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 xx INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

oast, in four folio volumes.* The New Testament was also separately edited by Tischendorf in smaller type in quarto (Leipsic, 1863), in four columns; and an octavo edition in ordinary type (ibid. 1865). Dr. Scrivener has published a " Full Collation of the Sinaitic MS. with the Received Text of the New Testament" (2d ed. 1867).

Codex x is the most complete, and also (with the ex- ception, perhaps, of the Vatican MS.) the oldest, or, at all events, one of the two oldest MSS., although it was last found and used. Tischendorf calls it " omnium codicum vncialium solus integer omniumque antiquissimus." He assigns it to the age of Eusebius the historian, who died in 340 ; and thinks it not improbable that it was one of the fifty copies which Constantino had ordered to be prepared for the churches of Constantinople in 331, and that it was sent by the Emperor Justinian to the Convent of Mount Sinai, which he founded.f It contains large portions of

futtittimig Imperatoris Akxandri II., ex tenebris protraxit in Europam transtulit ad iuvtindas atque illu^trandas sacras litteras edidit CONSTANTINUS TISCHENDORF. Petropoli, MDCCCLXII. The first volume contains the dedication to the Emperor (dated Lips, fv^; 1862), the Prolegomena, Notes on the corrections by later hands, and twenty-one plates (in fac-simile); vols. ii. and fa'i. contain the Septuagint; vol. iv. the Greek Testament (134J leaves), the Epistle of Barnabas (foil. 135-141), and a part of the Pastor Henna; (foil. 143-148). Copies of this rare and costly edition are in the Astor Library, the Lenox Library, the Union Theological Seminary, New York, at Cambridge, Andover, and in other libraries of America.
 * BiMiorum Codex Sinmtfcits Petropolitanus. Auspidis au-

t Tischeodorf s edition of the English New Test., Leips. 1869, p. xii. After a more careful inspection of the Vatican MS. in 1866, he has somewhat modified his view of the priority of the

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