. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ... Plate XI.—COPTIC MS. (St. Luke v. 5-9)—Eighth century or earlier.(Zouche Collection.)The New Testament, written in the Sahidic or Theban dialect of the Coptic language. It is oneof the oldest known Coptic MSS. of the Bible. The letters ^.kon the margin of line 23 mark the be-ginning of the Eusebian section No. 31. Parallel passages in other Gospels are also referred MS. was brought from Egypt by the late Archdeacon Tattam. •i o «~2 Pc 3 2 2 o-i ^ bife< Hi»*i ***. f ¥ «*v < L 4 V M 2 »» 4« l-VoT4 2D |~ 4,*.CVtf0C»4»4r&l
. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments ... Plate XI.—COPTIC MS. (St. Luke v. 5-9)—Eighth century or earlier.(Zouche Collection.)The New Testament, written in the Sahidic or Theban dialect of the Coptic language. It is oneof the oldest known Coptic MSS. of the Bible. The letters ^.kon the margin of line 23 mark the be-ginning of the Eusebian section No. 31. Parallel passages in other Gospels are also referred MS. was brought from Egypt by the late Archdeacon Tattam. •i o «~2 Pc 3 2 2 o-i ^ bife< Hi»*i ***. 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. «• « #
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