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Royal MS 1 D VI

Record Id:

040-002353435

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002105724

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Royal MS 1 D VI

Title:

Codex Alexandrinus (Rahlfs A), Bible in four volumes: Volume 2 (Hosea to 4 Maccabees)

Scope & Content:

Volume 2 of 4 (see also Royal MSS 1 D. v, vii-viii). Old Testament (Hosea to 4 Maccabees). All the books have superscriptions and colophons.

Contents:

1. (f. 1v): 17th-century table of contents.

2. (ff. 2r-6r): Hosea. Superscription (f. 2r): 'Ὡσηὲ Α'. Colophon (f. 6r): 'Ὡσηὲ Α'.

3. (ff. 6v-9v): Amos. Superscription (f. 6v): 'Ἀμὼς Β'. Colophon (f. 9v): 'Ἀμὼς Β'.

4. (ff. 10r-12r): Micah. Superscription (f. 10r): 'Μιχαίας Γ'. Colophon (f. 12r): 'Μιχαίας Γ'.

5. (ff. 12v-14r): Joel. Superscription (f. 12v): 'Ἰωὴλ Δ'. Colophon (f. 14r): 'Ἰωὴλ Δ'.

6. (ff. 14r-v): Obadiah. Superscription (f. 14r): 'Ἀβδειοὺ Ε'. Colophon (f. 14v): 'Ἀβδιοὺ Ε'.

7. (ff. 14v-15v): Jonah. Superscription (f. 14v): 'Ἰονᾶς [6]'. Colophon (f. 15v): 'Ἰονᾶς προφήτης [6]'.

8. (ff. 15v-16v): Nahum. Superscription (f. 15v): 'Ναοὺμ Ζ'. Colophon (f. 16v): 'Ναοὺμ Ζ'.

9. (ff. 17r-18r): Habbakuk. Superscription (f. 17r): 'Ἀμβακοὺμ Η'. Colophon (f. 18r): 'Ἀμβακοὺμ Η'.

10. (ff. 18r-19r): Zephaniah. Superscription (f. 18r): 'Σοφονίας Θ'. Colophon (f. 19r): 'Σοφονίας Θ'.

11. (ff. 19v- Haggai. Superscription (f. 19v): 'Ἀγγαίος Ι'. Colophon (f. 20r): 'Ἀγγαίος Ι'.

12. (ff. 20v-25v): Zechariah. Superscription (f. 20v): 'Ζαχαρίας ΙΑ'. Colophon (f. 25v): 'Ζαχαρίας ΙΑ'.

13. (ff. 25v-27r): Malachi. Superscription (f. 25v): 'Μαλαχίας ΙΒ'. Colophon (f. 27r): 'Προφήτης ἄγγελος Μαλαχίας ΙΒ'.

14. (ff. 27r-65r): Isaiah. Superscription (f. 27r): 'Ἠσαίας προφήτης ΙΓ'. Colophon (f. 65r): 'Ἠσαίας προφήτης'. Folio 65v is blank.

15. (ff. 66r-86v): Jeremiah. Superscription (f. 66r): 'Ἱερεμίας'. Colophon (f. 86v): 'Ἱερεμίας προφήτης ΙΔ'.

16. (ff. 86v-89v): Baruch. Superscription (f. 86v): 'Βαρούχ'. Colophon (f. 89v): 'Βαρούχ'.

17. (ff. 89v-93r): Lamentations. Superscription (f. 89v): 'Θρῆνοι'. Colophon (f. 93r): 'Θρῆνοι Ἱερεμίου'.

18. (ff. 93r-94v): Epistle of Jeremiah (Baruch 6). Superscription (f. 93r): 'Ἐπιστολὴ Ἱερεμίου'. Colophon (f. 94v): 'Ἱερεμίας προφήτης Βαροὺχ Θρῆνοι καὶ Ἐπιστολὴ'.

19. (ff. 95r-127v): Ezekiel. Superscription (f. 95r): 'Ἐκιὴλ [sic] προφήτης ΙΕ'. Colophon (f. 127v): 'Ἰεζεκιὴλ προφήτης'.

