Fac-similes of certain portions of the Gospel of St. Matthew, and of the Epistles of Ss. James & Jude
Subtitle: written on papyrus in the first century, and preserved in the Egyptian museum of Joseph Mayer ... Liverpool. With a portrait of St. Matthew, from a fresco painting at Mount Athos. Edited and illustrated with notes and historical and literary prolegomena, containing confirmatory fac-similes of the same portions of Holy Scripture from papyri and parchment mss. in the monasteries of Mount Athos, of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, of St. Sabba in Palestine, and other sources.
By: By Constanine Simonides.
Contributors: Mayer, Joseph, 1803-1886.
Publisher: Trübner
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 79
Other titles: Bible. N.T. Greek. Selections. 1861.; Codex Mayerianus.
Notes: Each facsimile of the "Codex Mayerianus" (p. [37]-59) is accompanied by a transcription which has the missing parts supplied from the Bohn edition of the Greek Testament, followed by an English version.
The papyri were forgeries by Simōnidēs. cf. Athenaeum, Dec. 7, 1861, p. 755-756, and Dict. of nat. biography, v. 13, p. 149.