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of Coptic scribes, at Cairo; and from this copy, which the Professor showed me at Leipsic, the printed editions were prepared. As neither Tischendorf nor his scribes were in- fallible, some errors may have crept in, so that, in doubt- ful cases, a resort to the original MS. in St. Petersburg is necessary. Tregelles has inspected it. Considerable por- tions of it have been photographed, and real fac-similes arc given in Tisehendorf s three editions, and in Scrivener's Introduction. Mr. Burgon, also, in his book on the Last Twelve Verses of Mark, gives an exact fac-simile of .1 page, taken at St. Petersburg, which shows the last two columns of Mark (to xvi. 8) and the first two columns of Luke.

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