Note 658 — Chapter XVI · JOSEPH JACKSON, 1763.

Gough, writing in the Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. lvi, p. 497, says:—“It was reserved, therefore, for the industry and application of Dr. Woide . . . to rescue this valuable MS. from the fate which befel a MS. of the Septuagint in the Cottonian Library of equal antiquity, type, and, value, of which a very few fragments escaped the fire in 1733, by adopting the facsimile mode of reproduction, which, from the great expense attending it, has unfortunately been adopted in so few instances.” The facsimile of the Laudian Codex, comprising the Acts of the Apostles, published by Hearne at Oxford in 1715, had been the only previous successful attempt of this kind in England. Hearne’s facsimile, however, was engraved, and not from type. A list of the most important subsequent facsimile reproductions from Codices of the Holy Text is given in Horne’s Introduction (edit. 1872), iv, pp. 682–3.