55. Oxf. Bodl. Seld. supr. 6 (Coxe 5), formerly 3394, Mill's Seld. 3 [xiii], 4to, 7-½ × 5-½, ff. 349 (21), containing also Judges vi. 1-24 (Grabe, Prol. V. T., tom. i. cap. iii. § 6), has prol. in Matt., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., lect., syn., men., ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ. (Mill).
56. Oxf. Lincoln Coll. II (Gr.) 18 [xv or xvi], 4to, 8-1/8 × 5-5/8, ff. 232 (24), chart., was presented about 1502, by Edmund Audley, Bishop of Salisbury: prol. (Mark, Luke), κεφ. t., κεφ., some τίτλ., ἀναγν., vers., titles to Gospels, subscr., στίχ. (John). Walton gives some various readings, but confounds it with Act. 33, Paul. 39, speaking of them as if one “vetustissimum exemplar.” It has been inspected by Dobbin, Scrivener, and Mill, but so loosely that the late Rev. R. C. Pascoe, Fellow of Exeter College, detected thirty-four omissions for thirty-one citations (one of them being an error) in four chapters.
57. (Act. 85, Paul. 41.) Oxf. Magdalen Coll., Greek 9 [xii, opening], 9 × 7-½, ff. 291 (25), aur. beautiful, in a small and beautiful hand, with abbreviations. Mut. Mark i. 1-11, and at end. Psalms and Hymns follow the Epistles. It has κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ. (lect. in red, vers. later). Collated twice by Dr. Hammond, the great commentator, whose papers seem to have been used for Walton's Polyglott (Magd. 1): also examined by Dobbin (Mill).
58. Oxf. New Coll. 68 [xv], 7-¾ × 5-¼, ff. 342 (20), is Walton and Mill's N. 1. This, like Codd. 56-7, has been accurately examined by Dr. Dobbin, for the purpose of his “Collation of the Codex Montfortianus” (London, 1854), with whose readings Codd. 56, 58 have been compared in 1922 places. He has undoubtedly proved the close connexion [pg 199] subsisting between the three manuscripts (which had been observed by Mill, N. T. Proleg. § 1388), though he may not have quite demonstrated that they must be direct transcripts from each other. Prol., κεφ. t., κεφ. (partially), τίτλ., Am. (partial), ἀναγν. (partial), syn., subscr. (Mark), vers., with scholia. The writing is very careless, and those are in error who follow Walton in stating that it contains the Acts and Epistles (Walton's Polyglott, Mill, Dobbin). Mr. C. Forster rightly asks for photographs and a thorough re-collation of Codd. 56, 58, 61, “to throw light upon their direct relationship, or non-relationship to each other” (“A New Plea for the Three Heavenly Witnesses,” 1867, p. 139). Dr. C. R. Gregory has expressed the opinion that Codd. 47, 56, 58 are in the same hand, and one of them copied from Cod. 54.
*59. Cambridge, Gonville and Caius Coll. 403 [xii], 8 × 6, ff. 238 (23), an important copy, “textu notabili,” as Tischendorf states (much like D, 61, 71), but carelessly written, and exhibiting no less than eighty-one omissions by ὁμοιοτέλευτον (see p. [9]). It was very poorly examined for Walton's Polyglott, better though defectively by Mill, seen by Wetstein in 1716, minutely collated by Scrivener in 1860. It once belonged to the House of Friars Minor at Oxford, from whence Richard Brynkley borrowed it and took it to the Grey Friars at Cambridge, whence it went to Thomas Hatcher, who gave it to the College in 1867 (J. Rendel Harris, The origin of the Leicester Codex, 1887). It has τίτλ., κεφ., Am. (but not Eus.), and exhibits many and rare compendia scribendi.
60. (Apoc. 10.) Camb. University Library, Dd. ix. 69 [a.d. 1297], 8 × 6, ff. 324 = 293 + 1 + 30 (24), but the Apocalypse is later, and has a few scholia from Arethas about it. This copy is Mill's Moore 1[230] and is still badly known. Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., lect. (later), Am. without Eus., subscr., and it is an elegant copy (Mill). The Gospels appear to have been written in the East, the Apocalypse in the West of Europe. This is Bentley's ε (see Cod. 51).
