To master Modern Greek so as to be able to write and converse correctly in the language is doubtless a formidable undertaking, though well worth the time and trouble for any one who has a prospect of visiting Greece, the Levant, Constantinople, or Asia Minor, but to acquire the living pronunciation sufficiently to follow the Greek Services with intelligent devotion is comparatively easy for any one who has an average acquaintance with Classical Greek. I found three lessons from a good teacher of modern Greek sufficient, together with the privilege of being permitted to attend the Greek Services under proper guidance. I am informed that many who have learnt Classical Greek at school and college find two lessons sufficient. Whatever may become of the pronunciation of Greek in English schools and colleges, it is quite certain that every accomplished Greek scholar ought to have some acquaintance with Modern Greek and the living pronunciation, after the example of Bishop Wordsworth, of Lincoln, and many others ". b A very attractive and useful little book on this subject is, "A Handbook to Modern Greek, by Edgar Vincent, Coldstream Guards, and T. G. Dickson, with a Preface by Professor J. S. Blackie." London, Macmillan and Co., 1879. My best thanks are due to the TRUSTEES of the British Museum for permitting me to have four Autotype Facsimile Plates from the pages of the Psalter of King Athelstan, one of the most precious and interesting MSS. in their keeping: also to Professor J. O. WESTWOOD, of Oxford, for permission to copy two of his Facsimiles of the pictures in the same MS.: and to E. M. THOMPSON, Esq., F.S.A., of the British Museum, for kind assistance in consultation respecting the MS. For permission to use two Plates, 8a and 90a, of the Facsimile Utrecht Psalter, I am indebted to the Palaeographic Society, to which I have the honour to belong. JOHN BARON. THE RECTORY, UPTON SCUDAMORE, Ascension Day, 1885. DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. ASCENSION, &C., FROM PSALTER OF KING Athelstan Frontispiece AUTOTYPE PLATES FROM PSALTER OF KING ATHELstan. I. and II. Lord's Prayer, &c., in Caroline Minuscules p. 8 III. and IV. Transliterated Greek . P. 16 AUTOTYPE PLATES FROM UTRECHT PSALTER. Folded Plate I. Illustrations of Psalms xiv. and xv. p. 64 Folded Plate II. Lord's Prayer and Apostles' Creed ib.. CONTENTS. The antithetical terms Eastern and Western sometimes convenient but often delusive.-The Eighth Article of Religion.-Ludolphus of Saxony.-The Greek Text of a Creed in Anglo-Saxon Letters preserved in the Psalter of King Athelstan.-Greek studied as a Living Language by some few in England in Seventh and Eighth Centuries.-Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury.-Bishop Aldhelm.-The Psalter of King Athelstan is a German MS.-Caroline Minuscules. PAGE Autotype Plates I. and II. Caroline Minuscules.-Auto- type Plates III. and IV. transliterated Greek.-Prayer for Divine Grace.-Coincidence of Anglo-Saxon and living Greek pronunciation.-Contents of the Manu- script Galba A. xviii.-"The Greek Litany."-The Lord's Prayer.-Rudimentary Apostles' Creed.-Trisa- gion. The Greek passages intended for private and monastic use.-Greek the language of early Chris- tianity, even in Rome.-The Creed of Markellus as given in Epiphanius.-The transliterated Greek Creed of the Psalter of King Athelstan scrutinised in detail. -Sounds of delta and theta accepted in English but Some chief points in the History of the Apostles' Creed. -Distinction between Baptismal Creed and Rule of Faith, &c., convenient if not overstrained. Early tra- dition against writing down the Creed.-The Creeds of Markellus and of Nicaea compared.-Durandus on the Creed. The Apostles' Creed in the East super- seded by the Nicene.-Elaborations of the Apostles' Creed in the West.—All three Creeds settled and re- |