ICANUS, B, (No. 1209, in the Vatican,)
has proved unavailing. If the present Vindication of the genuineness of
Twelve Verses of the everlasting Gospel should have the good fortune to
approve itself to his Holiness, POPE PIUS IX., let me be permitted in this
unadorned and unusual manner,--(to which I would fain add some circumstance
of respectful ceremony if I knew how,)--very humbly to entreat his Holiness
to allow me to possess a Photograph, corresponding in size with the
original, of the page of CODEX B (it is numbered fol. 1303,) which
exhibits the abrupt termination of the Gospel according to S. Mark.

J. W. B.

ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD,
_June 14, 1871_.

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"MY WORD WILL NOT PASS AWAY"

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