ABSTRACT
Paris 54 contains the four Gospels in Latin and Greek.1 The Greek text is very nearly complete; only the folio containing the final seven verses of Mark’s Gospel (16:14-20) is missing. The Latin text, as we shall see below, was never finished. Preceding the Gospel text on folios 1r-9r is a set of Canon Tables in Latin only. These Canon Tables remain undecorated and were added to the manuscript at a later date. In contrast to the Gospel text proper, the Latin text of the Canon Tables assumes the dominant position on the left-hand side of the page and, although space was reserved on the right side for the Greek translation, this was never initiated.2 The Eusebian canon numbers3 in the Gospel text are in the left margin and are noted most consistently throughout the Gospel of Matthew.4
