We have already intimated that Tischendorf has chosen to make no addition to the numerical list of cursive manuscripts furnished by Scholz, preferring to indicate the fresh materials which have since come to light by another notation, derived from the names of the collators or the places where they are deposited. As this plan has proved in practice very inconvenient, it is no wonder that Dean Burgon, after casting away Scholz's numbers from 450 to 469, on account of their evident inaccuracy, which has since then received definite proof, should have assigned numerals to the cursives unknown to Scholz from 450 to 737, still excluding, as far as was then possible, those whose location or character was uncertain. Burgon's method, as laid down in his Letters in the Guardian for July 5, 12, 19, 26, 1882, having the priority of publication, and being arranged with regard to the places where the manuscripts are deposited rather than to their actual collators, may as well be adopted as any other that might be made. The only important point to be secured is that all scholars should employ the SAME NUMBERS when speaking of the SAME MANUSCRIPTS.
It is greatly to be regretted that Dr. C. R. Gregory, even upon advice tendered by other critics, if such was the case, should have neglected the important principle laid down in the preceding sentence, and in Part II of his very valuable Prolegomena to Tischendorf's eighth edition, published seven years after the third edition of this work, should have helped to make confusion worse confounded in this large and increasing field. But it is not my object to assail one who has done this study very great [pg 242] service, but only to point out an inconvenience which I shall endeavour to minimize as far as I can. It is clear that Dr. Scrivener's order, being the first out, and having been followed since then in quotations in books, and notably by the late learned Abbé Martin, cannot be allowed to drop. I have therefore followed it in the succeeding pages. But it has been my object to bring together the two lists as soon as possible after the close of Dr. Scrivener's, and the end of the supplementary lists of Dean Burgon and the Abbé Martin, and to follow, as far as the case will admit, the lead of Dr. Gregory, where he has every right to prescribe the series of numbers. Unfortunately, this course is not always open, because when the time has arrived it is found that some MSS. have been already forestalled, and others are in arrear.
It should be added, that the number of the MSS. as standing in Dr. Gregory's list, where it varies from the present, is given at the end of the account of each manuscript; and reversely a table is added at the end of this volume of the varying numbers in this list which answer to the numbers in Dr. Gregory's list.
We begin with the following twenty Italian manuscripts, added to our previous list of cursive copies of the Gospels by Burgon in Letters addressed to Dr. Scrivener and inserted in the Guardian of Jan. 29 and Feb. 5, 1873.
450. Ferrara, Univ. 119, NA. 4 [xiv], 8vo, ff. ?, κεφ. t. (Lat. later), Am., lect., syn., men. (Lat. syn. later). (Greg. 581.)
451. (Act. 194, Paul. 222, Apoc. 102.) Ferr. Univ. 187, 188, N A. 7 [a.d. 1334], 6-¾ × 4-¾, chart., ff.?, capp. Lat., containing the whole New Testament: the only divisions recognized are those of the modern chapters in vermilion. (Greg. 582.)
452. Parma, Reg. 5 [xi or xii], 13-½ × 9-½, ff. 284 (21), Carp., Eus. t., argent., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., pict., syn., men., once belonging to the Bonvisi family, then transferred to the Public Library at Lucca. As superb a copy as any known, the illuminations gorgeous, the first page of the Gospel and other portions in gold, with a “luxurious prodigality” of miniatures. (Greg. 583.)
453. Parma, Reg. 95 [xi, or older], 7-3/8 × 5-1/8, ff. 318, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., subscr., very tastefully decorated. Mut. Matt. i. 1-20. Lect. and marginal corrections by the first hand in vermilion. (Greg. 584.)
454. Modena, Bibl. Estensis ii. A. 1 [xi or xii], a beautiful copy, 7-½ × 4-½, ff. ?, syn. at beginning and end, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., superb pict., men., with slight marginal corrections of the text. (Greg. 585.)
[pg 243]455. Mod. Bibl. Est. ii. A. 5 [xiv], 6-½ × 4-7/8, ff. 239 (20), argent., κεφ. t., κεφ., lect., ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ., vers., syn., men., small and neat, without pict. or illuminations. (Greg. 586.)
Here also is a late copy of Victor of Antioch's commentary on St. Mark.
456. Milan, in the great Ambrosian Library, M. 48 sup., 8-¾ × 7-3/8, ff. 183, prol., argent., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., pict., beautifully written, pict. almost obliterated. Am. (not Eus.). The last leaf more recent. (Greg. 587.)
