Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . y,at that period, the Latin and Greek alphabets resembled each other,and how very short the lines in which the ancient manuscripts wereoften written. G. Zy c o O^ ffl*7f c C en c V (X) toOi (A j w n - GO 05 re I X0 0 p -£.> o8 ILLUSTRATION H, This illustration is intended to indicate the transition from thesquare capitals, in which the Greek manuscripts of the New Testa-ment were written previous to the tenth century, to the cursive orr
Origin and history of the books of the Bible, both the canonical and the apocryphal, designed to show what the Bible is not, what it is, and how to use it . y,at that period, the Latin and Greek alphabets resembled each other,and how very short the lines in which the ancient manuscripts wereoften written. G. Zy c o O^ ffl*7f c C en c V (X) toOi (A j w n - GO 05 re I X0 0 p -£.> o8 ILLUSTRATION H, This illustration is intended to indicate the transition from thesquare capitals, in which the Greek manuscripts of the New Testa-ment were written previous to the tenth century, to the cursive orrunning hand which came into use subsequent to that period, andgave form to the Greek type used when printing was introduced. No. 1, is the beginning of Johns Gospel, i. 1-10, as presented inan elegant manuscript of the latter part of the fourteenth is called the Codex Ebnerianus, and belongs to the University ofOxford. No. 2, is Matt. xv. 1, 2, in exact fac simile from an elegant manu-script of the Gospels in the city of Basle, as early as the tenth cen-tury, and probably among the earliest that were written in the cur-sive character. Jo3.
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