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166 Pauline Epistles the primary documents are D2G3, (E3 and F2 need no further mention), the Old Latin fragments and Fathers, and Greek patristic quotations as above: in the second place may stand or B, 31, 37, 46, 80, 137, 221, &c., or any of the above versions, the Gothic in particular. The secondary documents here named are only those whose sporadic attestation of Western readings not afterwards Syrian is most frequent: from readings of this class few if any uncials having a large Pre-Syrian element are entirely free.

229. The analogous Alexandrian readings need more attention to detect them. Since it has so happened that every MS containing an approximately unmixed Alexandrian text has perished, the Alexandrian readings can have no strictly primary attestation among extant documents, and are therefore known only through documents containing large other elements. In the Gospels they are chiefly marked by the combination CLX 33, and also Ζ in St Matthew, in St Mark,  and sometimes R in St Luke, with one or both of the Egyptian versions, and sometimes another version or two, especially the Armenian or the Vulgate or another revised Latin text; and of course Alexandrian Fathers. The least inconstant members of this group are CL and the Memphitic. In the Acts the chief representatives are ACE2 13, 61, and other cursives, as 27 29 36 40 68 69 102 110 112; and the same in the Catholic Epistles, with the loss of E2 and 61, and the partial accession of P2; and in the Pauline Epistles ACP2 5 6 17 23 39 47 73 137 &c.; with the same versions, so far as they are extant, and Fathers as in the Gospels. As however all these documents abound in neutral readings, and most of them in Western readings, the identification of Alexandrian