457. Milan, Ambros. E. 63 sup. [May, 1321, Indiction 4], 8-½ × 5-7/8, ff. 221, Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., ἀναγν., subscr., pict. Mut. Luke xxiv. 5-John i. 8, and the early part of John v. Am. (not Eus.), lect., pict. (Greg. 588.)
458, 459, 460. For these Dr. Gregory inserts Milan, Ambr. A. 178 sup., Parmae Reg. 15, Rom. Corsin. 41. G. 16, but without explanation. See below, Evann. 830, 831, 837.
458. Milan, Ambros. D. 161 inf. [xvi], transcribed from an original in the Vatican, chart. St. Mark's Gospel with Victor of Antioch's commentary.
459. Milan, Ambros. D. 282 inf., transcribed by John Sancta Maura, a one-eyed Cyprian, aged 74, June 9, 1612: chart., with a catena.
460. Milan, Ambros. D. 298 inf., transcribed by the same, fol., chart. These two codices purport to be commentaries of Peter of Laodicea on St. John and St. Mark respectively: but “such titles are quite misleading,” See Burgon, Letter to Guardian, Feb. 5, 1873.
461. (Act. 197, Paul. 223.) Milan, Ambros. Z. 34 sup. [xiii or xiv], chart., 6-½ × 4-¾, ff. 295 (31), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., syn., men., subscr., ῥήμ., στίχ., vers., with pict. on vellum not belonging to it. The order of its contents is Catholic Epp., Pauline Epp., syn., Gospels. (Greg. 592.)
462. Venice, Ven. Marc. i. 58 [xiii], 9-¾ × 7, ff. 153 (22), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., wrongly called an Evangelistarium in the Supplementary Catalogue, contains only Mark i. 44-Luke xxiv. 53; John i. 15-xi. 13. (Greg. 593.)
463. Instead of Ven. i. xxxix. 8, 7, or Nan. 27, which appears to be a commentary—Ven. Marc. ii. 7 [xiv], 12-¾ x 9-7/8, ff. 430 (31), κεφ. t. (John), κεφ., τίτλ., with Euthymius Zigabenus' commentary. (Greg. 600.)
464. Ven. Marc. i. 59 [xii, Greg. xiii], 6-½ × 4-7/8, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ. (lect., subscr., στίχ. later), with very remarkable readings. Burgon collated sixteen chapters in the several Gospels. (Greg. 597.)
465. Ven. Marc. i. 57 [xi or xii], 11-5/8 × 8-¼, ff. 228 (29), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., ends Mark xii. 18, with Theophylact's commentary. (Greg. 596.)
466. Ven. Marc. 494 [xv, Greg. xiii], 16-¾ × 11-¼, chart., ff. 320 (50), 2 cols., full of various Patristic matter. (Greg. 598.)
467. Ven. Marc. 495 [xv], 16 × 11-¼, chart., ff. 437 (42), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., vers., described by Zanetti, p. 259, with a commentary (Victor's on St. Mark). (Greg. 599.)
[pg 244]We do not include Ven. Marc. i. 61, which is a mere catena on Matt. i-ix, or an unnumbered catena of St. Luke in the same Library, or Ven. M. 1, an uncial copy of the Old Testament [ix ?], at the end of which are found Carp., Eus. t. of unique fullness, as if the Gospels were to follow.
468. Ven. Marc. 56 [xvi], fol., chart., 11-3/8 × 7-7/8 ff. ?, κεφ. t. (John), capp. Lat., Am., lect., syn., wrongly set down by Scholz as Evst. 143, contains the Gospels, beginning Matt. v. 44. It was once “S. Michaelis Venet. prope Murianum,” and is described in Mittarelli's Catalogue of that Library, p. 1099. (Greg. 595.)
469. Quaritch i. [xi-xii], 10-¼ × 7-½, ff. ? (19), prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., headings. Mut. at beginning and at beginning of St. Luke and end of St. John. Beautifully written in gold letters. (E. M., March 18, 1893.)
470. Ven. s. Lazarus 1531 [xiii, Greg. xiv], 10 × 7-¾, ff. 234 (?), κεφ. t., prol. (John), lect., ἀναγν. (later), subscr., στίχ., is a fragment of the Gospels containing Matt. i. 22-Luke xxiii. 15; 33-48. (Greg. 594.)
471. Quaritch ii. [xi], 5-7/8 × 4-¾, ff. ? (25), Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., subscr., στίχ., ἀναγν. Mut. here and there: beautifully written, and otherwise complete. Belonged to the Hon. Frederic North. (E. M., March 18, 1893.)
