*1. (Act. 1, Paul. 1.) Basiliensis A. N. iv. 2 at Basle [x, Burgon xii or xiii], 7-3/8 × 4-½, ff. 297 (38); prol., pict., τίτλ., syn., ἀναγν. in Acts and Epp. by later hand. Hebrews last in Paul. Gospels bound up last of all. Among the illuminations were what have been said to be pictures of the Emperor Leo the Wise [886-911] and his son Constantine Porphyrogenitus, but all the beautiful miniatures were stolen prior to 1860-2, except one before St. John's Gospel. Its later history is the same as that of Cod. E of the Gospels: it was known to Erasmus; it was borrowed by Reuchlin, a few extracts given by Bengel [pg 191] (Bas. γ), collated by Wetstein, and recently in the Gospels by C. L. Roth and Tregelles, who have compared their results. Our facsimile (No. 23) gives an excellent notion of the elegant and minute style of writing, which is fully furnished with breathings, accents, and ι ascript. The initial letters are gilt, and on the first page of each Gospel the full point is a large gilt ball. In the Gospels the text adheres frequently to the uncials Codd. אB, BL and such cursives as 118, 131, and especially 209 (Insp. by Burgon, Hoskier, Greg.).
2. Basil. A. N. iv. 1 [xv or earlier], 7-¾ × 6, ff. 248 (20), subscr., κεφ. t., κεφ. (not John), τίτλ., Am., is the inferior manuscript chiefly used by Erasmus for his first edition of the N. T. (1516), with press corrections by his hand, and barbarously scored with red chalk to suit his pages. The monks at Basle had bought it for two Rhenish florins (Bengel, Wetstein, Burgon, Hoskier, Greg.).
3. (Act. 3, Paul. 3.) Cod. Corsendonck. [xii], 4to, 9-¾ × 7, ff. 451 (24), Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., prol., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., syn., once belonging to a convent at Corsendonck near Turnhout, now in the Imperial Library at Vienna (Forlos. 15, Kollar. 5). It was lent to Erasmus for his second edition in 1519, as he testifies on the first leaf (Alter). It had been collated before Alter by J. Walker for Bentley, when in “the Dominican Library, Brussels.” This collation is unpublished (Trin. Coll. B. xvii. 34): Ellis, Bentleii Critica Sacra, p. xxix (Greg.).
4. Cod. Regius 84 [xii], 7-¼ × 5-¾, ff. 212 (27), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., syn., men., subscr., στίχ., in the Royal Library at Paris (designated RI by Tischendorf), was rightly recognized by Le Long as Robert Stephen's γ´ (see Chap. V). Mill notices its affinity to the Latin versions and the Complutensian edition (N. T. Prol. § 1161); mut. in Matt. ii. 9-20; John i. 49-iii. 11; forty-nine verses. It is clumsily written and contains syn. from some Fathers (Scholz, Greg.).
5. (Act. 5, Paul. 5.) Paris, National (Library), Greek 106 [xii or later], is Stephen's δ´: 8-¼ × 6-1/8, ff. 348 (28), prob., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. Carefully written and full of flourishes (Wetstein, Scholz, Greg.).
6. (Act. 6, Paul. 6.) Par. Nat. Gr. 112 [xi or later], is Stephen's ε´; in text it much resembles Codd. 4, 5, and 75. 12mo, 5-½ × 4-1/8, ff. 235, prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., syn. with St. Chrysostom's Liturgy, men. (Wetstein, Griesbach, Scholz). This exquisite manuscript is written in characters so small, that some pages require a glass to read them. Scholz collated Matt., Mark i-iv, John vii, viii (Greg.).
7. Par. Nat. Gr. 71 [xi], is Stephen's ϛ´. 8 × 6-¼, ff. 186 (29), prol., syn., Carp., Eus. t., pict., τίτλ. with metrical paraphrase, Am., Eus., men., very full lect. In style not unlike Cod. 4, but neater (Wetst., Scholz, Abbé Martin, Greg.).
8. Par. Nat. Gr. 49 [xi], 11-¼ × 8-½, ff. 199 (22), two columns, proved by Mr. Vansittart to be Stephen's ζ´227: beautifully written in two columns [pg 192] on the page. Carp., Eus. t., prol., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., lect., men., Am., Eus., syn. (Wetst., Scholz, Greg.).
9. Par. Nat. Gr. 83 [a.d. 1167, when “Manuel Porphyrogenitus was ruler of Constantinople, Amauri of Jerusalem, William II of Sicily”: this note (derived from Wetstein) is now nearly obliterate], 9-¼ × 6-¾, ff. 298 (20), is probably Stephen's ιβ´. Carp., Eus. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., syn., mut., men., subscr., στίχ. (first leaf of St. John). It once belonged to Peter Stella. The style is rather barbarous, and ornamentation peculiar (Kuster's Paris 3, Scholz, Greg.).
10. Par. Nat. Gr. 91 [xiii or later], 7-½ × 5-7/8, ff. 275 (24), given in 1439 to a library of Canons Regular at Verona by Dorotheus Archbishop of Mitylene, when he came to the Council of Florence. Scholz tells us that it was “antea Joannis Huraultii Boistallerii.” Griesbach mistook this copy for Reg. 95, olim 2865/3, which is Kuster's Paris 1 and Wetstein's Cod. 10, being Cod. 285 of Scholz and our own list (Burgon, Guardian, Jan. 15, 1873). Carp., Eus. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., syn., men. (Griesbach, Scholz, Greg.).
