. Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts : being a history of the text and its translations. fi^ £4—i. THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 149 Such is the roll of the most important uncial manuscripts of theNew Testament. Of the great crowd of cursive MSS., which runinto hundreds and thousands, we do not propose to speak. A fewof the most remarkable of them, which contain texts of an earlytype, have been mentioned on p. 103 ; but for the most part theydo but reproduce, with less and less authority as they become laterin date, the prevailing Syrian type of text. No doubt good read-ings may lur
. Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts : being a history of the text and its translations. fi^ £4—i. THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 149 Such is the roll of the most important uncial manuscripts of theNew Testament. Of the great crowd of cursive MSS., which runinto hundreds and thousands, we do not propose to speak. A fewof the most remarkable of them, which contain texts of an earlytype, have been mentioned on p. 103 ; but for the most part theydo but reproduce, with less and less authority as they become laterin date, the prevailing Syrian type of text. No doubt good read-ings may lurk here and there among them, but the chances againstit are many ; and the examination of them belongs to the pro-fessional student of Biblical criticism, and not to those who desireonly to know the most important of the authorities upon whichrests our knowledge of the Bible text. Only for completeness sake,and as an example of the smaller form of writing prevalent inGreek manuscripts from the ninth century to the fifteenth, is aplate given here of one of these cursive MSS. (Plate XIV.).The manusc
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