^ (=5 6, von S.), Athos, Laura 172 (/3 52), an uncial of the 8th or 9th cent., measuring 20'8 by 15 cm., has 31 lines to the page, and compi'ises 262 leaves. It contains the greater part of the NT, but lacks Mt., and Mk. down to 9^ The ending of Mk. is like that in L and T'. After 16* icpo^ovvTo yap, it proceeds as follows : iravra 5k to. ■wapriyyeKijAva rota irepl rbv Ylirpov cvvrofxwa' e^rjy- yeiXav : Mera 5^ ravra, /cat avrbcr iiqaovs e(pdv7] dird dvaToXrjff Kal fJ.exP'- Svaewa e^aTreareiXeu 5i' avrCov rb iepbv Kai &(p6apTov Krjpiyfj.a rrja aiuuiov ffwry^piac d/xr^v : ^(TTLV KoL ravra ^epofieva fierd rb iipo^owro yap : — 'Avaards 5k, K.r.X., up to v."^", and at the end Evayyi- \iov Kara 'MdpKov. It is only in this Gosjjel that the text is of interest. The character of its readings is set forth in Lake's edition {Studia Bihlica et Ecc.lcsiastica, vol. v. (Oxford, 1903) pp. 94-122) [pp. 89-186 can be obtained separately].
T^ (=e 02, von S.), Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. ii. No. 208. We mention this papyrus uncial frag-
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inent of the Srd cent. (Jn 123-31.33-41 20"-J"- i^-^s), because it is; probably the oldest fragment of Gospel MS in existence.
(6) JIinusci(lcs : —
1 ( = 5 50, von S.), Basel University Library, A.X. iv. 2 (formerly B vi. 27), of the 12th (others say 10th) centurJ^ This MS was used for Erasmus' Gr. Test., the first ]niblislied edition. It gives a good text, Avliich is often in agreement with 118 ( =e 3-16, von S. ), 131 ( = 5 467, von S. ). and 209 ( = 5 457, von S. ). Lake has edited the four, taking 1 as tlie basis, and showing the variants in the others ('Codex 1 of the Gospels and its Allies' in TS, vol. vii. No. 3, Cam- bridge, 1902). He has also discussed with thorough- ness the relations between them. The reader will find his Introduction a valuable lesson in textual criticism. It is sufficient here to quote his con- clusion with regard to the text in Mark, which escaped a good deal of the assimilating pi'ocess which afi'ected the texts of ^Slatthew and Luke : '(1) fam^ in St. Mark seems to form part of a larger family of which the most certain members are/rtm" 22, 28. 565, 700: (2) tliis larger family seems to represent a local text or local texts which were current in a comparatively limited region in the East ; (3) the only definite localities which there is any reason to suggest are Jerusalem and Sinai, and even for these the eWdence is insufficient to justify conlident assertion' (p. liv). The most noticeable features in the other Gos]>els are an element akin to KB and a Western element (cf. p. Iv).
13 (=e 368, von S.), Paris, Bibl. Nat., gr. 50, of the 13th century. This MS is one of the group 13-69-124-346-543-788-826-828-983-e 1053 (von S. )- e 1054 (von S. ), conveniently named by Lake/rtm*^. The group is also called the Ferrar gi-oup, because the relation between 13, 69, 124, and 346 was dis- covered by Ferrar of Dublin {A Collation of Four Important Manuscripts of the Gospels, by \y. H. Ferrar and T. K. Abbott, Dublin, 1877). The studies of Rendel Harris (On the Origin of the Ferrar Group, Cambridge, 1893; Further Researches into the History of the Ferrar Group, London, 1900), Lake (JThSt, vol. i. [1899-1900] pp. 117-120), and von Soden have shed further light upon this group. The archetype appears to have been in Calabria or Sicily in the Middle Ages. Its most remarkable characteristics are the transposition of Jn 7*3-8" to Lk 2\^, and Lk 24«f- to Mt 2639 (on the first transposition see von Soden. Die Schriften dcs Ncucn Testaments, i. (Berlin, 1902) p. 486 ff.). The importance of the group lies in tlie great sup- port which it gives to the Western text.
II. Sykiac MSS :—
(a) of the Old Syriac translation (Evancjclion da- Mepharreshe, ' Gospel of the Separated Ones ') : —
1. London, British Museum, Additional MSS, No. 14,451 (No. 119 in Wright's catalogiie), and Berlin, Royal Libraiy, Orient. Quart. No. 528. This MS, Codex Nitriensis Cui-etonianus (Bur- kitt's C), consists of 82i leaves in the British Museum and 3 leaves in Berlin : and came from the great Library of the Convent of St. Mary Deipara in the Nitrian A'alley, west of Cairo. The greater portion of the MS reached England in 1842. In its original state it contained Mt., Mk., Jn., Lk. (in this unusual order). The portions still extant are Mt II-8-- 103---2.S'^, Mk W'--*>, Jn
Jl-42 35_81» J 410-12. 15-19. 2] -34. 26-29 L]^ 2-**-316 7-'3_161-
17i_24-". The early part of the 5th cent, is the latest possible date for it. Each page has two columns, each with lines varying from 22 to 26. Each leaf measures 30 by 24 cm. The first edition of this MS is that of Cureton (London, 1858) sup-
Slemented by Rodiger (Berlin, 1872), but the efinitive edition is that of F. C. Burkitt, who has edited this MS and the follo^^^ng together, the
only representatives of the Old Sjniac version, witli an English translation, copious Introduction andy^ote^ {Era nr/elion da-Mcpharrcshe, etc.,2 vols. , Cambridge, 1904). From this work the details here are taken. A photograph of a page of C is in vol. ii. opposite p. 7, also p. 38 tAvo pages ; also in Kenyon's Our Bible and the Ancient MSS, facing p. 155.