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Prof. Everctfs account of Greek Manuscripts. 



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Lord and God ;^' and that 1 John v. 7. is wanting in this^ as in all 



the other ancient Greek manuscripts. It is probably of the 

 twelftli century. 



IV. A quarto manuscript containing the Psalter in the Septu- 



gint 



It also 



version. It is beautifully written and preserved. 

 contains the explanations of the title of the Psalms by Psellus, and 

 a Menologia or Greek Missal; with astronomical tables and dia- 

 grams for finding Easter. It is apparently of the thirteenth 

 century. 



V. A fragment containing a few leaves of a large quarto size 



of higli antiq 



These leaves served as 



f covering to 



the manuscript No. 2. when it came into my possession, and from 

 the appearance of the manuscript. I had the mortification of con- 

 eluding, that other leaves of the same codex had been torn off and 

 lost. It is written in uncial letters, and from its close resemblance 

 to a manuscript; of which Woide has given a specimen in the pro- 

 legomena to his edition of the Alexandrian codex, io which man- 

 uscript he affixes the date of 995, there is every reason to conclude 

 that the fragments before us are as old as this. On what grounds 

 Woide attaches so precise a date to the aforesaid manuscript, I am 

 not awAre : he probably found a date in the manuscript itself. 



But without this, the character in which the frag 



ke those in Woide 



specimen, is 



!;s m ques- 

 such as to 



authorize us in assuming an antiquity as great as the tenth century. 

 Nor are there many manuscripts that go back to an earlier date 

 either of sacred or profane writings. These fragments belong also 

 to a lectionary, and comprise the following portions of the gospels. 

 Matthew iv. 25 ; v. 1, 13, 36, 46. John xiv. 30, 31 ; xv. 1—4; 

 xvi. 19, 24, 33 ; vi. 5 ; xvii. 18 ; xvii. 2, 14 ; xiv^29. 



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