=CM --^ AD ^00 iOO ^■- — ^co - , oo I Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofsyria03brituoft ® CATALOGUE ^^^'"^ OF THE SYRIAC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, ACQUIRED SINCE THE YEAR 1838. BT W. WRIGHT, LL.D., PROFE880B OF AEABIC IN THE UNITEBSITY OP CAMBBIDGE, AND PELLOW OP QTTEEKS' COIXEaE, I^IE ASSISTANT EEEFEB OF THE MSS. IN THE BBITISB MUSEUM. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. i^i^ SOLD AT THE BEITISH MUSEUM; AND BT LONGMANS & CO., 38 to 41, PATERNOSTER ROW; B. M. PICKERING, 196, PICCADILLY; AND ASHER & CO., 13, BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN, AND 11, UNTER DEN LINDEN, BERLIN. 1872. LONDON : OILBEST AND RIVINGTON, PKINTEE8, 52, ST. JOHN'S SQUAEE, AND 28, WHITEFKIAKS STREET, B.C. \J \ \ i> ^ ^^«»> \ 11 \^\^»\S^i\ *-* > \ ? \ \ AH^ w \W ^ C** U Yw ^ \\N CATALOGUE OF THE SYRIAC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, ACQUIRED SINCE THE YEAR 1838. BY W. WRIGHT, LL.D., PEOFESSOB or AEABIC IN THE UNIVEESITT OP CAMBEIDGIE, AKD LATE ASSISTANT EEEFES OF THE USS. IN THE BBIIISE UlTSEUH. Paet III. PRINTED BY ORDER OE THE TRUSTEES, SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM; AND BY LONGMANS & CO., 38 to 41, PATERNOSTER ROW ; B. M. PICKERING, 196, PICCADILLY ; AND ASHER & CO., 13, BEDFORD STREET, CO VENT GARDEN, AND 11, UNTER DEN LINDEN, BERLIN. 1872. LOITDON : OllBEET AND RIVIKOTON, PRINTERS, 52, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, AND 28, WHITEFRIARS STREET, E.C. i This volume, which is the third and last Part of the new Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum, comprises the Classes of History, lives of Saints and Martyrdoms, and Scientific Literature; to which are added two Appendices, namely, Notes and Additions to the Catalogue of Eosen and Forshall, and a Description of the Mandaitic Manuscripts in the Taylor Collection. Several Indices conclude the work. A general Preface is prefixed, giving a history of the Nitrian Collection and an estimate of its literary value. > CHAELES EIEU, KEEPEB OV THE OBIENTAL HS8. November llth, 1872. PREFACE. I. When the late Dr. Rosen and Mr. Porshall edited, in the year 1838, their Catalogue of the Syriac and Karshunl MSS. in the British Museum,* the entire collection consisted of only seventy-eight volunies,t no less than sixty-six of which once belonged to Mr. C. J. Rich, British Consul at Bagdad, who had acquired most of them at Mosul in 1820. Among these were several books of considerable antiquity and value — such as a Nestorian copy of the New Testament, dated A.D. 768 (no. xiii.) ; several Harklensian copies of the Gospels (nos. xix. — xxiii.) ; a Jacobite Masora (no. xlii.) ; Acts of early Persian Martyrs (no. lix.) ; the Chronicle of Elias bar Shlnaya (no. Ivi.); the second part of the History of Bar Hebrseus (no. Ivii.), and the rduio-s rtisAv^, or larger Grammar (no. Ix.), and other works of the same author — but, on the whole, the collection was inferior, both in number and quality to those at Oxford J and Paris, § not to mention the more celebrated one in the Vatican at Rome. |1 II. A few years, however, sufficed to produce a great change. Between 1838 and 1864, the British Museum was enriched with no less than five hundred and eighty-one volumes, Syriac, Karshuni and Mandaitic, the greater number of which were procured from a single place, the Convent of S. Mary Deipara in the Nitrian desert in Egypt.lf The Nitrian valley (^Ji^^ <^'^h> Wadi 'l-Natrun, the Nitre-valley, or uj-^l ^, Birkat al-Natrun, the Nitre-lake) is situated between thirty and thirty-one degrees of • Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars prima, codices Syriacos et Carshunicos amplectens. Londini : mdcccxxxviii. t Rosen and Porshall, however, included only seventy- six; having omitted to notice Harl. 5512 and Sloane 3597. See nos. cclxxxiii. and ccciv. of this Catalogue. X See Catalog! codicum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Bodleiana; pars sexta, codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mendaeos, complectens. Confecit E. Payne Smith, A.M., hypo-bibliothecarius. Oxonli: m.dccc.lxiv. § Of this collection a Catalogue is now in the press. II See the Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana of J. S. Assemani, 4 vols, fol., Rome 1719 — 28 ; and his Bibliothecae Apostolicse Vaticanae codicum manu- scriptorum catalogus in tres partes distributus, etc. Partis primsB tomus primus, complectens codices Ebraicos et Samaritanos. Romas, 1756. Tomus secundus et tomus tertius, complectens codices Chaldaicos sive Syriacos, Ibid., 1758 et 1759, 3 vols. fol. [The third volume is not in the library of the British Museum.] A supplement to this work, containing descriptions of Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts, was edited by Cardinal Mai in his Scriptorum veterum nova collectio, t. iv., pars 2''*, regarding which consult the preface to the same volume, pp. vi. etc. IT Part of the contents of the following paragraphs is derived from an article by the late Dr. Cureton in the Quarterly Review, no. cliii., and from his pre&ce to the Festal Letters of Athanasius (London, 1848). 11 PEEFACE. north latitude and as many of east longitude, about thirty-five miles to the left of the most western branch of the Nile. To the early Christians it was known as the desert of Scete (Sk^tv or5«rr«, rtiV'WK', ►V«*< to^""^' ^'^^)* and it was also called the desert of Abba Macarius (^'JU y i^). Muhammadans generally name it TFddz Hablb, or the valley of Habib.t after one of the companions of the Prophet, who is said to have withdrawn to its solitudes during the troubles of the caliphate of 'Othman. It is traversed every year by the caravan of Maghrib! pilgrims on its way to Mecca. European travellers usually approach it from the village of Tarranah (Aii>, rdaiirdi^, TEpEitovei) on the Nile. J This valley has been celebrated as the resort of Christian ascetics from the earliest times. About the middle of the second century we read of one Pronto or Prontonius, who retired thither with seventy brethren. At the beguining of the fourth century, Ammon, the reputed origmator of monasticism in Egypt, withdrew from the world to this spot.§ A few years later, the celebrated Macarius instituted the first monastic establishment in that part of the valley which to this day bears his name ; and the number of ascetics increased in a short time to an almost incredible amount. Euffinus, who visited the valley about A.D. 372, mentions some fifty convents or tabemaciola ; and Palladius, who, fifteen years later, passed twelve months here, reckons the devotees at upwards of five thousand ;|| whilst he elsewhere mentions that three thousand were assembled at the feet of Abba Or.lf Jerome visited Nitria about the same time ; and from the narratives of these three writers, and the accounts of Evagrius and Cassianus, we can gather an accurate knowledge of the manners, customs and pursuits of the monks as far back as the end of the fourth century. At the beginning of the seventh century, Joannes Moschus found the Nitrian desert still thickly peopled, for he states the number of the fathers, on good authority, at three thousand • The name of Scete is derived from the Coptic tyiHX or tyJgHT", the supposed derivation of which from JiiJI, fierpov, aradfiof, and gHT, Kapiia, vovs, has given rise to the translations r^dX ^^'h\ , r^h\r^iesn W* ~i TO it.l , and cjjl«)l fj\~» . See QuatremSre, M6moires gcographiques et historiques sur I'Egypte, t i., pp. 461 etc.; Nicoll, Bibl. Bodl. codd. MSS. Orientt catalog! partis 2<'« volumen primum Arabicos complectens (Oxon., 1821), p. 37, note h, and the Addenda et Emendanda, p. 499. + So the name is pronounced both by Quatremdre and Wustenfeld; but the Calcutta Klamus gives Hubaib, Jiu ^^ «_--^ . Quatremfire calls him al-Fazarl, but in a MS. of al-MaVrizi's Khitat ma'l-Athdr, Add. 7317, fol. 140 6, I find ^Jiail In a MS. of the Isti'db of Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, Or. 834, dated A.H. 564, his name is written (fol. 25 a) i^Ji^\ Jit* jy> v*-A ; whereas in a MS. of al- Dhahabi's Tajrid Asnia al-^ahdhah, Add. 7359, dated A.H. 721, he is called (fol. 175 a) Hubaib ibn Mughfil al-Ghifari, Jii. ijV JJ Jj^^J^ ^j *' ij}i^\ J«i. ^_ '*L1 C^ Jail 45V t See Curzon, Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, 5th edit., p. 90 ; Tischendorf, Reise in den Orient (Leipzig, 1846), Y' Bd, p. 110. § "A quo per Dei gratiam primum jacta sunt fiin- damenta conversationis eorum fratrum qui nunc in monte Nitriaa commorantur." Vita sancti Pachomii, cap. i., in Migne, Patrologise cursus completus, Vitse Patrum, t. 73, col. 231. II Migne, loc. cit., col. 1098 : " In eo autem habitant ad quinque millia virorum, qui utuntur vario vitiB genere, unusquisque ut potest et vult, adeo ut liceat et solum manere, et cum duobus, et tribus, et cum quo velit uumero. In hoc monte sunt septem pistrinse, quje et illis serviunt, et anachoretis qui sunt in vasta solitudine, viris perfectis, numero sexcentis." ^ Migne, loc. cit., col. 1101 : " quo factum est ut ad eum convenirent tria millia monachorum. " PREFACE. m five hundred.* After this period Arabic writers are our principal source of in- formation, the chief of these being the Muhammadan historian Abu 1- Abbas Ahmad ibn All al-Makrizi, who died A.H. 845=A.D. 1441 — 2,t and the Christian authors, Severus ibn al-Mukaffa', bishop of al-TJshmunain, J and Georgius al-Mak!n, ^jUIj«U!I ^1 j ^! joc jj^Il ^\i uJjyuJt, who died A.H. 672=A.D. 1273 — 4. It is, however, foreign to my present purpose to give a detailed history of the ascetics of Scete. I shall therefore content myself with having indicated these sources of information to the reader, and hereafter confine myself almost exclusively to the Syrian convent. III. According to al-Makrizi,§ there were of old a hundred monasteries in the Nitrian valley, but in his time only seven survived. || He enumerates, it is true, as many as eleven, but some of these he expressly mentions as being forsaken or in ruins. At the present day only four continue to subsist : namely, those of Macarius the Great, j^ ^ jJ ; of Amba (or Abba) Bishai (or Bishoi), ^JJLi y^j or ^jlij Ijul^ii ; of S. Mary Deipara or of the Syrians, ^oV./^l J.'^l and of Baramus, also dedicated to the blessed Virgin, [j-yoji 'isx^ jfi . It is with the third of these, and with the valuable library which it once contained, that we have now chiefly to deal. That books should at all times have been abundant in the hands of the ancient Egyptian ascetics was only to be expected. There were among them men of high station and great refinement (such as Arsenius, the preceptor of the emperors Arcadius and Honorius), who, although they had forsaken the world, could not cut themselves off from this one source of pleasure, and still spent a portion of their time in reading not only sacred but also profane literature. If Bibles and Prayer-books abounded in the desert, yet many a cell contained a copy of the Iliad, of the Organon of Aristotle, or of the Elements of Euclid. Euifinus tells a story of an abbat Anastasius, who possessed a Bible valued at eighteen soLidi,1f which proved too great a temptation to a brother bibliophile; and not every monk of his day would have answered the inquiry of the philosopher in the same terms as Antony is reported to have done.** In point of fact, every convent had its library, to which weU-wishers, whether members of the fraternity • Migne, op. cit., t. 74, col. 178: "erant autem ibi patres quasi ter mille et quingenti." t His history of the Copts, the concluding portion of the great work entitled ^IjVIj kki'ljo ^i .LaiVI^ kcl^l v^ has been edited, with a German translation, by Wiisten- feld, in the Abhandlungen der konigl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, 3'" Bd ; and separately, Gottingen, 1845. The entire work has been printed at Biili^. iH.if. fno X On whose work Renaudot chiefly relied in compiling his Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum Jacobitarum (Paris, 1713). The portion actually composed by Severus comes down only to A.D. 781, but the con- tinuation extends to A.D. 1251. § Geschichte der Copten, pp. i»o and 109. II Compare Tischendorf, Reise in den Orient, 1" Bd, p. 131. IT Migne, op. cit., t. 73, col. 757: "habebat codicem in pergamenis valde optlmis scriptum, qui decem et octo valebat solidis." ** Migne, op. cit., t. 73, col. 1018 : " Philosophus quidam interrogavit sanctum Antonium : Quomodo, inquit, contentus es, pater, qui codicum consolatione fraudaris ? lUe respondit : Mens codex, philosopbe, natura rerum est creatarum, quae mihi, quoties verba Dei legere cupio, adesse consuevit." vr PREFACE. or not, contributed according to their inclination or their means. In this respect the library of the Syrian convent of S. Mary Deipara seems to have been peculiarly fortunate. It received contributions from every part of the vast region throughout which Syriac was spoken, but more especially from the city of Tagrit, or Tekrit, and from Tagritans who resided in Egypt.