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Excerpt from The Four Gospels From The Codex Corbeiensis: Being The First Complete Edition Of The Ms. Now Numbered Lat. 17225 in The National Library At Paris; Together With Fragments Of The Catholic Epistles, Of The Acts And Of The Apocalypse From The Fleury Palimpsest
The early history of the ms. Is involved in utter Obscurity. The copyist left no record of his name or environment. His work shows him unacquainted with the Latin language.
The ms. Belonged anciently to the Benedictine Monastery of Corbey near Amiens - once the home of many precious records of the early Christian ages 1. It entered in comparatively recent times into the Bibliotheque Royale, whose red stamp it bears on its last page. It has now found a home in the Bibliotheque Nationale, where it is numbered Lat.
The Codex has lost three out of eight quires in St. Matthew. The first three quires have perished down to xi. 16 (not xi. 6 as Belsheim says). The first leaves Of ancient mss. Seem most exposed to loss: e has lost its first five quires. Two leaves are missing from St. John containing xvii. 15 - xviii. 9 and xx. 2 3 - xxi. 8 respectively. Three leaves are wanting in St. Luke two Of these were consecutive and contained ix. 45 - x. 20 the third contained xi. 45 - xii. 6. Happily St. Mark is complete except that three leaves - the last two and the third of Quire xxvi - are mutilated. The first two extant leaves of St. Matthew are also slightly mutilated 2.
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