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or fpirits, neither from a firft or fecond hand ; and in being 

 written without any diftindion of the words from each other. 

 It marks i and v with double points, when they are not joined 

 to another letter, and do not make a diphthong. In the ^/ex- 

 andrian a fmall mark may be obferved, refembling the modern 

 figure of the fpiritus lenis, and which frequently is put over the 

 word at the end of a fyllable ; thus, 'Qyi^a-a.ilx : I have obferved 

 here one inftance perfedly firailar to the above j tlius, BijS'ipxy^. 



With refped to contradions, no manufcript extant has (b 

 few, as will appear from the following enumeration of its con- 

 tradions. It has no word contraded which is not alfo con- 

 traded in the Alexandrian, and of thefe it wants the fol- 

 lowing. 



First. 'Ovpavos and its cafes are in almoft every inftance uncon- 

 traded. This word is contraded in the Ccefarean Genejis, Palasog. 

 p. 194: and in the Coijlinian manufcript, No. i, of the fixth or 

 feventh century ; Bibl. Coiflin. p. 3. It is almoft always con- 

 traded in Bede'^ manufcript of the Ads. In the Teftament of 

 Beza it is uncontraded, as appears from Mr. AJile^ fpecimen ; and 

 in the Cottonian Genefis. Vide Vetufta Monumenta fumptibus 

 Societatis Anliquariorum, Tab. I. Spec. i. 



Secondly. 'T<oV and its cafes are almoft always uncontraded. 

 This is done alfo in the Cottonian Genejis, Tab. 2. Speci. 5, and 

 m Beza's manufcript, vide Mr. JJiles fpecimen. And in the 

 book of the Ads, which belonged to Bede. And according to 

 Smith, in the Cottonian Go^'pth (Smith's Catalogue, p. 128.) And 