* The General Index will supply the reader with the names of many such donors. But its chief benefactor was its own abbat, Moses the Nisibene, evidently a man of taste and an ardent lover of literature. He entered the convent as early as A.D. 907, bringing with him the book of Ecclesiasticus as a present from the family of Abu '1-Bashar 'Abdu 'Hah of Tagrit (no. cliv.). Before A.D. 927 he had been elected abbat, and was sent in that year to Bagdad to procure from the caliph al-Muktadir bi'llah the remission of the poll-tax which had been demanded from the monks. t In this errand he was successful, and making an extensive journey through Mesopotamia and Syria, he returned home in 932, bringing with him no less than two hundred and fifty volumes, which he had procured partly by purchase and partly as presents. Many of these very manuscripts are now deposited in the British Museum, and are in most instances conspicuous above their fellows for age and value. He continued, moreover, to employ part of the funds of the monastery in increasing its library; for a copy of the Harklensian Gospels (no. cxx.) was transcribed for him in 936, and a volume of Lives of Saints in the same year (no. dccccliii.). The latest mention of him is in 943, when the manuscript now represented by the fragment Add. 14,525, foil. 1—10 (no. dxiv.) reached the convent. The language of the note, in which its arrival is recorded, bears testimony to the esteem in which he was held: "in the days of our boast and the ornament of the whole holy Church, Mar Moses, abbat of the convent." Towards the end of the same century, Abraham or Ephraim, patriarch of Alexandria from 977 to 981, seems to have been a liberal donor to the library of S. Mary Deipara (see nos. cccxlvii., ccclii., dxli,, and dccxiv.). Indeed, as late as the beginning of the sixteenth century, we find another abbat of the monastery, by name Severus or Cyriacus, attempting something in the same way for the good of the community (no. Ixv.) ; but long ere his time the evil days had come. From the twelfth century onwards the books lay neglected, with the exception of those required for the daily services. More than one monk lifts up his voice in lamentation over the mass of mouldermg tomes which found no readers (see pp. 460, 612) ; whUst a feeble brother acknowledges that he had read part of a book without understanding a single word (no. dxxxii.). As early as A.D. 1194 we find it recorded that a certain monk repaired and bound about a hundred volumes out of " this mass of books, which were mutilated and torn by reason of their age and their use by the brethren" (p. 497). In 1222 the library was again examined and renovated (p. 74) ; and the process was repeated in 1493 (p. 1200), when it was doubtless in a very bad condition, as the monastery • See, for example, nos. liii., ccxix. — ccxxii., dlxxii., dcclii., dcclxxx., dccccxliii., etc. What was the nature of the connection between the city and the convent I cannot at present saj. t See al-Makrizi's Geschichte der Copten, ed. Wiis- tenfeld, pp. re and 62; and Cureton, the Festal Letters of Athanasius, preface, p. xxiy. PREFACE. V had in the interval become almost deserted, being tenanted in 1413 by a solitary monk (no. mxxxii.), whereas in more prosperous times it had harboured as many as seventy (p. 1111). Another restoration took place in 1624, when the library comprised four hun- dred and three volumes* (p. 305). This was probably the last effort made by the monks themselves for the preservation of their books ; and we have, perhaps, reason to be thankful that they withheld their hands. If, even in the tenth or eleventh century, the transcribing of a volume of sermons brought with it the destruction of a Greek poet or a Latin historian, and the binding of a new lectionary furnished an opportunity for utilising the relics of hoar antiquity, what could be expected from the barbarism of the fifteenth or seven- teenth century ? IV. Erom this time onwards our knowledge of the condition of the Nitrian convents is derived from the statements of European travellers, many of which have been collected by Dr. Cureton in his article on the Nitrian MSS. in the Quarterly Review, no. cliii.t The first to make mention in. modern times of the treasures of the desert was a capuchin monk called Egidius Lochiensis (Giles de Losches), who, as Gassend informs us in his life of N. C. E. de Peiresc, told this latter scholar, in 1633, that there existed in several of the Egyptian convents large quantities of manuscripts, and that he himself had seen in one of them a collection of about eight thousand volumes, many of which were as old as the time of S. Antony. J This statement is of course greatly exaggerated, but it can hardly be doubted that the capuchin had really gained access to the library of the convent of Macarius or that of S. Mary Deipara.§ * The actual number of manuscripts was doubtless far larger, as two or three were often bound together. t See also Ritter's Erdkunde, Afrika, 2'= Ausgabe (Berlin, 1822), p. 860. i Viri illustris N. C. F. de Peiresc, senatoris Aqui- sextiensis, vita (Paris, 1641), p. 269. § Even before this time, however, some MSS. from the Nitrian desert had found their way into Europe. Two such are in the Ambrosian Library at Milan ; viz. 1. MS. C. 313. Inf , the splendid manuscript of a great part of the Hexaplar version of the Old Testament, which is now being photo-lithographed under the superin tendance of the principal librarian, the Eev. Dr. Ceriani. It is of the viii*"" cent. On fol. 193 b is this note : »eooAuK' ^ImO.* r^iai .V rC^v^ Subscription, fol. 55 6 : .r^TAcb rt'ivv ^A\ASil >li. ft^OBVa j.ia-Ji Kibooa . A-a^, . After this subscription there is a line of small cursive writing, giving the name of the scribe, Emmanuel : ^0Uk A long note on fol. 56 a, in the same elegant cursive, states that the book was written, at the expense of the deacon Stephen bar Yuhannan, of Modyad or Midyad, for the convent of Mar Simeon at Kartamin, in the year above mentioned. rC'ovMOJa.x.oiO K'To.ar^la.i vyr^ Ocah\Ah\r^ . .jlo . caL>.i r^^r^ x^S*f< ivMlO tXSi ivxa.T K'Ti.tsj ^cn riv rc'.icD r^s^.i .aixA . Jt_o •:• pcdjl f^in.i Aa {sic) TVj^ r^iib fc,ocn i\v payaojo r^^^ ,-■«»«*' PEEFACE. xi V. In 1838 tlie Eev. H. Tattam, afterwards archdeacon of Bedford, set out for Egypt, with the object of collecting materials for his Coptic Dictionary. He was accompanied by his step-daughter Miss Piatt, who kept a journal for the amusement of her mother. This journal was subsequently printed for private circulation, and Dr. Cureton has given several extracts from it in the article already referred to (pp. 56 — 58).* On the 12tli of January 1839 Dr. Tattam and Miss Piatt set out across the desert for the Natron valley, and at eight o'clock in the evening pitched their tent at a short distance from the monastery of Macarius. " Sunday, Jan. 13th. — The first object," says Miss Piatt, " on which our eyes rested, as we sat at breakfast in the tent, was the solitary convent of Abou Magar (St. Macarius), a desolate-looking building, like a fortress surrounded by the sea. ... It was not thought advisable to remain here until we had visited the further convents. . . . We descended gradually between the rocks, and saw before us the two middle convents, Deir Amba Bischoi r<*ii\y-i rC'i.viA .^AJU ^o . »~^fii> rc^icu 71 I twio . ^uivAo Jl^ (?) oi.V^o (?) coxio ^'ih\ cn^nxsaia . ctA& rc'icu^ j^ojuo r^ioia r<&jLuj^ r^^rdl rd^^a jjkllai ^o rCsacL «jaoi°iCLo .\r<'\ .\i\n can )a.>ca-)a rti'i.ins.l dv.j-3.1 f^T -i>» r<^co . >1^. r^UJO .zaoiv^JO 2. Foil. 57—136. Vellum, of 80 leaves. Foil. 64— GG are slightly torn. The quires, signed with letters, were nine in number, but the first is now missing. There are from 24 to 28 lines in each page. This manuscript is written in a good, regular Estrangela of the viiith cent., and contains — The book of Isaiah, according to the LXX. version, with the hexaplar marks, and the various readings of Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion (r^, oo, o\, •^_^) on the margins. It is divided into two parts, the one ending pn fol. 94 b with the subscription, ^^-^JLx. vyr^ . r<*iil rd&^jcrc'.i rc'iu.sq.Ta rC^CL^at »*imo .i'kT T..1 rC'oxCVXSoJLzJSa ; the other com- mencing with the words, rc'ouTijr^ f^wA^^Sk .soot . (^isiT .1 rc'Atai*gl\T*a vyrc* . r^i^J rdi^.Z.rC.'i The missing portion is ch. i. 1 — ch. iv. 5, Lessons are rubricated in the text, and occasionally on the margins, by the scribe. The tetragrammaton is expressed by cnucix*, to which is often added in Greek letters H€H6, though >i°>«°^ . oxoA occurs on fol. 122 a. The margins contain many Greek words, in which the form of the letter g is peculiar, viz. D (e.g. foil. 64 6 and 67 a) ; and various scholia, some of which are taken from the commentary of Cyril, e.g. foil. 1 b, 74 a, 82 a and J, 83 a, 88 a, 93 b, 106 a, 111 b, and 103 b. Basil is cited on fol. 72 a. There is a good facsimile of the first page of this manuscript in Lord de la Zouche's catalogue, facing p. 35. Subscription, fol. 136 b : i<^a i n 1 ^ •?! \ i. . 9^i^ ^,_o^ca ^r^:i ooA . ooq\ i °>*w «s.io rdaru rc^M-iox. •:• Qau\i(<'.i r«la&vAns pa That these two manuscripts have been long bound together, is clear from the note of a librarian of the convent of S. Mary Deipara on the margin of fol. 1 b : ^ImCU tiJMO . r<*i 1 1 SIT. '**■-" r^.A.^jLK'.fO rC'^cu.TM A^ {sic) r^\:iaaslr^^ , "and Isaiah the prophet according to the LXX., and Mar John of Alexandria on the Union," by which words the Disetetes of Joannes Philoponus is meant. On p. 12 of his Catalogue Lord de la Zouche mentions " a leaf in Syriac of very great antiquity, probably of the 5th or 6th century, if not earlier." This too, doubtless, came from S. Mary Deipara. • See also Lee's translation of the Theophania of Eusebius (Cambridge, 1843), preface, p. viii. xii PREFACE. and St. Soriani, or the Syrian convent. They were of the same description as St. Abou Mag:ar, but larger and in Iwtter preservation, particularly the latter. Our tent was pitched beneath the walls of St. Soriani : Mr. Tattam immediately entered the convent, where pipes and coffee were brought him ; after which the priests conducted him to their churches, and showed him the books used in them. They then desired to know his object in visiting them ; upon which he cautiously opened his commission by saying that he wished to see their books. They replied that they had no more than what he had seen in the church ; upon which he told them plainly that he knew they had. They laughed on being detected, and after a short conference said that he should see them. The bell soon rang for prayers." " Jan. 14th.