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INTRODUCTION
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those of the intermediate MSS which approach nearest to group A
and are most free from the corruptions of group B.
(d)
An Unclassed Fragment.
Another MS may be conveniently mentioned here, a fragment so
brief that it cannot be classed definitely, but may
intermediate text.
be set down as of
Cod. 6. (Br. M., Add. 17115.) A pair of leaves, assigned by
Dr. Wright to the ninth or tenth century, subjoined to a vellum MS
(fragmentary), of sixth century, of SS. Matthew and John. They are
numbered ff.
87, 88 ;
and on the verso of 87 is given the text of Jude
1-13 (with lacunae). A few verses of Hebr. i. are on the recto, and of
Acts vii. on f. 88. Even in this short space the text shows affinity with
that of Codd. 1
and 2, by reading ]oOwO in ver. 2, lou] in 3,* /Lu*2
lAaCU*2 in 7, and (wrongly) tOOuAwJLS in 12 : but there are other
points in which it sides with the B-group.
(iii.)
MSS of Group B (Late).
The remaining six MSS, Codd. 7, 8, 10, 15, 16, 17, form group B, and
belong in date to the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
Cod. 7.
(Br. M., Rich 7162, Catal. R.-F., xvm.)
Alone of the British Museum MSS of our list, this does not come
from the Nitrian Convent. There is no reason to question the judgment
laid down in the Rosen-Forshall Catalogue (p. 25, no. xvm) that it is
Maronite; but Dr. Wright (Catal., Appx. A, p. 1203) corrects the date
there given, and substitutes " fifteenth " for " fourteenth " century. It
is a copy (paper) of the Acts and Epistles, very carefully written, but
in text exhibiting almost uniformly the corrupt readings of
the later
MSS of this group. Yet it (along with Cod. 10) avoids the grave
blunder of Cod. 8 in reading jOll for jOll] (3 Joh. 10); also (again
with Cod. 10) it escapes the snare into which not only Cod. 8 but
even Cod. 1 and others of the better MSS have fallen in the parallel
passages,
2 Pet. ii. 13 and Jud. 2.
Cod. 8. (Bodleian Library, Oxford, Or. 119, Catal. 35).
This is the MS (Acts and Catholic Epistles, in Greek order ;
paper)
* Correct note on p. 31 accordingly.