A full and exact collation of about twenty Greek manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (hitherto unexamined); deposited in the British Museum, the ... at Lambeth, &c, with a critical introduction

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...19; viii. 4 (mn); ix. 11; 15; x. 2(mn); xii. 22; 23; xiii. 2; xiv. 36; xvi. 20; xvii. 18; xxiii. 8; xxiv. 1; 18; xxvi. 1; 26 (m); 46; xxvii. 1; Mark ii. 9; iv.24; viii. 14; xi.30; xiii. 2; 33; xiv. 40; Lukei. 55; 63; ii. 11 (mn); iii. 12; v. 1; 19; xl53; xii. 28 (n); xiv. 9; xviii. 4 (mn); xx. 28; xxiv. 10 (In); 19 (mn); John iv. 5; v. 1 (mn); 44(mn); 46; vi.12; 58; 70; x.39; xi.56; xiii.22(mn); xviii. 39; xix. 28; 36; xxi. 1 (mn). The following readings of n alone seem unique: Matth. vi. 1; ix. 5; xx. 29; xxvi. 'In many of the mosi unusual of the above readings lmn are supporied by Ms. 18 of Weistein and his successors, a copy of ihe whole N. T. now ai Paris (Reg. 47), and wriiien at Constaniinople, A.d. 1364, very nearly at the same iime as m and n. 65; Luke i. 11; xvi. 3 (secundd manu); xvii. 6; John xiv. 30: and of lmn, Luke ix. 48; John i. 28 (1 secundd manu, t). In St John's Gospel t is often found to accord with lmn in unusual readings, and sometimes also c and e. Codices mn three times in Mark v. support what Scholz calls the Alexandrine text (Proleg. N. T. Vol. i. p. xx.), and this I take to be a fair average specimen of the mode in which they uphold and depart from the printed editions. o. Borney 19, of the Four Gospels is remarkable for being one of the few manuscripts that are destitute of Liturgical apparatus; the only traces of which are red capitals in the margin at the commencement of each lesson, a marginal mark at John xiii. 31; the obelus at Luke xxii. 43, 44; and half a page of writing erased at the end of St John. It is a clean, elegant copy, quarto, on 210 leaves of vellum, in fine condition; before each Gospel is a picture of its writer, of no very high order of art, but curious enough. The unformed style of the handwriting, together ...