— Mr. Tattam went into the convent immediately after breakfast. The priests conducted him to the tower, and then into a dark vault, where he found a great quantity of very old and valuable Syriac manuscripts. He selected six quarto volumes and took them to the superior's room. He was next shown a room in the tower, where he found a number of Coptic and Arabic manuscripts, principally liturgies, with a beautiful copy of the Gospels. lie then asked to see the rest; the priests looked surprised to find he knew of others, and seemed at first disposed to deny that they had any more, but at length produced the key of the apartment where the other books were kept, and admitted him. After looking them over he went to the superior's room, where all the priests were assembled, about fifteen or sixteen in number: one of them brought a Coptic and Arabic selim, or lexicon, which Mr. Tattam wished to purchase, but they informed him that they could not part with it, as it was forbidden to be taken away by an interdiction at the end, but they consented to make him a copy. He paid for two of the Syriac manuscripts he had placed in the superior's room, for the priests could not be persuaded to part with more, and left them, well pleased with his ponderous volumes, which he gave me through the top of the tent, and then rode off with Mohamed to the farthest convent, of Baramous, about an hour and a half s ride from St. Soriani. In the convent of El Baramous Mr. Tattam found about one hundred and fifty Coptic and Arabic liturgies, and a very large dictionary in both languages. In the tower is an apartment with a trap-door in the floor, opening into a dark hole full of loose leaves of Arabic and Coptic manuscripts. The superior would have sold the dictionary, but was afraid, because the patriarch had written in it a curse upon any one who should take it away." Into the monastery of Ambii Bishai, after some reluctance on the part of the monks to open their doors to a female, Miss Piatt herself was admitted. " On the ground-floor," she says, "was a vaulted apartment, very lofty, with arches at each end, perfectly dark, and so strewn with loose leaves of old liturgies that scarcely a portion of the floor was visible ; and here we were all fully occupied in making diligent search, each with a lighted taper, and a stick to turn up old fragments. In some parts the manuscripts lay a quarter of a yard deep, and the amazing quantity of dust was almost choking, accom- panied by a damp and fetid smell, nearly as bad as in the Tombs of the Kings. We did not find anything really valuable here, or anything on vellum, excepting one page." On the 15th of January, Mr. Tattam set out on his return to Cairo, having previously obtained from the monks of the Syrian convent four other valuable Syriac manuscripts. Calling at the monastery of Macarius as he passed, he found there about a hundred liturgies and a beautiful copy of the Epistles in Coptic, which the monks refused to sell. There were also a great number of fragments and loose leaves, from which he selected about a hundred, which he was permitted to take away. In the month of February he returned to the convents, and was more successful than upon the former occasion. " Saturday, Feb. 9th.— Immediately after breakfast," says Miss Piatt, « Mr. Tattam went with Mohamed 10 St. Soriani, leaving me to my own amusements in the tent. ... Mr. Tattam soon returned, followed PEEFACE. xiii by Mohamed, and one of the Bedouins bearing a large sack-full of splendid Syriac manuscripts on vellum. Tliey ■were safely deposited in the tent, and a priest was sent for from St. Amba-Bischoi, with whom Mr. Tattam entered the convent, and successfully bargained for an old Pentateuch in Coptic and Arabic, and a beautiful copy of the four Gospels in Coptic. "We are delighted with our success, and hope, by patience and good management, to get the remainder of the manuscripts." " Feb. 10th. — Mr. Tattam went in the evening to St. Soriani to take his leave of the monks there, who said he might have four more manuscripts the next day Mohamed brought from the priests of St. Soriani a stupendous volume beautifully written in the Syriac character, with a very old worm-eaten copy of the Pentateuch from St. Amba-Bischoi, exceedingly valuable, but not quite perfect at the beginning." This Muhammad, who seems to have been little less eager than his master in his endeavours to procure the manuscripts, had recourse to the same means of negotiation as Mr. Curzon,* and applied them with similar success, only substituting raki for rosoglio. The manuscripts, which Mr. Tattam had thus obtained, arrived in due time in England. Such of them as were in the Syriac language, not falling in with the object for which his journey had originally been undertaken, were disposed of to the Trustees of the British Museum, which thus received an accession of forty-nine manuscripts of great antiquity (Add. 12, 133—12,181). Erom the accounts which Lord Prudhoe, Mr. Curzon and Mr. Tattam had given of their visits to the Syrian monastery, it was evident that but few of the manuscripts belonging to it had been removed since the time of the Assemanis; and it seemed likely that no less a ntmiber than two hundred volumes were still remaining in the hands of the monks, most of them of very considerable antiquity, probably written before the tenth century. Application was therefore made by the Trustees of the British Museum to the Treasury; a sum was granted to enable them to send again into Egypt ; and Mr. Tattam readily undertook the commission. The following is his account of the manner in which he obtained the supposed remainder of the manuscripts, as quoted by Dr. Cureton, in the article so often referred to, p. 59. " When I returned to Cairo the second time, all the Europeans who seemed to understand my business prophesied that I should not succeed, but the result proved they were false prophets. I found I could work more eflfectuaUy through the sheich of a village on the borders of the. desert, who had influence with the superior of the convent, and whom my servant had secured in my interest, and through my servant, rather than by attempting direct negotiation. I therefore set to work. After I had been in Cairo about a fortnight, the sheich brought the superior to my house, where he promised to let me have all the Syriac manuscripts. My servant was to go back with him and the sheich when he returned, and to bring away all the manuscripts to the sheich's house, ■where they were to be deposited, and I was to follow in three days and bargain for them. I went at the time appointed, and took money with me in the boat, and a Mohamedan as a silent witness to the transaction and the payment of the money, should any crooked ways be discovered. My servant had taken ten men and eight donkeys from the village, and had conveyed the manuscripts to the sheich's house, where I saw them as soon as I arrived ; and I found he had already bargained for them, which I confirmed. That night we carried our boxes, paper, and string, and packed them all, and nailed up the boxes, and had them in the boat before morning dawned, and before ten o'clock in the morning they were on their way to Alexandria." The manuscripts arrived at the British Museum on the first of March 1843, and this portion of the collection is now numbered Add. 14,425 — 14,739. * Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, 5th edit., pp. 97, 109. d ZIV PREFACE. Dr Cureton naturally concluded that the Nitrian mine was now exhausted, but the event proved that he was mistaken; for, although Dr. Tattam's agreement with the monks embraced the whole of their coUection, they nevertheless concealed and withheld a large portion of their library.* In March 1844 the celebrated bibHcal scholar and paleographer Dr. Tischendorf set out on his first journey to the East, and on the 22nd of April reached the Nitrian desert.f Aware of the recent acquisitions by the Trustees of the British Museum, he was naturaQy anxious to secure a share of the spoil, but, Uke most of his predecessors, found the monks extremely hard to deal with. However, he was permitted to carry off a number of vellum leaves, which were lying about on the floor of the Ubrary, and he found among these what well repaid him for his trouble. % Early in 1845 Dr. Cureton became acquainted with a certain M. Auguste Pacho, a native of Alexandria, who had come to London, with good introductions, " in the hope of obtaining some confidential employment, for which his intimate knowledge of Oriental manners and customs, his native acquaintance with the Arabic tongue, and with several European languages, rendered him admirably qualified." After having remained only a few months in this country, M. Pacho's medical adviser recommended him to seek some mUder climate, and he at once decided to return to his native Egypt. Cureton was not the man to lose so favourable an opportunity. He showed M. Pacho Dr. Tattam's acquisitions, and begged of him to neglect no opportunity of acquiring ancient manu- scripts. These exhortations in due time bore their fruit. After M. Pacho had resided a few months in Cairo, he found reason to suspect that good faith had not been kept with Dr. Tattam by the abbat of the convent and his own servant Muliammad, but that a part of the library had been fraudulently retained, notwithstanding the strongest asseverations to the contrary. Proceeding to the spot, he dwelt with the monks in their convent for six weeks, and at the end of that time had so far gained their good will, that they showed him the remainder of their library, and even began to treat with him for the purchase of it. FuUy acquainted with the character of the persons with whom he had to deal, M. Pacho proceeded with all due caution. He swept up, it is said, every fragment from the floor of the library, sought out scraps that might have been conveyed to other apartments, superintended the packing of the books in person, and took • See Cureton's preface to his edition of the Festal Letters of Athanasius (London, 1848), p. v. t Reise in den Orient, 2 Bande, Leipzig, 1846. See 1«« Bd, p. 116. t See his Anecdota Sacra et Profana (Leipzig, 1849), pp. 65 — 68, and the accompanying facsimiles, tab. iv. The ino8t valuable of his manuscripts are — 1. The Syriac and Arabic Gospels (Nestorian) of the x'i> cent., cod. Tisch. xiii. (see no. xcvii. of this Cata- logue) ; and — 2. The fragments of the Pentateuch (Nestorian) of about the same age, cod. Tisch. xiv., which have been described by Tuch in his Commentationis de Lipsiensi codice Pentateuchi Syri manuscripto particula prior (Leipzig, 1849). Cod. Tisch. xvi. C. is a portion of the Gospel of S. Mark, of the vV^ or vii*^ cent. Cod. Tisch. xvi. D. is a leaf from Add. 14,658 (see no. dcccclxxxvii., no. 1). PREFACE. XV every precaution, which the greed or superstition of the monks could suggest, to secure even the last remnant of their treasure. The hooks left the convent on the 31st of July, 1847 ; hut instead of proceeding directly to England, M. Pacho determined upon passing through Prance with the manuscripts and taking Paris in his route. " This diversion of M. Pacho's journey," says Cureton, "certainly cost me much anxiety; probably it has also cost Her Majesty's Treasury some additional pounds sterling." However, all ended well, and the manu- scripts (Add. 17,102 — 17,274) became the property of the British nation on the 11th of November 1847. It was now believed that the Nitrian mine was completely worked out, that the monks had delivered their last book to M. Pacho, and that that person had faithfully handed them over, according to agreement, to the Trustees of the British Museum. This was not the case. M. Pacho had kept back a considerable number of fine manuscripts. With ten of these he presented himself at the British Museum in 1851, and found no difficulty in disposing of them (Add. 18,812—18,821) ; but he still withheld four splendid volumes, which he sold to the Imperial Public Library of St. Petersburg, in 1852, for the sum of 2500 silver rubles.* One of these manuscripts contains the two books of Samuel, another the epistles of S. Paul ; both are probably of the vi"^ or vii''' century. The third, which, thanks to the liberality of the Russian Government, I have had for a time in my own hands, is a collection of lives of saints, of the vi"^ century, t The fourth, which I have also had the privilege of copying with a view to publication, contains the greater part of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius. Having been written A.D. 462, it comes next in point of age to Add. 12,150, though it is only two years older than Add. 14,425.