xyiii PREFACE. 



Of the MSS. which were procured by M. Girardin, and were after- 

 wards brought to Paris, two were consulted by Wyttenbach and 

 Larcher ; a manuscript of Plutarch, by the former ; and one of 

 Herodotus, by the latter. 



Mount Athos,from the Papers of Dr. Hunt, p. 198. 



At the time when the capital of the Greek empire was in danger 

 of being attacked by the Turks, the most valuable of the manuscripts 

 of the learned Greeks were taken to Mount Athos, as a place of 

 safety. The libraries of Paris, Vienna, and Moscow, contain many 

 which have been brought from that peninsula* ; and persons have 

 been sent at different times to procure others, which are preserved 

 in some of the convents. We have, however, no recent or authentic 

 account of the actual state of the monastic institutions at Athos. 

 Dr. Hunt and Professor Carlyle, during a residence of three weeks 

 there, collected much information relating to them, and examined 

 with particular attention the different libraries f on the Holy 

 Mountain. ; 



Remarks on Parts of Bceoiia and Phocis ; from the Journals of 

 Mr. Raikes, p. 298. 



* Some have supposed that the entire copy of Livy was to be found at Athos. — Gib- 

 bon's Miscall. Works, Vol. iii. p. 375. 



f Many of the MSS. in these libraries were probably written by the monks who exer- 

 cised the office of calligraphs; others were given as presents on particular occasions. 

 Maximus gave a manuscript of Chrysostom with some books to the monastery of Diony- 

 sius. Gregory, Bishop of Elasson (the ancient Oloosson in Thessaly), presented a manu- 

 script of the Gospel of St. John to the convent of Pantocratos. — Mem. de I'lnstit. 1815. 



