396. Rom. Chisianus R. iv. 6 [xii], 8-¾ × 6-½, ff. 115 (27), argent., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., begins Matt, xxiii. 27.

397. Rom. Vallicell. E. 40 [xv], 9-5/8 × 8-¼, ff. 295 (10), St. John with a catena (described by Bianchini).

398. Taurin. Univ. C ii. 5 [xiii, or xvi in Pasinus' Catalogue], select passages with a catena, 12-1/8 × 8-½, chart., ff. 310 (30), 2 cols.

399. Taurin. C. ii. 14 [xv, or xvi in Pasinus' Cat.], chart., 11-5/8 × 8, ff. 404 (22), prol., κεφ. t., vers., commentary, sometimes without the text. Found by Dr. Hort to contain SS. John, Luke (with Titus of Bostra's commentary), Matthew, hoc ordine. See p. 73.

400. (Act. 181, Paul. 200.) Berolinensis Reg. A. Duodec. 10, Diezii [xv], 5 × 3-¾, ff. 249 (14-16), Euthal., mut., damaged by fire and water, contains Matt. xii. 29-xiii. 2: and the Acts and Epistles, except Acts i. 11-ii. 11; Rom. i. 1-27; 1 Cor. xiv. 12-xv. 46; 2 Cor. i. 1-8; v. 4-19; 1 Tim. iv. 1-Heb. i. 9. This copy belonged to Henry Benzil, Archbishop of Upsal, then to Laurence Benzelstierna, Bishop of Arosen: it was described by C. Aurivill (1802), collated by G. T. Pappelbaum (1815).

401. Neapolit. Bibl. Nat. II. Aa. 3 [xi or xii], 8-1/8 × 6-1/8, ff. 113 (23), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., vers. (later), contains Matthew, Mark vi. 1-xvi. 20, Luke, John i. 1-xii. 1.

402. Neapol. Nat. II. Aa. 5 [xiv or xv], 6-¼ × 4-½, ff. 253 (24), κεφ. t., lect., ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ., pict.

403. Neapol. Nat. II. Aa. 4 [xii or xiii], chart., 7 × 4-7/8, ff. 212 (22), argent., κεφ. t., Am., lect., men. Contains Matt. xii. 23-xix. 12; 28-xxviii. 20; Mark; Luke i. 1-v. 21; 36-xxiv. 53; John i. 1-xviii. 36.

404. Neapol. “Abbatis Scotti” [xi], 8vo, prol. Not known.

The manuscripts once belonging to the Nani family, which include Evan. U, were catalogued by J. A. Mingarelli (“Graeci codices manu scripti apud Nanios Patricios Venetos asservati,” Bononiae, 1784), and, being now at St. Mark's, were inspected by Burgon.

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405. Venet. Marc. i. 10, “olim Nan. 3, antea monasterii SS. Cosmae et Damiani urbis Prusiensis,” i.e. Brusa or Prusa [xi], 8-1/8 × 7, ff. 228 (22), Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus., lect., subscr., the leaves utterly disarranged by the binder. (Wiedmann and J. G. J. Braun collated portions of 405-417 for Scholz.)

406. Ven. Marc. i. 10, Nan. 4 [xi], 6-3/8 × 5-7/8, ff. 297 (18), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am. (not Eus.), few lect. Mut. Mark iv. 41-v. 14; Luke iii. 16-iv. 4.

407. Ven. Marc. i. 12, Nan. 5 [xi], 6 × 5-1/8, ff. 87 (21), contains Luke v. 30-John ix. 2. Κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., pict., στίχοι βω at the end of St. Luke, subscr., vers.

408. Ven. Marc. i. 14, Nan. 7 [xii], 9-¼ × 5-1/8, ff. 261 (22), once belonged to St. John Chrysostom's monastery, by the Jordan, as stated in a note of the original scribe. Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., few lect., στίχ., subscr., vers., pict., full stops very numerous in the text. Matt. i. 1-13 and syn. later.

409. Ven. Marc. i. 15, Nan. 8 [xii or xiv], 8-¼ × 5-¾, ff. 210 (28), the writing and pict. very rough, the stops being mostly red crosses. Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am. (not Eus.), lect., vers., subscr., στίχ., syn., men., foreign matter by Cosmas, &c. (see p. 66).

410. Ven. Marc. i. 17, Nan. 10 [xiii or xiv], 9-¼ × 6-¾, chart., ff. 212, written by one Joasaph a monk, Carp., Eus. t., prol. [xiii], on parchment, κεφ. t. on paper. Κεφ., τίτλ., Am. (not Eus.), lect., prol., vers., subscr., στίχ., syn., men.

