A Guide to the Principal Manuscripts, Early Printed Books, Autograph Letters, Etc: Contained in the Auckland Free Public Library (Classic Reprint)

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In Biblical Manuscripts (with the exception of a small fragment of a Psalter in Greek, on papyrus, of about the end of the Third Century, now in the British Museum), the oldest known is the Cottonian Genesis. This ms. Consisted of 165 quarto leaves, written in uncial Greek about the Fourth Century, with 250 miniatures illustrating the text. Unfortunately, it was burnt in the fire which destroyed a large portion of the Cottonian Collection in 1731, and only a mass of blackened fragments now remains. The text.

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