CHAPTER XII. CURSIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE APOCALYPSE.

1. Mayhingen, Oettingen-Wallerstein [xii], 9-1/8 × 5-7/8, ff. 90 (15 last _chart._), the only one used in 1516 by Erasmus (who calls it “exemplar vetustissimum”) and long lost, contains the commentary of Andreas of Caesarea, in which the text is so completely imbedded that great care is needed to separate the one from the other. _Mut._ ch. xxii. 16-21, ending with τοῦ _δαδ_. This manuscript was happily re-discovered in 1861 by Professor F. Delitzsch at Mayhingen in Bavaria in the library of the Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein, and a critical account of it published by him (illustrated by a facsimile) in the first part of his “Handschriftliche Funde” (1861). Tregelles also, in the second part of the same work, published an independent collation of his own (with valuable ’Notes’ prefixed), which he had made at Erlangen in 1862. The identity of Apoc. 1 with the recovered copy is manifest from such _monstra_ as ἐβάπτισας ch. ii. 3, which is found in both; from the reading συνάγει ch.