408 
fregulis diebus lecta, incipientia die domia 
nico. 
E dono Francife: Tayleri, Fuly 24, 16 54. 
A. Manufcript of the four Gotpels, pur- 
chafed at Dr. Afkew’s fale for twenty 
pounds. It belongs to the Public Libra~ 
ry, and is in one velume, folio. ' 
A Manufcript of the Gofpels in Gon- 
vile and Caius Library. 
Codex Augien's in Trinity College Li- 
brary. ‘The Greek text is written in ca- 
pital or uncial letters, the Latin in An- 
glo-Saxon letters. It/formerly belonged 
to Dr. Bentley. 
To thefe might probably be added a 
few others. 
Of the various manu‘cripts of the New 
Teftament in thefe libraries, there have 
heen more particular accounts than have 
been. given of the other manufcripts. 
Wreiftein, Mills, Griefbach*, in their va- 
rious Prolegomena, and others have gone 
into thefe matters. Some of them are 
noticed alfo in the Caral. Libr. Mftorum 
Angliz et Hibernie of 1697; and my 
Thome Jamefi Ecloga OxcniosCantabri- 
gienfis of 1600; but the fulleft account is 
contained in Michaelis’s Fntroduétion to 
the New Teftament; and Michaelis’s ac- 
count has been confiderably improved and 
corrected by his learned trantlator, Mr. 
Herbert Marfh, Fellow of St. John’s. 
The Jatter gentleman is eminently difin- 
guifhed at Cambridge for his critical in- 
veftigation of thefe matters. 
Of all thefe Greek Manufcripts of the 
New Teftament, the moft curious, as 
being, perbaps, the moft ancient Greek 
manufcript in the world, is the Co- 
dcx Bezz, or, Theodore Beza’s Greeco- 
Latin Manu(cript of the four Golpels, 
and Aéts of the Apoftles. Of this Codex, 
* A very elegant edition of Griefbach’s 
Novum Teftamentum Grecé was printed 
in 1786, at the expence of the Duke of Graf- 
ton, the Chancellor of the Univerfity, and 
circulated at his dire€tion. 
From the Port-folio of a Mah of Letters: 
[Juné ty 
therefore, a diftin& and rather extenfive 
account fhall be given next month. 
To thé above lift might now be added 
fome lately ‘brought {nto this country by 
Mr: Clarke and Mr. Cripps, above-men- 
tioned; for thefe gentlemen have brought 
over fome copies of the Gofpels,. of the 
Epiftles; and of the Acts of the Apoftless 
LXIV.—-NORRISIAN PRIZE. 
A Mr. John Norris, formerly of Nor- 
folk, left the fum of twelve potinds to be 
given to the author of the beft Profe Ef- 
fay ona Religious Subje&. Seven pounds 
four fhillings of it are to putchafe a gold 
medal, the remainder is expended in books. 
The Novrifian Profefior gives the fubjeé 5 
and the diftributors of the prize are the 
Matter of Trinity, the Mafter of Caius; 
and the Provoft of King’s; to one or 
other of whom the Effay is fent by the 
roth day before Palm Sunday. 
The Effay of each candidate iS accom. 
panied with a fheet of paper, folded up 
and fealed. 
ten a motto, either in Greek or Latin. 
The fame motto is alfo on the fealed pa- 
er that contains the name. When the 
difributors have decided which is the beft 
Effay, they then break open the fealed pa- — 
per that inclofes the name of the fuccefss 
ful candidate: the other fealed papers are 
never opened, but committed to the 
flames. ; 
A gentleman of Pembroke-hall, a can- 
didate, though an uniuccefsful one, for 
this prize, infcribed his Effay with the fol- 
lowing appropriate Latin motto : 
Diftichon ut pofcas, nolente volente Mi- 
nerva, 
Mos facer! Unde mihi diftichon? En! 
perago, 
Englithed by the fame: 
Without a diftich, vain th’ oration is : 
Oh! for a diftich ! Doftor, e’en take this. 
E. Re 
Extra&s from the Port-folioof a Man of Letters. 
——EE 
LADY JANE GRAY. 
NOTHER manufcript in the Mu- 
\. feum (Harleian Colleton, 2370) 
contains an exhortation written by Lady 
Jane Dudley to her fifter Katharine, the 
night before her execution, It is of a 
turn very fimilar to the little addreffes” 
printed in our Magazine two months ago, 
and continues the opinion they fupport, 
that Lady Jane had a mind ill fuited to 
ideas of temporal.grandeur, that the am- 
bition of others was her downfall, and 
that hex only hope was peace hereafter. 
IMPRQ= 
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: In the paper is the name of 
the candidate, and over the Effay is writ- 
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