472. (Act. 235, Paul. 276, Apoc. 103.) Poictiers [xvi], small folio, chart., of the whole New Testament, as described to Burgon by M. Dartige, the librarian there. Two librarians named Cavou successfully robbed the library, and probably sold miniatures and pictures. (H. C. Hoskier.) G. Haenel (Catal. Librorum MSS. Lips. 1830) names this and another of the whole N. T. at Arras [xv], 8vo, but of the latter the librarian, M. Wicquot, knows nothing.
Edward de Muralt, in his N. T. “ad fidem codicis principis Vaticani,” 1848 (p. 111), inserts a collation of eleven manuscripts (five of the Gospels, one Psalter with hymns, five Lectionaries), chiefly at St. Petersburg. He also describes them in his Preface (pp. lv-lvii), and in the Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts in the Imperial Library there. The copies of the Gospels are—
473. 2pe, 81 Hort (Petrop. vi. 470) [ix-x Hort], 8-1/8 × 5-1/8, ff. 405 (18, 19), Am., Eus. t., pict., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ. (in silver uncials), subscr., a purple MS. with golden letters, very beautiful, said to have been written by the Empress Theodora. Mut. John xi. 26-48; xiii. 2-23. St. Mark of this MS. was edited by J. Belsheim with facsimile in 1885 (Jacob Dybwad, Christiania). Highly valued by some critics. (Greg. 565.)
474. 4pe, Petrop. 98. Formerly Pogodini 472 [xii or xiii], ff. 194 (23, 24), Eus. t., κεφ. t., Am., Eus., lect., pict. (Greg. 571.)
475. 7pe, Petrop. ix. 3. 471 [a.d. 1062], 9-7/8 × 7-1/8, ff. 357 (12), Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., στίχ., pict., lect., syn., men., with Victor's Commentary on St. Mark. (Greg. 569.)
476. 8pe, Petrop. Muralt. 105 [xii or xiii], 7 × 4-7/8, ff. 225 (27), κεφ. t., pict. Brought by Titoff from Turkey.
[pg 245]477. 11pe, Petrop. 118 (Q. v. 1, 15) [xv], 7 × 5-5/8, ff. 384, Eus. t., pict., syn., men., written for Demetrius Palaeologus.
478256 tisch.1 Leipzig, Univ. Libr. Tisch. iv. [x], 6-¾ × 5-¼, ff. 360 (21), Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ., Am., Eus., lect., men., subscr., vers. Brought by Tischendorf from the East (Tisch., Anecdota sacra et profana, pp. 20-29). (Greg. 564.)
479. tisch.2 Petrop. Muralt. 97 [xii], 7-7/8 × 6-1/8, ff. 191. Mut. Matt. i. 1-16; 30; John xvi. 20-xx. 25. (Tisch., Notitia Cod. Sinait., p. 60.) (Greg. 570.)
480. tisch.3 Petrop. Muralt. 99 [xii], 7-3/8 × 4-7/8, ff. 19 (12), Matt. viii. 3-ix. 50. (Tisch., Notitia Cod. Sinait., p. 64.) (Greg. 572.)
481. Petrop. (Scholz's 461, St. Saba 9) [May 7, 835, Indiction 13], 6-3/8 × 3-7/8, ff. 344 (19), κεφ., τίτλ., lect. The date, being the earliest known of a Greek N. T. MS., is plainly visible in a photographed facsimile in “Exempla Codicum Graecorum literis minusculis scriptorum” (fol., Heidelberg, 1878), Tab. 1, by Wattenbach and von Velsen. This precious treasure was the property of Porphyry Uspensky, Bp. of Kiow, but is now at St. Petersburg. (See Greg. 461.)
The five following are in the Bodleian Library, and for the most part uncollated:—
482. Oxf. Bodl. Cromwell 15 [xi], 8-½ × 6-¼, ff. 216 (24), exquisitely written, with textual corrections in the margin. Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus., lect. (few in later hand). Mut. Mark xvi. 17 (ταῦτα)-end; John xix. 29-end. This copy and the next in order came in 1727 from Παντοκράτωρ on Athos. (Greg. 527.)
483. Oxf. Bodl. Crom. 16 [xi], 8 × 6, ff. 354 (20), fairly written. The Gospels are followed by the Proper Lessons for the Holy Week. pict., Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., Am., Eus., syn. (later), ἀρχαί and τέλη. Collated in 1749 by Th. Mangey, Prebendary of Durham, the editor of Philo [1684-1755]. “It is well worth proper examination” (E. B. Nicholson, Bodley's Librarian). (Greg. 528.)
