In the _Chronicon Paschale_ there is a note on the reading τρίτη for ἕκτη in John xix. 14, to the following effect:—καθὼς τὰ ἀκριβῆ βιβλία περιέχει _αὐτό τε τὸ ἰδιόχειρον τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ_, ὅπερ μέχρι τοῦ νῦν πεφύλακται χάριτι θεοῦ ἐν τῇ Ἐφεσίων ἁγιωτάτῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν πιστῶν ἐκεῖσε προσκυνεῖται. Bengel himself said on 1 John v. 7:—“Et tamen etiam atque etiam sperare licet, si non autographum Johanneum, at alios vetustissimos codices graecos, qui hanc periocham habeant, in occultis providentiae divinae forulis adhuc latentes, suo tempore productum iri.” (N.T. 420, 602, 770.) In disproof of an alleged autograph of Peter, see Lagarde, _Aus dem deutschen Gelehrtenleben_, Göttingen, 1880, p. 117 f. On legends of this sort among the Polish Jews, on the autograph copy of the Proverbs that Solomon sent to the Queen of Sheba, and now in the possession of the Queen of England, etc., _vide_ S. Schechter, _Die Hebraica in der Bibliothek des Britischen Museums_, in the _Jüdisches Literatur-Blatt_ for 1888, No. 46. At the Sixth Ecumenical Council of 680-1, which Harnack (_DG._ ii. 408) says might be called the “Council of Antiquaries and Palaeographers”, investigations were instituted in this department with some success. J. G. Berger, _De Autographis Veterum_, Vitenb., 1723. 4^o. J. R. Harris, _New Testament Autographs_ (Supplement to the _American Journal of Philology_, No. 12), Baltimore, 1882. With three plates. In this connection reference might be made to the falsifications of Constantine Simonides: _Facsimiles of certain portions of the Gospel of St. Matthew, and of the Epistles of St. James and St. Jude, written on papyrus of the first century_. London, 1862. Fol. [Sidenote: Manuscripts.] Seeing, then, that the autographs of the New Testament books have all perished, we have to do as in the case of the Greek and Latin classics, viz. apply to later copies of them, the so-called =manuscripts= of which frequent mention has already been made. But while in the case of most literary products of antiquity these manuscript copies are the _only_ sources whence we may derive our knowledge of them, we are happily more fortunate in regard to the New Testament. [Sidenote: Versions.]