14. It only remains to say a few words about the _notation_ adopted to indicate the several classes of manuscripts of the Greek Testament. These classes are six in number; that containing the Gospels (_Evangelia_ or _Evan._), or the Acts and Catholic Epistles (_Act._ and _Cath._), or the Pauline Epistles (_Paul._), or the Apocalypse (_Apoc._), or Lectionaries of the Gospels (_Evangelistaria_ or _Evst._), or those of the Acts and Epistles (_Apostolos_ or _Apost._). When one manuscript (as often happens) belongs to more than one of these classes, its distinct parts are numbered separately, so that a copy of the whole New Testament will appear in four lists, and be reckoned four times over. All critics are agreed in distinguishing the documents written in the uncial character by capital letters; the custom having originated in the accidental circumstance that the Codex Alexandrinus was designated as Cod. A in the lower margin of Walton’s Polyglott. Lectionaries in uncial letters are not marked by capitals, but by Arabic numerals, like cursive manuscripts of all classes(101). Of course no system can escape some attendant evils. Even the catalogue of the later manuscripts is often upon its first appearance full of mis-statements, of repetitions and loose descriptions, which must be remedied and supplied in subsequent examination, so far as opportunity is granted from time to time. In describing the uncials (as we purpose to do in the two next chapters) our course is tolerably plain; but the lists that comprise the last eight chapters of this volume, and which respectively detail the cursive manuscripts and the Lectionaries of the Greek Testament, must be regarded only as an approximation to what such an enumeration ought to be, though much pains and time have been spent upon them: the comparatively few copies which seem to be sufficiently known are distinguished by an asterisk from their less fortunate kindred.