_Note._ Of the three large uncials which contain the Apocalypse, אA are complete, but C has lost 171 verses out of 405. In the 286 places wherein the three are available, and Lachmann, Tregelles, and Tischendorf, one or all, depart from the Received text, אAC agree fifty-two times, אA seventeen, אC twenty-six, AC eighty-two, and this last combination supplies the best readings: א stands alone twenty-three times, A fifty-nine, C twenty-seven. When C has failed us אA agree fifty-two times and differ eighty-eight. CHAPTER VII. CURSIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE GOSPELS. PART I. The later manuscripts of the Greek Testament, written in cursive characters from the tenth down to the fifteenth century or later, are too numerous to be minutely described in an elementary work like the present. We shall therefore speak of them with all possible brevity, dwelling only on a few which present points of especial interest, and employing certain abbreviations, a list of which we subjoin for the reader’s convenience(225). _Abbreviations used in the following Catalogue._ _Act._ MS. of Acts and Catholic Epistles. _Am._ Ammonian Sections (so-called) in the margin of MSS. _Apoc._ MS. of the Apocalypse. _Apost._ MS. of Apostolos. Ἀναγν. Ἀναγνώσματα or ἀναγνώσεις, readings or lections: here marks of the lections in the margin or at the head or foot of pages, or the computation of them at the end of the book. _Argent._ Written in silver letters, either capitals or all. Ἀρχή and τέλος, see _Lect._ _Aur._ Written in gold letters, either capitals (_l._ _l._) or all. _Carp._ Epistle to Carpianus. _Chart._ Written on paper. _Chart._ by itself = linen paper. _Chart. b._ = _bombycina_, or cotton paper. _Cols._ Columns. When the MS. is written only in one, no notice is given. _Coll._ Collated. _Curs._ Cursive MSS. _Eus._ Eusebian Canons standing in the margin under Ammonian Sections. _Eus. t._ Tables of so-called Eusebian Canons prefixed to the Gospels. _Euthal._ κεφ. Euthalian κεφάλαια found in Acts and Epistles. _Evan._ Evangelia. _Evst._ Evangelistaria. Ff. _Folia_, or leaves. The figures in brackets immediately appended denote the number of lines on a page. _Harm._ Harmony, sometimes given with κεφ. t. _Insp._ Inspected. Κεφ. Letters in the margin denoting the κεφάλαια _majora_. Κεφ. _t._ Tables of κεφ. prefixed to each book. _Lect._ Notices of proper lessons for feasts, &c., in the margin, or above, or below, or interspersed with the text. Often marked with ἀρχή and τέλος at beginning and end. _Membr._ On vellum. _Men._ A menology, or calendar, of Saints’ Days at the beginning or end of a book. _Mus._ Musical notes, especially in Evangelistaria. _Mut._ That the copy is mutilated. _Orn._ Ornamented. _Paul._ MS. of St. Paul’s Epistles.