The history of our oldest MSS. is as deeply involved in obscurity as their parentage. The wonder of their preservation through the manifold changes and chances of the centuries- the dangers they have escaped- the many generations of devout men that have handled them and guarded them, so that we in modern times can with our own eyes see records of the Faith that have been in use for fifteen hundred years- all these considerations fill the mind with wonder and a sense of God's never-failing providence.
- from page 33, The Records Unrolled