411. Ven. Marc. i. 18, Nan. 11 [x or xi], 6-½ × 4-7/8, ff. 375 (20), very beautifully written in upright characters. Carp., Eus. t., prol., matter by Cosmas (see p. 66), κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus., lect., syn., men., vers. Pict. torn out.

412. Ven. Marc. i. 19, Nan. 12 [1301], 7 × 5-¼, ff. 327 (22), written by Theodore (see p. 43, note 1). Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus., lect., syn., men., στίχ., vers. In text it much resembles Scrivener's q and r by the same hand, without being identical with either.

413. Ven. Marc. i. 20, Nan. 13 [1302, Indiction 15], 8-¾ × 6-¾, ff. 270 (24), once belonged to St. Catherine's monastery on Sinai, where Cod. א was found, and is elegantly written by one Theodosius ῥακευδύτης. Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus., rude pict., lect., subscr., στίχ., syn., men.

414. Ven. Marc. i. 21, Nan. 14 [xiv], 9-¼ × 6-½, ff. 225 (26), κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., subscr., syn., men., written by Philip, a monk.

415. Ven. Marc. i. 22, Nan. 15 [dated January, 1356], 7-¼ × 5-¼, ff.?, syn., men., rude pict., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., ἀναγν., subscr.

416. Ven. Marc. i. 24, Nan. 17 [xiv], 7-¾ × 5-7/8, ff. 225 (22), very roughly written, begins Matt. xxv. 36, ends John xviii. 7. Mut. Matt. xxvi. 17-xxvii. 17; 35-Mark ii. 27. Κεφ. t. (κεφ., τίτλ. later), Am., Eus., lect. (later), ἀναγν., with changes by different hands.

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417. Ven. Marc. i. 25, Nan. 18 [xii-xiv], 9-1/8 × 5-7/8, ff. 112 (27, 26), begins Matt. v. 44, ends Luke vi. 9. Κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect. (later), subscr.

418. Ven. Marc. i. 28, Nan. 21 [xv], chart., 8-¾ × 6-¼, ff. 110 (17), 2 cols., contains SS. Matthew and Mark, down to ch. xiii. 32, unfinished, in two columns. Κεφ. t. with harm., κεφ., τίτλ., Am. (not Eus.), lect., many red crosses for stops.

419. Ven. Marc. i. 60, formerly at St. Michael's, Venice, “prope Murianum,” 241 [xi or xii], 7-5/8 × 6, ff. 260 (22), ends John xxi. 7 (described by J. B. Mittarelli, Venice, 1779). Mut. John viii. 44-xi. 32, supplied by a later hand. Κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am. (not Eus.), lect., with red musical notes.

420. Messanensis Univ. 18 (Schulz's 237) [xiv], 6-7/8 × 4-7/8, ff. 127 (22), Carp., Eus. t., prol. (πρόγραμμα), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ. with harm., also harm. at bottom of the page, Am., Eus., subscr., στίχ., vers., pict., by different hands, with readings from other copies (inspected by Munter, as was Cod. 421).

421. (Act. 176, Paul. 218.) Syracusanus (Schulz's 238) [xii] ?, once Landolini's; prol., Eus. t. Dr. Gregory could not find it.

422. Monacensis Reg. 210, at Munich [xi or later], 9-¼ × 6-½, ff. 256 (28), 2 cols., Carp., prol., κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus. (partially), lect. (later), subscr., στίχ., syn., men., roughly written in two columns by the monk Joseph, but St. John in a somewhat more recent hand; described by Ignatius Hardt and Dean Burgon. It abounds with itacisms and strange blunders, and other tokens of great ignorance on the part of the scribe.

423. Mon. Reg. 36 [1556], chart., 13-3/8 × 9-¼, ff. 465 (30), contains St. Matthew with Nicetas' catena. Marked. Τόμος A and superbly bound, as in Cod. 432. The same scribe wrote Codd. 424, 425, 432 (Burgon).

424. Mon. Reg. 83 [xvi], chart., 13-3/8 × 8-¾, ff. 399, contains St. Luke with the commentary of Titus of Bostra and others.

425. Mon. Reg. 37 [xvi], chart., 13-3/8 × 9-¼, ff. 576 (30), second volume of 423, contains St. John with a very full catena of Nicetas. Marked Τόμος B.

426. Mon. Reg. 473, once Augsburg 9 [xiv], 9-¾ × 6-¾, chart., ff. 208 (26), κεφ. t., contains Luke vi. 17-xi. 26 with Nicetas' catena, the second of four volumes (δεύτερον τῶν τεσσάρων τεῦχος τῶν εἰς τὸ κατὰ Λουκᾶν ἅγιον εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ συναγωγὴν ἐξηγήσεων).

