marked by the use of crosses affixed to the and occasionally to the last
the 7
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employed
little
MS.
, is
MS.
in this portion of the
to the beginnings of Books,
a
are
larger than
and Pi with an extended
usually of the simple form in which the horizontal line
more
from that of the
differs
line
for similar purposes in other parts of the
opening lines of the Books are written in red, the
these letters are
short.
The vellum
The change of hand noticed above,
as
of a column;
whereas
volume.*
number of
lines so written
varying from one to three, and in one instance being four. In 1 Peter, the 1st, 2nd, lines, and in 2 John the 1st and 4th 5th and 6th lines, in 1 John the 1st and 3rd are in red.
lines,
The borders and ornamental
designs in the colophons are drawn in black ink
relieved with red.
Owing
to a discolouration of the margins of the
close to the edges the photograph, anything written
*
intensified
in in
is
change of hand in the preface to his edition of the New Testament marks of distinction, small differences in the references to the Eusebian cites, in addition to "ther As regards the former, an examination of the MS. proves forms of marginal quotation-eigne.
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to
which
some extent absorbed
leaves, is
iv
also noticed this
in the The horithe latter, it shows that he is absolutely wrong. only partially correct; while, as regards the Eusebian canon, which he regards as a distinguishing between the Ammonian number and found in the earlier part of the volume, o.-. ff. U h (33b), II I. (88 b)j and rkof the second hand, is also mark wanting in SS. Luke and John. And the small arrow-head without (|h(i hand it a „,,, infrequently confines to the second hand) is the ordinary mark of quotation, except manvine: dot (the form which he th 50 (76), 57 (83), where too the dot is only an addition by the 16 1 «'
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the dark shade. of
ff:
)
Eusebian canons on the inner margins
2 (26), 3 (27), are indistinct in the facsimile
gins are not very legible. leaves at the
Similarly,
the
gall
;
and the
stains
titles in
the upper mar-
which disfigure many of the
end of the volume are rendered more opaque
in the original.
more
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in the
photograph than
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