484. Oxf. Bodl. Misc. Gr. 17, Auct. D. Infra 2, 21 [xi], 5-½ × 4, ff. 363 (20), prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., subscr., syn., men., in text said to resemble Cod. 71, once Humphrey Wanley's [1672-1726], bought in 1776 by Sam. Smalbroke, fifty-four years Canon Residentiary of Lichfield, was presented by him on his eightieth birthday, June 4, 1800. (Greg. 529.)
485. Oxf. Bodl. Misc. Gr. 141, Rawl. G. 3 [xi], 6 × 4-¼, ff. 303 (20), with some foreign matter, has κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., a few Eus., ἀρχαί and τέλη, subscr. Mut. John xxi. 3-24. (Greg. 430.)
486. Oxf. Bodl. Misc. Gr. 293, Auct. T. V. 34 [xii or xiii], 7-¼ × 5-¼, ff. 213 (27), orn., τίτλ., κεφ., lect., Am., subscr. (except in Luke), ἀναγν., στίχ., κεφ. t. (Luke). Of a very unusual style. (Greg. 706.)
To this list we must add the five following copies from the collection [pg 246] of the Abbot M. Aloy. Canonici, purchased at Venice in 1817 for the Bodleian Library by Dr. Bandinel, who secured 2045 out of the total number of 3550 manuscripts.
487. Oxf. Bodl. Canon. Gr. 33. Part of Evan. 288, which see.
488. Oxf. Bodl. Canon. Gr. 34 (Act. 211, Paul. 249, Apoc. 98) [a.d. 1515, 1516], 9 × 6-¼, chart., ff. 319 (25), capp. Lat., written by Michael Damascenus the Cretan for John Francis Picus of Mirandola, contains the whole N. T., the Apocalypse alone being yet collated (kscr): mut. Apoc. ii. 11-23. It has Œcumenius' and Euthalius' prol. (Greg. 522.)
489. Oxf. Bodl. Canon. Gr. 36 [xi], 10 × 7-½, ff. 270 (22), κεφ. t., syn., men., pict., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus., lect., ἀναγν., Gospels: olim Georg. Phlebaris. (Greg. 523.)
490. Oxf. Bodl. Canon. Gr. 112 [xii], 5-½ × 4-½, ff. 186 (21 &c.), pict., Carp., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., syn., men., Gospels well written. (Greg. 524.)
491. Oxf. Bodl. Canon. Gr. 122 Cod. Sclavonicus [a.d. 1429], 12-½ × 9, ff. 312 (20), 2 cols., pict., prol., syn., men., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., lect., subscr., στίχ., Gospels in Sclavonian with a Greek version later, written in Moldavia by Gabriel, a monk. (Greg. 525.)
*492. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake257 12 (Act. 193, Paul. 277, Apoc. 26) Cod. Dionysii (who wrote it) [xi], 12 × 9-½, ff. 240 (36), 2 cols., was also noted by Scholz, on Gaisford's information, Evangelistarium 181, Apostol. 57: but this is an error, as the Gospels are contained at full length and in their proper order, with unusually full liturgical matter, pict., Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., στίχ., ἀναγν., vers. (syn., men. with synopsis). The Acts, Catholic and Pauline Epistles (Œcumenius' prol., κεφ., scholia) follow them, and last of all comes the Apocalypse. Mut. Luke xvi. 26-30; xvii. 5-8; xxiv. 22-24; John i. 1-vii. 39; viii. 31-ix. 11; x. 10-xi. 54; xii. 36-xiii. 27; Acts i. 1-vii. 49; x. 19-xiv. 10; xv. 15-xvi. 11; xviii. 1-xxi. 25; xxiii. 18-James iii. 17; 1 Cor. xii. 11-xv. 12; xvi. 13-15; 2 Cor. xiii. 4, 5; Gal. v. 16-vi. 18 (partly); 2 Tim. iii. 10, 11; Tit. iii. 5-7; the illuminations also being often wantonly cut out. This copy contains much foreign matter besides; its contents were carefully tabulated by J. Walker; it was thoroughly collated by Scrivener in 1864. (Greg. 606.)
493. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 21 [xi], 11 × 8-¼, ff. 221 (26), 2 cols., Carp. (later), Eus. t., prol. (later), κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., lect. (partly later), ῥήμ., στίχ., syn., brought from Παντοκράτωρ on Athos, 1727. The scribe's name, Abraham Teudatus, a Patrician (Montfaucon, Palaeo. Gr., p. 46), is written cruciform after Eus. t. (Greg. 507.)
494. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 22 [xiii], 10 × 8, ff. 160 (24, 27), κεφ. t., [pg 247] τίτλ., κεφ., lect., subscr., ἀναγν., in a wretched hand and bad condition, begins Matt. i. 23, ends John xix. 31. Also mut. Matt. v. 26-vi. 23; Luke xxiv. 9-28; John iii. 14-iv. 1; xv. 9-xvi. 6. (Greg. 508.)
495. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 24 [xi], 11-¾ × 8-¾, ff. 229 (24), from Παντοκράτωρ in 1727. Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., pict., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus. in gold. One leaf (John xix. 13-29), and another containing John xxi. 24, 25, are in duplicate at the beginning, primâ manu. (Greg. 509.) This copy (as Wake remarks) is in the same style, but less free than:—
496. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 25 [x or xi], 10-¾ × 8-¼, ff. 292 (22), κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., lect., τίτλ., some Eus., ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ., syn., men., pict. (in red ink, nearly faded). (Greg. 510.)
497. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake. 27, chart., [xiii], 9-½ × 6-¼, ff. 337 (20), pict. (Matt.), κεφ., τίτλ., lect., κεφ. t., prol. (Luke), subscr. (Mark). Mut. at beginning. Matt, xviii. 9-Mark xiv. 13; Luke vii. 4-John xxi. 13 are [xiii], the rest supplied [xv]. (Greg. 511.)
498. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 28 [xiii], 9 × 6-¾, ff. 210 (24), κεφ. t., some τίτλ., κεφ., syn., men., lect., much of this rubro, vers., subscr., στίχ., ἀναγν. Subscribed Θῦ το δωρον και γρηγοριων πονος. (Greg. 512.)
499. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 29 [ςχ258λθ or a.d. 1131, Indict. 9], 7-¾ × 6-¼, ff. 162-4, chart. in later hand (25), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., vers., subscr., στίχ. After some later fragments (Matt. i. 12-v. 3, and other matter) on paper, the older copy begins Matt. v. 29. (Greg. 513.)
500. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 30 [xii], 7-½ × 5-½, ff. 226 (23), Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t. (almost illegible), κεφ., τίτλ., lect. in red, almost obliterated from damp; ending John xx. 18, neatly written, but in ill condition. (Greg. 514.)
501. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 31 [xi], 7 × 5-½, ff. 127 (34), small, in a very elegant and minute hand. Pict., κεφ. t., some τίτλ. (in gold), κεφ., Am., (no Eus.), lect. full, some στίχ., mut. (Greg. 515.)
502. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 32 [x or xi], 7-¼ × 5-½, ff. 287 (23), small, elegant, and with much gold ornament. Pict., κεφ. t., κεφ., some τίτλ., Am., lect., some στίχ. Mut. in places. (Greg. 516.)
*503 (Act. 190, Paul. 244, Apoc. 27.) Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 34 [xi or xii], 10 × 8, ff. 201 (31, 29). This remarkable copy begins with the ὑπόθεσις to 2 Peter, the second leaf contains Acts xvii. 24-xviii. 13 misplaced, then follow the five later Catholic Epistles (mut. 1 John iii. 19-iv. 9) with ὑποθέσις: then the Apocalypse on the same page as Jude ends, and the ὑπόθέσις to the Romans on the same page as the Apocalypse ends, and then the Pauline Epistles (mut. Heb. vii. 26-ix. 28). All the Epistles have prol., κεφ. t., and Œcumenius' smaller (not the Euthalian) κεφ., with much lect. primâ manu, and syn. later. Last, but seemingly misplaced by an early binder, follow the Gospels, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., subscr. Mut. Mark xvi. 2-17; Luke ii. 15-47; vi. 42-John xxi. 25, and in other places. This copy is Scholz's Act. 190, Paul.
[pg 248]244, Apoc. 27, but unnumbered in the Gospels. Collated fully by Scrivener in 1863. (Greg. 517.)
504. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 36 [xii], 6 × 5, ff. 249-6 chart. (23), κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect., prol. (Luke), pict. (Luke, John), syn., men. (Greg. 518.)
505. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake 39 [xiii], 5-¼ × 4-¼, ff. 308 (17 &c.), κεφ., some τίτλ., a poor copy, in several hands. (Greg. 567.)
