*4. Orient. 424, 4to, paper, Copt. Arab., containing Paul. Ep., Cath. Ep., Acts. At the end of the Pauline Epistles, and at the end of the Acts, are two important Arabic colophons, in which the pedigree of the MS. is given. From these we learn that both portions of this MS. were written A. Mart. 1024 (= A.D. 1308) by one Abu Said. They were copied, however, from a previous MS. in the handwriting of the patriarch Abba Gabriel and bearing the date A. Mart. 966 (= A.D. 1250). This Abba Gabriel stated that “he took great pains to copy it accurately and correct it, both as to the Coptic and Arabic texts, to the best of human ability.” This MS. of Abba Gabriel again was copied from two earlier MSS., that of the Pauline Epistles in the handwriting of Abba Yuhanna, bishop of Sammanud, that of the Catholic Epistles and Acts in the handwriting of “Jurja ibn Saksik(?) the famous scribe.” This MS. belonged to Archdeacon Tattam, and was purchased for the British Museum at the sale of his books. It is the MS. designated ’tattamianus’ in the edition of Boetticher, who made use of a collation obtained by Schwartze. The corrections in this MS. (designated t* in Boetticher) are written in red ink. 5. Oriental 1318, ff. 294, fol., 4to, Copt. Arab., dated A. Mart. 1132 = A.D. 1416. In private collections in England: *6. Parham 124 (no. 12, p. 29, in the printed Catalogue), fol., paper, Copt. Arab. Paul. Ep., Cath. Ep., Acts. There are several blank leaves at the end of the Pauline Epistles, and the numbering of the leaves begins afresh with the Catholic Epistles, so that this MS. is two volumes bound together. They are, however, companion volumes and in the same handwriting. This is doubtless the MS. of which Schwartze’s collation was used by Boetticher (_see_ above, p. 109), and which he calls “curetonianus.” I am informed that it is designated simply _cur._ by Schwartze himself. It certainly never belonged to Cureton, but was brought with the other Parham MSS. by the Hon. R. Curzon (afterwards Lord Zouche) from the East, and ever afterwards belonged to his library. Boetticher’s designation therefore is probably to be explained by a confusion of names. I gather moreover from private correspondence which I have seen, that some of Mr. Curzon’s Coptic MSS. were in the keeping of Cureton at the British Museum about the time when Schwartze’s collation was made, and this may have been one. If so, the mistake is doubly explained. I infer the identity of this MS. with the _curetonianus_ of Boetticher for the following reasons: (1) Having made all enquiries, I cannot find that Dr. Cureton ever possessed a Coptic MS. of the whole or part of the New Testament; (2) The MS. in question must have been in England, and no other English MS. satisfies the conditions. My