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...very important contribution to the study of archaeology will be the forthcoming publication of a reproduction in facsimile of the Codex Venetus of Aristophanes. The publication will be undertaken upon the joint responsibility of the Archaeological Institute of America and the English Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Introduction to this reproduction of the Codex Venetus is by Professor J. W. White of the Greek Department, who is president of the Archaeological Institute of America...
...Codex Venetus of Aristophanes is a manuscript generally assigned to the twelfth century, containing 172 leaves, which measure 11 1-4 by 8 1-2 inches. It contains only seven plays (Plutus, Clouds, Frogs, Knights, Birtis, Peace, and Wasps), but is held to be superior to the "Ravennas" manuscript in the character of its text and in the importance of the scholia which fill the margins of its pages. These scholia have not been readily accessible to scholars hitherto, and the publication of this facsimile will meet a long felt need. It is proposed to issue two hundred copies...
...Regulations of the Faculty of Harvard College" are out and present many new and entertaining features. A hasty comparison of the last year's "codex" with the present one may be of interest to those who have not time to make the comparison for themselves...
...restored many of the manuscripts taken from Heidelberg. The whole number of Greek, Latin and Oriental manuseripts now in the Library is 23,580, being the finest collection in the world. It also contains 30,000 beoks. among the large number of manuscript treasures which the Library contains the "Codex Vaticanus," or the "Bible of the End of the Fourth or Beginning of the Fifth Century," in Greek, and containing the oldest authentic version of the Septuagint and the first Greek version of the new Testament, is perhaps the most valuable. The "Cicero de Republica," the celebrated Palimpset discov...