In A (Alexandrinus) the Psalter appears not to have been copied from the same original as the rest of theMS.but taken from a separateChurch-Psalter (just as in the Aldine Bible of 1518). Hence the additions before and after the Psalms (letter of Atiianasius, canon of morning and evening psalms, etc. ; Canticles). It would be well to control its use in the Cambridge Septuagint by comparison once more with the original or a former collation ; see, e.ff., 1 Es 4''' A + airnOv; 2 Es 7° A has irpurov, not Trarptpov),
On the connexion of B (Vaticanus) with Atiian- asius see Th. Zahn, Athnnasiiis und der Bibel- knnon (Erlangen, 1901 : Sonderabdruck aus der Festschrift der Universitiit Erlangen zur Feier des . . . Prinzregenten Luitpold von Baj-em), p. 33 : 'It must be seriously considered whether the famous Codex Vaticanus is not that Bible which was produced by Athanasius at the order of Constans at Kome about 340 through Alexandrian copyists' (see Nestle, Introduction, p. 181, where in the note read ' Constantius ' for 'Constans'). Ceriani's view, that B was written by a Western scribe, had been proposed already by Richard Simon [Hist. Crit. du NT, c. 32). That it contains the recen.sion of Hesychius, was for the first time, as it seems, stated by Grabe ; Masius believed it was that of Lucian, Montfaucon that of Origen. On the text of Judges in this MS see below.
S is a more convenient symbol than N for the Codex Sinaiticus, and is adopted in Swete. That the copyist who WTote the not« at the end of Esther on the collation with the Codex of Pam- pliilus is identical with the corrector K° is an im- |iortant hint for the restoration of the recension of Eusebius-Pamphilus.
D (Cottonianus). As this famous MS was reduced by fire in 1731 to a heap of charred and shrivelled leaves, it would be worth while to make investiga- tions whether the collation made before that time by Wetstein (AT i. p. 134) is still in existence. On the relation of its pictures to the mosaics of San Marco in Venice, see J. T. Tikkanen, Die Genesixmosaikenvon San Marco in Venedig und ihr Verhitltnis zu den Miniaturen der Cottonbibel, etc., Helsingfors, 1889, 4° (Acta Soc. Scient. Fenn. xvii. ).
G (Sarravianus). Add to the publications men- tioned by Sw. p. 137 : — P. de Lagarde, Semitica, Zweites Heft, Gbtt. 1879 (vol. xxv. of the ' Abhand-
lungen,' etc. : ' Die pariser blatter des codei Sarravianus ').
M (Coislinianus), collated by Wetstein {NT i. 134), for a great part by Lagarde (Hymrn. ii. 142 j Ankitndigung, iii. 27 ; USt. i. 8).
Q (Marchalianus). The distinction established by Ceriani between the origin of the text and of the marginal matter in this MS, the latter only being Hexaplaric, is a great help for the classifica lion of the .MSS of G.
On the 23 uncial MSS, or parts of such, Avhich have not yet been used for any edition, and remain for the present without a symbolical letter or number, see Sw. 146 fl"., 170. No. 14 (formerly in the possession of W. H. Heckler) has lately been acquired by the University of Heidelber", and will be edited by Prof. G. Deissmann. On No. 6, the oldest biblical MS in the British Museum, see preceding column.
The transition from the uncials to the cursives may be made by tlie MS E, which is now dispersed in Oxford, London, Cambridge (1 leaf), and St. Petersburg. It was brought by Tischendorf from the East in 1853 and 1859 ; the Oxford part written in uncials, the Cambridge leaf, which was kept back by Tischendorf, making the transition from uncial to cursive writing, the rest in cursives. The whole recent history of this MS has been described by A. Rahlfs in GGN (not GGA as in Kenyon, Fac- similes, plate v.), 1898, 98-112 ; see also Sw. 134 f. ; Lagarde, SSt. i. 1-11 ; facsimile in Kenyon, pi. v.
Most cursives await careful investigation ; some will repay it ; otliers may be discarded by it, as later copies of MSS still existing, like 33, 97, 238, which belong to one MS, and are copied from 87, or even as copied from printed editions. This we suspect to be the case with Ho 31 (Genesis with catena), at Vienna {Theol. Gr. 4) [on the date of this MS Holmes wrote, ' videtur esse xiii. vel xiv. sasculi' ; Sw. p. 149 ' (xiv.)' ; Lagarde, Genesis grwce, ' sseculi xv. a me non collatus, sed inspectus tantum ' ; H. Achelis, ' Hippolytstudien ' in Ti', N. F. i.4, p. 97, places it in the 16th cent.], and with 83, a Pentateuch at Lisbon (formerly Evora) ' of the 16th cent.' Both will tuin out to be copied from the Aldine edition of 1518.
See on the cursives the list of Sw. pp. 148-168, and note that 25 is at Munich in the ' Staats- (not Stadt-) bibliothek ' ; 53 agrees in Numbers fre- quently with the Old Latin Codex Lugdunensis ; 130 is by Lagarde called t, and ascribed to the 13tli 'utvid.'.Sw. '(?xi.)' ; 93 in 3 columns, with 2 texts for Esther ; facsimile in Kenyon, pi. viii. ; 155 'Cod. Meermanni ii.' is now Bodl. misc. Gr. 204 ; 156 the only Greek MS containing in Ps 95 (96) '" the addition a ligno, in the form dri rt^ ^u\tp.