$ • See a description of them by the distinguished Orientalist Dr. Dorn, in the Melanges Asiatiques tires du Bulletin historico-philologique de I'Academie Impe- riale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, t. ii., p. 195. t See my Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles (London, 1871), vol. i., preface, p. vii. I The following is a more minute description of this beautiful volume. Vellum, in large quarto, consisting of 123 leaves, a few of which are much stained and torn, especially foil. 1, 2, 3, and 121. The quires, originally 29 in number, are signed with arithmetical figures (yuyiA^o > fol. 121 a), but a later hand has re-numbered them inaccurately with letters from K* to V^ . There is a huge lacuna after fol. 84, comprising no less than 12 quires (/■'fj to yuywO), and some smaller defects in other places. The character is a fine, bold Estranggla, with comparatively few diacritical points. This volume is dated A. Gr. 773, A.D. 462. It contains— The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, (^IQoa. The running title is merely f<*ni^QaI»'oaioi<. Book i., fol. 2 6; bk. ii., fol. 20 a ; bk. iii., fol. 40 h ; bk. iv., fol. 62 a ; bk. v., fol. 82 b, very imperfect ; bk. vi., wanting ; bk. vii., fol. 85 a, very imperfect ; bk. viii., fol. 85 b ; bk. ix., fol. 101 a ; bk. x., fol 114 a. The colophon, fol. 123 b, states that the manuscript was written by one Isaac for a person whose name has been erased. The name of the town where it was written has also been eflfaced, but may have been Edessa : ivA.z..i ^^, I i Ati^a y\ iT*aao ^.i ,a_.iu& [tcoior^-s] i\_lixo ■ .v-^» /> f<'rtf*ans-i t. On fol. 1 a is a figure of the Cross ; and beside it is a ZTi PREFACE. Nor have we yet reached the end of the matter. Within the last two years a rumour has gone abroad of there being for sale, somewhere in Cairo or Alexandria, no less than thirty or forty vellum manuscripts, which can scarcely have been procured anywhere else than at the convent of S. Mary Deipara. One of these has been actually purchased by the famous Egyptologist Dr. Brugsch, and has since been sold by him to the Eoyal Library of Berlin. By the kindness of the Prussian authorities I have had this volume in my hands, and find it to be a copy of the Gospels, made up of portions of three manuscripts, frag- ments of one of which are in the British Museum (no. Ixxxii. of this Catalogue). But what gives it a higher value is, that the fly-leaves (foil. 1, 128, and 129) are part of the femous Curetonian Gospels (no. cxix.). 1 give a more minute description in the note. * VI. Such is, so far as I have been able to trace it, the history of the once magnificent library of the convent of 8. Mary Deipara, of the intrinsic value of which it is almost impossible to speak in too high terms. To the collection now deposited in the British Museum is due the revival of Syriac studies, which has taken place during the last five and twenty years. Erom the date of Dr. Cureton's first publication in 1848, hardly a year has note, stating that the volume vas presented to the convent of S. Mary Deipara by one Sahliin of Harran, . r^^MtXSt »..\u »3a.l K*TiTnS T^io^.) .^.olcofls This page also contains some more modern writing (relating to the passage, Acts, ch. iii. 1 etc.), and the rudely drawn figure of a horse or mule. Fol. 121 has been roughly repaired with a fragment of an Armenian manuscript, beautifully written in uncial characters of about the ix"> cent. Fol. 1 is part of two leaves of a Syriac Chronicle, a considerable portion of which is .in the British Museum, Add. 17,216, foil. 2—14 (no. dccccxv.). * A volume in quarto, about 11 inches by 8J, made up of fragments of four manuscripts. 1. Foil. 1, 128, 129. Three vellum leaves from the Curetonian Gospels (Add. 14,451). They contain 8. Luke, ch. xv. 22— ch. xvi. 12, fol. 1 (see Cureton's edition, sign. S, first leaf, recto) ; ch. xvii. 1—23, fol. 128 (see Cureton, loc. cit.) ; and S. John, ch. vii. 37 (the last word r^iuuo)— ch. viii. 19, fol. 129 (see Cureton's edition, sign. N, first leaf, verso). The passage regarding the woman taken in adultery (S. John, ch. viL 63 — ch. viii. 11) is wanting, as in the Peshitta. 2. Fol. 2—11 and 56—127. Part of a vellum manu- script, written in double columns, in a fine, regular Estrangela, apparently of the viii'* cent. The tenth and eleventh quires are signed with letters" and arithmetical figures (. .* .y', . riLt flj •). The contents are : S. Matthew, ch. i. 1— ch. x. 21, foil. 2 6—11 h; S. Mark, ch. xiv. 58— ch. xvi. 20, foil. 56 a ; S. Luke, fol. 58 h ; S. John, fol. 96 a. On fol. 126 a there is a long note, which has been partially erased. The more modern writing informs us that this was one of the volumes brought to the convent of S. Mary Deipara by the abbat Moses of Nisibis in 932. The actual date of the manuscript seems to be contained in the twelfth and thirteenth lines of the original note, which may perhaps be read: rClicL.-i .T*aiiO .it^timq rv of Nonnus (p. 425). The latter rendered into Syriac the Organon of Aristotle and accompanied it with a commentary (no. dccccxc.) ; compiled scholia on Gregory Nazianzen (no. dlsiii.) ; and wrote commentaries on the consecration of the Chrism and the Sacraments of the Church; besides conducting an extensive correspondence with Teshua' of uajr^, John of .s^i&vA, and other students (no. dccclx.). The name of Daniel of Salach is best known by his commentary on the Psalms (nos. dccviii., dccx., and abridged, no. clxxv.). Antonius of Tagrit is more remarkable for the difficulties of his artificial style than for any higher merit.* He wrote treatises on the holy Chrism (no. dcccxv.) and on the good Providence of God (no. dccxviii.), a work on Ehetoric (no. dccxvii.), and various metrical compositions with rhyme. Moses bar Kipha is the author of commentaries on the Old and New Testaments (no. dccxxi.), of a treatise on Freewill and Predestination (no. dcccxxvii.), and of homilies on the Festivals of the Church (nos. dccxxi. and dcccxli.). The name of Jacob (or Dionysius) bar Salibi is likewise chiefly known as a commentator on the Bible. The British Museum possesses only that portion of his works which relates to the New Testament (no. dccxxii., also R.F. xliii., xliv.). Jacob (or Severus), bishop of Tagrit, is a writer of more importance, not so much from the theological as from the scientific point of view. His Thesaurus de Doctrina Christiana is of no particular value, but his Dialogues (no. dccccxcv.) form one of the best eastern encyclopaedias with which we are acquainted. Last on the roll of Syriac authors comes the great name of Gregory bar Hebraeus, a man not inferior in learning and versatility to Jacob of Edessa himself. Of his numerous works the British Museum is so fortunate as to possess the r^Msa^.i rdaii^ or larger Syriac Grammar (R.F. Ix.) ; several copies of the smaller Grammar; the second part of his Chronicle, containing the ecclesiastical history (K.F. Ivii.) ; three copies of the Horreum Mysteriorum or commentary on the Scriptures; his treatises on theology (no. dccxxv.. • Eegarding him a despairing scribe has written : r series, vol. iii. (18G3), p. 125. t Presented to the convent of S. Mary Deipara by the patriarch Abraham, or Ephraim, A.D. 977—981, and probably older than his time. J I have found arithmetical figures in only one paper manuscript, of the xii"i century (Add. 14,684, foil. 1— 36), where they are employed in connection not only with Syriac letters, but also with rudely drawn Greek letters, and are evidently merely imitated from an older model. PREFACE. xxvu Before beginning to write the scribe ruled his vellum or paper. To obviate the greasiness of the vellum and make it take the ink easily, he, or more probably the manu- facturer, rubbed it over with a fine preparation of chalk. This, when thoroughly dry, was apt to become detached in small particles, which fell away, carrying the ink with them, and occasioning a partial destruction of the writing, which sometimes renders even otherwise well preserved manuscripts rather difficult to be read. With what instrimient the ancient scribes wrote, is, strange to say, a rather difficult matter to decide. According to an old form, which the scribes are fond of using, and which occurs as far back as A.D. 509 (Add. 14,542, no. dxlvii.), the pen was no other than our quill, rc^i&.i r^iarc'; and this would seem to be confirmed by the words on the margin of Add. 17,185, fol. 61 a, rdial^s r^i-**."! r^&iaocu , " trial of the quill-pen."* On the other hand, we find, especially in younger manuscripts, such expressions as r^*a>cu ri-i^.! (Add. 17,128, fol. 180 b), ^ ,s3.i rt^ ("reed of the thicket," Add. 7149, see E.P. p. 4, and Land's Anecdota Syr., t. i., p. 58, note 2), and JjiJl S-^/f^ (Add. 18,715, fol. 39 a), which distinctly indicate the use of the ordinary reed-pen of the East. It has occurred to me that the doubt may be solved as foUows in favour of the latter. In almost every particular a Syriac manuscript is a mere imitation of a more ancient Greek model. This imitation has been carried so far as to adopt the very words and expressions of the Greek scribes. For example, the favourite phrase, " as the pilot rejoices when his ship reaches the harbour, so does the scribe rejoice when he comes to the last line " (see p. 107), is literally translated from two verses which I have read at the end of Greek manuscripts. And in like manner, it is possible that the sentence regarding " the five pairs of twins who have ploughed the field of the parchment with the pen as a ploughshare " (see pp. 107, 417, 485, and Land, Anecdota Syr., t. i., p. 59), may be neither more nor less than a literal translation from the Greek, without strict regard to the exact applicability of the terms used.f The method of writing adopted by the Syrians was peculiar. They placed the leaf horizontally, so as to bring the left-hand margin towards the writer, and then traced the words vertically. J Old manuscripts of large size were ordinarily written in three parallel columns, but such are scarcely to be met with after the seventh century. Subsequently even large books were written in double columns only. If the writer accidentally trans- posed words, he placed three dots over or under them (e. g., rctulak jSkri!' r^rC K'oenrt'o) * r is the word invariably employed by the Syrian scribes for " the trial" of the pen, the ink and the rubric. The Ethiopic expression is <5,'t^'}:, the Arabic, t The pen in the hands of the Evangelists, as depicted in cod. Bodl. Or. 62.5 (Payne Smith's Catal., no. 27), proves nothing. Such pictures in Syriac manuscripts are only faint reminiscences of Byzantine art. X Hence the position of the Greek letters in the note on p. 80, second column. This explains too certain expressions used by the grammarians in describing the position of the diacritical and other points. See the article of M. I'Abbe Martin, " Essai sur les deux princi- paux dialectes AramSens," in the Journal Asiatique for Avril-Mai 1872, p. 327. xxviii PEEFACE. or marked them with the letters A^ ^ ri' (e. g., rtUri- rcLico t ws n^-u. *oi). The dots were also used in case of the transposition of letters (e.g., .Seoiciivrc'). The omission of a word was often indicated by a small vertical line (e. g., »<'c»Ak'.i I rsiienl) and the missing word (in this case nr-vi^J was added on the outer margin, parallel to the edge, and often so close to it as to be worn away by the fingers of readers or cut away by subsequent binders, particularly European ones. Quotations of Scripture or of other writers were marked by < or <■ , — or — : , and N; , placed on the margin at the begin- ning of the first and last lines of the quotation or at the beginning of each line.* In one old manuscript (no. dclxxvi.) I have observed the letter ^ placed at the beginning of the first line and -p at the beginning of the last, with the mark \- between. When the author cited quoted a third writer, double marks were used, e. g. « , « , <— , <— : , etc. I may add that the interjection ops' was distinguished at a very early period from the conjunction ok" by the Greek vowel a suprascript, anf. In later times this became or^, o1 , o), and finally 5] . The work of transcription was accomplished with probably far more rapidity than is generally supposed. The scribes of Edessa, Amid, Tagrit and Scete were no inexpert penmen. Cureton speaks of " the time and labour requisite to produce even one copy " of a work,f but the example which he proceeds to allege is founded on a misapprehension. It is not the scribe of Add. 12,151, but the commentator Phocas himself, who speaks of the work as having occupied him for a fuU year in composition and fair transcription. The miserable monk Samuel bar Cyriacus (the barbarous mutilator and destroyer of several fine old booksj) spent, it is true, "more than three years" in transcribing Add. 12,144 (no. dcccliii.) ; but it shoidd be remembered that this is a volume of huge size, and that the said Samuel was by no means a first-rate penman. At the end of the manuscript the scribe usually gave his own name and that of his employer, as well as the date of its completion, and more rarely the price paid for it. Sometimes an aflectation of humility led him to conceal his own name under the thin disguise of numerals or numerical figures (e.g., no. dcclxxviii.), or by the use of the so-called alphabet of Bardesanes (e. g., no. xxii.). The era ordinarily employed was the »^r**''V^^*M^/ , Seleucian or Greek, also called the era of Apamea (no. dxxxix.), commencing with the first of October B.C. 312 ; but others occasionally occur, viz. that of Antioch, commencing with the first of September B.C. 49 (no. dclxxxvi., and see pp, 705, 706) ; and that of Bostra, beginning with the twenty-second of March A.D. 106 (no. dccccxxiv.). Carefully written manuscripts, particularly those intended as presents for the libraries of churches or convents, were generally collated with the archetype by other persons than the scribes, either at the time of their completion or soon after. See, for example, nos. xvii., xxii., xxiv., xl., Ixxi., and Ixxvii. ^.ii«f«>.