506. Oxf. Ch. Ch. Wake. 40 [xii], 4-½ × 3-1/8, ff. 218 (22, 23), a beautiful little copy. syn., men., κεφ. t., lect. in the faintest red, but no other divisions. (Greg. 520.)259
F. H. A. Scrivener has published the following in his “Collation of Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels, 1853,” and “Codex Augiensis” (Appendix), 1859.
*vscr or cantscr. of Tischendorf. See Evan. 440 (Act. 111, Paul. 221 of Scholz; Evan. 236, Act. and Paul. 61 of Griesbach; Act. and Paul. oscr), in a minute hand, with many unusual readings, especially in the Epistles, from Bp. Moore's Library. Men. Ὕποθέσεις Oecumenii to the Catholic and first eight Pauline Epistles: beautifully written with many contractions. This is Bentley's ο (see Evan. 51).
*507. wscr. (Act. 224, Paul. 260.) Camb. Trin. Coll. B. x. 16 [dated a.d. 1316], chart., 7-¼ × 5, ff. 363 (28, 29), was inelegantly written by a monk James on Mount Sinai. Prol., κεφ. t., Am., Eus., κεφ., lect., subscr., ἀναγν., vers., syn., men.; also ὑποθέσεις, lect., syn., men. to Epistles; and much extraneous matter260. See Evan. 570. This is Bentley's τ (Evan. 51), and, like iscr which follows, came to him from Παντοκράτωρ. Hort makes it his Cod. 102. (Greg. 489.)
*508. iscr. Camb. Trin. Coll. B. x. 17 [xiii], 8-½ × 6, ff. 317 (20), from [pg 249] Athos, bequeathed to Trinity College by Bentley. Κεφ. t., τίτλ., κεφ., Am. (not Eus.), lect., and (on paper) are ὑπόθεσις to St. Matthew and syn. This is Bentley's δ, who dates it “annorum 700” [xi], and adds “nuper in monasterio Pantocratoris in monte Atho, nunc meus.” (Greg. 477.)
*jscr. Evan. N.
*509. ascr. London, Lambeth 1175 [xi], 11-7/8 × 9-¾, ff. 220, five leaves bound up with it (23-35), 2 cols. (23, 24), 2 cols., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., subscr. Mut. Matt. i. 1-13; once at Constantinople, but brought (together with the next five) from the Greek Archipelago by J. D. Carlyle, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge [d. 1804]. (Greg. 470.)
*510. bscr. Lond. Lamb. 1176 [xii], 7-¾ × 6, ff. 209 (24), Carp., Eus. t., syn., pict., κεφ. t. (chart), men., τίτλ., κεφ., subscr., proll. at end, very elegant. A copy “eximiae notae,” but with many corrections by a later hand, and some foreign matter. (Greg. 471.)
*511. cscr. Lond. Lamb. 1177 [xi-xii], 7-½ × 5-5/8, ff. 210 (17 &c.), τίτλ., Am., lect., κεφ. t. (Luke, John), subscr., στίχ., syn., for valuable readings by far the most important at Lambeth, shamefully ill written, torn and much mutilated261. (Greg. 472.)
*512. dscr. Lond. Lamb. 1178 [xi or xiv], 11-3/8 × 9-¼, ff. 302 (23), Syn., lect., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus., prol., κεφ. t., orn., subscr., men., in a fine hand, splendidly illuminated, and with much curious matter in the subscriptions. Mut. Matt. i. 1-8. A noble-looking copy. (Greg. 473.)
*513. escr. Lond. Lamb. 1179 [x or later], 8-¾ × 6-¾, ff. 176 (24), 2 cols., τίτλ., κεφ., lect., Am., Eus., subscr., κεφ. t., neatly written but in wretched condition, beginning Matt. xiii. 53, ending John xiii. 8. Also mut. Matt. xvi. 28-xvii. 18; xxiv. 39-xxv. 9; xxvi. 71-xxvii. 14; Mark viii. 32-ix. 9; John xi. 8-30. Carlyle brought it from Trinity Monastery, Chalké. (Greg. 474.)
514. vscr. Constantinople, Library of Patriarch of Jerusalem, restored from Lambeth in 1817, where it was No. 1180 [xiv], ff. 246, chart., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., with important variations: collated by Dr. Charles Burney in Mark i. 1-iv. 16; John vii. 53-viii. 11 (Lambeth 1223). (Greg. 488.)
