Excerpt from A Vindication of Bishop Cleaver's Edition of the Decretum Lacedaemoniorum Contra Timotheum, From the Strictures of R. P. Knight, Esq.From the singular curiosity of this ancient mo nument of Greek literature, it appeared desirable that fac-similes should be taken of its more re markable manuscripts which has been done, and will, I trust, be acceptable to the learned Reader. Of the fac-simi lesf which are prefixed to this Tract, those which are from manuscripts in, the Bod leian Library and the British Museum, were copied by the Artists who engraved them. The fac-simile of the Manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, was very obligingly taken for me' by the Rev. James hustler, Fellow and Tutor of the College, who afterwards compared the lithographic engraving with the manuscript, and the plate was finished according to his corrections. The fac-similes have been all executed since the following pages were printed.

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