Contents
- [Preface To Fourth Edition.]
- [Description Of The Contents Of The Lithographed Plates.]
- [Addenda Et Corrigenda.]
- [Chapter I. Preliminary Considerations.]
- [Chapter II. General Character Of The Greek Manuscripts Of The New Testament.]
- [Chapter III. Divisions Of The Text, And Other Particulars.]
- [Appendix To Chapter III. Synaxarion And Eclogadion Of The Gospels And Apostolic Writings Daily Throughout The Year.]
- [Chapter IV. The Larger Uncial Manuscripts Of The Greek Testament.]
- [Chapter V. Uncial Manuscripts Of The Gospels.]
- [Chapter VI. Uncial Manuscripts Of The Acts And Catholic Epistles, Of St. Paul's Epistles, And Of The Apocalypse.]
- [Chapter VII. Cursive Manuscripts Of The Gospels. Part I.]
- [Chapter VIII. Cursive Manuscripts Of The Gospels. Part II.]
- [Chapter IX. Cursive Manuscripts Of The Gospels. Part III.]
- [Chapter X. Cursive Manuscripts Of The Acts And Catholic Epistles.]
- [Chapter XI. Cursive Manuscripts Of St. Paul's Epistles.]
- [Chapter XII. Cursive Manuscripts Of The Apocalypse.]
- [Chapter XIII. Evangelistaries, Or Manuscript Service-Books Of The Gospels.]
- [Chapter XIV. Lectionaries Containing The Apostolos Or Praxapostolos.]
- [Appendix A. Chief Authorities.]
- [Appendix B. On Facsimiles.]
- [Appendix C. On Dating By Indiction.]
- [Appendix D. On The ῥηματα.]
- [Appendix E. Table Of Differences Between The Fourth Edition Of Dr. Scrivener's Plain Introduction And Dr. Gregory's Prolegomena.]
- [Index I. Of Greek Manuscripts.]
- [Index II. Of Writers, Past Owners, And Collators Of Mss.]
- [Footnotes]
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
In templo Dei offert unusquisque quod potest: alii aurum, argentum, et lapides pretiosos: alii byssum et purpuram et coccum offerunt et hyacinthum. Nobiscum bene agitur, si obtulerimus pelles et caprarum pilos. Et tamen Apostolus contemtibiliora nostra magis necessaria judicat.
Hieronymi Prologus Galeatus.
Dedication
[In The Third Edition]
To His Grace
Edward, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
My Lord Archbishop,
Nearly forty years ago, under encouragement from your venerated predecessor Archbishop Howley, and with the friendly help of his Librarian Dr. Maitland, I entered upon the work of collating manuscripts of the Greek New Testament by examining the copies brought from the East by Professor Carlyle, and purchased for the Lambeth Library in 1805. I was soon called away from this employment—ἑκὼν ἀέκοντί γε θυμῷ—to less congenial duties in that remote county, wherein long after it was your Grace's happy privilege to refresh the spirits of Churchmen and Churchwomen, by giving them pious work to do, and an example in the doing of it. What I have since been able to accomplish in the pursuits of sacred criticism, although very much less than I once anticipated, has proved, I would fain hope, not without its use to those who love Holy Scripture, and the studies which help to the understanding of the same.
Among the scholars whose sympathy cheered and aided my Biblical labours from time to time, I have had the honour of including your Grace; yet it would be at once unseemly and fallacious to assume from that circumstance, that the principles of textual criticism which I have consistently advocated have [pg vi] approved themselves to your judgement. All that I can look for or desire in this respect is that I may seem to you to have stated my case fairly and temperately, in earnest controversy with opponents far my superiors in learning and dialectic power, and for whom, in spite of literary differences, I entertain deep respect and true regard.
My Lord, you have been called by Divine Providence to the first place in our Communion, and have entered upon your great office attended by the applauses, the hopeful wishes, and the hearty prayers of the whole Church. May it please God to endow you richly with the Christian gifts as well of wisdom as of courage: for indeed the highest minister of the Church of England, no less than the humblest, will need courage in the coming time, now that faith is waxing cold and adversaries are many.
I am, my Lord Archbishop,
Your obliged and faithful servant,
F. H. A. Scrivener.
Hendon Vicarage,
Whitsuntide, 1883.