Excerpt from Evangelia Augustini Gregoriana: An Historical and Illustrative Description of the Mss; Nos; 286 and 197 The next thing to he remarked as contributing to establish the great antiquity of this ms. Is the division of the Gospels. The Gospel of St Matthew is divided into twenty-eight longer portions or chapters: that of St Mark into thirteen: that of St Luke into twenty: that of St John into fourteen. The beginning of each of these chapters is distinguished by a red numeral, sometimes by a black one, corresponding to a similar numeral in the table of contents'. Of course there is but little correspondence of these chapters with those of our present division: for that was not made until the. Middle of the thirteenth century by Cardinal Hugo. In some few instances, however. Viz. Matt. Xiv. Xvii; Luke iii. X; John i. The chapters, according to both divisions. Exactly coincide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.