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in the Colbert ine. No. 308+. Palaeog. Gr. p. 188. And in the 

 manufcript, Sanger manenjis. Palaeog. p. 219. In the Jlexan- 

 drian, 'wo? is fometimes uncontraded. 



Thirdly. Myirpk is uncontratled : alfo |w,;t£>, K^pw?, and 

 «4:.Vo;j, are fometimes uncontradled. But according to Smith 

 (vide SfJiith's Cat. p. 128) the Cottoniafi Gofpels and Teftament 

 of Beza contrad Kupiog. In the Cottonian Genefts, Tab. i. Spec. 7. 

 uvSpuTTov is uncontradted. 



Fourthly. K*. is never contraded ; which is contraded in 

 both the Ccefarean Genefis and Dtofcortdes. Pal«og. p. 194 & 208. 

 Nor is there any mark fubftituted for «; at the end of a verb, 

 which is frequently done in the manufcript of Bede. 



I SHALL now proceed to mention other confiderations, from 

 which we may be able to draw fome conclufions refpeding its 

 probable date; and, to this purpofe, muft obferve that all writing 

 in Greek manufcripts may be reduced to three clafTes. The 

 firft comprehends the manufcripts written in round and fquare 

 uncials J in the fecond are contained thofe written in oval, 

 oblong and. inclined uncials ; in the third thofe written in fmall 

 letters. The firfl clafs is referred to the fixth century, the fecond 

 to the ninth, and the third has univerfally prevailed from the 

 eleventh century. 



The following reafons will prove the manufcript in queftion 

 to belong to the firft clafs : 



First. 



