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The modern manufcript, which is of quarto fize, and is I am 

 of opinion of the thirteenth century, is divided into quaternions, 

 of which the firft eleven, containing eighty-eight leaves, are 

 wanting, and have been loft for at leaft one hundred and twenty 

 years. The work of Sl 'John Chryjojiom^ on the priefthood, feems 

 to have been written on them. On the twelfth quaternion, the" 

 modern manufcript is written over two fragments of Ifaiah, the 

 charaders of which are of the firft kind of uncials. On the 

 thirteenth, and alfo fome others, it is written over fome orations 

 of St. Gregory Nazianzen, the characters of which refemble thofe 

 of the copy of the fame work, made in the ninth century for 

 the ufe of the Emperor Bajilius Macedo. Both thefe manufcripts 

 are written in two columns upon each page, and .the laft of them 

 is every where marked with accents and fpirits : In the firft of 

 them I have been able to difcover only one word marked with an 

 accent and fpirit. On the fourteenth quaternion, and fome 

 others, it is written over the gofpel of St. Matthew; and the 

 part of it which remains takes up fixty-four pages, of which 

 fifty nine contain parts entirely wanting in the Alexandrian. Its 

 charaders are equal in fize to thofe in Montfaucon's fpecimen of 

 the Ccefarean Genejis, and bear a great fimllitude to the charaders 

 of the Alexandrian. A fingle column occupies each page, in 

 which it refembles the manufcript of Ephrem and feveral other 

 ancient manufcripts. I fhall compare this manufcript with the 

 moft ancient extant, in the following particulars, the divifion 

 of the text, orthography, interpundion and contradions. 



The moft early divifion of the facred text was made by the 

 xs$«Xa;a; majora, with titles annexed ; of thefe there are fixty- 



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