Identifier: mccluresmagazinev8mccl (find matches)
Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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n lady of Alexan-tionally thin. Each sheet measures i2f dria, in the fifth century. It was broughtby iof inches, and is written on both from Alexandria to Constantinople bysides of the sheet in two columns of faint Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople,but clear Greek characters. The Museum who in 1624 gave it into the charge ofhas bound the leaves in four volumes, the English ambassador for presentationand has had photographic copies made of to King James I. ; but owing to Jamesseach page for the use of students, in order death before the presentation could be made, it was pre-sented insteadto Charles I. Itremained in thepossession of theEnglish sover-eigns until theRoyal Librarywas presented tothe nation byGeorge II. Withthe exception ofthe greater partof Matthew toChapter xxv.,two leaves ofJohn, and threeof Second Cor-inthians, it con-tains the wholeGreek Bible, in-cluding the twoEpistlesofClem-ent o( 1\ o m e ,which in early THE UNIVERSITY lRESS, OXFORD, ENGLAND tillltS Illlltd
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334 THE MAKING OF THE BIBLE. among the inspired books. Its table of Catherine de Medici. Its discovery as a contents shows that it once included also Bible manuscript occurred in the seven- the Psalms of Solomon, though, from their teenth century. Up to that time it was position and title in the index, it is evident supposed to contain merely the writings of that they were regarded as standing apart St. Ephraem the Syrian, who wrote in the from the other books. twelfth century. But underneath these The other three manuscripts, all more writings, more or less imperfectly erased, or less incomplete, are the Codex Vati- was found a portion of the text of the Bible, canus, the Codex Sinaiticus, and the The removal of the later writing and the Codex Ephraemi. The Codex Vaticanus, restoration of the old gave the world the most ancient and most valuable of the sixty-four leaves containing portions of four, has been in the Vatican since about the Old Testament and one hundred and 1450. Napole

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