. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ... f ¥ «*v < L 4 V M 2 »» 4« l-VoT4 2D |~ 4,*.CVtf0C»4»4r<» y ^ < t f So U 14 Plate VATICANUS (i Esdras ii. i-8)—Fourth century.(Rome, Vatican Library.)The Bible in Greek, written in uncial letters, probably in the fourth century. The text is arrang-ed in three columns to a page, except in the poetical books of the Old Testament, which are writtenin double columns. Apparently in the tenth century, the writing was carefully, but quite unneces-sarily, retraced in darker ink, only such words and letters being left untouch
. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ... f ¥ «*v < L 4 V M 2 »» 4« l-VoT4 2D |~ 4,*.CVtf0C»4»4r<» y ^ < t f So U 14 Plate VATICANUS (i Esdras ii. i-8)—Fourth century.(Rome, Vatican Library.)The Bible in Greek, written in uncial letters, probably in the fourth century. The text is arrang-ed in three columns to a page, except in the poetical books of the Old Testament, which are writtenin double columns. Apparently in the tenth century, the writing was carefully, but quite unneces-sarily, retraced in darker ink, only such words and letters being left untouched as appeared to thewriter to be superfluous in a correct text. The same hand added the breathings and accents. TheMS. was already in the Vatican Library in Rome in the fifteenth century, but nothing is known ofits previous history. «• « #. Plate XIIL— CODEX SLNAITICUS (Esther ii. 3-8)-Fourth or Fifth century.(Leipzig. Royal Library-.)The Bible in Greek, written in uncial letters, probably in the fourth or fifth century. The text isarranged in four columns to a page, except in the poetical books of the Old Testament, which arewritten in double columns. The MS. belonged to the convent of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai,where in 1844 it first came under the notice of Teschendorf, who then got possession of forty-threeleaves from the Old Testament. These were deposited in the Royal Library at Leipzig, and bearthe title of Codex Friderico-Augustanus, after the King of Saxony of that time. In 1859 Tischen-dorf secured the rest of the MS. for the Emperor of Russia. The facsimile is made from one of theleaves at Leipzig.
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