*515. fscr. Lond. Lamb. 1192 [xiii], 8 × 6-½, ff. 472-6, chart. (22), lect., τίτλ., κεφ., Am., Eus., κεφ. t., pict.; from Syria, beautifully written, but tampered with by a later hand. Mut. John xvi. 8-22, and a later hand [xv] has supplied Mark iii. 6-21; Luke xii. 48-xiii. 2; John xviii. 27-xxi. 25; at the beginning stand some texts, περὶ ἀνεξικακίας. Re-examined by Bloomfield. About Luke xix, xx its readings agree much with those of Evan. Δ, and those of the oldest uncials. (Greg. 475.)
(gscr is Lamb. 528 and Evan. 71, described above.)
516. uscr. Constantin. Libr. Patr. of Jerus., C. 4 of Archdeacon Todd's Lambeth Catalogue, was a copy of the Gospels, in the Carlyle [pg 250] collection, restored with six others to the Patriarch of Jerusalem262. The collation of SS. Matthew and Mark by the Rev. G. Bennet is at Lambeth (1255, No. 25). (Greg. 487.)
*517. tscr Lond. Lamb. 1350 [xiv], 8-½ × 5-¾, ff. 51 (20), St. John on paper, written with a reed, appended to a copy of John Damascene “De Fide Orthodoxa:” has ὑπόθεσις or prol., κεφ., and a few rubrical directions; carelessly written, and inscribed “T. Wagstaffe ex dono D. Barthol. Cassano e sacerdotibus ecclesiae Graecae, Oct. 20, 1732.” (Greg. 486.)
518. Lond. Sion College Library, A. 32. 1 (Ev. 1. (3)), [xi], 11 × 8-3/8, ff. 152 (24), a beautiful fragment, miserably injured by damp and past neglect, consisting of 153 leaves preserved in a box, was given by “Mr. Edward Payne, a tenant in Sion College, as were also Evst. 227, 228, and perhaps Evst. 229.” The capitals, stops, and τίτλοι are in gold, κεφ., Am. (no Eus.) in red. Full lect., ἀρχαί and τέλη in red. It begins at Matt. x. 17, ends at John ix. 14. St. Mark's Gospel only has κεφ. t. Mark i. 1-13; Luke i. 1-13; John i. 1-17 have been taken away for the sake of the illuminations, and much of the text is illegible. (Greg. 559.)
519. Edinburgh, University Library, A. C. 25 [xi], 8vo, ff. 198, κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., subscr., pict., in bad condition, presented in 1650 by Sir John Chiesley. (Greg. 563.)
520. Glasgow, Hunterian Museum, V. vii. 2 [xii], 4to, ff. 367, Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., syn., men., pict. (Greg. 560.)
521. Glasg. Hunt. Mus. Q. 7, 10 [xi], 4to, ff. 291, prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., subscr. Both these were once Caesar de Missy's (see Evan. 44). (Greg. 561.)
522. Glasg. Hunt. Mus. S. 8, 141 [xv], 4to, ff. 78, κεφ., Lat. Codd. 519-22 were first announced by Haenel (see under Evan. 472). (Greg. 562.)
523. Lond., Mr. White, formerly Blenheim 3. B. 14 [xiii, Greg. xiv], 7-½ × 6-¼, ff. 170 (22), prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., lect., ἀναγν., syn., men.: like Apost. 52, once belonging to the Metropolitan Church of Heraclea on the Propontis, and presented in 1738 to Charles, Duke of Marlborough, amoris et observantiae ergo by Thomas Payne, Archdeacon of Brecon, once our Chaplain at Constantinople: a bright, clean copy, written in very black ink, with vermilion ornamentation, and barbarous pict. (Greg. 701.)
Mr. Bradshaw indicated in the “Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature,” vol. ii. p. 355, two copies of the Gospels belonging to the Earl of Leicester at Holkham, to be described with facsimiles in the Catalogue of the Library there. They were examined by Dean Burgon, who thus reported of them:—
[pg 251]524. Holkham 3 [xiii], 8-¾ × 6-1/6, of 183 leaves, four being misplaced. It is beautifully written in twenty-seven long lines on a page. Eus. t., τίτλ., Am. (not Eus.), imperfectly given: no lect. (κεφ., subscr., pict.). Besides five pictures of the Evangelists and gorgeous headings to the Gospels are seventeen representations of Scripture subjects, some damaged. This “superb MS. of extraordinary interest” in the style of its writing closely resembles Evan. 38. (Greg. 557.)
