529. Phillipps 3886 [xi or xii], 10-½ × 8-1/8, ff. 326 (20), a beautiful copy, bought (as were Evann. 530, 532, 533) by Payne at Lord Guildford's sale. Eus. t., Carp., pict., κεφ. t., τίτλ., Am., Eus. (lect., ἀρχ., τέλη, ἀναγν. later). (Greg. 678.)
530. Phillipps 3887 [xii], 8-¼ × 6, ff. 240 (25, 26), the first four lines in SS. Matt., Mark, Luke being of gold, with pict. of the four Evangelists and nineteen others, Eus. t., Am. incomplete and irregular (no Eus.). No lect., but marginal critical notes. As in Evan. 64, a line (~) is set over Proper Names of persons in the Genealogies (see at end of Evan. 64). (Greg. 679.)
531. (Acts 199, Paul. 231, Apoc. 104.) Phillipps 7682 [xi], 6-5/8 × 5, ff. 190 (41 or 50), 2 cols. (two scribes, Hoskier; several, Greg.), the hands [pg 252] so minute as to require a magnifying glass, contains the whole New Testament, also from Lord Guildford's (871), being, like Evann. 532 and 583, to be described below, from the Hon. F. North's collection (319). The ink is a dull brown, the ornaments in blue, vermilion, and carmine. Carp., Eus. t., prol., κεφ. t., κεφ. (Gr. and Lat.), τίτλ., Am., few Eus., lect., subscr. There are many important corrections in the margin, and 18-½ pages from Epiphanius at the end. This copy has every appearance of having been made from a very ancient codex: observe the arrangement of the Beatitudes in Matt. v in single lines, as also the genealogy in Luke iii. (Greg. 680.)
532. Phillipps 7712, North 184 (see Evan. 529), [xiii], 7-½ × 5-½, ff. ?, in a large hand and very black ink, the first page being in gold, with many gold balls for stops. There is much preliminary matter, Eus. t. (two sets in different hands), pict. (Carp., prol. later), κεφ., τίτλ., Am., lect. (later), syn., men., subscr., στίχ. The text is corrected throughout by an ancient scribe, in a hand bright, clear, and small. (Greg. 681.)
533. Phillipps 7757 [xi], 6 × 4-½, ff. ?, an exquisite little manuscript, with accessories in lake, vermilion, and blue. See Evan. 529. Prol., Carp., Eus. t., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Am., Eus., subscr., vers.
Haenel is mistaken in supposing that a Greek Evangelistarium is included in this grand and unique collection.
The Parham copies of the New Testament are described in a “Catalogue of materials for writing, early writings on tablets and stones, rolled and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript books in the library of Robert Curzon (Lord de la Zouche of Harynworth, 1870-73) at Parham,” fol., 1849. This accomplished person collected them in the course of his visits to Eastern Monasteries from 1834 to 1837, and permitted me in 1855 to collate thoroughly three of them, and to inspect the rest. They were all examined by Dean Burgon, to whom his son, the present Lord de la Zouche, had given free access to them. The codices of the Gospels are eight in number.
534. (Act. 215, Paul. 233.) Parham lxxi. 6 [xi], 9 × 6-½, ff. 348 (41), contains the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, the Pauline preceding the Catholic, and was brought in 1837 from Caracalla on Athos. Prol., κεφ. t., τίτλ., Am., lect. (ἀρχ. and τέλ.), ἀναγν., subscr., στίχ., vers., syn., men. The usual arabesque ornaments are in red. (Greg. 547.)
535. Parh. lxxi. 7 [xi, Greg. x], 6-1/8 × 4-½, ff. 167 (26), brought from St. Saba in 1834. Pict., κεφ. t., illuminated headings, τίτλ., Am. (not Eus.). Mut. John xvi. 27-xix. 40. There is a musical notation on the first four leaves, and the first nine lines of St. John are in gold. (Greg. 548.)
536. Parh. lxxiii. 8 [xi], 4to, 11 × 9, ff. 198, brought from Xenophon on Athos 1837. The text is surrounded by a commentary, that on St. Mark being Victor's. Prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., lect. (ἀρχ. and τέλ.), subscr., syn., men. (Greg. 549.)