On the new Purple MS from Sinope see H. Omont, ' Notice BUT un trfee ancien manuscrit trrec de I'Evangile de saint Matthieu en onciales d'or sur parchemin pouri>ru et om6 de miniatures' . . . Paris, 1900(Ao(icc«e(£itrai(«,xxxvi.;and,/2'ASf,ii.61)llff.). On the leaf found in Russia see Acad, des Inscr., 8 f6v. and *29 mars 19ul. — Conti-Rossini, *L'evangilo doro di Dabra LibanoB * \ltendiconti dei Lined, vol. x. 6, 6, pp. 177-219 (not seen]). A fragment of Jn 7''-"' 91'-23 has been published by F. C. Burkitt and Mrs. Gibson in Studia Sinaitica, ix. p. 45 f.
Cursives: J. R. Harris, Further Researches into the History oJ the Ferrar Group, London, 1900. On ev. 47 and 67 "K, 606, see F. C. Burkitt in JThSt, i. 626 f.
As to the age of Church Lessotis, Job was read in the ' Great Week ' as early as the time of Origen.
Versions : On the use of two languages in the Senice see the Itinerary of Sylvia Aquitana (in Jerusalem) ; the Sacramentary of Serapion of Thmuis (JThUt, i. 254).— Lndn: F. C. Burkitt, on the age of code,>c Bobbiensis k (.Cambridge Univ. Jteporter, 6th March 1901 ; rather of the 4th than 6th or 6th cent.) ; the same author doubts more and more whether there was a Latin Version in the time before Cj-prian (.fThSt, i. 627), and finds an early Latin text of the Diatessaron as one of the constituent elements of the mixed and curious text of g (TSt, vii. i, p. 46). On the influence of the Gothic Version on / (brixiensis) see F. C. Burkitt (JThSt, I. 120 £f.) and Fr. Kauffmann (Zeitschrift .fiir deutsche Philologie, vol. xxxiv.) ; see also J. Heidenreich, Der neuiestanientlicke Text bei Cyprian verglichen mil dein I'u/- gatatext, Bamberg, 1900. Egyptian: H. Hyvernat, * Un frag- ment inMit de la version sabidique du NT' (Eph l«-28b) m RB, April 1900, 248-263. On middle-Egyptian see W. E Orum in JThSt, i. 416fl., and Egyp. Exploration l'\md Report for 1899-1900, 1900-1901.
Quotations : On the liberties taken by copjists and editors. In a quotation from Mt 2121 Hippolytus (ed. Lagarde = Nice- phorus), 138, 16, has xp^rK ; ed- Achelis, 1, 2, pp. 68, 4, iirx*TK, In the Chronicon of Georgios Hamartolos a report of Papias on the end of John the Evangelist is preserved ; * 26 MSS write f> liprv*} ot\t.-rtx.'JtrctTO, One u.^fiTuptov jwtTrl'ft'Ton.*
'The dirtum agiaphum of Ac 20^& reads in the Apostolic Constitutions, in one class of witnesses : ivii luti i Kupio< fjta- tut.pio¥ u-Tiv uvat rot hihotrei f^Vip (cod. O urip) riv ^f^ttvotTcc. xan ykp {tpr.-zau TaAjv iirr' ttiiTou- O'^cti Tcii i;)^owri* ; in the Other I fMoc^pii* icrri itiovott /juikiMii liTii ^ \eLfj^cLifUt. luti raXjf ot\X»ji^»v I'ipviTcci- ciicti, etc
On the falsification of MSS by heretics see, besides the notices In Introd. p. 197 ff., Bartholoiiimus Germon, Jesuita non indoctus in Opiisculo de veteribus htpretids Kccb'aiasticonun Codiaun corntptoribtts, part 2, cc. 8 and 9, * ubi de codicibua M.SS Ool- bertiiio, Carnutensi, et Vaticano disserit' (known to the present writer only from Cas. Oudin, Trias dissertatianiim criticarwn : Prima de codice MS Alexandrine, Lugd, Bat. 1717, ch. 6).
On Justin : E. Lippelt, Quoe/uerint Justini Martyris uirapLnr fjAvtiifjucTcc quaque ratione cum/orma Evangetiorum syro-latina cohtEserint, i., Halle, 1901.
(3) Theory of Textual Criticism : Ed. Miller, The Present State 0/ the Textual Controversy respeetino the Holy Gospels, [1899] ; The Textual Controversy ami the Twentieth Centurii, 1901 ; The Oxford Debate on the Textual Criticism of the XT, held at yew College on Slay 0, 1S97, with a Preface explana- tory of the Rival Systems, London, 1897; F. 0. Burkitt. Two Lectures on the Gospels, Macmillan, 1901 ; Fr. Blass, Philology of the Gosj)els, Macmillnn, 1898; G. Salmon. Some Thoughts on the Textual Criticism of the XT, London, Murray, 1897 ■ Nicol, 'The Lower Criticism of the NT' (Lmid. Quart. Rev. April 1901) ; Fr. Blass, Notwendigkeit una Wert der Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vortrag, Barmen, 1901 (popular) ; G. L. Gary, The Syrwptic Gospels, unth a chapter on the text, criticism
London, 1776(Reuss, pp. 1S5-190). It is the first edition which omitted n'xp Mt 5--, the first which made a more di-cided use of the codex Bezai Cantabrigiensis and Claromontanus.
Of modem editions a convenient survey is given by the Re- sultant Greek Testament, ed. by R. Fr. Weymouth, London, Stock (1886) (with new title "cheaji edition,' 1802, again 1S96); anfl, on a smaller scale, by the XT cum apj/aratu critico ex editionibus et liliris manu scriptis coUecto, prepared by the present writer tor tha Witrtteuiberg Bible Society (3rd ed. 1901)^
of the XT, New York, 1000; Marvin Vincent, History oj Textual Criticism of the XT, Maraiillan, 1900. According tc Studia biblica, iii. 236, Prof. Sanday has had an Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the XT for some time in prepara- tion. Its publication will be welcomed by all students of the NT. C. Tischendorf, llaben wir den dchten Schrijttext der Evangelisten und Apostell Leipzig, 1873 (popular). Island 2nd ed., tr. by H. W. A. Smith in Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review, Oct. 1874 ; A. N. Jannaris, ' Misreadinga and Misrenderings in the 'HT (Expositor, Dec. 1898, April and Aug. 1899) ; Aug. Pott, Der abendtarulische Text der Apostet- geschichte und die If t'r-(,JiKtte, Leipzig, 1900; F. Blass, 'Text- kritist-he Bemerkungen zu Matthaus,' Giitersloh, 1900 (in Schlatter - Cremer, Reitruge zur Fcirderung christlicher Theo lo'iie, iv. 4) ; G. Delors, Essai de critique du texts Jean ISiS- ss, Th*:se, Cahors, 1900. A work is announced by C. F. Gregory on Canon and Text of the Xew Testament, in the 'InWr- national Theological Library series,' published by T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh.