perhaps older, and of very high authority in biblical criticism.
In a visit to Mount Sinai in 1844, Tischendorf had found at the
convent of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai forty-three beautiful
parchment leaves belonging to a manuscript of the Septuagint not
before known to biblical scholars. In a subsequent visit to the
same convent in February, 1859, it was his high privilege to
find of the same manuscript all the Greek New Testament entire,
part of the Old, the so-called epistle of Barnabas, and part of
the writing called the Shepherd of Hermas, the whole contained
in one hundred and thirty-two thousand columnar lines, written
on three hundred and forty-six leaves. This precious manuscript
Tischendorf managed to obtain for the emperor Alexander of
Russia as the great patron of the Greek church, and it is now at
St. Petersburg. It is written on parchment of a fine quality in
large plain uncial letters, with four columns to a page. It
contains, as is commonly the case with ancient manuscripts,
revisions and so-called corrections by a later hand; but, as it
proceeded from the pen of the original writer, it had neither
ornamented capitals, accents, nor divisions of words or
sentences. The style of writing is plain, and every thing about
it bears the marks of high antiquity. The order of the books is
as follows: (1) the gospels; (2) the epistles of Paul, that to
the Hebrews included, which stands after 2 Thessalonians; (3)
the Acts of the Apostles; (4) the Catholic epistles; (5) the
Apocalypse. It has the Ammonian sections and Eusebian canons,
but whether from the first or a subsequent hand is doubtful. A
splendid edition of this Codex was published at St. Petersburg
in 1862, which seeks to preserve with the greatest possible
accuracy the form of writing, columns, corrections, etc. The
Leipsic edition is adapted to popular use. _See No. (1), PLATE
I_.

(3.) We will consider next in order the _Codex Alexandrinus_,
_Alexandrine manuscript_, placed first in the list of uncial
manuscripts, and accordingly marked A. It is now in the British
Museum, London. In the year 1628 it was sent as a present to
Charles I., king of England, by Cyrillus Lucaris, patriarch of
Constantinople, by whom it was brought from Alexandria in Egypt,
where Cyrillus had formerly held the same office. Henc