11. Par. Nat. Gr. 121-2 [xii or earlier], in two small volumes, 6-3/8 × 3-5/8, neatly written, ff. 230 and 274 (16), Eus. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. It also once belonged to Teller (Kuster's Paris 4, Scholz, Greg.).
12. Par. Nat. Gr. 230 [xi], 10-3/8 × 8-1/8, 294 (21), prol., pict., Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., with a commentary, that on St. Mark being Victor's of Antioch (Greg.).
13. Par. Nat. Gr. 50 [xii], 9-¼ × 7-½, ff. 170 (29), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am. lect., syn., men., subscr., στίχ., is Kuster's Paris 6, who says that it supplied him with more various readings than all the rest of his Paris manuscripts put together. This, like Codd. 10, 11, once belonged to Teller: it is not correctly written. Syn., mut. in Matt. i. 1-ii. 20; xxvi. 33-53; xxvii. 26-xxviii. 10; Mark i. 20-45; John xxi. 3-25; 163 verses (Kuster, Wetstein, Griesbach, Begtrup in 1797). This manuscript was collated in 1868 by Professor W. H. Ferrar, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin [d. 1871], who regarded Codd. 13, 69, 124, 346 as transcripts of one archetype, which he proposed to restore by comparing the four copies together. His design was carried out by Professor T. K. Abbott, Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College. For facsimiles of them all, &c., see “Collation of Four Important Manuscripts of the Gospels,” &c. Dublin, 1877 (Greg.).
14. Par. Nat. Gr. 70 [xii or xiii, Greg. x], 6-7/8 × 4-5/8, ff. 392 (17), once Cardinal Mazarin's; was Kuster's Paris 7. A facsimile of this beautiful copy, with round conjoined minuscule letters, regular breathings and [pg 193] accents, is given in the “Paléographie Universelle,” No. 78, and in Montfaucon, Pal. Gr., p. 282. Mut. Matt. i. 1-9; iii. 16-iv. 9. Κεφ. t., pict., Paschal Canon, Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. (Kuster, Scholz).
15. Par. Nat. Gr. 64 [x], 7-¼ × 5-5/8, ff. 225 (23), Carp., prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., men., is Kuster's Paris 8. Eus. t., syn., pict. very superb: the first three pages are written in gold, with exquisite miniatures, four on p. 2, four on p. 3, Burgon. (Kuster, Scholz, Greg.)
16. Par. Nat. Gr. 54, formerly 1881 [xiv], 12-3/8 × 10, ff.?, 2 cols., Eus. t. (Latin), pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am. (Matt. and Mark), lect., subscr.; once belonged to the Medici; it has a Latin version in parts; mut. Mark xvi. 6-20. Eus. t., syn., pict. (Wetstein, Scholz). This gorgeous and “right royal” copy was never quite finished, but is unique in respect of being written in four colours, vermilion, lake, blue, and black, according to the character of the contents (Burgon, Greg.).
17. Par. Nat. Gr. 55 [xvi], 11-¾ × 8-¼, ff. 353 (25), 2 cols., has the Latin Vulgate version: it was neatly written, not by George Hermonymus the Spartan (but see Greg.), as Wetstein guesses, but by a Western professional scribe, Burgon. It once belonged to Cardinal Bourbon. Syn., pict. very elegant, lect. (Wetstein, Griesbach, Scholz).
18. (Act. 113, Paul. 132, Apoc. 51.) Par. Nat. Gr. 47, formerly 2241 [a.d. 1364], 11-½ × 8-3/8, ff. 444 (23), prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., lect., ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ., syn., men.; bought in 1687, and written at Constantinople. It is one of the few copies of the whole New Testament (see p. 72, note), and was given by Nicephorus Cannabetes to the monastery τοῦ ζωοδότου χριστοῦ ἐν τῷ τοῦ Μυζιθρᾶ (Misitra) τῆς Λακεδαίμονος κάστρῳ. Two syn. between the Pauline Epistles and the Apocalypse, psalms, hymns (Scholz, Greg., Reiche).
19. Par. Nat. Gr. 189, formerly 1880 [xii], 12-½ × 9-¼, ff. 387, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., subscr., Wetstein's 1869, once belonged to the Medici, pict., with Victor's commentary on St. Mark, a catena to St. John, and scholia to the other Gospels. In marvellous condition, with much gold ornamentation (Scholz, Greg.).
20. Par. Nat. Gr. 188, formerly 1883 [xii], 13-1/8 × 9-1/8, a splendid folio, ff. 274, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., subscr., στίχ.—all by second hand (Greg.), brought from the East in 1669. It is beautifully written, and contains catenae, Victor's commentary on St. Mark, and other treatises enumerated by Scholz, who collated most of it. At the end of SS. Mark, Luke, and John “dicitur etiam hoc evangelium ex accuratis codicibus esse exscriptum, nec non collatum” (Scholz). A second (or perhaps the original) hand has been busy here to assimilate the text to that of Codd. 215, 300, or to some common model. In Cod. 215 the foregoing subscription is appended to all the Four Gospels, and the other contents correspond exactly (Burgon, Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark, pp. 119, 279). See on Evann. Λ, 428. Collated by W. F. Rose.
21. Par. Nat. Gr. 68, formerly 2860 [x], 9 × 7-1/8, ff. 203, 2 cols., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., men., with syn. on paper in a later hand (Scholz, Greg.).
