Abstract
The Rockefeller McCormick manuscript—to cite at once the familiar designation for Codex 2400—is a complete Byzantine New Testament, dating from the thirteenth century, with nearly one hundred brilliantly illuminated pages.2 True, it does not include the Apocalypse of John. This omission, however, is due to no defect in the manuscript itself, but rather to the irregularity of the Eastern canon of Christian scripture. So tardy was the book of Revelation in winning recognition for itself in the Greek East, that manuscripts of the Greek New Testament which conclude with the Apocalypse are comparatively rare. Gregory lists only fifty-three New Testaments that include the Apocalypse, as against one hundred and fifteen that are complete without it. Far more frequently than not the Apocalypse is found in Greek manuscripts by itself alone—so tenuous was its connection with the Greek New Testament. Like the famous early cursive of the Bibliotheque Nationale,3 familiarly known as 33, which Eichorn called “the queen ...
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