Excerpt from The Origin of the Leicester Codex of the New Testament It is true that M. Martin does not endorse altogether the arguments for the common origin of the four codices, but he does what amounts to much the same thing, by demonstrating that three out of the four have common internal and paleographic peculiarities which locate them all in Calabria or perhaps Sicily, so that they are either mss. Which have absorbed common local oddities of text, or are the common descendants of an eccentric Calabrian ancestor. These points M. Martin essays to establish from actual notes made by him on the copies in Paris, Vienna, and Milan. He does even more, he adds to the group a fifth and perhaps a sixth ms. Which has close textual relations with them, and points out directions in which the -important genealogical relations that subsist between what I suppose he would call the Calabrian family may be made a matter of more extended study by the search after fresh copies of a similar type