Codex Alexandrinus, dated to the fifth century, is one of the four ancient manuscripts of the Greek Bible. It has been known to western scholarship for the longest, having been presented to Charles i in 1627. This volume sets out to give a full and detailed examination of its presentation of the Gospels. The focus is on the manuscript as an artefact, without examination of the text or comparison between it and that in other manuscripts. Although the focus is on the Gospels, the author sometimes turns to other parts of the manuscript. There are four main chapters. The first deals with the origins and history of the codex, describing the (meagre) available evidence and different interpretations of it. The second deals with the codicology, including the format, the composition and the ordering of the books. The third has two main topics: the palaeography, including a discussion of the number of scribes who wrote the Gospels, the use of colour, and paratextual features (super- and subscriptions, tailpieces, the Eusebian apparatus, kephalaioi and titloi). The fourth is called ‘Scribes’ but after a section headed ‘Overview of scribal hands’, it is devoted to ‘unit delimitation’, the nomina sacra and various abbreviations. A final chapter provides a summary of the author's findings. There are also five appendices. Appendix A provides concordances, giving for each page the contents and the several quire, leaf and page numberings that have been given to it, to which are added the author's own. The second lists orthographica in the Gospels. Appendix C describes the way in which measurements of physical elements such as leaves and columns were made. The fourth provides a concordance of the Eusebian apparatus as it appears in Nestle-Aland and Codex Sinaiticus. Appendix E lists places where larger sense units are marked by one or more of space, ekthesis and paragraphus. There is a bibliography, and a subject index. The book provides some useful data. For example, it produces evidence to suggest that two scribes were responsible for the Gospels, one copying the first two and the other Luke and John. I could wish that more time had been devoted to turning it from the genre of doctoral thesis to that of monograph, and that it had lost a hundred pages. It is to the carefully compiled lists that one will be most likely to go.