s. In line 3 the article [Greek: taen]
is inserted by correction in its proper place, while it is left standing
where it should not at the beginning of line 2.

No. (2). PLATE I. ALEXANDRINE CODEX, Century V. Jno. 1:1-5. In the
margin stands the first Ammonian section (A), and under it the tenth
Eusebian canon (I).

No. (3). PLATE II. VATICAN CODEX, Century IV. Psa. 1:1, 2 and part of
verse 3; called by Scrivener "a tolerable _fac-simile_."

No. (4). PLATE III. CODEX EPHRAEMI, _palimpsest_ of Century V. 1 Tim.
3:16, and end of verse 15. The heavier upper writing in two columns
(cursive) is a translation from Ephraem the Syrian. The paler underneath
is the Greek text.

No. (5). PLATE IV. CODEX BEZAE, Century VI. Matt. 5:1-3. From the _type_
cast for Kipling's edition, which give a good idea of the manuscript. It
is _bilingual_, the Greek and Latin stichometrically written and on
opposite pages. In the present specimen the Latin is placed below the
Greek. On the left margin of the Greek are the Ammonian sections.

No. (6). PLATE II. CODEX PURPUREUS, Century VI. Part of Jno. 15:20. In
the margin the Ammonian section 139 ([Greek: RATh]), and under it the
third Eusebian canon ([Greek: G]).

No. (7). PLATE II. CODEX LAUDIANUS, Century VI. Part of Acts 20:28.
Bilingual and stichometrically written, the Latin on the left and the
Greek on the right.

No. (8). PLATE III. CODEX MONACENSIS, Century X. Luke 7: end of verse 25
and beginning of verse 26.

No. (9). PLATE III. CODEX BASILENSIS (cursive), Century X. Matt. 15:1,
and part of verse 2.

No. (10). PLATE V. CODEX RUBER (cursive, in bright red ink), Century X.
2 Cor. 1:4, with end of verse 3, and beginning of verse 5.

No. (11). PLATE V. Part of Luke 20:9, 10, from a fragmentary Palimpsest
of century VI., brought in 1847 from the Nitrian desert, and now in the
British Museum, add. 17,211. It is covered by Syrian writing of Century
IX. or X.

[Illustration: PLATE I. (l). SINAI CODEX. (2). ALEXANDRINE CODEX.]

[Illustration: PLATE II. (3). VATICAN CODEX. (6). CODEX PURPUREUS.]

[Illustration: PLATE III. (4). CODEX EPHRAEMI. (7). CODEX LAUDIANUS.
(8). CODEX MONACENSIS. (9). CODEX BASILENSIS.]

[Illustration: PLATE IV. (5). CODEX BEZAE.]

[Illustration: PLATE V. (10). CODEX RUBER. (11). A PALIMPSEST FROM THE
NITRIAN DESERT.]

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