22. Par. Nat. Gr. 72, once Colbert. 2467 [xi], 10-¼ × 7-½, ff. 232 (22), [pg 194] contains remarkable readings. John xiv. 22-xvi. 27. Fully collated by the Rev. W. F. Rose (see Evan. 563). It begins Matt. ii. 2, six leaves containing Matt. v. 25-viii. 4 being misplaced before it. Κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus. partial, subscr. No lect., ἀρχ., or mut. Matt. iv. 20-v. 25; τέλ. p. m. A beautiful copy, singularly free from itacisms and errors from homœoteleuton, and very carefully accentuated, with slight illuminated headings to the Gospels, which I recently had the pleasure of inspecting (Wetstein, Scholz, Scriv., Greg.).
23. Par. Nat. Gr. 77, Colbert. 3947 [xi], 9 × 7-¼, 4to, ff. 230, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., with the Latin Vulgate version down to Luke iv. 18. Mut. Matt. i. 1-17; Luke xxiv. 46-John ii. 20; xxi. 24, 25; ninety-six verses (Scholz).
24. Par. Nat. Gr. 178, Colbert. 4112 [xi, Greg. x], 10-¼ × 5-7/8, ff. 240, with a commentary (Victor's on St. Mark), prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., and also syn., but in a later hand. Mut. Matt, xxvii. 20-Mark iv. 22; 186 verses (Griesb., Scholz). See Burgon, ubi supra, p. 228. Used in Cramer's Cat. on St. Mark, 1840 (Greg.).
25. Par. Nat. Gr. 191, Colbert. 2259 [x, Greg. xi], 11-¾ × 9-1/8, ff. 292, with Victor's commentary on St. Mark, and scholia, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., lect. (partial). “Grandly written,” but very imperfect, wanting about 715 verses, viz. Matt. xxiii. 1-xxv. 42; Mark i. 1-vii. 36; Luke viii. 31-41; ix. 44-54; x. 39-xi. 4; John xiii. 19?-xxi. 25 (Griesbach, Scholz, Greg., Martin).
26. Par. Nat. Gr. 78, Colbert. 4078 [xi], 9-½ × 7-¼, ff. 179 (27), neatly and correctly written by Paul a priest. Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., τίτλ., Am., lect., syn., men. (Wetstein, Scholz, Greg.).
27. Par. Nat. Gr. 115, Colbert. 6043 [xi, Greg. x], 6-¼ × 4-¾, ff. 460 (19), is Mill's Colb. 1. That critic procured Larroque's collation of Codd. 27-33 (a very imperfect one) for his edition of the New Testament. From John xviii. 3 the text is supplied, cotton chart. [xiv]. κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. (syn., men. later), syn., pict. Extensively altered by a later hand (Wetstein, Scholz, Greg.).
28. Par. Nat. Gr. 379, Colbert. 4705 [xi], 9-1/8 × 7-1/8, ff. 292 (19), is Mill's Colb. 2, most carelessly written by an ignorant scribe; it often resembles Cod. D, but has many unique readings and interpolations, with “many relics of a very ancient text hereabouts” (Hort on Mark vi. 43, Introd. p. 242). Κεφ. t. (inaccurate), κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., subscr. (lect. later), syn. Mut. in 334 verses, viz. Matt. vii. 17-ix. 12; xiv. 33-xvi. 10; xxvi. 70-xxvii. 48; Luke xx. 19-xxii. 46; John xii. 40-xiii. 1; xv. 24-xvi. 12; xviii. 16-28; xx. 20-xxi. 5; 18-25 (Scholz, Greg.).
29. Par. Nat. Gr. 89, Colbert. 6066 [xii, Greg. x], 7-1/8 × 5-½, ff. 169, is Mill's Colb. 3, correctly written by a Latin scribe, with very many peculiar corrections by a later hand. Lost leaves in the three later Gospels are supplied [xv]. Scholia, Eus. t., prol., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., subscr., syn., men. Mut. Matt. i-xv. Mill compares its text with that of Cod. 71 (Scholz, Greg.).
30. Par. Nat. Gr. 100, Colbert. 4444 [xvi, Greg. xv], 8-7/8 × 5-7/8, chart., [pg 195] ff. 313 (18), κεφ. (Gr. and Lat.), τίτλ., is Mill's Colb. 4, containing all the Gospels, by the writer of Cod. 70. In text it much resembles Cod. 17 (Scholz, Greg.).
31. Par. Nat. Gr. 94, Colbert. 6083 [xiii], 7-1/8 × 5-½, ff. 188, pict., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., is also Mill's Colb. 4, but contains all the Gospels with prayers. This copy has many erasures (Scholz, Greg.).
32. Par. Nat. Gr. 116, Colbert. 6511 [xii], 5-¾ × 4-¼, ff. 244 (21), prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am. (lect. and ἀναγν. later), is Mill's Colb. 5. It begins Matt. x. 22. Mut. Matt. xxiv. 15-30; Luke xxii. 35-John iv. 20 (Scholz). Mill misrepresented the contents of Codd. 30-32, through supposing that they contained no more than the small portions which were collated for his use.
