Show DIS DISCOVERY OVER OF manuscripts is which throve a flood of light on the contemporary perk period a tile the present century has seen the discovery of many manuscripts of the greatest importance and this thia is not col trier merely ply in the provinces of theology and classical learning but also in that of mediaeval media eval history E every very one knows how con sta Bt ntine antine lucky arrival in the monastery of st catherine on mount sinai saved bayed what W h a t is Is perhaps per hap the lilet manuscript of the greek new testament from destruction by fire and how 0 only n ly two years azo froin the same t treasure re a house of antiquity mrs lewis recovered a still earlier syriac palimpsest li limp peest sest of the same game work co concealed under the super scripture of a comparatively modern most people too whether biblical scholars or not know something of the romance attending a the discovery of the long lost of tatian in the library at the vatican and how the bands of egypt have hardly ten bears 3 ears ago yielded up the apocryphal gospel of st peter peler in matters classical too it is is much the same thousands of people who are not in any sense of the word classical scholar have heard how flow the ruins of egyptian cities have gh given en us fragments of the iliad in a handwriting ting some kome two or three centuries before christ and large portions portion i of the long lost poems of He Ile yet hardly any one save a professional medi ae here and there knows of the romance att attending endino the discovery of madia eval documents how the history of if the tenth century has had bad to be almost rewritten owing to the he discovery of the autograph of the work of the tenth century historian richer or how a prague savant just succeeded in saving ovin abe he priceless pric cles contemporary record of frederick Barbaros Barba rossas gas crusade from the scissors of a country town apothecary to come to english matters how many en englishmen I ishmen know of the late die discovery covery of t lie long historical F rench french poem dealing with the life of tile the great earl marchal tile the hero of magna Cli charta artal or more remarkable still the the recovery recovery of the history of richard Coeur deLion s e Crus crusade aae as told in the verses of his own chaplain and follower ambrose ambroe the priest Black woods magazine |