<»f .«*<.< "-^i. • See, for example, pp. 549 and 553. t Quarterly Review, no. cliii.,_ p. 61. t See nos. Ixxv., ccxxi., ccxxv., and dccclxxv. PREFACE. XXIX When the task of the scribe was done, the volume was handed over to the binder, who stitched the quires strongly together and placed them between wooden boards, which were usually covered with plain or stamped leather, and lined on the inside with linen or silk. To facilitate the turning of the pages of large volumes, pieces of cloth, or small hanks of thread, were attached to the margins of the leaves which commenced the principal divisions of the work. If the volume contained pictures, they were protected by pieces of cloth loosely stitched to the vellum. Of such bindings the Nitrian collection contains no specimens, the old wooden boards having been all removed ;* but Lord de la Zouche describes that of a volume in his possession as follows (Catalogue, p. 12): "The binding of this volume is of board, covered on the outside with brown leather, curiously ornamented and studded with brass-headed nails ; the inside of the binding is lined with a curious piece of embroidered or woven Hnen of the same date as the book."t The finished volume was now deposited in the* library for which it was intended. The librarian made an entry on one of the fly-leaves of the name of the donor and the date of the gift, in most cases adding an anathema against any one who should injure, mutilate, or steal it. Books were, however, lent for the purposes of copying, collation, or study, and the rules of the library of S. Mary Deipara were so liberal as to allow six months for these purposes (see, for example, p. 82, second column). VIII. The twenty photographs, which accompany this catalogue, have been selected by me with some pains to exemplify the different styles of Syriac writing ; and for this purpose they will, I trust, be found as satisfactory as any specimens that have preceded them, with the exception, perhaps, of the splendid reproduction of the Ambrosian manuscript of the Hexapla, which is now being executed under the superintendence of Dr. Ceriani.J With the history of Syriac writing in the earliest centuries of the Christian era we • In the preface to the Festal Letters of Athanasius, p. xiii., Cureton, speaking of M. Pacho's manuscripts, says: "The day after their arrival I went to inspect them. At the first view I could almost have imagined that the same portion of the library as had been brought, nearly five years previously, by Dr. Tattam, was again before rae in the same condition as I found it when the books were first taken from the cases in which they had been packed, as if the volumes had been stripped by magic of their russia, and clad in their original wooden binding ; and the loose leaves and fragments, which had cost me many a toilsome day to collect and arrange, had been again torn asunder, and scattered in almost endless confusion." + This is described by its owner as a volume of church-services in large quarto, 16 inches by 12, written on vellum, in double columns. Many lines are in gold and red, and there are rude illuminations on the first and last pages. It was written A.Gr. 1541, A.D. 1230, at the convent of r^»AflQ^r<' hxxa (or S. Mary Deipara) near Edessa, by one Bacchus bar Matthew, when Igna- tius (David) was patriarch of Antioch. J The student should consult the facsimiles which accompany the catalogues of Rosen and Forshall and of Dr. Payne Smith (now Dean of Canterbury) ; also those in Cureton's Corpus Ignatianum ; in the publications of the Rev. Abbe Martin (Journal Asiatique for 1869, La Massore chez les Syriens ; do. for 1872, Essai sur les deux principaux dialectes Aram6ens ; CEuvres gram- maticales de Bar Hebreus, 1872) ; and in those of Dr. Land (Anecdota Syriaca, t. i., ii., iii., but especially t. i.) ; Tischendorfs Anecdota sacra et profana, tab. iv. ; and Ceriani's Monumenta sacra et profana, t i., fase. 1 (Milan, 1861). h XXX. PREFACE. are not here concerned, as no document of a date anterior to A.D. 400 comes under our cognisance. In the fifth century we find the character commonly called Estrangela, redi^^i^noK', fully developed, and currently employed in a way which shows that it had already a past history of long duration. A fine example of this sort of hand is exhibited in PI. II., taken from a manuscript written at Amid in A.D. 464 (Add. 14,425, fol. 94 a). The Greek vowels in the first column are of course a far later addition ; and in the second column some words have undergone alteration in lines 8, 17, 24, and 25. The original readings were : 1. 8, riisn*^ jjoi ; 1. 17, (sic) r^aii^ -i^oiA ; U. 24 and 25, K^jj.isa «oi . Another instance of perhaps somewhat earlier date is afforded by PI. III., which represents a page of the Curetonian Gospels (Add. 14,451, fol. 47 a). The marginal annotation LtjjU^ ti tt- (t^pyA*^) rtfaieus.T r^uio is of much later date. Older than either of these is the specimen in PI. I., ^ '"' ' ' from the famous Add. 12,150, fol. 239 b, written at Edessa towards the close of A.D. 411.* This is a splendid example of the hand peculiar to the scribes of the Edessene school, which we can trace into the seventh century, when it gradually becomes extinct. Some of the diacritical points have been added by a later hand, though this is not obvious in the photograph. The marginal annotation, doubtless written in the desert of Scete, in the year 1398, A.D. 1087, contrasts almost grotesquely with the ancient text, though the handwriting in itself is by no means bad. It should be remarked that in old Estrangela the letter w is not annexed to a following letter, and that, when final, it has no stroke to the left. PI. IV., taken from Add. 14,542, fol. 94 a, dated A.D. 509, exhibits the more cursive writing of the fifth and sixth centuries. The reader may remark the occasional omission of the points of the s and i (which also occui's in Add. 12,150) ; the use of the form 3 for 50, which is, however, common at all periods; and the annexation of the 09 to a following letter. "With the sixth century arises a gradual divergence of handwriting among the Syrians, which developes itself more and more with each succeeding age, untU at last a manuscript may be discerned at once to be either Jacobite, Nestorian, or Malkite. I shall take these in the order named. Plates v. — VII. represent the ordinary development of the Estrangela character as employed by the Jacobites of the seventh and eighth centuries. PL V., taken from Add. 17,134, fol. 42 a, may perhaps be the handwriting of Jacob of Edessa ; at all events it was written during his lifetime, as it bears date A.D. 675. PL VI. is from fol. 83 b of the same volume, and seems to have been written some years subsequently, perhaps as late as the beginning of the eighth century. The point of interest in it is the presence of Greek vowels added by the same hand that wrote the text, though in a different ink. The form of the vowels, particularly of the y, is the same as in the Greek word on the margin of PL V. PL VII. is taken from Add. 14,429, fol. 88 b, dated A.D. 719. The handwriting closely resembles that of Saba of Eas-'ain, " who never made a blotted ^ ," • The full page exhibits three columns, but the innermost column has been omitted for the sake of including in the plate the marginal note. PREFACE. XXXl and there can be no doubt whatever that the Greek vowels, as well as the Greek words on the margin, were added by the same hand that penned the text. Plate VIII., taken from Add. 14,548, fol. 116 a, dated A.D. 790, is, I believe, the oldest specimen in the collection of the current hand that prevailed from the eighth century onwards. PI. IX., from Add. 14,580, fol. 56 b, copied at Edessa in A.D. 866, shows the same character written more hurriedly and therefore more cursively. It has been corrected and retouched in several places, more particularly in lines 7 {rCa. in reiajt.ciSk3.i), 17 (. in ,en), 19 (ji in ^eoLi), 20 {^<\ in ^o«fb), 23 {ju> in jaooiai^), 26 (so and 1^ in KlA^aM.i), and 28 (.i in .cnoli^i). The marginal note has been altered by erasure, only the letters rda being in the original writing. This hand has gradually degenerated into the Maronite character of the present day. The form of the letter sh'm is a tolerably fair criterion of the age of a manuscript. In the earlier centuries it is shaped x or x; in the twelfth and thirteenth it becomes more rounded, a ; and about the fifteenth it begins to assume an angular form, a, differing in little but Size from that oiyud. Plate X., taken from Add. 12,139, fol. 12 b, written at Antioch in A.D. 1000, is an example of a modification of the Estrangcla, which is very common, particiilarly in service- books, from the ninth or tenth to the twelfth or thirteenth century. Nestorian manuscripts of the oldest period are not easily distinguishable by any ex- ternal peculiarities.* PI. XL, for example, taken from Add. 14,460, fol. 68 a, written in Beth- Nuhadra, A.D. 600, presents no very saKent features so far as the Estrangela character is concerned. The system of punctuation, however, is a tolerably certain guide ; and, in a less degree, the marginal ornamentation (compare Plates XII. and XIII.), which is not, I think, found in this shape in Jacobite manuscripts. As a rule, Nestorian manuscripts exhibit the ancient Syrian vowel system, in which the vowels are represented by small points or dots. The Jacobites, on the other hand, use the Greek vowels, though there is a mixed school, which employs both.f Manuscripts written by the Syrian Christians in Southern India conform to the Nestorian type. J PI. XII. is from a beautiful manuscript, Add. 7157, fol. 70 b, written in the convent of Beth-Kuka, on the Great Zab, in Adiabene, and dated A.D. 768. It is very fully pointed, but many of these minute vowels seem to have been added subsequently. PI. XIII. represents a page of the old Nestorian Masora, Add. 12,138, fol. 190 a. In this fine volume, which was written in a convent near Harran, A.D. 899, the writing begins to assume a distinctly Nestorian aspect. Some of the points are later additions. Lastly, in PI. XIV. we have a specimen from a large Lectionary, Egerton 681, fol. 66 a, written A.D. 1206—7, in which the vowel points and consonants are all of one date.§ • The term Nestorian, as applied to writing, is often loosely and inaccurately employed by the compilers of catalogues. Bosen and Forshall, for example," call writing similar to that of plate X. Nestorian ; and Payne Smith uses the word to designate the writing of Malkite manuscripts, like those represented in plates XVI. and XVII. t See Martin, Essai sur les deux principaux dialectes Arameens, in the Journal Asiatique for Avril-Mai 1872. t See specimens in Land's Anecdota Syr., t. i., tab. B., and Payne Smith's Catalogue (from Bodl. 625). § Good facsimiles from Nestorian manuscripts are given in Rosen and Forshall's Catalogue (Add. 7152 and 7167) ; Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et profana, tab IV. (codd. Tisch. xiii., xiv., and xv.) ; Payne Smith's Catalogue (Dawk. 27) ; and Martin, Essai etc.. Journal Asiatique, Avril-Mai 1872. XXXll PEEFACE. PI. XV. exhibits a page of one of our oldest Malkite manuscripts, Add. 14,489, fol. 83 «, written at Antioch in A.D. 1045. Here the deviation from the ordinary character is by no means strongly marked ; but in the next two plates the distinctive features of this hand- writing, which inclines in many points towards the Nestorian, are fully brought out. PI. XVI. is taken from Add. 21,031, fol. 40 b, which was written in A.D. 1213, probably some- where near Ma'lula. PL XVII. represents Add. 17,236, fol. 170 b, written in a convent near Tripolis, but by a scribe from the neighbourhood of Damascus, in A.D. 1284.