*33. (Act. 13, Paul 17.) Par. Nat. Gr. 14, Colbert. 2844 [xi, Greg. ix or x], fol., 14-¾ × 9-¾, ff. 143 (52), κεφ., τίτλ., is Mill's Colb. 8, containing some of the Prophets and all the New Testament, except Mark ix. 31-xi. 11; xiii. 11-xiv. 60; Luke xxi. 38-xxiii. 26; and the Apocalypse. In text it resembles Codd. BDL more than any other cursive manuscript. After Larroque, Wetstein, Griesbach, Begtrup, and Scholz, it was most laboriously collated by Tregelles in 1850. There are fifty-two long lines in each page, in a fine round hand, the accents being sometimes neglected, and eta unusually like our English letter h. The ends of the leaves are much damaged, and greatly misplaced by the binder; so that the Gospels now stand last, though on comparing the style of handwriting (which undergoes a gradual change throughout the volume) at their beginning and end with that in the Prophets which stand first, and that in the Epistles which should follow them, it is plain that they originally occupied their usual place. The ink too, by reason of the damp, has often left its proper page blank, so that the writing can only be read set off on the opposite page, especially in the Acts. Hence it is no wonder that Tregelles should say that of all the manuscripts he has collated “none has ever been so wearisome to the eyes, and exhaustive of every faculty of attention.” (Account of the Printed Text, p. 162.)
The next eight copies, like Cod. H of St. Paul, belonged to that noble collection made by the Chancellor Seguier, and on his death in 1672 bequeathed to Coislin, Bishop of Metz. Montfaucon has described them in his “Bibliotheca Coisliniana,” fol. 1715, and all were slightly collated by Wetstein and Scholz.
34. Par. Nat. Coislin. 195, formerly 306 [xi, Greg. x], 11-¼ × 7-½, ff. 469 (22), Carp., Eus. t., prol., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., subscr., στίχ.; “a grand folio, splendidly written and in splendid condition” (Burgon), from Mount Athos, has a catena (Victor's commentary on St. Mark) resembling that of Cod. 194. Fresh as from the artist's hand.
35. (Act. 14, Paul. 18, Apoc. 17.) Par. Nat. Coislin. 199, formerly 44 [xi], 7-3/8 × 5-½, ff. 328 (27), κεφ. t., lect., ἀναγν., syn., men., subscr., στίχ., contains the whole New Testament (see p. 72, note), with many corrections.
[pg 196]36. Par. Nat. Coislin. 20, formerly 26 [xi, Greg. x], 11-½ × 8-3/8, ff. 509 (19), Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., prol., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. t., prol., with a commentary (Victor's on St. Mark), from the laura [i.e. convent, Suicer, Thes. Eccles. tom. ii. 205] of St. Athanasius in Mount Athos, very sumptuous.
37. Par. Nat. Coislin. 21, formerly 238 [xii], 12-1/8 × 9-½, ff. 357, Eus. t., κεφ. t., prol., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., with short scholia, Victor's commentary on St. Mark, Eus. t., syn., prol., pict. (Montfaucon).
38. (Act. 19, Paul. 23.) Par. Nat. Coislin. 200, formerly 500 [xiii], 6-7/8 × 5-3/8, ff. 300 (30), copied for the Emperor Michael Palaeologus [1259-1282], and by him sent to St. Louis [d. 1270], containing all the N. T. except St. Paul's Epistles, has been rightly judged by Wetstein to be Stephen's θ᾽228. Pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am. (not Eus.), mut. 143 verses; Matt. xiv. 15-xv. 30; xx. 14-xxi. 27; Mark xii. 3-xiii. 4. A facsimile of this beautiful book is given in the “Paléographie Univers.,” No. 84 (collated by Wetstein). Burgon has also a photograph of it, and, like Wetstein and Silvestre, notices that it was Ex Bibl. Pattr. Cadomensium [Caen] Soc. Jesu, 1640.
39. Par. Nat. Coislin. 23, formerly 315 [xi], 13-1/8 × 10-¼, ff. 288, κεφ. t. (see Greg.), κεφ., τίτλ., Am., subscr., στίχ., written at Constantinople with many abbreviations εἰς τὸ πατριαρχεῖον, ἐπὶ Σεργίου [II] τοῦ πατριάρχου, and in 1218 conveyed to the convent of St. Athanasius on Mount Athos. With a commentary (Victor's on St. Mark, from the same original as that in Cod. 34). Not written by Sergius, as Scholz says (Burgon).
40. Par. Nat. Coislin. 22, formerly 375 [xi], 11-¾ × 8-½, ff. 312, Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., once belonged to the monastery of St. Nicholas σταυρονικήτας, with a commentary (Victor's on St. Mark) and Eus. t. Ends at John xx. 25.
41. Par. Nat. Coislin. 24, formerly 241 [xi], 4to, 12 x 9-½, ff. 224 (32), κεφ. t. (Mark), κεφ., τίτλ., lect., subscr., στίχ., contains SS. Matthew and Mark with a commentary (Victor's on St. Mark).
42. Cod. Medicaeus exhibits many readings of the same class as Codd. 1, 13, 33, but its authority has the less weight, since it has disappeared under circumstances somewhat suspicious. Edward Bernard communicated to Mill these readings, which he had found in the hand of Peter Pithaeus, a former owner, in the margin of Stephen's N. T. of 1550: they professed to be extracted from an “exemplar Regium Medicaeum” (which may be supposed to mean that portion of the King's Library which Catherine de' Medici brought to France: above, p. 117, note 3), and were inserted under the title of Med. in Mill's great work, though he remarked their resemblance to the text of Cod. K (N. T., Proleg. § 1462). The braggart Denis Amelotte [1606-78] professes to [pg 197] have used the manuscript about the middle of the seventeenth century, and states that it was in a college at Troyes; but Scholz could find it neither in that city nor elsewhere.
