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Prof. Everett'' s account of Greek Manuscripts 



I omitted no opportunity of searching for Greek manuscripts 

 in the libraries of the religious houses, which I visited in Greece, 

 particularly those of Mcgaspelion in the Morea and of Meteora in 

 Tlicssaly, The former library is the most ample ; but the latter 

 has been least explored by travellers^, since it is but of late years 

 that their usual route has gone so far to the north^ as to include 

 this portion of Thessaly. In neither of these libraries did I find 



any thing of interest. Just on leaving Constantinople, however, 

 riieard from Mr. Cartwright, the British consul general, of a few 

 Greek manuscripts, belonging to the family of a Greek prince in 



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decay, which w£re offered for sale. As I had made arrangements 

 for leaving the city the next morning, I had no opportunity of 

 examining more than one, which happened to he in Mr. Cart- 

 Wright's possession, and T availed myself of his good offices in pro- 

 curing that, and the others offered with them, and safely shipping 



them to London. They are now in the lib 



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at Cambridge ; and being the only Greek manuscripts^ of which I 

 have heard in this country^ I have thought that a brief description 

 of them might be acceptable to the Academy. 



I- The first is a quarto manuscript^ containing sixteen dis- 



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of Gregory of Na 



They are all in the printed 



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editions of his works. The manuscript, like all the others which 

 were procured with it, is on parchment. It is in good preservation. 



manuscript of Plato from Patinos, in the following words— ^ Tan l\ Aa 



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WuTiAov" crtx tS". I^his valuable manuscript of PJato, with (he others collected 

 by Dr. Clarke, has been purchased by the University of Oxford, and a collation 

 of it published by Mr. Giiisford. 



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