* The peculiar Palestinian character is, in its early days, little else than a very stiff, angular, inelegant Estrangela. The best specimen of it in the Nitrian collection is Add. 14,450, fol. 14, a palimpsest leaf, of which one page is represented in PL XVIII. by means of the autotype process of photography.t It contains a part of the Gospel of S. Matthew, viz. eh. xxvi. 56—64, but of one column about half has been unfortunately cut away. Compare Miniscalchi-Erizzo, Evangeliarium Hierosolymitanum, pp. 333, 363. I can only hazard a conjecture that this leaf belongs to the eighth or ninth century ; J but it is certainly much older than the specimens exhibited in Plates XIX. and XX., where every peculiarity is exaggerated and distorted till the character becomes almost hideous. The former of these. Add. 14,664, fol. 26 b, I assign to the tenth or eleventh century. § It contains Ps. Ixxvii. (Ixxviii.) 57 — 65. The latter, Add. 14,664, fol. 34 a, which contains hymns on S. John the Baptist, is probably of the twelfth or thirteenth century.|| IX. It remains for me to say, in conclusion, a few words regarding the compilation of this work. The state of the Nitrian manuscripts when they reached this country may be best described in the words of Cureton in the Quarterly Review, no. cliii., p. 60. " Upon openinpr the cases very few only of the volumes were found to be in a perfect state. From some the beginning was torn away, from some the end, from others both the beginning and end ; some had fallen to pieces into loose quires, many were completely broken up into separate leaves, and all these blended together. Nearly two hundred volumes of manuscripts, torn into separate leaves, and mixed up together by time and chance more completely than the greatest ingenuity could have effected, presented a spectacle of confusion which at first seemed almost to preclude hope. To select from this mass such loose fragments as belonged to those manuscripts which were imperfect, and to separate the rest, and collect them into volumes, was the labour of months. To arrange all those leaves now collected into volumes, in their proper consecutive order, will be the labour of years. Without the aid either of pagination or catchwords, it will be requisite to read almost every leaf, and not only to read it, but to study accurately the contest, so as to seize the full sense of the author. Where there are two copies of the same book, or where it is the translation of some Greek work still existing, this labour will be in some measure diminished • but in other instances nothing less than the most careful perusal of every leaf will render it possible to arrange the work, and make it complete."ir » Among the facsimiles appended to Payne Smith's Catalogue is a very good one from a Malkite OctSechus, dated A.D. 1493 (Dawk. 8). + In the manuscript itself the old writing is of a light brown, almost yellowish tint ; the more recent, jet black. The autotype process fails to bring out this difiPerence, but the plate is in other respects an excellent reproduction of the original. X Compare the facsimile in Tischendorf's Anecdota sacra et profana, tab. i., no. xv. § Compare the facsimile given by Miniscalchi-Erizzo in his edition of the Evangel. Hierosolym., from the Vatican manuscript, which is dated A.D. 1030. II Compare Land, Anecdota Syr., t i., pp. 89—91, and the specimen on Tab. xviii. H Compare also what Cureton says in the preface to the Festal Lettere of Athanasius, p. xiii., cited above, p. xxix., note ». PREFACE. xxxiii To the labour of study and arrangement Cureton at once devoted himself, but he quitted the British Museum in 1850, and from that date the work languished. When I was appointed assistant in the Department of Manuscripts in 1861, I found that com- paratively little progress had been made; the later portions of the collection, though mostly bound in volumes, were in a state of great disorder, and the whole, with the exception of the manuscripts first procured by Dr. Tattam, required a thorough revision. To this task I devoted myself for about three years, taking notes of the contents of the volumes as I went along. Many I had to rearrange entirely, others partially ; to others I added larger or smaller portions from the later acquisitions and the bundles of unbound fragments. When this was done, I began to describe the books carefully in numerical sequence, such being the wish both of Sir 'E. Madden (who was then Keeper of the MSS.) and of Dr. Cureton; and the catalogue was actually completed in manuscript in this manner. When, however, Mr. Bond succeeded to the office of Keeper, the matter was reconsidered, and it was determined to attempt at least a certain degree of classifica- tion. Many of the volumes in the Nitrian collection were made up of two, three, or even four totally distinct manuscripts, which had been fortuitously bound together in the convent of S. Mary Deipara ; and we resolved to separate these so far as the description of them was concerned, and to refer each manuscript to its proper class. In most of the classes a further subdivision has been attempted. The Biblical manuscripts naturally fall under the heads of Old Testament, New Testament and Apocrypha ; to which are appended the Masoretic volumes, under the heading of " Punctuation." Then follow the various Service-books, commencing with the Psalters. In these classes, I have, whenever it was practicable, placed together manuscripts of the same sort or representatives of the same sect of the Church. Eor example : among the Lectionaries, the Jacobite commence with no. ccxx., the Nestorian with no. ccxliii., and the Malkite with no. ccl., to which last are annexed the Palestinian fragments (no. ccliv.). Again : among the Jacobite Choral books, those containing services for the whole year take the precedence, and are followed by collections of services for various special occasions (no. cccxlvii.) ; whilst the Malkite manuscripts are placed at the end (no. cccciii.). The patristic literature is divided into two series. The fij-st comprises manuscripts which contain works of only one writer, arranged chronologically according to the age of the authors. The second consists of volumes, each of which contains works of several authors, put together by the same scribe, and which therefore form manuscripts incapable of partition. This series I have arranged according to the date of the manuscripts. Such are the leading features of the new scheme, which necessarily compelled me to subject my written descriptions to a thorough revision and rearrangement. At length I commenced printing, in 1869, and the last sheet of the first volume (pp. 1 — 400) was struck off, when a new and vexatious delay occurred. The premises of Mr. Watts, the printer, were destroyed by fixe on the IQ"* of March, 1870, and the whole impression perished in the flames, along with a large portion of Dr. Rieu's catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts and many other valuable works. Eortunately I had the proof-sheets lying by me, and was enabled, thanks to the energy of all concerned, to begin printing again in a i xxxiv PREFACE. very few weeks and to finish the first volume before the end of the year. Since then the work has gone on uninterruptedly till it has now happily reached its close. Thanks are due on my part to Mr. Bond, the Keeper of the MSS., Dr. Eieu, the Keeper of the Oriental MSS., and Mr. Thompson, the Assistant Keeper of the MSS., not only for many valuable suggestions, but also for actual help in the revision of the proofs. As for the printers, their part of the work has been executed to my complete satisfaction, and if my own labours meet with the same degree of commendation which I can conscientiously bestow upon theirs, I shall have reason to be well satisfied. Wm. WRIGHT. November 2th, 1872. ADDITIONS AND CORKECTIONS. In drawing the attention of the reader to the following list of Additions and Correc- tions, I have to thank my friends Professor Noeldeke of Strassburg and Mr. Bensly of Camhridge for the notes with which they have been so kind as to supply me. W. W. Page 9, column 2, line 1. Perhaps tnusai, instead of being a proper name (which one would naturally expect in this place), may be a corruption of ."V» >20T , signature, autograph. — 19, col. 1, 1. 30. Read JLrS^u.i.i . — 53, col. 1, 11. 9, 15. Assemani is probably right in pronouncing the name Dinur. — 58, col. 1, 1. 35, and col. 2, 1. 15. Read 1188. — 61, col. 1, 1. 20, and col. 2, 1. 10. Read 1437. — 74, col. 2, 1. 10. Delete the words "Hablbai or." — 79, col. 2, 1. 26. The vowel u has accidentally disappeared. — 141, col. 2, 1. 32. Read K'Avi^ %m<. — 165, col. 2, 1. 3. Read " Syrian." — 181, col. 1, 1. 6 from the foot. Read CCXLV. — 200, col. 1, 1. 18, and p. 201, col. 2, 1. 14. Bead 1045. — 207, col. 1, 1. 10. Read 1295. — 248, col, 1, 1. 18. Read T^iu\aa> . — 262, col. 1, 1. 3 from the foot. Bead r^llxLOKT:! . — 265, col. 1, 1. 10, and p. 268, col. 2, 1. 3. Read " Hisn Ziyad." — 320, col. 2, 1. 9 from the foot. The words rOcoajbi.t cnsav. Kl&^ojcsao seem to imply « a suffragan bishop," or one who held the same relation to a bishop that his (n^/ceAAoj did to a patriarch. — 344, col. 2, II. 5 and 7. More probably rduooa is a derivative adjective, formed like ru\m , p V vo V i.e. »Ml~n , for i-uJ.tM . — 473, col. 2, 1. 5. Read AAA».t . — 476, col. 1, 1. 8. Or rather, f£e7v. — 496, col. 1, 1, 17. Read Qooui r^ . XXXVl ADDITIONS AND COREECTIONS. Page 505, col. 1, 1. 28. After "prayer" add "in heptasyllabio metre." — 514, col. 1, note t- Read 998. — 570, col. 2, 1. 21. We ought to read .lar^ • — 672, col. 2, 1. 7. The word f2iJSaM . — 1017, col. 2, 1. 22. We should read i^.ta. . — 1018, col. 2, 1. 14. Read rdriOJto rdA pj.i . — L. 16. Readri'tire'. — 1074, col. 2, L 16. Delete 1. — 1088, col. 1, 1. 17, and p. 1089, col. 2, 1. 20. Read 586. — 1122, col. 1, 1. 23. After pciliiri^ add "(Terraneh, ij), , on the Nile.)" ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. xxxvu Page 1123, col. 2, 1. 14, and p. 1137, col. 2, 1. 18. Read 1196. — 11G9, col. 1, 11. 15, 20, 22. Read ,jl».4<. — Col. 2, 1. 1. Read ^aIk*.! r<'iuJ-aJooi>Avsa . — L. 13. Read (fM»A») . — 1170, col. 1, 1. 5. Add'a point after p^Av^Cui . —Col. 2, 1. 20. Read i=nr<:i.l — Last line. Add a point after r^.*aiaiO . — 1171, col. 1, 1. 5. Add a point after r^lMxfib^ivsqo . — Line antepenult. Read — 1172, col. 1, 1. 2-3. Add a point after r£im . — 1173, col. 1, 1. 17. Read Avi-.-uA^K' . — 1179, col. 1, 1. 19. Read 1732. Page 1188, col. 2, last line. After 17,156, add " foil, la— 15." — 1202, col. 2, 1. 8. Bead rei*ired . — 1212, col. 1, note c. In the second line, for "•l^jnon read "XSOH. — 1250, col. 2, 1. 10. For 1279 read 1003. — 1270, col. 2, 1. 15. Read"pr." — 1274, col. 2, 1. 7. For 171 read 179. — 1278, col. 2, 1. 6 from the foot. Read 1295. — 1280, col. 2, 1. 35. For "^isn Zaid" read "Hisn Ziyid." — 1331, col. 2, 1. 27. The entry" 637, c. 2 (A.D. 534)" has been accidentally misplaced. It relates to tjie later Timothy III., not to Timothy .lElurus. — 1341, col. 2, 1. 