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  WORLD 
  ARCHEOLOGY 
  — 
  CASANOWICZ. 
  477 
  

  

  text 
  was 
  printed 
  at 
  Leipzig 
  from 
  types 
  especially 
  cast 
  in 
  imitation 
  

   of 
  the 
  original, 
  and 
  published 
  at 
  St. 
  Petersburg 
  at 
  the 
  expense 
  of 
  

   Czar 
  Alexander 
  II. 
  The 
  original 
  is 
  on 
  parchment, 
  written 
  in 
  uncial 
  

   characters 
  (capitals), 
  four 
  columns 
  to 
  a 
  page, 
  and 
  48 
  lines 
  on 
  a 
  page. 
  

   It 
  dates 
  from 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  fourth 
  century. 
  

  

  Codex 
  Alexandrianus. 
  Printed 
  in 
  type 
  to 
  represent 
  the 
  original 
  

   manuscript. 
  London, 
  1816. 
  This 
  facsimile 
  version 
  of 
  the 
  Alex- 
  

   andrian 
  or 
  Egyptian 
  text 
  of 
  the 
  Bible 
  appeared 
  in 
  1816, 
  in 
  four 
  

   volumes, 
  Vols. 
  I-III 
  containing 
  the 
  Old 
  Testament, 
  and 
  Vol. 
  IV 
  

   the 
  New 
  Testament. 
  The 
  original 
  manuscript 
  was 
  presented 
  to 
  King 
  

   Charles 
  I 
  by 
  Sir 
  Thomas 
  Eoe, 
  from 
  Cyril, 
  Lucar 
  Patriarch 
  of 
  Con- 
  

   stantinople. 
  It 
  was 
  transferred 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  in 
  1753. 
  It 
  

   is 
  written 
  on 
  parchment 
  in 
  uncials 
  without 
  division 
  of 
  chapters, 
  

   verses, 
  or 
  words. 
  Tradition 
  places 
  the 
  writing 
  of 
  this 
  manuscript 
  

   in 
  the 
  fourth 
  century, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  now 
  generally 
  assumed 
  to 
  date 
  from 
  

   the 
  fifth 
  century. 
  

  

  The 
  Washington 
  Manuscript 
  of 
  Deuteronomy 
  and 
  Joshua. 
  

   (Facsimile). 
  Edited 
  by 
  Professor 
  Henry 
  A. 
  Sanders, 
  of 
  the 
  Uni- 
  

   versity 
  of 
  Michigan. 
  This 
  manuscript, 
  together 
  with 
  three 
  other 
  

   Biblical 
  manuscripts, 
  was 
  acquired 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  L. 
  Freer, 
  

   of 
  Detroit, 
  Michigan, 
  from 
  an 
  Arabian 
  dealer 
  in 
  Gizeh, 
  near 
  Cairo, 
  

   Egypt, 
  in 
  1906. 
  It 
  consists 
  of 
  102 
  parchment 
  leaves, 
  and 
  contains 
  

   the 
  Greek 
  Septuagint 
  version 
  of 
  Deuteronomy 
  and 
  Joshua, 
  written 
  

   in 
  fine 
  uncial 
  letters 
  in 
  two 
  columns 
  of 
  thirty-one 
  lines 
  on 
  each 
  page 
  

   and 
  is 
  in 
  good 
  state 
  of 
  preservation. 
  Professor 
  Sanders, 
  the 
  editor 
  

   of 
  the 
  manuscript, 
  would 
  connect 
  it 
  with 
  the 
  monastery 
  of 
  the 
  Vine- 
  

   dresser, 
  which 
  was 
  near 
  the 
  third 
  pyramid, 
  and 
  believes 
  it 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  written 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  fifth 
  century 
  A. 
  D. 
  It 
  is, 
  there- 
  

   fore, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  oldest 
  and 
  most 
  important 
  manuscripts 
  of 
  the 
  Bible 
  

   known. 
  It 
  has 
  received 
  the 
  name 
  Washington 
  Manuscript 
  because 
  

   it 
  was 
  transferred 
  to 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  and 
  is 
  deposited 
  in 
  

   the 
  Freer 
  Gallery 
  of 
  Art 
  in 
  Washington. 
  (PI. 
  37.) 
  

  

  The 
  Washington 
  Manuscript 
  of 
  the 
  Four 
  Gospels. 
  (Facsimile.) 
  

   Edited 
  by 
  Professor 
  Henry 
  A. 
  Sanders, 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Michi- 
  

   gan. 
  The 
  Manuscript, 
  together 
  with 
  three 
  other 
  Biblical 
  manu- 
  

   scripts, 
  was 
  acquired 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Charles 
  L. 
  Freer, 
  of 
  Detroit, 
  Michigan, 
  

   from 
  an 
  Arabian 
  dealer 
  in 
  Egypt 
  in 
  1906. 
  It 
  consists 
  of 
  187 
  parch- 
  

   ment 
  leaves, 
  or 
  374 
  pages, 
  and 
  contains 
  the 
  four 
  Gospels 
  in 
  the 
  order 
  

   of 
  Matthew, 
  John, 
  Luke, 
  and 
  Mark, 
  written 
  in 
  one 
  column 
  of 
  30 
  

   lines 
  on 
  each 
  page, 
  and 
  in 
  good 
  state 
  of 
  preservation. 
  The 
  leaves 
  

   of 
  the 
  manuscript 
  were 
  held 
  between 
  covers 
  of 
  two 
  wooden 
  panels 
  

   painted 
  with 
  the 
  portraits 
  of 
  the 
  four 
  Evangelists 
  in 
  the 
  order 
  in 
  

   which 
  their 
  Gospels 
  appear 
  in 
  the 
  text, 
  namely, 
  Matthew 
  and 
  John 
  

   on 
  the 
  left-hand 
  board, 
  Luke 
  and 
  Mark 
  on 
  the 
  right-hand 
  board. 
  

  

  