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letter of the 9 th of this month , the Trustees of the British Museum have c&irefMly inquired into the expense tvliieh may probably be incurred , by carrying into execution the work to Which your Lordship refers .
It appears that the total expense bt printing two hundred and fifty copies , representing by close imitation the ancient Manuscript of the Old Testament deposited in the British Museum , and entitled The Goiter Ai ' e ^ &ndrinus * wil l amount to
seven thousand three hundred and thirty-nitre pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence . The Trustees bieg leave further to state to your Lordship , for hisRoyal
Hlgfoness ' s information , that it appears to them to be ve * -y important tMt the work should be completed in as sfiort a tiltie as toay be consistent with the accurate execution
of it . Mr , Baber will engage to finish it in nine fears . The Trustees recommend the purchase of paper for the Whole t ^ dirk in the first instaM £ . ( Signed ) C . Cantuar . The Viscount Sidtnouth , &c . &c . &c .
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MEMORIAL . To iris Roval Highness George , Prinee of Wales , Regent of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland , The Memorial of Henry Hervey Baber , Clerk , M . A . ( late of All Souls College , Oxford ) , Keeper of the printed Books in the British
Museum , humbly slioweth , That there is deposited in the Royal Library of Manuscripts in the British Museum a Greek Manuscript of the Ofd and New Testament , called the Codex
Alexandrinus , which , with the exception of its rival in antiquity , the Codex Vaticanus , formerly belonging to the Papa ! Library at Rome , but now in the National Library at Paris , is by many centuries the mostaftcient copjr pf the Sacred Scripture that hafhl tseaprtl tW \** ectf of fSini , and the malice of adversaries .
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That this Manuscript , after it had been the revered treasure of tha Greek Church for several hundred years , was in the year 1628 presented by Cyril Lucar , Patriarch of Constantinople , to his Majesty King Charles the First , with the piom view of placing this invaluable
record of Christianity in a country where it would not only be beyond the reach of the j ealous fury of Mahometan superstition , to which it was hourly exposed in a land of deluded infidels , but moreover be honoured and preserved with the most religious care .
That the ravages which age has made upon this Manuscript , the gradual decay which beyond the possibility of human prevention must continue to invade it , and the casualties \ vhich mav in one fatal
moment annihilate it , notwithstanding the utmost vigilance for its preser * vat ion , have been considerations which have led the pious and the learned frequently and earnestly to wish that the sacred contents of so
venerable and important a record of Reyelation should , whilst opportunity offers , be rescued by some means or other from the chances of total destruction , and transmitted to posterity in the most exact manner possible .
That to effect this desirable purpose it has been recommended by scholars of high repfifation to publish a fac-simile of this invaluable Manuscript , so scrupulously exact , that it should be printed hot oply
page for page , Kite lor line , letter for Fetter , without intervals between the words , as in the Manuscript itself , and in types resembling the characters of the original y but that even the obliterations occasioned by
time or accident , arid the alteration * and restorations made by some' ancient or more recent hand , should be all particularly specified . That this method has been most
satisfactorily accomplished with respect to ttiat portion of ttie'Codex AlexandVinns which embraces the New Testament , by Dr . Wbide , In the year 1786 j and that a fac-sum !«
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556 Iftfttiigenee . —Cbdex AlexandrinttS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/62/
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