20. (ff. 128r-29r): Daniel 13 (Susanna). Superscription (f. 128): 'Δανιὴλ'. Colophon (f. 129r): 'Ὅρασις Α'.

21. (ff. 129r-v): Daniel 1. Superscription (f. 129r): 'Ὅρασις Β'. Colophon (f. 129v): 'Ὅρασις Β'.

22. (ff. 130r-32r): Daniel 2. Superscription (f. 130r): 'Ὅρασις Γ'. Colophon (f. 132r): 'Ὅρασις Γ'.

23. (ff. 132r-33v): Daniel 3. Superscription (f. 132r): 'Ὅρασις Δ'. Colophon (f. 133v): 'Ὅρασις Δ'.

24. (ff. 133v-34v): Daniel 4. Superscription (f. 133v): 'Ὅρασις Ε'. Colophon (f. 134v): 'Ὅρασις Ε'.

25. (ff. 134v-35v): Daniel 5. Superscription (f. 134v): 'Ὅρασις [6]'. Colophon (f. 135v): 'Ὅρασις [6]'.

26. (ff. 135v-36v): Daniel 6. Superscription (f. 135v): 'Ὅρασις Ζ'. Colophon (f. 136v): 'Ὅρασις Ζ'.

27. (ff. 136v-37v): Daniel 7. Superscription (f. 136v): 'Ὅρασις Η'. Colophon (f. 137v): 'Ὅρασις Η'.

28. (ff. 137v-38r): Daniel 8. Superscription (f. 137v): 'Ὅρασις Θ'. Colophon (f. 138r): 'Ὅρασις Θ'.

29. (ff. 138r-39r): Daniel 9. Superscription (f. 138r): 'Ὅρασις Ι'. Colophon (f. 139r): 'Ὅρασις Ι'.

30. (ff. 139r-41r): Daniel 10-12. Superscription (f. 139): 'Ὅρασις ΙΑ'. Colophon (f. 141r): 'Ὅρασις ΙΑ'.

31. (ff. 141r-42r): Daniel 14 (Bel and the Dragon). Superscription (f. 141r): 'Ὅρασις ΙΒ'. Colophon (f. 142r): 'Τέλος Δανιὴλ προφήτου'. Folio 142v is blank except for an added inscription.

32. (ff. 143r-48v): Esther. Superscription was trimmed at the top of the page. Colophon (f. 148v): 'Ἐσθήρ'.

33. (ff. 149r-54r): Tobit. Superscription was trimmed at the top of the page. Colophon (f. 154r): 'Τωβείτ'.

34. (ff. 154r-62v): Judith. Superscription (f. 154r): 'Ἰουδείθ'. Colophon (f. 162v): 'Ἰουδείθ'.

35. (ff. 163r-72v): 1 Esdras. Superscription (f. 163r): 'ὁ Ἱερεύς'. Colophon (f. 172v): 'Ἔζρας Α'.

36. (ff. 172v-85v): 2 Esdras (Ezra and Nehemiah). Superscription (f. 172v): 'Ἱερεύς'. Colophon (f. 185v): 'Ἔζρας Β'.

37. (ff. 186r-207v): 1 Maccabees. Superscription (f. 186r): 'Μακκαβαίων Α'. Colophon (f. 207v): 'Μακκαβαίων Α'.

38. (ff. 207v-222v): 2 Maccabees. Superscription (f. 207v): 'Μακκαβαίων Β'. Colophon (f. 222v): 'Ἰούδα τοῦ Μακκαίου πραξέων ἐπιστολὴ'.

39. (ff. 222v-29r): 3 Maccabees. Superscription (f. 222v): 'Μακκαβαίων λόγος Γ'. Colophon (f. 229r): 'Μακκαβαίων Γ'.

40. (ff. 229r-38v): 4 Maccabees. Superscription (f. 229r): 'Μακκαβαίων Δ'. Colophon on f. 238v is no longer legible.