*61. (Act. 34, Paul. 40, Apoc. 92.) Codex Montfortianus at Trinity College, Dublin, G. 97 [xv or xvi], 6-¼ × 4-¾, ff. 445 (21), chart., so celebrated in the controversy respecting 1 John v. 7. Its last collator, Dr. Orlando Dobbin (see on Cod. 58), has discussed in his Introduction every point of interest connected with it. It contains the whole New Testament, apparently the work of three or four successive scribes, paper leaves, only one of them—that on which 1 John v. 7 stands—being glazed[231], [pg 200] as if to protect it from harm. This manuscript was first heard of between the publication of Erasmus' second (1519) and third (1522) editions of his N. T., and after he had publicly declared, in answer to objectors, that if any Greek manuscript could be found containing the passage, he would insert it in his revision of the text; a promise which he fulfilled in 1522. Erasmus describes his authority as “Codex Britannicus,” “apud Anglos repertus,” and there is the fullest reason to believe that the Cod. Montfortianus is the copy referred to (see Vol. II. Chap. XI). Its earliest known owner was Froy[232], a Franciscan friar, then Thomas Clement [fl. 1569], then William Chark [fl. 1582], then Thomas Montfort, D.D. of Cambridge, from whom it derives its name, then Archbishop Ussher, who caused the collation to be made which appears in Walton's Polyglott (Matt. i. 1-Acts xxii. 29; Rom. i), and presented the manuscript to Trinity College. Dr. Barrett appended to his edition of Cod. Z a full collation of the parts left untouched by his predecessors; but since the work of Ussher's friends was known to be very defective, Dobbin has re-collated the whole of that portion which Barrett left unexamined, comparing the readings throughout with Codd. 56, 58 of the Gospels, and Cod. 33 of the Acts. This copy has prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., subscr., στίχ., besides which the division by the Latin chapters in St. Mark is employed, a sure proof—if any were needed—of the modern date of the manuscript. There are many corrections by a more recent hand, erasures by the pen, &c. It has been supposed that the Gospels were first written; then the Acts and Epistles (transcribed, in Dobbin's judgement, from Cod. 33, Acts); the Apocalypse last; having been added about 1580, as Tregelles and Dr. Dobbin think, from Cod. 69, when they were both in Chark's possession. The text, however, of the Apocalypse is not quite the same in the two codices, nor would it be easy, without seeing them together, to verify Dobbin's conjecture, that the titles to the sacred books, in pale red ink, were added by the same person in both manuscripts. In the margin of this copy, as of Cod. 69, are inserted many readings in Chark's handwriting, even the misprint of Erasmus, ἐμαῖς for ἐν αἷς, Apoc. ii. 13.
62. Walton's Goog., which was brought from the East, and once belonged to Dr. Henry Googe, Fellow of Trinity College. The collations of Codd. D, 59, 61, 62 made for the London Polyglott were given in 1667 to Emmanuel College, where they yet remain. Goog. was identified with the Cambridge Kk. v. 35 by Bp. Marsh, who was a little careless in this kind of work.
622. Camb. Univ. Lib. Kk. v. 35 [xv], 9-¼ × 5-¾, ff. 403 (14), chart., κεφ., (κεφ. Lat.), τίτλ., subscr., vers. Mr. Bradshaw has pointed out that Kk. v. 35 is a mere transcript by George Hermonymus from Cod. 70 also [pg 201] in his handwriting, and hastily copied from it, errors of the pen and all. It has no men., lect., as Goog. had, but the ordinary κεφάλαια and Latin chapters. Again, Goog., as Walton says, “ex Oriente advectus est,” and must have been in England before 1657; whereas Bp. Moore got Kk. v. 35 from France in 1706, with other books from the collection of J. B. Hantin, the numismatist.
63. Cod. Ussher 1, Trin. Coll. Dublin, A. i. 8, formerly D. 20 [x], fol., with a commentary, 12-3/8 × 9-½, ff. 237 (18-24), prol., κεφ. t., pict., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus. (lect., later.), subscr. Henry Dodwell made a few extracts for Bishop Fell's N. T. of 1675; Richard Bulkeley loosely collated it for Mill, Dr. Dobbin in 1855 examined St. Matthew, and the Rev. John Twycross, of the Charter House, re-collated the whole manuscript in 1858. The last leaf, containing John xxi. 25, is lost; but (see Scrivener, Cod. Sin., Introd., p. lix, note, and an admirable paper by Dr. Gwynn in Hermathena, xix, 1893, p. 368) it originally contained the verse and witnesses to it. Dr. C. R. Gregory has noticed in Cod. 63 a mutilated double leaf of an Evangelistarium in two columns [ix or x], containing part of ὥρα γ᾽.