The intrinsic worth of money in the various periods of the Hebroo-Jewish antiquity is very difficult to es- timate from the occasional intimations of mercantile y^oe (see Michaelis, Z>e j>refm rer, ap. Hebr. ante exiL in the Comment. 8oc. GotL iii, 145 sq.), especially as tbe measure and quality of articles thus estimated is also uncertain (see B5ckh, Metrolog. Untersuch. p. 420 "<!•). See Metboloot. Examples somewhat indic- ative of this point, however, are the following : in times of plenty, 1 ephah of wheat sold for 1 shekel, and 2 ephahs of barley for 1 shekel (2 Kings vii, 8; comp. Polyb. i, 16) ; an Egyptian horse in Solomon's time was worth 150 shekels (1 Kings x, 29) ; 80 shek- els were generally given for a slave (Exod. xxi, 82 ; comp. Gen. xxxvii, 28) ; for 10 shekels a chaplain could te hired in the times of the Judges (Judg. xvii, 10).
But in flush times prices were often much higher, e. g. a choice vine-stock was held at 1 shekel (Isa. vii, 28) ; a threshing-floor, with the oxen, cost Daidd 50 shekels (2 Sam. x^v, 24) ; a single vineyard brought Solomon in 1000 shekels yearly (Cant, viii, 11). Other less definite values may be collected as to fiincy matters (Judg. xvii, 4; 1 Sam. ix, 8; Neh. v, 15). In later times a leamed slave might be bought (according to Greek and Roman money) for 1 (Alexandrian) talent (Joeeph. ilftf. xii, 4, 9); a farm-laborer's daily wages was 1 denarius (Matt, xx, 2); and the charge for more than a single day's tending of an invalid in a caravanserai was 2 denarii (Luke x, 85). (For other instances of ei^)ense, see Josephus, Ant. xiv, 2, 2; TTor, i, 88, 5 ; Life, xiii, 44.) The comparative cheap- ness of living among the Israelites (as ^mong the an- cients generally, see Bdckh, Staatthaush. i, 65) is ev- ident, owing, however, rather to the greater rarity of the precious metals as a circulating medium than to anything else. — ^Winer, i, 408. See Numismatics.
Coislln Manosoript (so called tram the library of Coislin, bishop of Metz, which originally contained most of the leaves), a name applied to two very differ- ent Greek uncial MSS.
1. Ck>DBX GoiSLuaANus, the great copy of the Sept. Octateuch, first made known by Montfou^on (Biblioth, CoisKn. 1715), and illustrated by Kfac-smde hi SQves- tre's PaUogr, Unw, No. 65. It contains 227 leaves in two columns, 18 inches by 9 : the fine massive letters of the sixth or seventh century are much like those of the Alexandrian MS. In the margin, primd matm, Wetstein found Acts ix, 24, 25, and so inserted this as Cod. F in his list of MSS. of the Acts. In 1842 Tis- chendorf observed nineteen other passages of the N. T., which he published in his Mommenta Sacra Ined- ita (p. 400 sq.), with a facsimile. These texts are Matt V, 48; xii, 48; xxvii, 25; Luke 1, 42; ii, 24; xxiii, 21; John v, 85; vi, 58, 55; Acts iv, 88, 84; x, 18, 15; xxH, 22; 1 Cor. vii, 89; xi, 29; 2 Cor. iii, 18; ix, 7; xi, 88; Gal. iv, 21, 22; Col. ii, 16, 17; Heb. x, 26. These portions of the MS. are designated as F* of the Gosp^ etc. — Scrivener, Jntrod, to N. T, p. 105.
2. FsAOMENTA CoiSLiiaANA, a rclic of only fifteen leaves, written stichometrically, with a subscription referring to a comparison with the the copy at Caesa- rea, which had been written by Pamphilus himself. The letters are large and square. When somewhat fiided, the whole (except the subscriptions, which were written in vermiUion) was ((one over again, most coarsely, by a corrector, who. added the accents and breathings, but reblackened the letters in such a man- ner as thoroughly to destroy their elegance. Fourteen of these leaves were published by MontfSiu^on {ut sup.\ who ascribed the MS. to the fifth or sixth century. These sheets were used at Mt. Athos in 1218 as part of the covers of another book, which at length fell into European hands, and was saved ; the rest of the MS. had probably perished previously, or been destroyed in a similar manner. After the fire of St. Germain des Prex, where the fragments were preserved, twelve leaves only were found, which are now in thf Impe- rial Library at Paris, and contain 1 Cor. x, 22^29 ; xi, 9-16; 1 Tim. iii, 7-18; Tit. i, 1-8; i, Ifr-ii, 5 ; iii, 18- 15 ; Heb. ii, 11-16 ; iii, 18-18 : iv, 12-15. Two other leaves, however, were transferred to the Imperial Li- brary at St Petersburg, and contain GaL i, 4-10; ii, 9-14. Tischendorf has lately recovered another sheet from Mt. Athos, containing Col. iii, 4-11. These friig- ments are known as H of the Pauline Episties. — ^Tre- gelles, in Home's Introd, new ed. iv, 194. See Mah- U8CBIPT8, Biblical.
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