17. After relsiir^ insert " iil^, on the Nile." Preface, page v., note §. In the sale-catalogue of the Meermann collection, t. iv., p. 1, we read as follows ; — "2. Quatuor Evangelia, Syriace, in membr., circa annum 1271, duabus columnis, exarata, fol. 202. Non- nulla hie illic desiderantur, ad quae supplenda folia membr. pura inserta sunt ; multis etiam locis laesus, at, quantum potuit, redintegratus. Cor. russ. Hie codex olim dono datus fuerat raonasterio Beithbiseio, in deserto Nitriffi ^gypti sito." This volume passed, with many more of the Meermann MSS., into the hands of the late Sir T. Phillipps, and is now at Cheltenham. The above statement is repeated, in nearly the same words, by Haenel in his " Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum qui in bibliothecis Galliae, etc., asservantur" (Leipzig, 1830), p. 830; but in Sir T. Phillipps's own, privately printed Catalogue, the manu- script is ascribed to the ninth century. Neither statement is correct, nor do I feel at all sure that the book ever was in the Nitrian desert. Mr. Bensly has examined it, and informs me that it contains the four Gospels, according to the Peshitta version, pre- ceded by the epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus and the Eusebian canons. It was written, according to a note on the last page, at the expense of the priest Thomas and one Aquilinus, of Hardin (?) on mount Lebanon, for the , convent of Mar Isaac of Gabula ; and was presented in the year 988, A.D. 677, to the church of Bith-Bisha (?), when one Bacchus was its priest. eJ^i&jj^rC'.l (?) ^.i.TiJ pa.t ^OLar^ >i:»\o >i-S9 ^ ■ ->^ K'i^.lA ( r<'inJ.T coX Any 1 r^Xlr^ rt'ctAre'.i r^iOba Avmi^ ,cnca^. yat<^a r^^u.^ \-it.At-gi onA^. ten >CDoiur<' ivAJE-a r^JLjs iv^.a.n r^^.T.^ ^1 .acix.^^r^' >S9Cua r t^cw m i «._i^.i This last paragraph is probably in a different hand from the other two, and added more recently. On the last page we also find the name of a priest named Aaion, and a note which has been partially k XXXVlll ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. • CDO ^1^ erued: r^^.v^.i f^cp .^.O^^A^oK' . fx»xsn T.i On the first page is another deed of gift, in part illegible, from which it appears that Abii-Siri (?) bar Hurmuz, of Tagrit, presented it to a certain convent, when one Isaiah was abbat. r^ZtV) rC'i.sao:^ ^9kX. ^cLu (?) f^ . . V»«<'-"» (?) »vs«i-"» re'v.-t-i ia r^VtUC.A'i r^A^jLt^ ,\sa r^ia»sa . ,x.a . cnT'M.t r<^ii3ia& In none of these notes is there anything to show that the manuscript ever formed part of the library of the convent of S. Mary Deipara, or of that of Abba Bishoi, for it is impossible to identify the "church of Beth- Blsha," f<*Ti-i iua.i r ^^ •''^ -^"^ T^cn — ^Gd «rOCSX OC73 «ru»osc_- X*^^ «rnj4^ ^OfTOl 1 4 ^ A^, ^^ ^^V-iij:\X:a OC73 .£& ■ .^ ^ t'- -:^ f ^,^ -^ifr*-' ' '-i-ai alBioakiDaitkSalA ADD. 14-, 451. fol 47 a_ Saec. V PL V iO 7 j^A/VZOm^" ? r^^? i*^ 7^V , Wvi*-^ -^'i? i^s-Jr-^^Vfl^V^^oZxiJ.^, :^>^ i»a^ u.i^'^ ""*iWI—l ■ ^m\ I ^MMI^ IIIWIBWM—— I W ■ ■ I jWiI— III! ■■IWm II I I II IM — ^M ■ ^baitBnaluI^ASi^Ijik PL VI. ^^MxI^^Vj^*^ r*^au^ A;/ o^^^ A.k=a -iVTir, /*i^ ja> :Vi^^V. ^» I -^'.o^^^Oia %! .^ ^f^ .^^ W»Uo V;^a^ ,^o^^aaa=iJC-.Ji^,,tju^ j^^^, Mrji^t ^>»»V»? — • • . . . ** Uiceal.SmbI« ADD. 17. 134. fol 83 b PL K// = /»^.3o,zf_ •^^QJnA»:aLT^avan*,^^4 '^ ?;qo^oaan.^^a.4bowteri KnccDtBi oou I>q it Sal Ucfa PL Vlll i 'IbLvn.W _, . ..,.^ ,. y^^i ?^^'^»B^ I^ !^ J.^jfiSi iiAxe .{^ binB> o»4^«aL 4i Wi>4i»i«jS^.« V^^ A Ld^aa .^tJMuI 4**^^ ,avty .4> -M «*• -. '.l^n^AAJ . foAftJ^5,T /n-^ XkN ATmM V^' I ^k^. \<^ /oi^ la^V/K» /^Al >o rfciiift^ Note) Jko lli>n^ f>'«n«u J^,> ^O7o^ -joAif dot fima *7i«jb9 0^ ^ b^liao .-ZiftiV J^i>]&j^pft^:> -^»^ 019 A^t\tpiM KS^'Jun dor ^ m '%iicd BnoalirtSiiuil ADD^ 14,548. foi. 116a._ A.D. 790. PL. IX. ^Vo^jjinV ^.>^Aii>\&a-^/«^.^*4 Ss? -^VSo VsAt^? ^u«a i^«Bo ^^a*^ ^> vow *M>a4i «r»i >Qs>w) •^^OVm'W a:o> 1tesBtInofaI>4tSaiblk ADD. 14,580, fol. 56 b._ A.D. 866. «^L.^ka M± MQi^ikf ti^$ tJootto .^gU^ 'O^eCffoQUl^Jtv^b .^^STtv^^ ^^Butf .fO^^ oS^^ ^ADcmiBrocls i«« A Stc UL PL. XI. •* •s /laafi '^maaa «<:lt9ax. V^^mVv <»aiAn:iarlSoii.l>k ADD. J4,4-(J0, fol. 68a._ Nestonan. A.D.600. PL XII V-Art .\aun ,<4v*n -uW • T^.n>4 v^ nnSLsmev )Km1 **^-«7* «»»» Yixnrx Artf? •■ aoaftrsT'j^na cetera ...... ^^ e^., ^k&a csjol. .^'.^ v^^xrr^tao V\evm rC^<^kaa 'id^m a <^Viaa rdoc^ ''JliKjQt Bicob DvX ocD Ick K *»i PL. XII J '^\>' ?^>i«B«l'>:t;A".^ .. ^AKaitdroohi r>iy k S«Jjtli ADD. 12,138. foL 190aL_ N esLonan, A.D. 899. •• m ■ z • • * •^i»|rlS«.,u> r. 1 ,^ni rl /ini- "V/f^lUit^ ATl 191*^ .-3^ ^£LAxri6«f»'^auilA^ l^lcil^ of <^^^ o>r^ j^su/i u\Xki^ jtcLa oe^. /cA\ c^c^ Ju^ ^Kn£n^yecP9.^a^t{lLS^ff^%ib JtlcrjLii e?°^ ^?^^ .•pi^a irA^o ,t^.* i>u>«si ^% 1tac«n.Broolf Dif & Stt Uili ADD. 17,23 6. fol. 17 0 k_Malkile. A.D. 1284-. T'^l-n- ^^ffV -Sii^ ^.3 ^":\jit^r •« ^ '* i» •^ I m-^T. ir If -^ \^i-«m tin>ok*. I *>■ * SCO, 1y*,1c:/-\ /*-! lii PL XIX. ^^ JMW [J C ^ V ' D^ \ Vmcoii Btc -a >.v t Son 'j* Add 14,664, fol. 26b._ Palestinian PL. XX. 1 Hxc:::^^rcoinri23im0fi!irinia^ifm:ti^^ >K ADD. 1-V,664, fol. 3 4a._ Palestinian. CONTENTS. Biblical Manuscripts. Old Testament New Testament . Apocrypha . Punctuation (Masora) Skrvice-books. Psalters Lectionaries Missals Sacerdotals Choral Books Hymns Prayers Euneral Services Page 1 40 97 101 116 146 204 217 240 330 383 392 Pace Theology. Individual Authors . . . 401 Collected Authors . . . 631 Catenae Patrum and Demonstra- tions against Heresies . . 904 Anonymous Works . . . 1016 Councils of the Church and Eccle- siastical Canons . . . 1027 History 1039 Lives of Saints, etc. Collected Lives . . 1070 Single Lives . 1147 Scientific Literature. Logic and Ehetoric 1154 Grammar and Lexicography 1168 Ethics 1183 Medicine 1187 Agriculture . . . . 1189 Chemistry 1190 Natural History . . . . 1192 Fly-leaves 1194 Appendix A. (Notes and Additions to Eosen and Porshall's Catalogue) 1201 Appendix B. (Mandaitic manuscripts) 1210 Indices. Index-table of the Manuscripts . 1221 Table of Dated Manuscripts 1236 General Index .... 1239 Index of Syriac Proper Names, chiefly geographical 1336 List of Bishops, Maphrians, etc. . 1349 List of the Abbats of the Convent of S. Mary Deipara 1353 HISTORY. DCCCCXI. Vellum, about Qf in. by 6f , consisting of 130 leaves, a few of which are stained and torn, especially foil. 1—3, 13, and 130. The quires, signed with both letters and arith- metical figures (e. g. fol. 64 a, ^^) are 14 in number ; but the first is imperfect, leaves being wanting at the beginning, as well as after foil. 1 and 2. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 26 to 36 lines. This volume is written in a fine, regular Estrangela of the vi'** cent., and contains — The first five books of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Csesarea.* The title, as given in the heading and subscription of each book, is r<'i\.%-Jk.."! k'A\„« s t.Ai ; but the running title, e. g. fol. 3 J, is re^iui^ai^ojLif^. Each book is preceded by an index of chapters. Book i., imperfect. Fol. 1 a. The missing portions are chapters 1 — 12 of the index; • This work was translated into Syriac at a very early period, for the St. Petersburg manuscript is dated A. Gr. 773, A.D. 462. the latter part of ch. 1, from the words •ifKi)p^(7TaTi)v 8' olv o/J.coepov. Book ii. Fol. 18 a. Book iii. Fol. 40 b. Book iv. Fol. 70 a. Book V. Fol. 96 b. A note on fol. 130 b states that the volume was written by one Elias : t^ii.i Aa rc'oolf^ . T:nr<^ ens rfio.i jao . coa ,^v,^^ >cDai\ry» v^o^eu ^a . cn-i\-i vv^Ajj.t .sco The remainder of this note, which con- 6b 1040 HISTORY. tained the date * and other particulars, has been carefully erased; and in its place is substituted the usual record of the acquisi- tion of the manuscript by the abbat Moses of Nisibis, A. Gr. 1243, A.D. 932 : A^oeo Aur, iAuss pa •:• AaA ^ ■usarc's r<'v..TJt^i re-Axli^o ^ivmiKta ^4\»o relaArC Aux. •:• ^*sJL [Add. 14,639.] DCCCCXII. A vellum leaf, 10| in. by 7J. The page is divided into two columns, of from 33 to 35 lines. The writing is good and regular, of about the ix*^ cent. It contains — An extract from Eusebius of Csesarea on the various nations of the earth, and who was the father of each of them : : ^o^ f^ar^ ocn ptlv.K'.ia rtlixA .^^owAas rdax.o:^ ri«m tw . -,nr,n^\ . Beginning : h\&^ oa : rdii^Hfloo i.T:3a . tr'inilQAo r^&^Ha .lloK' .^^O^a [Add. 14,541, fol. 62.] DCCCCXIII. VeUum, about 9jf in. by 6, consisting of 60 leaves. The quires, signed with letters, are 7 in number, but of r^ only the last leaf remains, and of ^ the first two leaves are missing. There are from 24 to 32 lines in each page. This volume is written in a good, regular Estrangela, and belongs in all • The word J*i*r^ is alone legible. probability to the middle of the viii*'' cent. The contents are — 1. Geographical notes, imperfect both at the beginning and end. Fol. 1 a. These have been published by Land in his Anec- dota Syriaca, t. i., pp. 23 — 24 of the text. 2. A Chronicle, or rather a collection of historical notes, the first part of which, fol. 2 a, is chiefly derived from the Chronicle of Eusebius; whilst the second part, fol. 35 b, seems to be a compilation from several later authorities. Erom the former, which is slightly imperfect at the beginning, Pro- fessor Rcediger has edited considerable ex- tracts in his Chrestomathia Syriaca, 2"'^ ed., p. 105 ; and he has also given a Latin trans- lation in Schoene's edition of the Chronicle, vol. ii., p. 201. The latter has been pub- lished by Land in his Anecd. Syr., t. i., pp. 2 — 22 of the text. The latest date men- tioned in these notes is A. Gr. 947, A.D. 636 (fol. 50 b ; compare Land, Anecd. Syr., t. i., p. 168). 3. A list of the Arab Caliphs, from the time of the prophet Muhammad down to that of Yazid II., ,coa i w.i reLj.icoa—^ rAxAri'.i [r : KlLsa : pao : r^ia-rS*."! : r«vsal : ^oocu : Ktooo . Subscrip- tion, fol. 15 a : : JL^.i : T<\-snr£.sn : 71 \ t : oo.j.sQoore' : >i -an \ : i.A.sor^.i : rda^cu^ i^.«itt-D . This tract has been edited, with an English translation, by Wright, in the Journal of Sacred Literature for 1866, vol. ix., p. 117, and vol. x., p. 150. 2. A letter of Narcissus, bishop of a>a\>n(?) in Asia, sent to all the churches by the hand of the deacon Stephen, concerning an appa- HISTORY. rition of the Tempter in the church of ooa\in , on the 4*'* of the latter Kanun, A. Gr. 662 (A.D. 351) : oaow ojj.i r<'i\T-^rc'.i pi'.aaijiA A^ iixri* ArA.1 r^i-iJ5a_x_5s3 00ft 1 °> \oorc' t^<\rtnOQ^re* uoQofiTJ.i (sic) cn&uz=3 . r^ucui a>ci2Lin-3 iurC*.! ^A^Kb . caJ=a-:^.i rt* TiVno \ «>. -IT ^j;Sa.s».i K'^H^ i^QoK'.t K'AuiS.sa H, \ T. iA\r^. Fol. 15 a. Subscription, fol. 17 h : rstov** : l^-i = K'Axii^rtf' : Axsaii. rdi*aii5a.i . This document has been edited by Eoediger in his Chrestomathia Syriaca, 2"'* ed., p. 102. [Add. 17,142.] DCCCCXVIII. VeUum, about llf in. by 9, consisting of 171 leaves, some of which are much stained and torn, especially foU. 1, 9, 39, 99, 109, 111—114, 116, and 171. The quires, signed with letters, were 20 in number, but the first is lost, and A< is imperfect, leaves being missing after foil. 110 and 114. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 30 to 38 lines in the older portions of the volume, and from 26 to 36 in the more recent. The greater part of this manuscript, from the beginning to fol. 131, is written in a fine, regular Estrangela of the vi"" cent., with the exception of foil. 1—8, 19, 28, 29, 38, 59, 68, 89, 90, 97, 98, 100, 107, 125, 126, and 131, which are in a plain, legible hand of the X* or xi"' cent. The later scribe has added foU. 132—171. The contents are— 1. A history and panegyric of Constantine the Great and his three sons, Constantine, Constantius and Constans : li^.i reli_M^ , (?) oauic\&r^ 1043 eoiAx_3 eua-Liore'.i ^r< . Eol. 1 a. It is very imperfect. 2. A narrative concerning Eusebius, bishop of Rome, showing the persecution which he underwent at the hands of the emperor Julian : .rn ■ -i wot^i ,eoO-i-*»^Js k'ouajl* : itLsooeni.i rCA\.i_^.l r<*°> n oa'\r< riisc\ . r^io-^o r«LJoi_\^ jtocuAcu t-sao-La Pol. 1 b. Eusebius is said to have been at this time nearly 97 years old, fol. 2 a, n^ioa ^ <^ V"^ "* TiT*^ " ."t i^ • rr* -\ to »^_Joa rCixcu^.-iccsa.i ; but he outlived Julian, dying A. Gr. 673,* fol. 30 b : r^:L^<\\ ^.i .cv_d . cTLSOJbA K'crAre' .'UiV-l rdlaioAa co-woi . rV^H-^1 ^jc»i»»A>aA3 eoh\a^xtzo h\r^t^a\r^Ci (sic) .«- -« ^ "^ ^i\-X.O K'r^LJSaovAm o< 1 T. ,1 ^ ^ . -1 .^.cuc^ »^_i^.t a_a-Lsa_=3 rdajK* . Subscription, fol. 31 a : A\ •ti \ t, »^«v\ *M ai-ij\i^ooaa.i K'Qo-lo-no r rtllacOui coiuiJ.A<0 . »cnOJii."lO rtflia^enJa 3. A history (or rather a historical romance) of the reign of the emperor Jovian, or, as he is here called, Jovinian (ooai*i=io.iiA=>ci^ , which occurs from the very commencement of the volume (see, for example, foil. 1 a, 8 5, 13 *, 18 6). Tho name of the author is written oa^ioA^r^ , foil. 31 a, 130 b, and ouiXcdaK' , fol. 31 b ; and he calls himself a minister or official (rciLiixucaJso) of Jovian.