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The Grospels of St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John are eacli preceded 

 by a table of xEcpalaia or subjects, written by the original hand, and 

 numbered in the Greek way ; and the numerals, with the -ASfaXaia 

 added, are repeated afterwards at the top of the pages of the Gospels. 

 From the minuteness of the Greek, and the many contractions, it is 

 not easy quickly to identify a particular passage, when it is desired 

 to compare one with a printed copy of the Greek text. These 

 xsipalaia are then found to be of considerable use. The table of 

 -/.ecpdlaia for St. Matthew has been unfortunately lost or worn out ; 

 but the beginning of the Gospel itself was thus probably preserved 

 intact. The ink of the original scribe has retained its colour through- 

 out very fairly. On the margins are symbols and numerical abbre- 

 viations, for ecclesiastical purposes, corresponding with tables at the 

 end ; many of these are in a later hand and carelessly written ; as 

 also are memoranda of contents written at the top and bottom of 

 several of the pages. The ink of these additions has become very 

 faint. 



The MS. before us appears to belong to what the critics style 

 the Constantinopolitan recension. Thus it has in Mark V. at v. 1, 

 ■^Xdd'^ for ^Xdsv ; at v. 2, k'^eXOovn aurwi, not i^sXdoyroq aorou, and 

 aTDjVrTjffey, not UTZijvTEasv ; in v. 5, opsfft xai iv rjjc pyij,'J.a<ri, not pyrj/jtaffi 

 xai ^v Tolq ufisfft, &c. It has the twenty-first chapter of St. John, 

 ,and the sixteenth of St. Mark from v. 9 onwards ; but originally it 

 had not the first part of the eighth chapter of St. John. The passage 

 is added, in another hand, in the mai-gin. The whole of the space 

 usually vacant at the top of the page is filled with this ; also the 

 right-hand niargiu and a portion of the bottom of the page. In the 

 narrative of the cure of the impotent man in St. John we have 

 another example of homoioteleuton. Verse twelve of the received 

 text is left out, but by accident. It is copied by another hand in 

 the margin, as an omission, four dots in the text indicating the place 

 where it is to be inserted. The passage ends with the word rs/oc-arf?- 

 and it will be observed that v. 1 1 ended with the same word : hence 

 the copyist's error. At the end of St. John is a /i-iVa? dxpclirjg, an 

 "''accurate table," showing apparently, in a technical and most abbre- 

 viated way, the beginnings and endings of the Gospels for the 

 Sundays throughout the year in the Greek Chux'ch. Then follows a 

 Mrjvo/M^cov or ecclesiastical Calendar naming the saint or saintly event 

 commemorated each day of the month throughout the year, with the 



