Excerpt from The Newberry Gospels

The material dealing with the third gospel is introduced by a preface to that gospel, in twenty-five lines. The list of chapter titles for Luke, eighty-three in all, follows. Then appears the gospel of Luke, com plete, in 342 sections. Luke is followed by a short introduction of four lines to the gospel of John; the list of chapter titles for John, eighteen in all, is next given; and, after a second introduction of thirty-six lines, the fourth gospel appears, complete, in 232 sections. With this the manuscript seems to have closed, for the dated subscription, unfor tunately undecipherable, scrawled across the foot of this last page, is certainly not by the scribe of the manuscript, and is probably due to a very much later hand. A coarse fly-leaf, added perhaps still later, is covered with characters illegible even under the glass. The whole manuscript is now protected by a handsome red morocco binding, done by F. Bedford, London, not later than 1868.

Of the source and history of the manuscript little can be said. It is briefly described in Quaritch's Catalogue of where it is num bered 9630. It was bought soon after by Mr. Henryprobasco, of Cincinnati, and in the catalogue of his collection3 substantially the same description of the little codex is presented. The book came into the possession of the Newberry Library, with much more of Mr. Pro basco's collection, on December 1, 1890, and is now in the museum of the library. In working there on the manuscript the writer has been put under many obligations to the librarians for their courtesy and helpfulness. Since its removal to Chicago, the manuscript has been collated by Mr. Edward A. Guy, his collation, which has not been pub lished, being designed, he informs me, to form a part of a larger work, on which he has long been engaged. A brief notice of the manu script, from the hand of Mr. C. E. Woodruff, of the University of Chicago, appears in the last edition (1896) of Dr. E. C. Mitchell's Critical Handbook of t/ze Greek New Testament (new York), p. 244.

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