229. Escurial. χ. iv. 21 [dated 1140], 8vo, ff. 296, written by Basil Argyropolus, a notary. Mut. Mark xvi. 15-20; John i. 1-11. Pict., lect.; the latter by a hand of about the fourteenth century, which retraced much of the discoloured ink, and corrected in the margin (since mutilated by the binder) very many important readings of the first hand, which often resemble those of ADK. i. 72. This copy must be mislaid, as it is not in Montana's list.
230. Escurial. φ (Montana ψ).[248] iii. 5 [dated Oct. 29, 1013, with the wrong Indiction, 11 for 12: Montana's date is 1014, and the error is probably not his: see p. [42], note 2], 4to, ff. 218, written by Luke a monk and priest, with double syn.[249], Carp., κεφ. t., subscr., ῥήμ, στίχ.: see p. [67], note. An interesting copy, deemed by Moldenhawer worthy of closer examination.
231. Escurial. φ (Montana ψ). iii. 6 [xii], 4to, ff. 181, lect., Eus. t., torn, κεφ. t., a picture “quae Marcum mentitur,” subscr., στίχ., syn., men. There are some marginal glosses by a later hand (which obelizes John vii. 53 seq.), and a Latin version above parts of St. Matthew.
232. Escurial. φ (Montana ψ). iii. 7 [xiii: dated 1292, Montana], 4to, ff. 288, very elegant but otherwise a poor copy. Double syn., τίτλοι in the margin of SS. Matthew and Luke, but elsewhere kept apart.
233. Escurial. Υ. ii. 8 [xi ?, Montana xiii], ff. 279, like Codd. 69 and 206, is partly of parchment, partly paper, in bad condition, and once [pg 223] belonged to Matthew Dandolo, a Venetian noble. It has a catena, and by reason of ligatures, &c. (see p. [43]), is hard to read. prol., κεφ. t., Eus. t. (apart), vers., ῥήμ., στίχ.
234. (Act. 57, Paul. 72.) Cod. Havniensis reg. theol. 1322, formerly 1 [dated 1278], 10 × 7-3/8, ff. 315 (35), 2 cols., one of the several copies written by Theodore (see p. [43], note 1). This copy and Cod. 235 are now in the Royal Library at Copenhagen, but were bought at Venice by G. Rostgaard in 1699. The order of the books in Cod. 234 is described p. 73. Carp., Eus. t., lect., syn., men., with many corrections. (C. G. Hensler, 1784.)
235. Havniens. reg. theol. 1323, formerly 2 [dated 1314], 4to, ff. 279, chart., written by the ἱερομόναχος Philotheus, though very incorrectly; the text agrees much with Codd. DK. i. 33 and the Harkleian Syriac. Κεφ. t., lect.; the words are often ill divided and the stops misplaced (Hensler).
236[250]. London, J. Bevan Braithwaite 3 [xi], 6-½ × 4-3/8, ff. 256 (20), 7 chart., syn., men., Eus. t., Am., κεφ., some τίτλ., some lect., κεφ. t. Mut. at beginning and at end after John ix. 28. Beautifully written. Bought at Athens in 1889. Collated by W. C. Braithwaite.
Codd. 237-259 are nearly all Moscow manuscripts, and were thoroughly collated by C. F. Matthaei, for his N. T., to be described in Vol. II. These Russian codices were for the most part brought from the twenty-two monasteries of Mount Athos by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nico, in the reign of Michael, son of Alexius (1645-76), and placed in the Library of the Holy Synod, at Moscow.
*237. Mosc. S. Synod 42 [x], fol., ff. 288, Matthaei's d, from Philotheus (a monastery), pict., with scholia, and Victor's commentary on St. Mark.