427. Mon. Reg. 465, Augsburg 10 [xii or xiii], 10-1/8 × 8-1/8, ff. 140 (34), Am., lect. (ῥήμ., στίχ. Luke), written by one Maurus, contains SS. Luke and Mark with Theophylact's (and Victor's ?) commentary.

428. Mon. Reg. 381, Augsburg 11 [xiii], 12-3/8 × 9-¼, chart., ff. 335 (33), with rude pictures of the Evangelists on a vellum leaf. Its subscriptions are like those of Evann. Λ, 262, &c. The commentary is Theophylact's.

429. Mon. Reg. 208 [xii or xiii], a superb 4to, 10-7/8 × 9-1/8, ff. 234 (35), [pg 238] 2 cols., written by John, a priest and “ἔκδικος magnae ecclesiae,” contains Luke i. 1-ii. 39 with a catena, questions and answers from SS. Matthew and John, with the text. Burgon declares that the date June 20, a.d. 978, Indiction 6, which we took from Scholz (see above, p. 41, note 2), is that of the manuscript this was copied from, not of Cod. 429 itself. In that case we have another early dated cursive the less. Gregory, Prolegomena, p. 449, inclines to the placing of this MS. amongst the uncials.

430. Mon. Reg. 437 [xi], 11-5/8 × 8-5/8, ff. 354 (24), contains John i-viii with the catena of Nicetas, metropolitan of Heraclia Serrarum in Macedonia, now Xevosna. Martin Crusius of Tübingen procured it from Leontius, a Cyprian monk, in 1590, and sent it to the Library at Augsburg.

431. (Act. 180, Paul. 238.) Molsheimensis [xii], Eus. t., prol. with many unusual readings, was brought to Strasburg from the Jesuits' College at Molsheim in Alsace. Extracts were made from it by the Jesuit Hermann Goldhagen (N. T. Mogunt. 1753), and it was collated by Arendt, 1833. “Periit a. 1870,” Gregory.

432. Mon. Reg. 99 [xvi], chart., 13-½ × 8-7/8 ff. 572 (30), contains St. Mark with the commentary of Victor of Antioch, being the same copy as Peltanus used for his Latin edition of that work, Ingolstad, 1580.

433. Berolinensis Reg. MS. 4to, 12 (kn) (Schulz's 239) [xi or xii], 8 × 5-¾, ff. 80 (24), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., brought from the East by W. Ern. de Knobelsdorf, with a mixed text and many errors in very minute letters. It contains Matt. i. 1-21; vi. 12-32; xxii. 25-xxviii. 20; Mark i. 1-v. 29; ix. 21-xiii. 12; Luke viii. 27-John ix. 21; xx. 15-xxi. 25. (G. T. Pappelbaum, 1824.)

434. Vindobon. Caes. 71, formerly 42 [xiv], 11-¾ × 7-¾, ff. 424 (29), contains St. Luke with a catena. Like Codd. 218, &c., bought at Constantinople by De Busbeck.

435. Lugd.-Bat. Bibl. Univ. Gronovii 137 (Schulz's 245) [x], 8-5/8 × 6-1/8, ff. 284 (24), pict. Mut. Matt. i. 20-ii. 13; xxii. 4-9 (John x. 14-xxi. 25 in a rather later hand). It has a somewhat unusual text (collated, as was also Evan. 122, by J. Dermout, Collectanea Critica in N. T., 1825).

436. Meerman. 117 [a.d. 1322], ff. 277. Dr. Gregory has traced this MS. to No. 54 in the library of the Jesuit College at Clermont, then to Meerman, then to Payne a London bookseller, who bought it in 1824. It is not known now. For the MS. once in Dean Burgon's possession but in the Bodleian Library, see Evan. 562.

437. Petropol. Caes. [xi], like Cod. E of the Pauline Epistles, one leaf of the Colbert Pentateuch, and some other manuscripts, has found its way from the Coislin library and the Abbey of St. Germain des Prés near Paris, to St. Petersburg. It was written by Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and noticed by Matthaei (N. T. iii. p. 99, 2nd ed.). Not in Muralt's List.

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438. Brit Mus. Addit. 5111, 5112 (Askew 621) [a.d. 1189], 10 × 7, ff. 211 and 241 (18), Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. (no subscr.). It was written by Gregory a monk, and is in two volumes, containing severally Matt. and Mark, Luke and John.

439. Brit. Mus. Addit. 5107 (Askew 622) [dated April, 1159, Ind. 7], 12-¼ × 9-½, ff. 219 (23), 2 cols., written by the monk Nepho, at Athos, Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., pict., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus. (Bloomfield).

440. (Act. 111, Paul. 221.) Camb. Univ. Libr. Mm. vi. 9 [xii], 7 × 5-½, ff. 288 (28), Eus. t., κεφ., τίτλ., lect., Am., syn. (later); prol. (Cath. and Paul.), subscr. (Paul.). From this copy Griesbach's readings in Cod. 236 were derived. Described below under Scrivener's v before Evan. 507.

