540. Parh. lxxvii. 12 [xiii], 8-½ × 6, ff. 304 (21), brought from St. Saba in 1834. Externally uninteresting, with decorations in faded lake, κεφ. _t._, κεφ., τίτλ., _subscr._, στίχ. (Greg. 553.) 541. Parh. lxxviii. 13 [A.D. 1272], 5-¾ × 4-½, ff. 230 (21). A facsimile is given in the Catalogue. This “singularly rough little object” was bought at St. Saba in 1834 for ten dollars. Κεφ., τίτλ., _lect._ (Greg. 554.) *542. lscr. (Act. 188, Paul. 258.) Wordsworth [xiii], 4to, ff. 231, was bought in 1837 by Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, and bears a stamp “Bibliotheca Suchtelen” (Russian Ambassador at Stockholm). Κεφ. _t._, τίτλ., _Am._, _lect._, _syn._, _men._, _prol._ or ὑποθέσεις are prefixed to the Epistles, and scholia of Chrysostom, &c. set in the margin. (Greg. 479.) *543. qscr. (Act. 187, Paul. 257.) Theodori, from the name of the scribe [A.D. 1295], 8vo, ff. 360, passed from Caesar de Missy into the Duke of Sussex’s library: in 1845 it belonged to the late Wm. Pickering, the much-respected bookseller: its present locality is unknown. _Syn._, _Carp._, _Eus. t._, κεφ. _t._, κεφ., _Am._, _lect._, ὑποθέσεις or _prol._, and _syn._ before Act. and all Epp., Euthalius περὶ χρόνων, _men._ after St. Jude; it has many later changes made in the text. (Greg. 483.) 544. Ashburnham 204 [xiii], 4to, ff. 104, “a piteous fragment,” brought from Greece by the Earl of Aberdeen, and bought at his sale. It contains only Matt. xxv. 32-5, 40, 41-xxviii. 20; Mark i. 4-xv. 47 (but defective throughout); Luke i. 1-xxiv. 48; John i. 1-ii. 4: about Luke vi a different hand was employed. There is no heading to St. Luke’s Gospel, but a blank space is left, so that perhaps the MS. was never finished. Κεφ. _t._, κεφ., τίτλ., _Am._, _Eus._ (partially). (Greg. 671.) The Baroness Burdett-Coutts imported in 1870-2 from Janina in Epirus upwards of one hundred manuscripts, chiefly Greek and theological, among which are sixteen copies of the Gospels or parts of them, three of the Acts, two of the Catholic, and three of St. Paul’s Epistles, one of the Apocalypse, sixteen Evangelistaria and five Praxapostoli. Those marked I and II are deposited in the Library of Sir Roger Cholmely’s School, Highgate; those marked III are in the Baroness’s possession. The copies of the Gospels are— *545. B.-C. I. 3 [xii], 7-3/8 × 5-5/8, ff. ? _Mut._ John x. 1-xii. 10; xv. 24-xxi. 25. _Carp._, _Eus. t._, κεφ. _t._, τίτλ., κεφ., _Am._, _Eus._, _pict._, _lect._, _vers._ (Greg. 532.) *546. B.-C. I. 4 [xii], 6-¾ × 5-3/8, ff. ?, a fine copy. _Mut._ Matt. i. 1-ix. 13, with gilded illuminations. _Syn._, κεφ. _t._, τίτλ., _Am._ (not _Eus._), _lect._, iambic verses. (Greg. 533.)