Decoration: Decorated tailpieces in the form of ornamental panels, at the end of major text divisions. Enlarged first letters of paragraphs standing out of the columns. The first few lines of each book are written in red ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Royal Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002105724
040-002353435

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Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts

Royal MS 1 D VI : Codex Alexandrinus (Rahlfs A), Bible in four volumes: Volume 2 (Hosea to 4 Maccabees)

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032-002105724[1899]/040-002353435

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Extent:

1 parchment codex; 238 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0400

End Date:

0499

Date Range:

5th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 320 x 280 mm (text space: 240 x 205 mm). 2 columns, generally of 50 or 51 lines; each line contains usually from 20 to 25 letters, but more are often inserted by compression at the end of the line.

Foliation: ff. 238.

Collation: Gatherings originally of 8 leaves, numbered at the top of the first page; re-bound in modern times in gatherings of 6 leaves.

Script: Uncial. Written by 2 different hands (I and II in Milne and Skeat 1938); punctuation by the original scribes.

Binding: Post-1600; gold-tooled leather with the royal arms of England and initials 'CR'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Athanasius III, patriarch of Alexandria (1276-1316), brought by him to Alexandria, between 1305 and 1315, probably from Constantinople, where he primarily resided until 1305: his note in Arabic, reading 'Bound to the Patriarchal Cell in the Fortress of Alexandria. Whoever removes it thence shall be excommunicated and cut off. Written by Athanasius the humble,' 13th/14th century (Royal MS 1 D. v, f. 5r); a similar inscription by Athanasius is included in Oxford, Bodleian Library Roe 13, the Commentaries of Hesychius and John Chrysostom on the Psalms, written on Mount Galesios, near Ephesus, in 1284/85, at the request of Galaction the Blind.

Leaves were numbered in the 14th century by Arabic numerals in the lower corners of the verso sides; this numeration has in many cases been cut away during binding.

A note in Arabic stating that the manuscript was written by Thecla the Martyr, early 17th century (Royal MS 1 D. v, f. 4v).

Cyril Lucar (1572-1638), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria as Cyril III (1602-1621) and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as Cyril I (1621-1638), brought by him from Egypt to Constantinople in 1621: Latin note in his hand stating that the manuscript was written by Thecla shortly after the Council of Nicaea of 325 (Royal MS 1 D. v, f. 2r); offered by him in 1625 to Sir Thomas Roe, English ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, as a New Year's gift to James I (b. 1566, d. 1625), king of Scotland, England, and Ireland: a letter from Sir Thomas Roe to the earl of Arundel dated 1625, mentioning the manuscript as the intended gift to the king (see The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe in his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte, from the Year 1621 to 1628, ed. by S. Richardson (London: Society for the Encouragement of Learning, 1740), p. 335).

Sir Thomas Roe (b. 1581, d. 1644), diplomat, received by him in 1627 as a gift for Charles I.

Charles I (b. 1600, d. 1649), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland: received by him in 1627 as a New Year's gift.

Added note in Latin, being an attempt to translate the Arabic note by Athanasius, stating that the manuscript was given to a patriarchate of Alexandria in 1098: 'donum datum cubiculo Patriarchali anno 814 Mrtyrum', last quarter of the 17th century (Royal MS 1 D. v, f. 1r).

Added list of contents, late 17th century (f. 1v).

Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.

Publications:

Facsimile of the Codex Alexandrinus, ed. by E. Maunde Thompson, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1876-1883).

[E. Maunde Thompson and G. F. Warner], Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1881-1884), I: Greek (1881), pp. 17-20.

Facsimiles of Biblical Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Frederic G. Kenyon (London: British Museum, 1900), no. II.

The Codex Alexandrinus (Royal MS 1 D V-VIII) in Reduced Photographic Facsimile, ed. by Frederick G. Kenyon, 5 vols (London: British Museum, 1909-1957).

G. Mercati, 'Un'oscura nota del Codice Alessandrino', in Mélanges offert à M. Emile Chatelain (Paris, 1910), pp. 79-82.

George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, p. 17.

