ALEXAND MAN Copy of' the SVelv Testament, preserved in the British Mu seum, is referred to as an object of curi osity, as well as of considerable import ance, to persons who study the scrip tures critically. It consists of folir large quarto, or rather •folio volumes, onntain ing the whole bible in Creek, including the ()Id and New 'Testament, with the Apocrypha, and some smaller pieces, but not quite complete. It was/A:iced in the British Museum in 1758; arid had been a present to Charles I. from Cyrillus Luca ris, a native of' Crete, and patriarch of' Constantinopl e, by sir Thomas Rowe, am bassador from England to the Grand Seignior in the year 1628. Cyrillus brooght it with him front Alexandria, where it was probably written. It is said to have been written by Thecla, a nobie Egyptian lady, about thirteen hundred years ago. hi the New Testament there is warning the beginning, as far as Matt.
xxv 6 ; likewise from John vi. 50, to 52 ; and from 2 Cor. iv.19, to xii.-7. it has neither accents nor marks of aspira tion it is written with capital, or, as they are called, uncial letters, and there are no intervals between the words, but the sense of a passage is sometimes term:rimed by a point, and sometimes by a =nit space. Dr. Woride publis',ed this valuable m ork in 1786, with types cast for the purpose, line for line, precisely like the original MS : the copy ha.s been examined with the greatest care, and it is found to be so periect a resemblance of the original, that it M25' supply its place. rl'he authentici ty, antiquity, &c. of this laS. is briefly, but ably, discussed in llees's New Cyclo pedia, 'Vol p.