Show Old Manuscript i Holds Wealth of I Greek Miniature I Comprehensive Study of Byzantine Pain Painting ng Made Possible Possible- by Discovery CHICAGO July 28 AP The worlds world's knowledge ot of me medieval leval Greek Gleek miniature painting will be be greatly enhanced Professor Edgar Edgal J. J Goodspeed University of Chicago Chi Chi- cago scholar believes after studies have been completed ot of a Greek Gleek manuscript of the New Testament just presented to time the university Professor G peering leisurely Into obscure nooks ot of E. E Etrope Et rope Iole In an automobile tour unearthed uno un- the manuscript in arm an un- un shop Mrs Mc- Mc Cormick of Chicago who was tol told I ot of the Importance of time the find purchased purchased pur- pur chased It an and presented it to the university It is tho most profusely mus- mus I Greek New Testament manuscript known to exist heretofore here here- a comprehensive stu study y of I Byzantine miniatures has imas been dH- dH because time the were so scatter d. d They mostly are ure confined to time the lour Gospels and usually take time the form Qt of decorated decorated deco deco- rated hea headings ings presenting the evan evan- at work worl on their gospEls manuscripts might contain as as thirty but usually the average was much lower lowel The manuscript which Professor Goodspeed found contains seventy seventy- I two miniatures covering every part of time the Testament except Revelations The famous manuscript Inthe in inthe the Nationale In Paris Palls which was sent by Michael emperor ot of time the East to Louis IX king of France StLouis StLouis St Louis in 1269 has imas only fourteen Tins This manuscript It has been determined deter deter- mined wa was written In th time same that of time the Michael at Constantinople in 1260 1270 Everywhere in my any travels said Professor Goodspeed I 1 was told no Greek New Testament manuscripts manu manu- scripts were to be found But I persisted and in an obscure oh- oh antiquity shop I was shown two manuscripts carefully In the safe one a Persian one the other this Greek ot of which notwithstanding Its extraordinary extraordinary features scholars have erto elto had Imad no intimation It has never been studied by a competent expert ex- ex pert nor had It ever eve I so far as is known been seen before by a mo em ern New Testament scholar 5 |