Prof. Everetth account of Greek Manuscripts, 

 but coarsely written, and does not appear to be oldei 



411 



than the 



'teenth or fourteenth century. 



II. A large quarto Evangelistary 



that 



arranged in the lesson 

 The New Testament 



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is^ the four gospel 

 they are read in the Greek church 

 divided into sections 



sections by the ancient 

 churchy and all the sections taken from the gospels were called t/ie 



gospel TO suuyy&Xiovt and all from the Acts and epistles the Apostle 

 aroa-ToXos. The manuscripts thus divided are usually called in 

 general Lectionaries ; those of the gospels alone, Evangelistaries, 

 It might be supposed that as these lectionaries were the public 



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authorized copies used in the churches, they would present a more 



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fixed and constant text than the private manuscripts ; which might 

 partake of a more critical 

 observed to be the case ; 



This, however, has not been 



though instead of thinking with Wet 



stein,* that this circumstance diminishes 



itical 



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should regard it in the opposite light 



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pt is apparently of the thirteenth century ; but some per 



pply the place of 



are much more recent. 



III. An Evangelistary, and an Apostolos forming together the 



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;w Testament, divided into the lessons of the church. 



whole New 



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This manuscript is in two quarto 



somewhat une- 



qual, beautifully 



the rubrics and titles in gold letters 



As it has never been collated for any edition of the New Testa 



y be interesting to the Academy to 



celebrated 



> 



Acts 



tand 



remark, that the 

 the church of the 



. Cm pri,„„m „,.,Ua Evangdistaria Anno 1715 in Bibliotheca ColLerfna 



Tidissem, avide ad ilia cum editis conferenJa mo accingi, sperans memventuram 

 conslantem et puWice receptaa. in Ecclesi. Gr.>ca leclioBem. At eventu, e.pec 



tationi ,„e» non rcspondet, nam et ip.os inter se atcjue a nosfis ed.h»ml,a, non 

 raro dissentire deprehendi. Waslemi proleg. p. 02. 



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