43. (Act. 54, Paul. 130.) Par. Biblioth. Armament. 8409, 8410, formerly Gr. 4 [xi], in two volumes; the first containing the Gospels with Eus. t., the second the Acts and Epistles, 8-1/8 × 6-3/8, ff. 199 (23) and 190 (25), Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., subscr. (lect. and ἀναγν. later, see Greg.). Perhaps written at Ephesus; given by P. de Berzi in 1661 to the Oratory of San Maglorian (Amelotte, Simon, Scholz).
44. Lond. British Museum, Add. 4949 [xi], 12 × 9-¼, ff. 259 (21), syn., men., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect. (ἀρχή and τέλος later), subscr. and στίχ. in John, brought from Mount Athos by Caesar de Missy [1703-75], George III's French chaplain, who spent his life in collecting materials for an edition of the N. T. His collation, most imperfectly given by Wetstein, is still preserved with the manuscript (Bloomfield, 1860).
45. Oxford Bodleian Barocc. 31 [xii or xiii], 7-¼ × 5-¼, ff. 399 (20), is Mill's Bodl. 1, a very neat copy, with Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ. (occasional), Am., Eus., lect. (here and there), subscr., στίχ. Mut. Mark ii. 5-15 (Mill, Griesbach).
46. Oxf. Bodl. Barocc. 29 [xi], Mill's Bodl. 2, 7-¼ × 5, ff. 342 (18), with τὸ νομικόν and τὸ κυριακὸν πάσχα, Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., syn., men., vers., subscr., στίχ., ἀναγν. Preliminary matter in later hand (Mill, Griesbach).
47. Oxf. Bodl. Gr. Misc. 9 [xv], 4-¾ × 3-¼, ff. 554 (30), prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., subscr., στίχ. (Mark), vers. (Polyglott, Mill, Greg.), in a vile hand, κεφ. t., and much foreign matter, is Mill's Bodl. 6 and Bodl. 1 of Walton's Polyglott (Polyglott, Mill).
48. Oxf. Bodl. Misc. Gr., formerly 2044 (Mill's Bodl. 5) [xii], 11-1/8 x 8-¾, ff. 145 (50), 2 cols., pict., Eus. t., κεφ., subscr., ῥήμ., στίχ., scholia in a later hand (Mill).
49. Oxf. Bodl. Roe 1, formerly 247 [xi], 5-¾ × 4-1/8, ff. 223 (26), ll. rubr., is also Mill's Roe 1, brought by Sir T. Roe from Turkey about 1628; it has Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., some Eus., lect., subscr., στίχ. (Luke) (Mill).
50. Oxf. Bodl. Laud. Gr. 33, formerly D. 122 [xi], 11 × 8-¾, ff. 241, prol. (Mark), κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., some Eus., στίχ., is Mill's Laud. 1 (see p. 170), surrounded by a catena (Victor's or Cyril's of Alexandria in St. Mark), and attended with other matter. Mut. Matt. i. 1-ix. 35; xii. 3-23; xvii. 12-24; xxv. 20-32; John v. 29-end; and Mark xiv. 40-xvi. 20 is by a later hand. It contains many unusual readings (Mill, Griesbach).
51. (Act. 32, Paul. 38.) Oxf. Bodl. Laud. Gr. 31, formerly C. 63 [xiii], 11-¾ × 8-¾, ff. 325 (28), 2 cols., Mill's Laud. 2, whose resemblance to the Complutensian text is pointed out by him (N. T., Proleg. § 1437), though, judging from his own collation of Cod. 51, his statement “per omnia penè respondet” is rather too strong. Prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am. (not Eus.), lect., syn., men., subscr. The present order of the [pg 198] contents (see p. 72) is Act., Paul., Cath., Evangelia (Mill, Griesbach): but it ought to be collated afresh. This is Bentley's γ in the unpublished margin of B. xvii. 5 at Trin. Coll., Cambridge. He calls it a quarto, 400 years old. Mut. 2 Pet. iii. 2-17; Matt. xviii. 12-35; Mark ii. 8-iii. 4 (see Codd. 54, 60, 113, 440, 507, 508, Acts 23, Apoc. 28, Evst. 5).
52. Oxf. Bodl. Laud. Gr. 3, formerly C. 28 [dated a.d. 1286], 6-½ × 5, ff. 158 (27), elegant, written by νικητας ὁ μαυρωνης, is Mill's Laud. 5, with Pict., prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., subscr., mut. in initio (Mill, Griesbach).
53. Oxf. Bodl. Seld. supr. 28, formerly 3416 [xiv], 6 × 4-¾, ff. 140, is Mill's Seld. 1, who pronounces it much like Stephen's γ᾽ (Cod. 4), having prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., subscr., ἀναγν., beautifully written (Mill, Griesbach).
54. Oxf. Bodl. Seld. supr. 29 (Coxe 54), formerly 3417, Mill's Seld. 2229 [dated a.d. 1338], 4to, 6-3/8 × 4-¾, ff. 230 (sic), Syn., men., Eus. t., κεφ. t., τίτλ., Am., lect., vers. (Mill). This is Bentley's κ (see Cod. 51). See under 58.
55. Oxf. Bodl. Seld. supr. 6 (Coxe 5), formerly 3394, Mill's Seld. 3 [xiii], 4to, 7-½ × 5-½, ff. 349 (21), containing also Judges vi. 1-24 (Grabe, Prol. V. T., tom. i. cap. iii. § 6), has prol. in Matt., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., lect., syn., men., ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ. (Mill).