H. I. Bell, Recent Discoveries of Biblical Papyri: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford on 18 November 1936 (Oxford: Clarendon press, 1937), pp. 13-15.

H. J. M. Milne and T. C. Skeat, Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus (London: British Museum, 1938), pp. 91-93, pls 10-43.

William Henry Paine Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1939), pls xvii-xix.

Giovanni Mercati, 'I Codici Greci di Abramo Massad Maronita', in Miscellanea Biblica et Orientalia R. P. Athanasio Miller oblata, Studia Anselmiana, 27-28 (1951), 15-37 (pp. 34-35).

H. J. M. Milne and T. C. Skeat, The Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus, 2nd edn (London: British Museum, 1955), pp. 30-40.

T. C. Skeat, 'The Provenance of the Codex Alexandrinus', The Journal of Theological Studies, 6 (1955), 233-35 (pp. 233-34).

Guiglielmo Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (Florence: Le Monnier, 1967), pp. 77-81.

Carl Nordenfalk, Die spätantiken Zierbuchstaben (Stockholm, 1970), pp. 106-13, figs 25-29, 31.

T. S. Pattie, Manuscripts of the Bible: Greek Bibles in the British Library (London: British Library, 1979), pp. 23-27.

Bruce M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Greek Palaeography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), no. 18 [with additional bibliography].

Robert G. Calkins, Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages (London: Thames & Hudson, 1983), p. 19.

Otto Pächt, Buchmalerei des Mittelalters (Munich: Prestel, 1984), pp. 46, 63, il. 50.

G. Cavallo and H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period A.D. 300-800 (London, 1987), p. 56.

J. K. Elliott, A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 32-34.

John Lowden, The Octateuchs: A Study in Byzantine Manuscript Illustration (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992), p. 2.

Thomas S. Pattie, 'The Creation of the Great Codices', in The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition, ed. by John L. Sharpe III and Kimberly Van Kampen (London: British Library), pp. 61-72 (pp. 69-70).

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, vol. 1 (London: British Library 1999), pp. 223-24.

The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), p. lxxxvii.

Scot McKendrick, 'The Codex Alexandrinus: On the Dangers of being a Named Manuscript', in The Bible as Book: The Transmission of the Greek Text, ed. by Scot McKendrick and O. A. O'Sullivan (London: British Library & New Castle, 2003), pp. 1-16.

Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, Bible Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), no. 8.

Kathleen Doyle, ''Preserved and transmitted for the good of posterity': The Transfer of the Old Royal Library from a Palace to a Museum' in 1000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts, ed. by Kathleen Doyle and Scot McKendrick (London: British Library, 2013), pp. 179-212 (pp. 187, 189-90, 197, 202).

W. Andrew Smith, A Study of the Gospels in Codex Alexandrinus: Codicology, Palaeography, and Scribal Hands, New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents, 48 (Leiden: Brill, 2014).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Athanasius III, Patriarch of Alexandria, fl 1276-1316
Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1600-1649
George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1683-1760
Lucaris, Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, afterwards Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1572-1638
Roe, Thomas, Knight, diplomat, 1581-1644

Related Material:

Entry in George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), I, p. 17:

'1 D. v-viii

BIBLE, in Greek (CODEX ALEXANDRINUS). Four vols. The following is the order of the books: --

Vol. I (1 D. v).

Table of Books. f. 4.

Genesis. f. 5.

Exodus. f. 38.

Leviticus. f. 63 b.

Numbers. f. 82.

Deuteronomy. f. 107.

Joshua. f. 129.

Judges. f. 145 b.

Ruth. f. 162 b.

1 Kings. f. 165.

2 Kings. f. 185.

3 Kings. f. 202.

4 Kings. f. 225.

1 Chronicles. f. 244.

2 Chronicles. f. 259 b.

Vol. II (1 D. vi).

Hosea. f. 2.

Amos. f. 6 b.

Micah. f. 10.

Joel. f. 12 b.

