DEEAETMENT OF MSS. 31 



Among them are : — 



Homer's Odyssey : part of a papyrus roll, containing the 

 latter part of the third book, written in fine uncial characters, 

 probably in the 1st century. This fragment, which is accom- 

 panied by a few scholia, is the earliest extant MS. of any 

 portion of the Odyssey. 



Portions of three orations or rhetorical exercises, in Greek, 

 by an unknown author ; written on papyrus, about the end of 

 the 1st century. 



A Deed of Sale of a slave boy at Seleucia, in Syria, in a.d. 

 166 ; written in Latin, on papyrus, with autograph subscrip- 

 tions and seals of the parties and witnesses. 



A long series of dated Greek documents of the first three 

 centuries of the Christian era, on papyrus, including census 

 lists, accompts, taxation returns, registers of property, official 

 and private correspondence, deeds of sale, receipts, etc., from 

 the Fayyum, in Egypt, of considerable palseographical and 

 historical value. 



A collection of nearly forty letters in Greek, on papyrus, form- 

 ing the correspondence of an officer named Flavins Abinnseus, 

 prsefectus castrorum at Dionysias, about A.D. 343-350 : with 

 other documents of the same period, from the Fayyum, in 

 Egypt. 



A fragment of a Greek Psalter, containing Psalms xii. 7-xv. 

 4, written on papyrus, at the end of the 3rd or beginning of the 

 4th century. 



Fragments of vellum MSS., in Greek and Latin, acquired 

 with papyri, and believed to have been found in the 

 Fayyum, in Egypt, 2nd — 7th centt. Among them are portions 

 of the works of Demosthenes and Herodotus, and of a 

 Psalter. 



Fragments of MSS. on all subjects, formerly used as 

 bindings or fly-leaves to other volumes; 9th — 19th centt. 

 Seven volumes. Presented hy Prof. George Stephens, of 

 Copenhagen. 



The Four Gospels, in Greek, with miniatures of the Evan- 

 gelists and their emblems much defaced, and ornamental 

 headpieces ; 12th century. Vellum. 



The Four Gospels, in Greek, with ornamental headpieces ; 

 13th century. Vellum. Two copies. 



Evangelistarium, or Gospel Lectionary, in Greek ; 14th 

 century. Vellum. Partly palimpsest ; the underlying- 

 writing being in four difi"erent hands, of the 12th century. 



The Acts and Epistles, in Greek, with ornamental head- 

 piece ; 13th century. Vellum, 



Expositio Haimonis in Isaiam Prophetam ; 12th century. 

 Vellum. Formerly belonged to Bury St. Edmund's Abbey. 



0.107. Domesday 



