Several MSS. are accompanied with a Latin transla- tion interlined, or in a parallel column. Such have been called bili/iffues or Grmco-Laiini.
3. We shall now advert to the uncial MS. of the Greek Testament, and to those usually quoted in the examina- tion of the controverted passage 1 John v, 7. The for-
•mer are marked with the letters ot the alphabet. A, B, C, etc.; the latter by the Arabic numerals, 1,2,3, etc. (in some late critics by small letters, a, fa, c, etc.).
The number of uncial MSS. remaining, though great when compared with the ancient MSS. extant ol other writings, is inconsiderable. (See the table in 4, below.) Tischendorf (.V. J. Prief. cxxx) reckons 40 in the Gos- pels, of which o are entire, B K M S U ; 3 nearly en- tire, E L A ; 10 contain very considerable portions, A CDFGHVXrA; of "the remainder, 14 contain very small fragments, 8 fragments more (I P Q R Z) or less considerable (N T Y). To these must be added K (^Cod. Sinait.), which is entire; 2 (IT), a new MS. of Tischendorf (Xot. Cod. Sin. p. 51-52), which is nearly entire; and S (Cod. Zaci/ntli.), vfh\c\i contains consider- able fragments of Luke. Tischendorf has likewise ob- tained y additional fragments {I.e.'). In the Acts there arc 12, of which 4 contain the text entire (N A B), or nearly so (E^); 5 have large fragments (0 D H^ G2 = L^ and P^), 3 small fragments. In the Catholic Epis- tles 7, of which 5, X A B Kj G2 = L„ are entire; 2 (C 1*2) nearly entire. In the Pauline Epistles there are 18 : 1 (X) entire; 3 nearly entire, Dj L^ P,; 7 have very considerable portions, ABC E3 Fj G3 K„ (but E3 is of little account) ; the remaining 7 some fragments. In the Apocalypse 5 : 3 entire (X A B„), 2 nearly en- tire (C Po).
According to date these MSS. are classed as follows:
Fourth century : X B.
Fifth century : A C, and some fragments.
Sixth century: D P R Z E^ Do II3, and 9 smaller fragments.
Seventh century : Some fragments.
Eighth century: E h (A) S Bj,.and some frag- ments.
Ninth century : F K :\I V X T A n H^ Gj = Lj l\ Gj Kj Mj Pj, and fragments.
Tenth century : G H S U (EJ.
A complete description of these MSS. is given in the great critical editions of tlie N. T. : here those only can be briefly noticed which are of primary importance.
(((.) Uncials.
X, Codex Sinaiticus {Cod. Frid. Aug. of the Sept.) at St. Petersburg, obtained hy Tischendorf from the con- vent of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai, in 1859. The frag- ments of the Sept. published as Cod. Frid. A ug. (184(j) were obtained at the same place by Tischendorf in 1844. The N. T. is entire, and the Epistle of Barnabas and parts of the Shepherd of Hermas are added. The whole MS. was published in 18(j2 by Tischendorf, at the ex- pense of the emperor of Russia. It is probably the old- est of the MSS. of the N. T., and of the 4th century (Tischendorf, Not. Cod. Sin. 18(i0), See Sinaitic Man- uscript.
A, Codex Alexandrinus (British INIuseum), a MS. of the entire Greek Bible, with the Epistles of Clement added. It was given by Cyril Lucar, patriarch of Con- stantinople, to Charles I in 1628, and is now in the Brit- ish Museum. It contains the whole of the N. T. with some chasms : Matt, i.-xxv, G, t^tpxiaOe ; John vi, 50, Vra-viii, 52, \iyii ; 2 Cor. iv, 13, tTriarsvaa-xu, 6, t^ fyUoD. It was probably written in the first half of the 5th century. The N. T. has been published by Woide (1786, fol.), and with some corrections by Cowper (1860, 8vo). Compare Wetstein, Proleg. p. 13-30 (ed. Lotze). See Alexandrian Manuscript.
B, Codex Vaticanus (No. 1209), a MS. of the Greek Bible, which seems to have been in the Vatican Library almost from its commencement (cir. A.D. 1450). It con- tains the N. T. entire to Heb. ix, 14, KaQa ; the rest of the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Apocalypse were added in the 15th centur}% Vari- ous collations of the New Test, were made by Bartolocci (1669), by Mico for Bentley (cir. 1720), whose collation was in part revised by Rulotta (1726), and by Birch (1788). An edition of the whole MS., on which Mai had been engaged for many years, was published three years after his death in 1858 (5 vols. 4to, ed. Vercellone ; N. T. reprinted, London and Leipsic). Mai had himself kept back the edition (printed 1828-1838), being fully conscious of its imperfections, and had prepared another edition of the N. T., which was published also by Ver- cellone and others in 1859 (8vo). This was revised by Tischendorf (Lpz. 1867). The whole of Codex B is to be published by authority of the pope, and the N.-T. part has already appeared (Rome, 1868), nearly com- plete. The MS. is assigned to the 4th century (Tisch- endorf, N. T. p. cxxxvi-cxlix). See Vatican Manu- script.
The Apocalypse in these last editions is taken from Codex Vaticanus, 2066 (formerly Codex Basilianus, 105), in the Vatican Library. It belongs to the 8th century (see Tischendorf's A'. T. p. cxlii sq. [7th ed.]).