[79] In some MSS. called _palimpsests_, the more ancient, and to us the more valuable, writing has been partially washed away, in order that the vellum might be used again for some more recent work. In these cases it is exceedingly difficult to decipher, beneath the later and darker writing, the traces of the older writing; indeed, not unfrequently the characters are so faded that they cannot be read at all until revived by some chemical preparation. The Ephraem Codex is a MS. of this kind. [80] Commonly referred to under the symbol א, the Hebrew letter, _Aleph_. [81] Referred to as B. [82] Referred to as A. [83] Referred to as C. [84] Referred to as D of the Gospels. [85] Referred to as D of the Epistles. [86] The License for its publication was not granted until March 20, 1520. [87] Namely, his sole authority for the Apocalypse. [88] He had previously published two smaller editions (16mo), one in 1546, and another in 1549. [89] Now called the Codex Regius, and denoted by L. [90] The collation of the eight Parisian MSS. was done for him by his son Henry, then a youth of eighteen. [91] At Geneva, whither he had deemed it prudent to remove shortly after the publication of his celebrated edition of the Greek New Testament. [92] _Works_, vol. vi. p. 194. [93] The draft of this Bill is preserved in the State Paper Office (_Domestic Interreg._, Bundle 662, f. 12), and is given in full by Dr. STOUGHTON, _Church of the Commonwealth_, p. 543. [94] _Errata to the Protestant Bible_, Pref. p. 3., ed. 1737.