Cambridge Mantuiorlpt (Codbx CAirrABRi- oiENSis, from its present place of deposit), called also Codex Bezje (from its depositor), usually designated as D of the Gospels and Ac(s, is one of the most im- portant uncial MSS. of the N. T. It contains the Greek text, with a Lathi translation on the opposite page, of the entire four Gospels (in the order Matthew, John, Mark, Luke) and Acts, with several gaps (Matt i, 1-20; vi, 20-ix, 2; xxvil, 2-12; John i, 16-iii, 26; Acts viii, 2d-x, 14; xxi, 2-10, 15-18 [which pas- sage seems to have been extant in Wetstein*s time] ; xxii, 10-20, 29-xxviii, 81, hi all which the Greek is wholly absent ; and Matt iii, 7-16 ; Mark xvi, 15-20 ; John xviii, 14-xx, 18, where the Greek has been sup- plied by a scribe not earlier than the tenth century ; besides about as numerous omissions and similar ree- torations of the LaHn^ but moetiy at difiTerent places from the foregoing), and a few verses of the catholic EpisUes (John ill, 11-15, in the Latin only), which once stood entire between the Gospels and Acts. The MS. is a quarto volume, 10 inches high by 8 broad, consisting of 414 leaves (11 of them more or less muti- lated, and 9 others by later hands), with but one col- umn on each page, the Greek being on the left page and the Latin on the right The vellum is not veiy fine. There are 88 lines on each page, and these are of unequal length, the MS. being arranged in clauses or ffTixoi, and the corresponding ones in the Lat. and Gr. as nearly as possible opposite each other. It has not the large Kf^aXaia or Eusebian canons, but only the Ammonian sections, and these often incorrectiy placed, obviously by a later hand. The leaves are arranged in quires of 4 sheets (8 leaves) each, the nu- meral "signatures" of which are set by the first hand low in the margin at the foot of the last page of each. It originally consisted of upward of 64 quires, and one of the gaps, which omits 67, ending with 8 John, 11, would be too great a space for all tiie canonical Epis- tles merely. The first three lines of each book were written in bright red ink, which was also occasionally employed elsewhere by way of ornament. The char- acters betray a later age than Codices Alexandrinus, Yaticanus, and Ephraemi (A, B, and C), and capitals occur as in Codex Sinaiticus (M). Its Alexandrine forms would argue an Egyptian origin, but the feet of
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^^ ^ V {^ § J margin of Stephens*8 '^ ^ ^" r* • I ^J^ird edition. It was ^ V ^ ^o first completely exam- tfi /l Vri r; Is inedbyPatrick Young, 7\ V ^ J^ ^° theUbrarianofCharles y 2 fj ^2 '^^T I» and next collated m O Tl P M by Usher for Walton's i •'y ^ ^ -pI. Polyglot. Dr. Kipling QJ ^ ^ v^ 1^ published it hi ftdl
8^ ^ O l w fro™ fee-simile types, ^ ^ ^ J p but with the uncritical 0m jj^ ba' fU ^ 3 insertion of many of Q w^ ^ mf %\ the marginal readings & ^ ^ \0m g I by the second hand ^ ^1^ Q I* into the text (Codtx 2! \m j^ gC il Theodori Bezm Canta^ W 'i ^ vD § ftn^ieum, 1793, 2 voU. (tj ^ ^ i^- t fol.). Scrivener has
^.V fJ M •§ since reprinted it more "J^ tJ ?■■ g carefully in ordinary O VU 1^ W (3 types, with introdnc ^ ^ L^ «#j 8 tlon, annotations, and • ^ I f W 3 exact fac-similes (Co- « <2ea; J9ezcB, etc., Lond. • S 1864, 8vo).— Scriven- 2 er, Introd. p. 96 sq.; I Tregelles in Home's •I Jntrod, (new ed.), iv, J< p. 169 sq. See BfAiru- 8CRIPT8 (Biblical). Cambridge Platfbnn, a system^of Church dis- cipline agreed upon by the elders and messengers of the New England churches, assembled in ^nod at Cambridge, 1648. The object of the synod was to de- fine accurately the ecclesiastical position of the New England churches. In matters of feith they were agreed, but there were differpnces in regard to Church government, some being inclined to a more strict Pres- byterianism, some to a more loose Independency, while the great majority were Congiegationalists.