What a vast number of manuscripts are still waiting to be examined is shown by the account given by Dr. von der Goltz. Accompanied by Dr. G. Wobbermin, he made a journey to Athos in the winter of 1897-98, and there in that ancient Monastery, the Laura of St. Athanasius, he found, among about 1800 manuscripts altogether, including Lectionaries, some 250 codices of the New Testament, of which only a very few have been noted by Gregory. And these manuscripts may be of the very utmost importance, as witness the further statement of the same explorer. He was looking through the manuscripts of the Apostolos, to which he and his companion had to give most of their attention, when his eye fell on one written in the tenth or eleventh century, containing the following note before the Pauline Epistles: γεγράφθαι ἀπὸ ἀντιγράφου παλαιοτάτου, οὗ πεῖραν ἐλάβομεν ὡς ἐπιτετευγμένου ἐκ τῶν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλθόντων Ὠριγένους τόμων ἢ ὁμιλιῶν εἰς τὸν ἀπόστολον ... ἐν οἷς οὖν παραλλάττει ῥητοῖς πρὸς τὰ νῦν ἀποστολικά, διπλῆν τὴν λεγομένην παρεθήκαμεν ἔξωθεν, ἵνα μὴ νομισθῇ κατὰ προσθήκην ἢ λεῖψιν ἡμαρτῆσθαι τουτὶ τὸ ἀποστολικόν. And from the subscription at the end of the Pauline Epistles we learn that the manuscript, or, as von der Goltz believes, the exemplar from which it was copied, was written by a monk called Ephraim. See further in von der Goltz, _Eine textkritische Arbeit des zehnten bezw. sechsten Jahrhunderts herausgegeben nach einem Kodex des Athosklosters Lawra. Mit einer Doppeltafel in Lichtdruck._ Leipzig, 1899. (Texte und Untersuchungen, Neue Folge, ii. 4); and compare below, p. 190. LITERATURE.—On 2^{evv}, see Hoskier, above, p. 5. On 13, see W. H. Ferrar, _Collation of four important Manuscripts of the Gospels_, edited by T. K. Abbott, Dublin, 1877. J. P. P. Martin, _Quatre manuscrits du N. T., auxquels on peut ajouter un cinquième_, Amiens, 1886. J. R. Harris, _On the Origin of the Ferrar Group_, London, 1894. K. Lake, “Some new members of the Ferrar Group of MSS. of the Gospels,” in the _Journal of Theological Studies_, I. i. pp. 117-120. The well-known manuscript of the pre-Lutheran German Bible, the Codex Teplensis, has the words from John viii. 2, “in the morning he came again into the temple,” after Luke xxi. 38, an arrangement similar to that which is characteristic of the Ferrar Group, in which John vii. 53-viii. 11 is found after Luke xxi. 38. See S. Berger, _Bull. Crit._, 1894, p. 390. See _Addenda_, p. xv. On 561, Codex Algerinae Peckover, see J. R. Harris in the _Journal of the Exegetical Society_, 1886, 79-96. On 892^{evv}, see Harris, “An Important Manuscript of the N. T.” in the _Journal of Biblical Literature_, ix., 1890, 31 ff. On Minuscules of the Apocalypse, see Bousset, _Textkritische Studien_ in _T. und U._, xi. 4. C. R. Gregory, “Die Kleinhandschriften des N. Testaments” (_Theologische Studien für B. Weiss._, Göttingen, 1897, 274-283).