table, in which the first column exhibits the text of Dr. 
- Todd’s fragment, divided exactly as in the original; the re- 
maining columns exhibit the text, divided in a corresponding 
manner, of the Codex Vercellensis, the Codex Veronensis, and 
the modern Vulgate. 
