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 INTRODUCTION To THE AMEKH'AN* EIUTIo.V. MT

I It-!-. i\. 14, and breaks off in the middle of the verse and of the word KaSa'pul. The Pastoral Epistles, Philemon, and the Apocalypse arc lost. It was long watched with jr.-ilus care by the papal authorities, very imperfectly known to Mill and WetsU'in, but partially collated, under considerable re- strictions, by Bartolocci, librarian of the Vatican (I860), the Abbate Mico for Thomas Bentley (about 1720, publish- ed 1799), Andrew Birch of Copenhagen (1788, publ. 1798- 1801), llui,' (1809, ho first fully recognised its paramount value), Tischcndorf (1843, 1844, 1866), Tregelles (1845), Dressel (1855), Burgon (I860), Alford (1861), and his secretory, Mr. Cure (in 1862). It was first printed under the supervision of the celebrated Cardinal Angclo Mai (d. 1854), Rome, 1828-38, but not published till 1857 (in 5 vols,, the fifth containing the New Testament); and so inaccurately that this edition is critically worthless. The New Testament was again published separately, with some improvements, by Vercellone, Rome, 1859 ; more critically by Tischendorf, Leipsic, 1867, from a partial inspection of two weeks under the constant supervision of C. Vercellone, who learned from the German expert some useful lessons in editorial work. Now, at last, we have a complete and critical, though by no means infallible, quasi fac- simile edition of the whole Vatican MS. by Vercellone (d. 1869) and Jos. Cozza, Rome, 1868-72.* The type used was cast from the same moulds as that employed for Tischcndorfs edition of the Codex Sinaiticus, and was lent by him to the papal government ; but he complained of the bad use the Roman printers made of itf

cellone's death, f The full title reads BMiorum Sacrorum Gracut Coda Vati-
 * Oactano Sergio has been associated with Cozza since Ver-

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