ISLAND OF PATMOS. 47 
volume in folio, bound in wood. The cover 
was full of worms, and falling to pieces : a 
paper label appeared at the back, inscribed, in 
a modern hand, A<aAoyo< 'Suxgdrovg : but the 
letters of Plato's name, separated by stars, 
appeared very distinctly as a head-piece to the 
first page of the Manuscript, in this manner : 
A postscript at the end of the volume stated that 
the Manuscript had been " written by John the 
" Calligraphist, for Arethas, Dean of Patrte, in 
" the month of November 896, the 14. year of the 
" Indiction, and 6404. year of the world, in the reign 
" of Leo son of Basilius, for the sum of thirteen 
" Byzantine Nummi," about eight guineas of our 
money. The Manuscript mentioned by Dor 
ville on Chariton* is one year older. 
The author afterwards discovered a LEXICON 
of other 
OF ST. CYRILL of Alexandria, written upon valuable 
MSS. 
paper, without any date, and contained in a 
volume of Miscellanies. He also found two 
small volumes of the PSALMS and of GREEK 
HYMNS, accompanied by unknown characters, 
serving as antient Greek musical note-s. They are 
(2) See Dorville on Charitom, pp. 49, 50. 