Obadiah. f. 14.

Jonah. f. 14 b.

Nahum. f. 15 b.

Habakkuk. f. 17.

Zephaniah. f. 18.

Haggai. f. 16 b.

Zechariah. f. 20 b.

Malachi. f. 25 b.

Isiah. f. 27.

jeremiah. f. 56.

Baruch. f. 86 b.

Lamentations. f. 89 b.

Epistle of Jeremiah (=Baruch vi). f. 93.

Ezekiel. f. 95.

Daniel. f. 128.

Esther. f. 143.

Tobit. f. 149.

Judith. f. 154.

1 Esdras. f. 163.

2 Esdras [=Ezra and Nehemiah]. f. 172 b.

1 Maccabees. f. 186.

2 Maccabees. f. 207 b.

3 Maccabees. f. 222 b.

4 Maccabees. f. 229.

Vol. III (1 D. vii).

Epistle of Athanasius to Marcellinus on the Psalms (Migne, Patr. Graec. xxvii. 11-46). f. 2.

Ὑποθέσεις Εὐσεβίοθ τοῦ Παμφίλου (sc. table of contents of Psalms, cf. Migne, Patr. Graec. xxiii. 65-72); followed by κανόνεσ ἡμερινῶν and κανόνεσ νθκτερινῶν ψαλμῶν. f. 10.

Psalter, followed by the 151st Psalm (beg. μικρὸς ἤμην ἐν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς μου); with colophon ψαλμοὶ ρν καὶ ἰδιόγραφος α. f. 12.

Canticles, viz. (1) hymn of Moses (Exod. xv. 1-19); (2) song of Moses (Deut. xxxii. 1-43); (3) song of Hannah (1 Kings ii. 1-10); (4) song of Hezekiah (sic, i.e. Isa. xxvi. 9-20); (5) prayer of Jonah (Jonah ii. 3-10); (6) prayer of Habakkuk (Hab. iii); (7) prayer of Hezekiah (Isa. xxxviii. 10-20); (8) prayer of Manasses; (9) prayer of Azariah (Song of the Three Children, 2-21 = Dan. iii. 26-51 in Sept.); (10) ὕμνος τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν (ib. 29-68); (11) Magnificat (Luke i. 46-55); (12) Nunc Dimittis (Luke ii. 29-32); (13) Benedictus (Luke i. 68-79); (14) ὕμνος ἑωθινός (beg. δόξα ἐν ὑψίστοις θεῷ, ends τοῖς γινώσκουσίν σε). f. 44.

Job. f. 49.

Proverbs. f. 64 b.

Ecclesiastes. f. 78.

Song of Solomon. f. 83.

Wisdom. f. 86.

Ecclesiasticus. f. 95.

Vol. IV (1 D. viii).

Matthew, wanting κεφάλαια and ch. i. 1-xxv. 6. f. 2.

Table of κεφάλαια to Mark, 48 in number. f. 5 b.

Mark. f. 6.

κεφάλαια to Luke, 83 in number. f. 19.

Luke. f. 20.

κεφάλαια to John, 18 in number. f. 42.

John. f. 42.

Acts. f. 56.

James. f. 76.

1 Peter. f. 78.

2 Peter. f. 80.

1 John. f. 81 b.

2 John. f. 83 b.

3 John f. 84.

Jude. f. 84.

Romans. f. 85.

1 Corinthians. f. 92 b.

2 Corinthians. f. 99 b.

Galatians. f. 101 b.

Ephesians. f. 104.

Philippians. f. 107.

Colossians. f. 108 b.

1 Thessalonians. f. 110 b.

2 Thessalonians. f. 112.

Hebrews. f. 113.

1 Timothy. f. 119.

2 Timothy. f. 121.

Titus. f. 123.

Philemon. f. 124.

Revelation. f. 125.