56. Oxf. Lincoln Coll. II (Gr.) 18 [xv or xvi], 4to, 8-1/8 × 5-5/8, ff. 232 (24), chart., was presented about 1502, by Edmund Audley, Bishop of Salisbury: prol. (Mark, Luke), κεφ. t., κεφ., some τίτλ., ἀναγν., vers., titles to Gospels, subscr., στίχ. (John). Walton gives some various readings, but confounds it with Act. 33, Paul. 39, speaking of them as if one “vetustissimum exemplar.” It has been inspected by Dobbin, Scrivener, and Mill, but so loosely that the late Rev. R. C. Pascoe, Fellow of Exeter College, detected thirty-four omissions for thirty-one citations (one of them being an error) in four chapters.
57. (Act. 85, Paul. 41.) Oxf. Magdalen Coll., Greek 9 [xii, opening], 9 × 7-½, ff. 291 (25), aur. beautiful, in a small and beautiful hand, with abbreviations. Mut. Mark i. 1-11, and at end. Psalms and Hymns follow the Epistles. It has κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ. (lect. in red, vers. later). Collated twice by Dr. Hammond, the great commentator, whose papers seem to have been used for Walton's Polyglott (Magd. 1): also examined by Dobbin (Mill).
58. Oxf. New Coll. 68 [xv], 7-¾ × 5-¼, ff. 342 (20), is Walton and Mill's N. 1. This, like Codd. 56-7, has been accurately examined by Dr. Dobbin, for the purpose of his “Collation of the Codex Montfortianus” (London, 1854), with whose readings Codd. 56, 58 have been compared in 1922 places. He has undoubtedly proved the close connexion [pg 199] subsisting between the three manuscripts (which had been observed by Mill, N. T. Proleg. § 1388), though he may not have quite demonstrated that they must be direct transcripts from each other. Prol., κεφ. t., κεφ. (partially), τίτλ., Am. (partial), ἀναγν. (partial), syn., subscr. (Mark), vers., with scholia. The writing is very careless, and those are in error who follow Walton in stating that it contains the Acts and Epistles (Walton's Polyglott, Mill, Dobbin). Mr. C. Forster rightly asks for photographs and a thorough re-collation of Codd. 56, 58, 61, “to throw light upon their direct relationship, or non-relationship to each other” (“A New Plea for the Three Heavenly Witnesses,” 1867, p. 139). Dr. C. R. Gregory has expressed the opinion that Codd. 47, 56, 58 are in the same hand, and one of them copied from Cod. 54.
*59. Cambridge, Gonville and Caius Coll. 403 [xii], 8 × 6, ff. 238 (23), an important copy, “textu notabili,” as Tischendorf states (much like D, 61, 71), but carelessly written, and exhibiting no less than eighty-one omissions by ὁμοιοτέλευτον (see p. 9). It was very poorly examined for Walton's Polyglott, better though defectively by Mill, seen by Wetstein in 1716, minutely collated by Scrivener in 1860. It once belonged to the House of Friars Minor at Oxford, from whence Richard Brynkley borrowed it and took it to the Grey Friars at Cambridge, whence it went to Thomas Hatcher, who gave it to the College in 1867 (J. Rendel Harris, The origin of the Leicester Codex, 1887). It has τίτλ., κεφ., Am. (but not Eus.), and exhibits many and rare compendia scribendi.
60. (Apoc. 10.) Camb. University Library, Dd. ix. 69 [a.d. 1297], 8 × 6, ff. 324 = 293 + 1 + 30 (24), but the Apocalypse is later, and has a few scholia from Arethas about it. This copy is Mill's Moore 1230 and is still badly known. Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., lect. (later), Am. without Eus., subscr., and it is an elegant copy (Mill). The Gospels appear to have been written in the East, the Apocalypse in the West of Europe. This is Bentley's ε (see Cod. 51).
*61. (Act. 34, Paul. 40, Apoc. 92.) Codex Montfortianus at Trinity College, Dublin, G. 97 [xv or xvi], 6-¼ × 4-¾, ff. 445 (21), chart., so celebrated in the controversy respecting 1 John v. 7. Its last collator, Dr. Orlando Dobbin (see on Cod. 58), has discussed in his Introduction every point of interest connected with it. It contains the whole New Testament, apparently the work of three or four successive scribes, paper leaves, only one of them—that on which 1 John v. 7 stands—being glazed231, [pg 200] as if to protect it from harm. This manuscript was first heard of between the publication of Erasmus' second (1519) and third (1522) editions of his N. T., and after he had publicly declared, in answer to objectors, that if any Greek manuscript could be found containing the passage, he would insert it in his revision of the text; a promise which he fulfilled in 1522. Erasmus describes his authority as “Codex Britannicus,” “apud Anglos repertus,” and there is the fullest reason to believe that the Cod. Montfortianus is the copy referred to (see Vol. II. Chap. XI). Its earliest known owner was Froy232, a Franciscan friar, then Thomas Clement [fl. 1569], then William Chark [fl. 1582], then Thomas Montfort, D.D. of Cambridge, from whom it derives its name, then Archbishop Ussher, who caused the collation to be made which appears in Walton's Polyglott (Matt. i. 1-Acts xxii. 29; Rom. i), and presented the manuscript to Trinity College. Dr. Barrett appended to his edition of Cod. Z a full collation of the parts left untouched by his predecessors; but since the work of Ussher's friends was known to be very defective, Dobbin has re-collated the whole of that portion which Barrett left unexamined, comparing the readings throughout with Codd. 56, 58 of the Gospels, and Cod. 33 of the Acts. This copy has prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., subscr., στίχ., besides which the division by the Latin chapters in St. Mark is employed, a sure proof—if any were needed—of the modern date of the manuscript. There are many corrections by a more recent hand, erasures by the pen, &c. It has been supposed that the Gospels were first written; then the Acts and Epistles (transcribed, in Dobbin's judgement, from Cod. 33, Acts); the Apocalypse last; having been added about 1580, as Tregelles and Dr. Dobbin think, from Cod. 69, when they were both in Chark's possession. The text, however, of the Apocalypse is not quite the same in the two codices, nor would it be easy, without seeing them together, to verify Dobbin's conjecture, that the titles to the sacred books, in pale red ink, were added by the same person in both manuscripts. In the margin of this copy, as of Cod. 69, are inserted many readings in Chark's handwriting, even the misprint of Erasmus, ἐμαῖς for ἐν αἷς, Apoc. ii. 13.
