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Specintina Codicum Graecorum Vaticanorum. Colle g erunt Pius Franciscus de' Cavalieri et

Johannes Lietzmann. (Parker and Son, Oxford.)—Here are fifty specimens of Greek manuscripts vary- ing in date from the fourth to the sixteenth century. The first is from the Vatican Bible (fourth century), the second from Dio Cassius (Efth century). These and the two following, both theo- logical, are in uncials. No. V. is also theological (eighth-ninth century). This is in cursive. No. VI. is from Gregory the Great, a very clear hand, probably about 800 A.D., also uncial; No. VII. is mixed; No. IX. is from Plato in a very elegant script; No. L. is beautifully written. The scribe was bound to do his best when he had to compete with typo : it bears the date of 1565.