1 Clement. f. 134.

2 Clement. f. 143.

Ends imperfectly, with the words οὔτε ἄρσεν οὔτε θῆλθ. τοῦτ' (2 Clem. 12, § 5). The rest of 2 Clement is lost, together with the Psalms of Solomon, the title of which appears at the end of the table of contents in vol. i, f. 4, though separated by a space from the rest. The following leaves are also lost; one after vol. i, f. 171, containing 1 Kings xii. 20-xiv. 9; nine after vol. iii, f. 25, containing Psalms xlix. [l.] 20-lxxix. [lxxx.] 10; twenty-five at the beginning of vol. iv, containing the κεφάλαια of Matthew and Matt. i-xxv. 6; two after f. 46, containing John vi. 50-viii. 52; three after f. 100, containing 2 Cor. iv. 13-xii. 6; and one after f. 142, containing 1 Clem. 57, § 6-63, § 4. the Psalms and the following books of the Old Testament are written στιχηρῶς. All the books have superscriptions and colophons, generally in a different hand from the text. The Eusebian canons and Ammonian sections are indicated in the margins of the Gospels.

Vellum; ff. 279, 238, 118, 144. 12 5/8 in. x 10 3/8 in. V cent., probably in the first half of it. Gatherings originally of 8 leaves, numbered at the top of the first page; re-bound in modern times in gatherings of 6 leaves. Written probably by five different hands, in double columns, generally of 50 or 51 lines; each line contains usually from 20 to 25 letters, but more are often inserted by compression at the end of the line. The first few lines of each book are written in red ink. Punctuation by the original scribes; and the first letter of the first complete line of each paragraph is enlarged and (except in vol. iii) stands in the margin. No accents or breathings except a few added by a later hand. The leaves were numbered in Arabic numerals of the 14th cent. in the lower corners of the verso sides; but this numeration has in many cases been cut away by the binders. On f. 5 a note in Arabic by 'Athanasius the humble' [probably Athanasius III, Patriarch of Alexandria, d. circ. 1308] states that the MS. was given to the Patriarchal cell in Alexandria. A note on f. 1 in a 17th cent. hand says that this gift was made in the year 814 of the era of the Martyrs [=A.D. 1098], but there seems to be no authority for this statement. Another Arabic note of the 13th or 14th cent. (f. 4 b) states (according to a Latin translation appended in the hand of Dr. Richard Bentley, Royal Librarian in 1693-1724) that the MS. was written by Thecla the Martyr; and a Latin note (f. 2) by Cyril Lucar [Patriarch of Alexandria 1602-1621, and of Constantinople 1621-1638] repeats this assertion as a tradition, with the addition that Thecla was a noble lady of Egypt, that the MS. was written shortly after the Council of Nicaea [A.D. 325], and that Thecla's name was originally written at the end of the MS. (which, however, was lost before Cyril's time). The authority for this tradition is quite unknown. Cyril Lucar apparently removed the MS. from Alexandria to Constantinople, and offered it to Sir Thomas Roe, English Ambassador at Constantinople, as a gift for James I, and subsequently, on the death of James, transferred the gift to Charles I. The MS. was actually delivered to Sir T. Roe in Jan. 1626/7. The Old Testament was first edited in full by J. E. Grabe, 1707-1720, subsequently by H. H. Baber in 1816-1821 in quasi-facsimile type; the New Testament by C. G. Woide in 1786 and B. H. Cowper in 1860; the Clementine Epistles by Patrick Young in 1633, and subsequently by many others (cf. esp. J. B. Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers, part i, 1890). The Clementine epistles were photographed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum in 1856, and an autotype facsimile of the whole MS. was published by the Keeper of MSS. The first volume (containing the N. T.) of a facsimile on a reduced scale, with introduction by F. G. Kenyon, appeared in 1909. For full descriptions of the MS. see Thompson's introduction to vol. i of the facsimile, and Cat. of Ancient MSS. in the Brit. Mus., part i, pp. 17-20; and for a facsimile of 1 D. viii, f. 92, pl. 12 of this Catalogue'.

The 'Athanasius the humble' referred to above is Athanasius III, patriarch of Alexandria (1276-1316).

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