Locked in the vaults of the Hispanic Society in Manhattan is a large (quarto) volume of 432 thin leaves of exquisitely finished vellum with double columns, 22 lines to the page. The learned know it as the Codex Huntingtoniensis Palimpsestus, and are in an uproar about it, because Dr. E. S. Buchanan, eminent scholar, says it is older than any existing manuscript of the New Testament.
All scholars agree that this book was brought from Tarragona, Spain, in 1907; that it was probably written about 1220; that it contains, besides prayers and rubrics,...
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