525. Holkham 4 [xiii or earlier], 8-½ × 6-1/3, ff. 352 (20), finely written, but quite different in style from Cod. 524. Τίτλ. in gold, lect., ἀρχαί and τέλη in vermilion, κεφ., στίχ. numbered. (Κεφ. t., Am., ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ., pict.) (Greg. 558.)
Eight copies of the Gospels, brought together by the late Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., at Middle Hill, Worcestershire, are now the property of Mr. Fitzroy Fenwick, and, with the rest of this unrivalled private collection of manuscripts, are now at Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, where Burgon examined them in 1880, and Hoskier in 1886, who quotes (Cod. 604, App. E), some of the readings. Scrivener had used some of them at Middle Hill in 1856.
526. Phillipps 13,975 [xii], 12-½ × 9-½, ff. 196, once Lord Strangford's 464, a grand copy, the text being surrounded with a commentary (abounding, as usual, in contractions) in very minute letters. That on St. Mark is Victor's. Pict. of SS. Mark and Luke, beautiful illuminations for headings of the Gospels. Κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. in gold, pict. (syn., men. at end). (Greg. 556.)
527. Phillipps 1284 (Act. 200, Paul. 281) [xii], 7-2/3 × 5-¼, ff. 344 (28), from the library of Mr. Lammens of Ghent, a rough specimen, contains the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, the Pauline preceding the Catholic. Mut. Matt. ix. 36-x. 22; Mark i. 21-45, and the first page of St. John. The writing varies; that from Acts to 1 Thess. is more delicate, and looks older. No Am., Eus. Much lect. in vermilion, ἀρχαί and τέλη. Τίτλ., κεφ. t., ἀναγν., subscr., syn., and sparse men. (Greg. 676.)
528. Phillipps 2387 [xiii], 6-¼ × 4-½, ff. 222 (25), bought of Thorpe for thirty guineas: rough, but interesting. One leaf only of Eus. t. Wantonly mut. in headings of the Gospels, and in Mark i. 1-19; Luke i. 1-18; John i. 1-23. Κεφ., τίτλ., Am. (not Eus.), ἀρχαί and τέλη later, syn., men. (xvii) at the beginning, and much marginal lect. by a modern hand.
529. Phillipps 3886 [xi or xii], 10-½ × 8-1/8, ff. 326 (20), a beautiful copy, bought (as were Evann. 530, 532, 533) by Payne at Lord Guildford's sale. Eus. t., Carp., pict., κεφ. t., τίτλ., Am., Eus. (lect., ἀρχ., τέλη, ἀναγν. later). (Greg. 678.)
530. Phillipps 3887 [xii], 8-¼ × 6, ff. 240 (25, 26), the first four lines in SS. Matt., Mark, Luke being of gold, with pict. of the four Evangelists and nineteen others, Eus. t., Am. incomplete and irregular (no Eus.). No lect., but marginal critical notes. As in Evan. 64, a line (~) is set over Proper Names of persons in the Genealogies (see at end of Evan. 64). (Greg. 679.)
531. (Acts 199, Paul. 231, Apoc. 104.) Phillipps 7682 [xi], 6-5/8 × 5, ff. 190 (41 or 50), 2 cols. (two scribes, Hoskier; several, Greg.), the hands [pg 252] so minute as to require a magnifying glass, contains the whole New Testament, also from Lord Guildford's (871), being, like Evann. 532 and 583, to be described below, from the Hon. F. North's collection (319). The ink is a dull brown, the ornaments in blue, vermilion, and carmine. Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., κεφ. (Gr. and Lat.), τίτλ., Am., few Eus., lect., subscr. There are many important corrections in the margin, and 18-½ pages from Epiphanius at the end. This copy has every appearance of having been made from a very ancient codex: observe the arrangement of the Beatitudes in Matt. v in single lines, as also the genealogy in Luke iii. (Greg. 680.)
532. Phillipps 7712, North 184 (see Evan. 529), [xiii], 7-½ × 5-½, ff. ?, in a large hand and very black ink, the first page being in gold, with many gold balls for stops. There is much preliminary matter, Eus. t. (two sets in different hands), pict. (Carp., prol. later), κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect. (later), syn., men., subscr., στίχ. The text is corrected throughout by an ancient scribe, in a hand bright, clear, and small. (Greg. 681.)
533. Phillipps 7757 [xi], 6 × 4-½, ff. ?, an exquisite little manuscript, with accessories in lake, vermilion, and blue. See Evan. 529. Prol., Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., subscr., vers.