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r, for the Gospels. Codex TISCHENDORFIANI-S IV. ; cli<- covered by Tischendorf in an Eastern monastery; sold to the Bodleian Library in 1855 ; from the ninth or tenth cen- tury. Another portion of the same MS. was discovered by Tischendorf in 1859, and taken to St. Petersburg. Nearly complete. An inscription at the close of John fixes the date probably at Nov. 27, 844 (according to Tischendorf), or 979 (according to Gardthausen).

A, for the Gospels. Codex SANOALLENSIS (St. Gall); from the ninth century ; probabjy written by Irish monks at St. Gall. Published at Zurich, 1836, by Rettig, in litho- graphed fac-simile. The text is very valuable in the Gos- pel of Mark.

A. Codex TISCHENDORFIANUS III., containing Luke and John ; now in the Bodleian Library ; collated by Tischen- dorf (who brought it from the East) and Tregellcs. Ninth century.

3. Codex ZACYNTHICS, a palimpsest of the 8th century ; formerly at the island of Zantc; presented in 1821 to the P.riti-h and Foreign Bible Society in London; edited by Tregelles, 1861 ; containing considerable portions of Luke's Gospel. Text very valuable.

II. Codex PETROPOLITANCS, brought by Tischendorf from Smyrna to St. Petersburg ; containing the four Gos- pels, nearly complete; collated by Tischendorf, 1864 and 1865. Ninth century.

(3.) For a description of the other fragmentary uncials we must refer the reader to the authorities above quoted, especially Scrivener and Tischendorf, and also to the useful and convenient Table VIII. in Mitchell's Handbook. But one more we must mention, which has been discovered since, and has not yet been utilized by the critics. "NVo mean

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