2n* S. IX. April 28. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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superb edition was printed for Scotland at the 

 Roman Catholic Press established at Hohjrood 

 House. 



The reader of this Note will be reminded of a 

 contemporary series of Popish books printed in 

 London, under a similar privilege, and for a like 

 treasonable purpose : the printer in ihis case was 

 one H. Hills, who seems to have turned Papist to 

 qualify for the office of King's Printer. John 

 Evelyn, however, put a spoke in his wheel ; for 

 when all was tending Rome-icards, he courage- 

 ously defied the Court Jesuits by refusing to 

 affix the seals he was entrusted with to a docquet 

 placed before him, securing for this pervert a 

 lease of twenty-one years to print missals and 

 other books expressly forbid by acts of parlia- 

 ment. J. 0. 



THE CODEX SINAITICUS. 



(2 nd S. ix. 274.) 



The Rev. Joh>- "Williams asks for information 

 respecting the celebrated MS. of the Greek Bible 

 recently discovered by Dr. Tischendorf. As you 

 cannot be expected. to reproduce the entire nar- 

 rative, allow me to forward a summary of it from 

 the transactions of the Anglo-Biblical Institute : 



*" Mr. Cowper gave an account of the late important 

 discoveries made by Dr. Tischendorf, of which the follow- 

 ing is a summary ; — 



" MS. Discovery by Dr. Tischendorf. 

 " In a letter written by him at Cairo, and dated March 

 15th, 1859, Dr. Tischendorf gives an account of a very 

 remarkable manuscript which he has had the good for- 

 tune to discover. The discover}' appears to have been 

 made in a convent at the foot of Ghebel Mousa, probably 

 the Convent of St. Catharine, founded by Justinian. 

 There be found a MS. consisting of 346 leaves of parch- 

 ment, of large size, with four columns to a page, and 

 written in a character which Dr. Tischendorf believes 

 indubitably fixes its date at the middle of the fourth 

 century. The contents of this volume are as follows : 

 the chief part of the greater and lesser prophets, in 

 Greek ; the Psalms, the Book of Job, Jesus Sirach, the 

 Wisdom of Solomon, and several others of the Old Testa- 

 ment Apocrypha. These are followed by the whole of 

 the New Testament, of which not a 'leaflet' is absent, a 

 (iriiimstance which will give it the preeminence among 

 all known MSS. of the new canon. Appended to the 

 Biblical books is a complete copy of the Epistle of Bar- 

 nabas, which now appears for the first time entire, the 

 Greek text of the first five chapters having hitherto been 

 unknown. Finally, fifty-two columns of the Pastor of 

 Hennas wen: found, apparently belonging to the larger 

 volume, although not now attached to it. This contains 

 the first part of Ibrmas, of the Greek of which little has 

 hitherto been known. 



" Of the entire MS. Dr. Tischendorf is having an accu- 

 rate transcript made, which he says will consist of 132,000 

 lines, and which, through the liberality of the Russian 

 government, at whose expense he travels, he hopes 

 shortly to be enabled to publish." 



A fuller narrative is contained in the Journal 

 of Sacred Literature for July, 1859, pp. 392-3. It 



also appeared in the Clerical Journal, the Literary 

 Churchman, and the Daily Telegraph in one form 

 or another, as well as in other periodicals. The 

 Telegraph of December 22 contained a detailed 

 account of Dr. Tischendorf's discoveries, and I 

 believe a still later statement was printed in the 

 Record. As far as I can ascertain, no account 

 has yet appeared of the peculiar readings of the 

 Codex Sinaiticus, as it has been christened ; and, 

 by the way, we have in the British Museum a 

 MS. with this name, brought over by John 

 Covell in the times of Charles II. B. H. C. 



P.S. I fear that Dominus regnavit a ligno can- 

 not be supported. Anyone who looks at the 

 Hebrew text will see, I think, that it is an error. 



Ji:p3n-flX TfPO m?P. The third word (e^) has 

 been evidently confounded with j'N, a tree, and a 

 preposition supplied. The form of the word tSa- 

 aiKsvcrtv in Codex |3, i.e. terminating with v before 

 a consonant, is so common in that MS. as well as 

 in Codex A and others, that no weight whatever 

 can be attached to it. The question is an inter- 

 esting one, and if my idea of the origin of the read- 

 ing is correct, we have here another evidence of 

 the facility with which important variations may 

 arise. 



ARCHBISHOP KING'S BUPJAL. 

 (1 st S. vii.430.; 2 nd S. i. 148.) 



William King, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin, 

 was interred, in the year 1729, in the churchyard 

 of Donnybrook, near Dublin (on the north side, 

 as he had directed in his lifetime) ; but no monu- 

 ment or other memorial of him who was so bright 

 an ornament of the Irish Church can now be dis- 

 covered in that locality. Having lately met with 

 some particulars of his death and burial in an old 

 and very curious Irish newspaper, the Dublin In- 

 telligence (sundry numbers of which are preserved 

 in the library of the Royal Dublin Society, in one 

 volume folio, dating from 7th January, 172f, to 

 18th November, 1731), I think it well to send 

 two or three extracts, which, I have no doubt, 

 will prove interesting to many readers of " N. & 

 Q." The Dublin Intelligence may indeed be pro- 

 nounced " a scarce publication." 



The following paragraph is from the number 

 for 10th May, 1729: — 



" The town [Dublin] is almost as if a general calamity 

 had happened, so deeply is the loss taken, by our citizens, 

 of the Most Reverend Father in God Wm. King, Lord 

 Archbishop of Dublin, Primate and Metropolitan of all 

 Ireland, who died at 4 o'clock this afternoon [8th inst.] 

 at his Palace of St. Sepulchre's, in a very advanced age, 

 truly lamented by those who were so happy as to be of 

 his Lordship's acquaintance, or came to the knowledge of 

 his many virtues, having all the good qualities necessary 

 for making the greatest figure in life, the best patriot, 

 truest friend to his country, of the most extensive charity, 



