The Cheltenham List

The Cheltenham List (about A.D. 360).

The Cheltenham list is a list contained in a tenth-century Latin manuscript of miscellaneous content, probably from Africa. The English text below is from Metzger.^(a)

A catalog of the Old Testament is given as follows:

Genesis	Ruth	Maccabees (I, II)	Solomon^(b)
Exodus	I Kingdoms	Job	Major Prophets:
Numbers	II Kingdoms	Tobit	Isaiah
Leviticus	III Kingdoms	Esther	Jeremiah
Deuteronomy	IV Kingdoms	Judith	Daniel
Joshua	Chronicles (I, II)	Psalms	Ezekiel
Judges			Twelve Prophets

And the catalog of the New Testament:	Epistles of Paul, 13 in number^(c)
Four Gospels:	The Acts of the Apostles, 3600 lines.
Matthew, 2700 lines	The Apocalypse, 1800 lines
Mark, 1700 lines	Three epistles of John, 350 lines
John, 1800 lines	one only^(d)
Luke, 3300 lines	Two epistles of Peter, 300 lines
All the lines make 10,000 lines^(e)	one only

Since the index of lines in the city of Rome is not clearly given, and elsewhere also through avarice for gain they do not preserve it in full, I have gone through the books singly, counting sixteen syllables to the line, and have appended to every book the number of the Virgilian hexameters.

^(a) See W. Sanday, "The Cheltenham List of the Canonical Books of the New Testament and of the Writings of Cyprian," Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica, III (Oxford, 1891), pp. 217-325.

^(b) Probably to include the Wisdom of Solomon.

^(c) Excluding Hebrews.

^(d) "one only" under the line probably expresses the opinion of the copyist against the canonicity of 2 and 3 John. Likewise with 2 Peter below.

^(e) This total is incorrect. The sum of the above is 9500.