62. Walton's Goog., which was brought from the East, and once belonged to Dr. Henry Googe, Fellow of Trinity College. The collations of Codd. D, 59, 61, 62 made for the London Polyglott were given in 1667 to Emmanuel College, where they yet remain. Goog. was identified with the Cambridge Kk. v. 35 by Bp. Marsh, who was a little careless in this kind of work.
622. Camb. Univ. Lib. Kk. v. 35 [xv], 9-¼ × 5-¾, ff. 403 (14), chart., κεφ., (κεφ. Lat.), τίτλ., subscr., vers. Mr. Bradshaw has pointed out that Kk. v. 35 is a mere transcript by George Hermonymus from Cod. 70 also [pg 201] in his handwriting, and hastily copied from it, errors of the pen and all. It has no men., lect., as Goog. had, but the ordinary κεφάλαια and Latin chapters. Again, Goog., as Walton says, “ex Oriente advectus est,” and must have been in England before 1657; whereas Bp. Moore got Kk. v. 35 from France in 1706, with other books from the collection of J. B. Hantin, the numismatist.
63. Cod. Ussher 1, Trin. Coll. Dublin, A. i. 8, formerly D. 20 [x], fol., with a commentary, 12-3/8 × 9-½, ff. 237 (18-24), prol., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. (lect., later.), subscr. Henry Dodwell made a few extracts for Bishop Fell's N. T. of 1675; Richard Bulkeley loosely collated it for Mill, Dr. Dobbin in 1855 examined St. Matthew, and the Rev. John Twycross, of the Charter House, re-collated the whole manuscript in 1858. The last leaf, containing John xxi. 25, is lost; but (see Scrivener, Cod. Sin., Introd., p. lix, note, and an admirable paper by Dr. Gwynn in Hermathena, xix, 1893, p. 368) it originally contained the verse and witnesses to it. Dr. C. R. Gregory has noticed in Cod. 63 a mutilated double leaf of an Evangelistarium in two columns [ix or x], containing part of ὥρα γ᾽.
64. Bute, formerly Ussher 2. This MS. belonged, like the preceding, to the illustrious Primate of Ireland, but has been missing from Trin. Coll. Library in Dublin ever since 1742, or, as Dr. C. R. Gregory thinks on the authority of Dr. T. K. Abbott, 1702. It was collated, like Cod. 63, by Dodwell for Fell, by Bulkeley for Mill. It once belonged to Dr. Thomas Goad, and was very neatly, though incorrectly, written in octavo. As the Emmanuel College copy of the Epistles (Act. 53, Paul. 30) never contained the Gospels, for which it is perpetually cited in Walton's Polyglott as Em., the strong resemblance subsisting between Usser. 2 and Em. led Mill to suspect that they were in fact the same copy. The result of an examination of Walton's with Mill's collations is that they are in numberless instances cited together in support of readings, in company with other manuscripts; often with a very few or even alone (e.g. Matt. vi. 22; viii. 11; xii. 41; Mark ii. 2; iv. 1; ix. 10; 25; Luke iv. 32; viii. 27; John i. 21; iv. 24; v. 7; 20; 36; vii. 10; xvi. 19; xxi. 1). That Usser. 2 and Em. are sometimes alleged separately is easily accounted for by the inveterate want of accuracy exhibited by all early collators. But all doubt is at an end since Dean Burgon in 1880 found this celebrated copy in the library of the Marquis of Bute, and has traced the curious history of its rovings. From Dr. Goad (d. 1638) it came into the keeping of Primate Ussher, by whose hand the modern chapters seem to have been written in the margin. Then towards the end of the seventeenth century (as his signature proves) it belonged to one John Jones: a later hand puts in the date Saturday, May 25, 1728. It has also the book plate of John Earl of Moira (d. 1793). Then we trace it to James Verschoyle, afterwards Bishop of Killala from 1793 to 1834, thence to the Earls of Huntingdon for two generations, when it was purchased at the Donnington Park sale by Lord Bute. Without doubt this is the long lost Cod. 64, the Usser. 2 and Em. of Mill: it was recognized at once by the reading in John viii. 8. Dean Burgon describes it as [xii or xiii] now in two volumes, bound in red morocco about 150 years since. It has 440 leaves, 4-3/5 inches by 3-2/5 in size. Carp., [pg 202] Eus. t., κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am. (gilt), Eus. (carmine), lect., ἀρχαί and τελη. At the end are fourteen leaves of syn. Though beautifully written, it has no pict. or elaborate headings. Previous collators had done their work very poorly, as we have reason to know. Out of about sixty variations in Mark i-v, Mill has recorded only twenty-six. Over each proper name of a person stands a little waved stroke: cf. Evan. 530. (Collated for Burgon.)
