C, Cod. Ephreem, 5th century palimpsest, in National Library, Paris; 64 leaves of Old Testament, 145 out of 238 leaves of New Testament.
D, Cotton Genesis, 5th century, British Museum ; fragments of Genesis : almost destroyed by fire in 1731, but previously collated.
E, Cod. Bodleianus, 9th or 10th century, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Heptateuch, frag ments.
Q, Cod. Marchalianus, 6th century, Vatican. Prophets complete; provenance, Egypt; text. Hesychian; marginal notes from Hexapla con tain Hexaplaric signs.
Theta, Cod. Washington, 5th or 6th century. Smithsonian Institution, Deuteronomy to Joshua.
Among uncial manuscripts of the Septuagint are also listed 17 codices, some of the 5th and 6th century; seven Psalters of the 9th or 10th century; and 18 fragments.
C. Vellum Minuscule Manuscripts.— More than 300 are known hut not classified. Few bear witness to the entire Old Testament ; the greater part are Psalters. The most critical use of the minuscules of the Septuagint is evidenced by Brooke and McLean, 'The Old Testament in Greek' (Vol. I, The Octatetech, 1906-17).
Swete, (Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek' (1900), and 'The Old Test. in Greek' (3d ed. of Vols. I and II, 1907; 4th ed. of Vol. III, 1912); Kenyon, 'Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts' (1898); Nestle, 'Septuagintastudien) (1886-1907).
2°. New Testament Greek Manuscripts.— According to Von Soden Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer altesten erreichbaren Textgestalt,) 1902), 2,328 Greek New Testament manuscripts are extant ; only about 40 contain, either entire or in part, all the books; 1,716 are of the Gospels, 531 of Acts, 628 of the Pauline Epistles, 219 of Apocalypse.
A. Papyrus.—About 31 papyrus fragments, of which six belong to the 3d century, bear most important witness to parts of 12 books of the New Testament. Consult Milligan. 'Greek Papyri' (1912), and
B. Vellum Uncials.— Besides Aleph, A. B, C, already described, there are sonic 160 vellum uncials of the New Testament; 110 contain the Gospels or a part thereof. The most important of these manuscripts are: D, Cod. Bese, 5th or 6th century, Cambridge ;
Gospels and Acts in Greek and Latin, except ing Acts xxii, 29 to end; text, Western, i.e., that of Old Latin and Old Syriac.
D., Cod. Claromontanus, 6th century, Nat. Libr., Paris; Pauline Epistles in Greek and Latin, each independent of the other.
E, Cod. Basileensis, 8th century; Univ. Libr., Basle, Gospels.
E,, Cod. Laudianus, 6th century, Oxford, in Bodleian Libr., Acts in Greek and Latin, same text as D.
Ea, Cod. Sangermanensis, 9th century, Imper. Libr., Petrograd, Pauline Epistles in Greek and Latin, same family as D,.
F, Cod. Boreeli, 9th century, Utrecht, Gos pels.
F,, Cod. Augiensis, 9th century, Trinity Col., Cambridge, Pauline Epistles in Greek and Latin, same family as IN, E,, G.
G, Cod. Wolfii, 9th century, Cambridge and London, Gospels.
Cn, Cod. Bccrnerianus, 9th century, Dresden, Pauline Epistles in Greek and Latin.
Washington Manuscripts, called W and I by Gregory, giving a 5th or 6th century text of Gospels and Pauline Epistles, Smithsonian In stitution.
C. Vellum Minuscules.— The vast number of minuscule witnesses to the New Testament text would seem to indicate a rich field of re search for the critic. Such is not the case. Ninety-five per cent of these manuscripts are of little moment; they represent an inferior type of text,— that called the textus receptus. Only those minuscules attract attention which approach to one of the great uncials. Thus the 'Term- Group" resemble the text of D.
Bibliography.— Kenyon, 'Textual Criticism of the New Testament' (1912), and 'Paleog raphy of Greek Papyri' (1899) ; Warfield, 'Textual Criticism of the New Testament> (1886) ; Tischendorf,