¹ I would express my gratitude to the Master of Jesus College, Mr. Arthur Gray, and to Professor F. C. Burkitt for their generous assistance, and acknowledge the kind help of my friend Mr. R. A. Bowman in going over the books in the library.

² See Ropes, J. H., ‘The Reconstruction of the Torn Leaf of Codex Bezae,’ Harvard Theological Review, April, 1923, pp. 163–168.CrossRefGoogle Scholar [The more perfect knowledge of the statements of Dickinson, which now completes all the available evidence, fortunately does not make necessary any change in my reconstruction. J. H. R.]

³ Wetstein, J. J., Novum Testamentum Graecum, 1751; Prolegomena, p. 58.Google Scholar It seems probable from Michaelis's account that de Missy's collation was a copy of Jackson's. To it Wetstein must have added, either from the MS. itself or from hearsay, knowledge of the Arabic note, for no mention is made of this in Jackson's collation. See Michaelis, J. D., Introduction to the New Testament, English translation with notes by Marsh, Herbert, Cambridge, 1793, vol. II, 1, p. 359; vol. II, 2, p. 826.Google Scholar

⁴ C. B. Gregory, Textkritik des N. T., vol. III, p. 1097; Die griechischen Handschriften des N. T., Leipzig, 1908, pp. 52, 200.Google Scholar

⁵ Sutton, John, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Reverend Mr. John Jackson, London, 1764, pp. 257 ff.Google Scholar

⁶ An D. 1745. Var. Lect. Codicis MS. membranei ex Bibliotheca Burleiensi nobilissimi comitis de Winchilsea numquam antea descripti. Codex exaratus videtur (quantum ex forma literarum et aliis indicibus conjectare licet) circiter medium decimi seculi octingentis abhinc annis.

⁷ I am indebted to Professor Burkitt for this description of the MS.

⁸ Dictionary of National Biography, vol. XIX, p. 11.