Chapter VII: Cursive Manuscripts of the Gospels. Part I (3)

Of these copies, 265-270, Burgon states that the grand 4to Cod. 265 seems to contain an important text, 270 a peculiar text, though less beautiful externally than 266, 267, 269. Cod. 268 in double columns has _Eus. t._ very superb, but _pict._ of Evangelists only sketched in ink. Cod. 269, once belonging to Henry IV (in which the last leaf of St. Luke is missing), is in its ancient binding, and is full of very uncommon representations of Gospel incidents.

265. Par. Nat. Gr. 66 [x], 9-7/8 × 7-½, ff. 372, κεφ. _t._, τίτλ., κεφ., _Am._, _Eus._, once belonged to Philibert de la Mare.

266. Par. Nat. Gr. 67 [x], 9-½ × 6-½, ff. 282 (23), κεφ. _t._, τίτλ., κεφ., _Am._, _lect._, _subscr._, _vers._, _syn._, _men._

267. Par. Nat. Gr. 69 [x], 8 × 6-1/8, ff. 396 (19), _prol._, κεφ. _t._, _Am._, _Eus._ in same line, _lect._, ἀναγν., _subscr._, στίχ. _Mut._ Matt. i. 1-8; Mark i. 1-7; Luke i. 1-8; xxiv. 50-John i. 12.

268. Par. Nat. Gr. 73 [xii], 9-¾ × 7-¾, ff. 217 (25), 2 cols., _Carp._, _Eus. t._, κεφ. _t._, κεφ., τίτλ., _Am._, _Eus._, _lect._, _syn._, _men._, _pict._

269. Par. Nat. Gr. 74 [xi], 9-¼ × 7-¾, ff. 215 (28), _prol._, κεφ. _t._, κεφ., τίτλ., _Am._, _vers._, _pict._, _Eus. t._ (later).

270. Par. Nat. Gr. 75 [xi], 7-¼ × 5-¼, ff. 346 (19), κεφ., τίτλ., _Am._, _Eus._, _pict._, _syn._, _men._, with a mixed text.

271. Par. Nat. Gr. Suppl. Gr. 75 [xii], 8vo, 7-3/8 × 5-¼, ff. 252 (22), 2 cols., _Carp._, _Eus. t._, κεφ. _t._, τίτλ., κεφ., _Am._, _Eus._, _pict._

272. Brit. Mus. Addit. 15,581 [xii], 5-½ × 4-¾, ff. 218 (21), κεφ. _t._, κεφ., few τίτλ., _Am._, _Eus._ (mostly omitted). Once Melchisedek Thevenot’s. Gregory traces it through the Paris Nat. Library and Th. Rodd to the Brit. Museum, which purchased it.

273. Par. Nat. Gr. 79, 4to, 8-5/8 × 6-¼, ff. 201 (29-31), _Carp._, _Eus. t._, κεφ. _t._ with _harm._, κεφ., τίτλ., _Am._, _Eus._, _syn._, _men._, _subscr._, _vers._, and _syn._, _men._ again in the later hand, on vellum [xii], but partly on cotton paper [xiv] contains also some scholia, extracts from Severianus’ commentary, annals of the Gospels, a list of the Gospel parables, with a mixed text.

274. Par. Nat. Gr. Suppl. Gr. 79 [x], 9-3/8 × 6-½, ff. 232 (26), κεφ., τίτλ., _Am._, _lect._, _syn._, _men._, once belonged to Maximus Panagiotes, _protocanon_ of the Church at Callipolis (there were many places of this name: but _see_ Evan. 346). _Mut._ (but supplied in a later hand) Mark i. 1-17; vi. 21-54; John i. 1-20; iii. 18-iv. 1; vii. 23-42; ix. 10-27; xviii. 12-29. Dean Burgon had a photograph of this manuscript, which he regarded as a specimen of the transition period between uncial and cursive writing. The subscription, resembling that of Cod. L, set in the margin of Cod. 274, he judges to look as old as that of L: _see_