65. Lond. Brit. Mus. Harleian 5776 [xiii], 9 x 7, ff. 309 (22), is Mill's Cov. 1, brought from the East in 1677 with four other manuscripts of the Greek Testament by Dr. John Covell [1637-1722], once English Chaplain at Constantinople, then Chaplain to Queen Mary at the Hague, afterwards Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., στίχ., subscr. (Mill). This book was presented to Covell in 1674 by Daniel, Bishop of Proconnesus. The last verse is supplied by a late hand, the concluding leaf being lost, as in Cod. 63.
*66. Camb. Trin. Coll. O. viii. 3, Cod. Galei Londinensis [xii], 8-¾ x 6, chart., ff. 282 (21), pict., syn., men., Carp. ten blank pages, κεφ., no τίτλ., lect., Am., Eus., subscr. (later), ἀναγν., κεφ. t., στίχ., once belonged to Th. Gale [1636-1702], High Master of St. Paul's School, Dean of York (1697), with some scholia in the margin by a recent hand, and other changes in the text by one much earlier. Known to (Mill), but for a time lost sight of. Collated by Scrivener, 1862. Inserted in the great printed Catalogue of Manuscripts, Oxford, 1697.
67. Oxf. Bodl. Misc. Gr. 76 [x or xi], 9 x 7, ff. 202 (20), 2 cols., is Mill's Hunt. 2, brought from the East by Dr. Robert Huntington, Chaplain at Aleppo, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and afterwards Bishop of Raphoe [d. 1701]. Mut. John vi. 64-xxi. 25. Eus. t., pict., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., subscr. On f. 3, the Athanasian Creed is on rect. on gold ground (Mill).
68. Oxf. Lincoln Coll. (Evst. 199) II. Gr. 17 [xii], 8 x 5, ff. 29 (23), Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., orn., κεφ., τίτλ. (gold), Am., lect., στιχ., besides syn., men., and verses at the end of each Gospel by Theodulos Hieromonachus, is Mill's Wheel. 1, brought from Zante in 1676, with two other copies, by George Wheeler, Canon of Durham. Between the Gospels of SS. Luke and John are small fragments of two leaves of a beautiful Evangelistarium [ix?], with red musical notes (Mill, Scr.).
*69. (Act. 31, Paul. 37, Apoc. 14.) Codex Leicestrensis [xiv Harris; end of xv], 14-½ x 10-5/8, ff. 213 (38), like Codd. 206 and 233, and Brit. Mus. Harl. 3161; rapidly written on 83 leaves of vellum and 130 of paper, the vellum being outside the quinion at beginning and end, and three paper leaves within (see p. 24), apparently with a reed (see p. 27), is now in the library of the Town Council of Leicester. It contains the whole New Testament, except Matt. i. 1-xviii. 15; Acts x. 45-xiv. 17; Jude 7-25; Apoc. xviii. 7-xxii. 21, but with fragments down to xix. 10. The original order was Paul., Acts, Cath. Epp., Apoc., Gospels last and missing when the MS. came into Chark's hands. Written in the strange hand which our facsimile exhibits (No. 40), epsilon being recumbent and almost like alpha, and with accents placed over the [pg 203] succeeding consonant instead of the vowel233. The words Ειμι Ιλερμον Χαρκου at the top of the first page, in the same beautiful hand that wrote many (too many) marginal notes, prove that this codex once belonged to the William Chark, mentioned under Cod. 61 (p. 201) who got it from Brynkley, who probably got it like the Caius MS. (Evan. 59) from the Convent of Grey Friars at Cambridge. In 1641 (Wetstein states 1669) Thomas Hayne, M.A., of Trussington, in that county, gave this MS. with his other books to the Leicester Library. Mill was permitted to use it at Oxford, and collated it there in 1671. A collation also made by John Jackson and William Tiffin was lent to Wetstein through Caesar de Missy and Th. Gee, a Presbyterian minister of But Close, Leicester. Tregelles re-collated it in 1852 for his edition of the Greek Testament, and Scrivener very minutely in 1855; the latter published his results, with a full description of the book itself, in the Appendix to his “Codex Augiensis.” No manuscript of its age has a text so remarkable as this, less however in the Acts than in the Gospels. Though none of the ordinary divisions into sections, and scarcely any liturgical marks, occur throughout, there is evidently a close connexion between Cod. 69 and the Church Service-books, as well in the interpolations of proper names, particles of time, or whole passages (e.g. Luke xxii. 43, 44 placed after Matt. xxvi. 39) which are common to both, as especially in the titles of the Gospels: ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ μάρκον εὐαγγέλιον (sic), &c., being in the very language of the Lectionaries234. Codd. 178, 443 have the same peculiarity. Tables of κεφάλαια stand before the three later Gospels, with very unusual variations; for which, as well as for the foreign matter inserted and other peculiarities of Cod. 69, consult Scrivener's Cod. Augiensis (Introd. pp. xl-xlvii). See also Mr. J. Rendel Harris, Origin of the Leicester Codex, 1887.