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Jccount of a GREEK MANUSCRIPT of SAINT 

 MATTHEW'S GOSPEL, />/ the Ubrary o^ TRINITY 

 COLLEGE, DUBLIN. By the Rev. Mr. BARRETT, 

 F.T.C.D. Communicated by the Rev. WILLIAM HAMIL- 

 TON, F. T. C. D. Secretary to the Committee of Antiquities. 



XJL M O N G the manufcripts in the colledion of Trinity College Read No- 

 there are fome which have been hitherto undefcribed, and which jn's^f*^^"' 

 iii general contain extrads from the writings of the Greek 

 fathers. One of thefe is written over three other more ancient 

 manufcripts ; the charaders of which, though much effaced by- 

 art or time, are ftill fufRciently vifible to be read in moft places. 

 One of thefe ancient manufcripts is found to contain a confider- 

 able part of St. Matthew's Gofpel, and in a great meafure to 

 fupply the deficient places in the Alexandrian, Ephrem and manu- 

 fcript of Cambridge, and alfo in feveral manufcripts of the fecond 

 clafs, or middle antiquity. 



In the following memoir I propofe to defcribe the above-men- 

 tioned manufcript ; and to offer fome reafons refpeding its pro- 

 bable date. 



(a) The 



