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CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION
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| 332. | Value of Secondary documentary evidence as proving readings not to be individualisms, and throwing back their age; | 252 |
| 333. | its special value when it includes mixed documents (e.g. cursives) having an ancient element; | 252 |
| 334. | recognition of their weight in Non-Syrian readings being consistent with neglect of their Syrian readings | 253 |
| 335. | Illustration of the composite texts of mixed documents from E3, a transcript of the Western D2 made after D2 had been partially assimilated to the Syrian text by correctors, | 254 |
| 336. | as exemplified by Rom. xv 31 ff., which shews incomplete copying of an incompletely assimilated text; and consequent survival of some Western readings: | 254 |
| 337. | comparison of E3 as interpreted by D2 with E3 as it would appear if D2 were lost a key to the doubleness of text in other mixed documents, warranting neglect of all readings not discrepant from the current or Syrian text; | 255 |
| 338. | such neglect being the only means of avoiding much positive error | 255 |
| 339. | Cumulative absence of attestation by late mixed documents proved unimportant by the numerous certain readings which have no such attestation | 256 |
| H. 340—346. Determination of text where B is absent | 256—263 | |
| 340. | Three portions of text in which Β (or its fundamental text) is wanting | 256 |
| 341. | (1) Variations including Western readings supported by B in the Pauline Epistles: difficulty of distinguishing Alexandrian from genuine readings opposed to largely attested readings of BD2G3: | 257 |
| 342. | possible but rarely probable Western origin of readings of אBD2G3 | 258 |
| 343. | (2) Parts of Ρauline Epistles for which B is defective: difficulty noticed under the last head repeated; also of detecting readings answering to subsingular readings of Β: absolute authority of א not increased by its relative preeminence | 259 |
| 344. | (3) Apocalypse: obscurity of documentary relations: א full of individualisms, and otherwise of very mixed character: relative excellence of A, and special value of AC combined: lateness of text in most versions: internal evidence | 260 |
| 345. | Need of further examination of documentary genealogy in the Apocalypse | 262 |
| 346. | Anomalous relation of the 'Received' to the Syrian text in the Apocalypse | 262 |
| I. 347—355. Supplementary details on the birth-place and the composition of leading MSS | 264—271 | |
| 347. | Uncertainty as to the birth-place of the chief uncials except the bilingual MSS: absence of evidence for the supposed Alexandrian origin of some | 264 |
| 348. | Slight orthographical indications suggesting that Β and א were written in the West, A and C at Alexandria; | 265 |