441, 442, at Cambridge, must be removed from Scholz's list; they are printed editions with manuscript notes. Cod. 441 is Act. 110, Paul. 222; Cod. 442 is Act. 152, Paul. 223.

443. Camb. Univ. Libr. Nn. ii. 36, once Askew 624 [xii], 11 × 8-¼, ff. 235 (24), 2 cols, Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., τίτλ., Am., Eus., some lect. (later), syn., men., prol. The κεφάλαια proper are subdivided in this copy, e.g. the 19th of St. Matthew, into no less than thirteen parts (see p. 64, note 2). For the titles of the Gospels, see Evan. 69. Evan. 443 was bought for the University Library in 1775 for £20, at the celebrated book-sale of Anthony Askew [1722-74], the learned physician who projected an edition of Aeschylus. See Marsh on Michaelis, vol. ii. pp. 661-2.

444. (Act. 153, Paul. 240.) Brit. Mus. Harl. 5796 [xv], 10-¼ × 7-½, ff. 324 (26-29), κεφ. t., τίτλ., lect., ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ., syn., men., neatly written, sold in 1537 “aspris 500:254” bought at Smyrna in 1722 by Bernard Mould.

445. Brit. Mus. Harl. 5736 [a.d. 1506], chart., 8-¼ × 6, ff. 194 (24), κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., in the hand “Antonii cujusdam eparchi,” once (like Apoc. 31) in the Jesuits' College, Agen, on the Garonne.

446. Brit. Mus. Harl. 5777 [xv], 9 × 6, ff. 228 or 231 (25), κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., κεφ. t. (not Matt.), subscr. (Luke), syn., men. Mut. Matt. i. 1-17; Mark i. 7-9; Luke i. 1-18; John i. 1-22, by a person who mischievously cut out the ornaments. It is clearly but unskilfully written, and Covell states on the outer leaf that it seems a copy from his manuscript, noted above as Evan. 65. This codex is Cov. 5 (Bloomfield).

447. Brit. Mus. Harl. 5784 [xv], 7-¼ × 5-¾, ff. 329 (21), Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., orn., κεφ., τίτλ., lect., subscr., στίχ., prol. (Paul.); well written, and much like

448. Brit. Mus. Harl. 5790 [dated Rome, April 25, 1478], 12-¼ × 8-½, ff. 299 (22), κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ. in margin, subscr., beautifully written by John Rhesus of Crete a priest for Francis Gonzaga Cardinal of S. Maria Nuova: belonged to Giovanni Pietro Arrivabene.

449. Brit. Mus. Addit. 4950-1 [xiii], 5 × 3-½, 2 vols., ff. 146 and 171, [pg 240] (23), prol., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., lect., Am., Eus., men., syn., clearly and carefully written; once Caesar de Missy's (see Evan. 44).

Out of this whole mass of 190 manuscripts, Scholz collated five entire (262, 299, 300, 301, 346), eleven in the greater part (260, 270, 271, 277, 284, 285, 298, 324, 353, 382, 428), many in a few places, and not a few seem to have been left by him untouched. His list of Oriental manuscripts (Evann. 450-469), as it is given in the first volume of his Greek Testament (Proleg. pp. xcvi-xcvii)255, has been withdrawn from the catalogue of cursive copies of the Gospels, in deference to the wish of the Dean of Chichester (Letter iii addressed to myself in the Guardian newspaper, July 5, 1882). It must be confessed indeed that Scholz's account of what he had seen in the East about 1823 cannot be easily reconciled with the description of the Rev. H. O. Coxe of the Bodleian Library thirty-five years later (“Report to Her Majesty's Government of the Greek Manuscripts yet remaining in the Libraries of the Levant, 1858”); that most of the books which Scholz catalogued at St. Saba on the Dead Sea were removed before 1875, as Mr. F. W. Pennefather informs us, to the Great Greek Convent of the Cross at Jerusalem; and that at least four of them were brought to Parham in Sussex from St. Saba in 1834 by the late Lord de la Zouche. Instead of Scholz's seven (450-6), Coxe saw fourteen copies of the Gospels at Jerusalem; twenty of the Gospels (besides a noble palimpsest of the Orestes and Phoenissae) at St. Saba after the four had been subtracted, instead of Scholz's ten (457-466); at Patmos five instead of Scholz's three (467-469). In spite of one's respect for the memory of that zealous and worthy labourer, M. A. Scholz, with whom I had a personal conference regarding our common studies in 1845, I cannot help acquiescing in Dean Burgon's decision, though not, perhaps, without some natural reluctance.