* He composed the work at the request of Abdll, abbat of the place called rs'tcuioi ,^^w-»t, with whose letter it commences, fol. 31 a : t9.i V*-^ r^JV-^r^ . r^-aow I \o : iivj^ iA< s'sa ax>.ii : en im ^.1.1 rdsaA.t . rdaacoA ii.lt rC'^CUM.i-a m-a . r^O-o-Sa . cnAv3cna*yi'-i cnA .s y^nAxAx Kilo K't^J-i.l cnAq3 . re'iiv^iSa r<*n I'loo r^JcJkrCll .n&.l re'i.a iu^ca rtLsol.i . rtflriijc ooaocta* ."U^ . nlXMoi r<'ia\^ r^iuii^ p<'i»'U»i . t^niin ra^.3.'l cbQm'\a \aA ^^Kl5ai» . aiAaooaAo ai^aocxula ari.a ^r^ Oi^ ^ i>i_^i\Ai:k.o . Ttlioi5i^i >cum liis-o qvoxiIasCU.! cn^aaio cnoolcVD .^r^ ..aam mhvSiMifi^ Qo^vlcLL&r^ ^rc* oina .l-^o ,cnaia'v=i . crA .soiv^.i AnT o . ^rC jiz-io A-I1.J1.1 oca '. t^\,\ T.io . T^'^vi.u w 1 i\ft*i . '^^'■\'\""'^" iua.i ^ r^^CU&AjM K'ocn r<'Ocn cfisox..! . .im rC'i^via .si onX r^aca b\^r^ . rtilA^ooo.io r^i^u^.-u:! rti'TOL^^ . ooCU^l&aCU ,coQ\* -fn vO-±a ^ i<'ooaJ.t oo&t^.'ua a^qo.i jt,o . r^oi^i . At the end, fol. 130 b, we read as follows : .^ciz*.i cn.ia:^ K'i.-a ^.i r^rc" QBCUUaCU.i r^XM^oo-SS Qa*iai°kr<' *. r.l . ^-Ua re's-! on I T-n T "a i ■ -« . r^x^cu . crxJSO.&JioK'o cofia^Aj^o cn&ujkJL.^ orA ^dox-tj.! iA.a^ .Vi .. ^.,^^0x3 rC'ocn.i rdlcn Klsi^.i K^T > T.i» coj.vio.^ ^ j_A».^.» Ai-^ r^vz_).i A rdjeoxnsa .x&cuxiacui (sic) icncuu* T^lsalciz. r^co&.l cnA>asn\ rdlis^ ^.i ^:ia:^ . r<'<^.vL.i ^coo.iiao . K'l^O^.&J.i r^H-aoi irxMrti* . rd>cpt r^'Au^JL^ ^re" ^A\^(<' . i^vs i^is ^cni.tJittso . i— :^A\— floK' ^-kJta.t-a.i . i\ ■r<' ^:sa ^i^^a OK* r^ivJ^.l ^ ^.1 ^ ^ T °> . ^ocn ^ooaI'vuCv Av^rc'siT.i Klciva kA.i.i .iV.K'.i L>cr}&vi:^.x.it coA^cu.i -1 srai -t ^.i ojcn . ,.*>!» a i^.d\j»r^ jiCn'M i<'(kj»ia* A i\ n -t . rdioiAg .ngftl Acu?t Aj^ ^1 o-JCD . aa\ TT^^mo oQ.Mio(<' r^oco . r^^.v:^.i cojioai^ co^Qwi-it. A:^ .'-**'* i . rt*i»i yral poMi .floa)i^>^tY>CLp cn-s tr^i ->:< «_ocniAgA : ^i^ar^' .i'g!i\*>\ K'liv^icml ctui^o.-i r^ai r' m.i cn-:Moi— 3 ^^ori-»''i-AA\..'\.A K'ocd kLL-s.i r^u2^ CD^jat rdiaoio^ KliorA . ^_ocnivu.-W93.-i m-DoCLis cnn^r^ .s-jl-CUI vyr^ . r^..'ai,M.i icn^ . >cfx>vuo A^. A-^o • »coq\-»hio k'^o^.i jmtta coijjal .»t-iTiO . cni&is.i r^TAQ t-i ckls (<'^.i^D h\x3 > coons 1.1 t-^i^rcta . >coa\TM,i.i r<'\rc'i A-S>ax.o cos Ktocn jjls.io . >coo'-i^i\^ . cnAv-aw%>-3 "^ »- ""v" cp.VMr<'o . cd^o^Am.i r^MlOK" .%Mr«'o • r<*iVi\ylr0_3^.t AA^ rcArC , rda^'iA rdJcn A^^ ^J^acniAuaoJ^ . O-V^ ^ ^orArusa . .-'■-'M vA (fol. 131 b) Av.aA>A >,^a> ^ A An . jLO . ixajt. rdi3\ ^ Ktocn .v^ r^I^^Axii.i 4. A collection of Lives of Saints and Acts • (p) OBuiC^r<' 1045 of Martyrs: KlAo rCi-.i-t r^\ -\ tn Jl-v. a. The history of Thecla, the disciple of S. Paul : ,m KILdAi r<'Av.«iu>^.i di_>rmclju3 ^ocn.i . r^Ao n fn<\r<' relb.xx.i . Pol. 139 a. After a short preface, the actual narrative begins thus : ^*.t k'ooo rtlicxru'-i^ ,»! ,j]0Oi!!^ r^iao^^ v^a\if»r<' .1^ ."»A . r^Lalsb ^2a r^lat ooria oi.iAut.K'.'l ^il»r^ Kl^A^l .C» li^\ no.-VA a-2k..iOrC'o . K'H-A-CoK' . .jco . caz>i AiiAvu.i Kl&j£J9 .tci^ c. Some account of S. John the Evangelist, ref^i^satA^oKto rdMiAx. ^.i rc'AvukjL^ , being an extract from the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, lib. iii., cap. 23. Pol. 144 a. This is followed by an account of the decease of S. John, rdsaVv. ^^ ^Imcu^i cn&voa^a A,:^ , extracted from the samework, lib. iii., cap. 31. Pol. 145 b. d. The martyrdom of Poly carp : pfA\ i s r.h\ Pol. 146 a. This is also an extract from the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, lib. iv., comprising the last sentence of cap. 14 and the whole of cap. 15. e. The story of the Seven Youths of Ephesus, or the Seven Sleepers : rc'Lx. xa. . icncdao r^^lbn japo°>i\i°> »:acua ...o^re'i^ cn^o^jiM.l ^ I \'i. .SIT, iiia ^tmK'.i ocb tr' I °>o.ii .ia^.1 ocn .tin i o.i ^^a A^nAsrC Xo . r(*i i\floHfl> A^ rcVc*!,^ . The names of the youths are given thus, fol. 150 b : : .tn i^TJAo : .j»ai«\\pOprcrLSa.i (^aTroKpia-idpioy r<'T t» ti n °>r^ : rd.xicu.1 .x^oiio ^^"<^o rcVdsaraiit Amt-i : «vn.\ o«/\.'^ cd^aaIso.i &uL Auz. (A.D. 524) Pol. 157 «. See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. i., p. 364. g. The history of Archelides (Arche- laides?): .j»o»A*Air<' kIz^.td Aa^.i k'Ax i s t Ai K'Axcucu^.l rc'Hao.'tsJ."! oaa (marg. jJa-.-uL^ire') tX^n Au£3.i rfi^.i-a jK^Axrcto rti'orAr^ll i-^x. rduso. Pol.l60«. HewasthesonofGallienus (rai^r^) , citizens of Constantinople in the time of Gratian and Valentinian. 1046 HISTORY. h. The history of Hilaria, the daughter of the emperor Zeno: rCi^.v> -^"i rih\^i^3.h\ r«lais9 .,^OA.t.i coA^is. rd-ir^r*-. Fol. 165 b. Subscription, fol. 171 b : f^Ai.^.ajt.A\ *«-aiA_x. [Add. 14,641.] DCCCCXIX. Vellum, about 10| in. by 6|, consisting of 193 leaves, a few of which are much stained and torn, especiaUy foU. 8, 9, and 181. The quires, probably once 24 in number, were originally signed with arithmetical figures (see foil. 36 a and 154 a, where A^ and ^^ are still faintly visible), but subse- quently with letters. Leaves are now want- ing after foil. 9 (one), 16 (two), 181, 185, and 193. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 30 to 36 Hues. This manu- script is written in a fine, regular Estrangela of the end of the vi*"* or the beginning of the vii'^*' cent., and contains — The Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor, bishop of Mitylene, in twelve books, which has been edited by Dr. Land, and forms the third volume of his Anecdota Syriaca, Leiden, 1870. See also Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., pp. 54, seqq. ; Mai, Scriptorum Vett. Nova CoUectio, t. x., pars 1, p. xi., and pp. 332, seqq. ; Land, Anecdota Syriaca, t. i., p. 38; and Noldeke in the " Literarisches Centralblatt" for 1871, Nr. 1. The work is divided in this manuscript into two volumes, foil. 1—107 and foil. 108—193, the first volume comprising five books, and the second seven. I. The actual title prefixed to the first book is, fol. 1 b, r^H^OOo.i rC'iAu^JL^.i rC'ikxal^ »<:sa\jfc.3 cuL.i^^s , " a volume of narratives of events which have happened in the world ;" but the running title r^i^t.i (ri\:t . ^\ ^pv=> oocp.i Ori* K'AxH^K' ^ ore' rd^^fai vyptf'.T . r^aix^ . rCwH-x. T^s -yi T xr'^ ^^ • "I^ »» "^ (-^ . r^xsi^insn^ r^i^cul ^..O^t.'iAua .^OxJaAu r^.t.l . rdssCLSi jjAu&sao rtf'ivsiUVM ^ A^.l ^.1 ao^^ . .zaiua .jc:i\^ ^cn.i r^ii.!. .fo.i K'^Va.l r^^.oAoit i.&Qaa.i rdu'-iooo rOjiM^^.l r^jj&A misn . iur^* r^.ioo.io "pxsa rd°JujCUL .300^ rr^ r^h\iivj^.l • rVi^'-i.^^j.t rc^i I 1 m . Fol. 3 b. See Land, p. 6. 3. Statement and explanation of the said chronological differences : . rc'A>_Ai<.i t^-x.i T^liixsa.i r^i&evQo.i r^^oi^o j> «\'wo r<*iii\ 1047 Fol. 4 a. See Land, p. 7. 4. A letter addressed to Moses of Agel (see Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., p. 82) regard- ing the book of Joseph and Asiyath (Ase- nath) : rc'iKA:kz.^ A^.:i r^^o^^ . nel&.=>ir<'.'v r'i\K'.i reliu^ re^zsoM.i . Imperfect. Fol. 8 b. See Land, p. 16. 6. .The book of Joseph and Asiyath (Ase- nath), translated from Greek into Syriac by Moses of Agel. Fol. 10 a. It is imperfect at the beginning and in the middle (see Add. 7190, fol. 319 a). Subscription, fol. 26 b: cn^iur^ ^oore'.io J&oocu.i r«'(K»:^jL^ icaix. rduAA K^cv* r^ixi ^ rcu.i T^j^ickQo . See Land, pp. 18 and xvii. 7. The history of Sylvester and the em- peror Constantine, and the disputation of Sylvester with the Jewish doctors. Fol. 25 b. ooiA^tVi -I \ »Qo.l rCn T.Q-A . rf'^ -i V.i KlJLi K'.i-sa-Ao^ .ot-\ •»■■» KLsnocni.i '***^i '^\ '*' r<^< «s\*yi\ rctocn^t rdjci.-to ""i \^ -> rCocn .r^aocoia ms on\y\nlOQi>o rQs.i Klii)^ 6s 104=8 . ai_:3a.i-ii-kJ.io . r< « ■ t *«i n.-! re'.icboo.i ttCOuicAs rfi^ii^ri' r« • "^*^ Ott.oo.-iK'ix rtflsd^ iAAS r£xtxn . See Siirius, De Pro- batis Sanctorum Vitis, t. iii., Aug., p. 31; Land, pp. 76 and xviii. 9. Some account of the Syrian doctors Isaac (the Great, of Antioch) and Dada. Fol. 48 b. 1^ ^.losa reliJuA*! ^oh\ rix*^ See Land, p. 84; and Bickell, Conspectus Rei Syrorum Literarise (Miinster, 1871), p. 24. 11. The introduction to the second book commences on fol. 49 a (Land, p. 84). jci f»»Vcv».on\-ai<' ii\3 . ^i^':i rdaijci rd.'icut. ..•:•. «« ' \ i nnmn . rd^ioo-a W I nooOrC'.l HISTORY. rS'iiJt . relir^ .va.^ ^-"iA\s r«l=jijt.s r^.ieo cn^aaA.sa.1 . ^jxi. ^jAx-iAno ^^&u r^sa.T^. f-sa*»<'.i vyK* r^X^JcrAo . re'AxO-uri'.i pdx.io.'iA ,^oi.*^ . rdi.aa*oaS)3.i rtf'^oxDAio . rO^cu >saMH.'Y r^\ -o^f r^ai v>^lsis t^\i»i rC&xisi lh\ia .a^r^ K'ivz-.l rdsao^ jjii^kSoao . .^.Our^ K'lka.tQa&a ^'^^ =*-^ • Aa^v&sa!^ i^r^ r^ijLM r^v^ Kla^vso . r<% (vni. (sic) ^r^o . rel^oio K'^H^^^ oK'.rc^ua^^j&^a (sic) ..rt^^pni^-qoco Kl&\s9 ttACo.irC*^ >±)9oIai K'i^y&.l K'livMjLiil ri'i^rtfla.i rc'A^i s-an -).t rt^sTT rdJSa-j-LjL.l jjL&ivx.r^.l r^^^^soJSOi^ociA ^..ocrAa . ooooaaK".! rc^i^o.ilo .r^K'^i.i ^i\ (fol. 49 6) rt^iocaa jjLajc.99 Acv&i . ri'orAre'.i rcViLaoxAo r^x.:vo.i ^\ r^.t-M.l . ^cn.i rcDeuMa ^ij..! ^lAx. . vssreLa.l vwK* T^-lrX* .aiu^-sa rd-ai-X. .x*i rd&cA^orc' loi^ . QoAo^iA^i^Qscuia UO.10Q3OQ9O . Kllm^ .z*i oca oocu.i tSaoiLst rd&aoQaa.(<' (sic) i\ % \r^i r^iA»t<'. Fol. 50 b. See Land, p. 87, and Add. 14,641, no. 4, e. 2. Of the heresy of Eutyches, and his de- position : K^o^^oK*.! Q&>ooicn A^ ^i^':i rai»<'."i r^±.i rtlso.i.^ . ooQtu^r^a.i K'&v.i-M.i-o ooo.lcnJOCo Q0O.lcaiooo .zJAi ocb . ortTinTsa cniiva rc'ocoo Pol. 59 b. See Land, p. 102. 5. The letter of Proclus to the Armenians : woloi^.l T<'^i\j<' COS iurC'.l rt^T*w».i r^x.1 . rc^ T *gi Von-sa ^ i VirC'.'t rdJi^CL-^A an ^ *n t i Fol. 60 a. See Land, p. 103. Subscription, fol. 67 a: r£lno\ ^^l r^ixi^rf icolz. III. The introduction to the third book commences on fol. 67 a with the passage (Land, p. 116) : vyr^ oqjoosk'A* ^...i t^.>-m ■ •** ^^-i^Q ^^i^l riut.f^o r^r^LsoJCSO-tj:) Qo.lorxJOQaA Ocn_a_lV^OQo.l ^-lAco r<^ °k laOttAK' r^CD r^aiz=3 ^lAsJfi&sa T<'<^ua.>Qa&s r^«iL&xsao iXJix* ^oA ^r^CL.> coA .aix.a.ao.1 r^LkLsa rC^ M_— >ov— a ^ a— a^K'o )o_i_x.'ioraD:ir<'<^i coitiv-ir^ vAsaKto r«UL>i-&r^.l r«ll.^^vaA QoO.JL.A'i^tit t^o.ia Kl^ot oocno . (<'.'tuair<'.i »caovx:^ .jLCk . <)a*oo.ir<'^ ius9 ^.vcno . vya:i . Hence it appears that the work of Zacharias was written in Greek, and dedicated to a courtier named a»_Ai aor^ (a shortened form of a)Q_.oajki_aof<', Ev7rpd^io(<' A^. .jk-aa T*w . r^svx.1 cnL.! (^tso.ia h\a\ ^r^cu .soiv&J.t r^vtsnn t^v^\ cosox..! 68 2 1060 HISTORY. Fol. 68 h. See (sic) i^tCLSkCD co^i^ort', Land, p. 118. 2. Of the exile of Dioscorus of Alexan- dria, and the ordination of Proterius in his stead: ri^\^r^ 1^ ,:k..ick» ^Mii:i r\^w.t rCAAA*.-! rdr.i po .z.i&o icncu.ioaz. A^ ia:^i . ^ilx.ioK'.i ^aix.ior^ tJaa r^'i>A as^r^a . oooiaaQOLa.i ttukscu .«\\u r^ii\n-> . Fol. 72 a. See Land, p. 124. 4. Of Peter the Iberian, and his ordination to the bishopric of Gaza: t^ s -t'ir^.i rtf_i.i 3r^ rdL&^rC'.i .^.lOXSa rd 73 a. See Land, p. 126. 5. Of the flight of Theodosius from Jeru- salem, and the reinstatement of Juvenalis, with its attendant massacre : t^xsawi rdx-i ^ . paVLlOr^.l Co* 00.1 K*^.! coxAoi^ Av ,<^\»»» v^cD.i QoQi\incu A^.o . r^aJba.i tcnosoMcA « . Fol. 73 b. See Land, p. 127. oool rfocno ca>a».i(<'^ . Fol. 6. Of the miraculous cure of a blind Sa- maritan, who rubbed his eyes with the blood of those who were massacred : K'iuLr^.i r£a.\ KL.i_9aco .t-M t Ax.a .aiia r^^cxisa^caa.i AiAuaA^rCo \ \ nh\T^T{ ^-lAoD.i . Fol. 74 a. See Land, p. 128. 7. Of the appearance of our Lord to Peter the Iberian, bidding him leave Gaza along with the persecuted: A.^ w* s n t..i r^-ic^i isarrts r<'\\s rd*i*=L. ri^i^^ »-^ ,V»»Ai>.-| .zJr^ KSair^o . GOJ-sa vvi-a^.l vyr^ . QaAvaCU Ga-x.i A^. K*! °k s. (<'.-u>va>oor<' r^A_=a coA cDttt&re'o . Fol. 74 a. See Land, p. 128. 9. Of the imprisonment of Theodosius and his death : ^1^.1 .^^.-loz-sia . r^^^^.i r^i-i onus ^r^.l Ti-aaAr<'o ooior<^o > ^» ^*xL i&u3 i^is K'.iH-M >i^. . PoL 76 b. See Land, p. 132. IV. The introduction to the fourth book is as follows. Fol. 76 b (Land, p. 133). ^r^x.'i&M (sic) >Axm^ ^.1 ^CD Goa.i ioo^'i^ QoioK'Qoo . Qa9x*^(<'o oooo^iasQO oniiiai-sa.t onii ^nouks . Q0OQa_&r.i ^iv_3 K'ocn.t ii\_s ^JSi q\ -1 1\ CLacnu.ia . rtlio.t.iuuL^.l o^.ao . coK*^ "vx i\\ >cnojj''i ■ i a cni«o_so ^..OJt^ Q n 1 t, r^o . rc'^.t-ikA .^^rdJ.i K'.ICD ^o . Cfloa^.io cnsosb.! '*^"V r^m.& :n ■^ o . ^^ortLLX o^K'a . pdssoiA oltr<' Ar^<\ . K'Qa^aci^o os.-icaJOQos.i K'&v^ooo^ ii\-3 ^sn . ooQa-^r^_s r^ooo.i ilwO^ Av. r<^i \ nO-Q-JK' A^.o . Arc'^ujLrc'.i coQ-l-»Oa.3 .siv-^l . rd-&A.sa »_^r<^.i "'^ -« -^' *- . c\ *7) wAxOTft* aso.ica.JOQa_s.i jjAcd Acl^so x=} ^ .1 1 > 1 K'i^i-^rc' A^o . r^L^Oo-L^^oJ^orf . »..OJr<' >Q9i^O rv,n^\, »w . >^ «._OCO&vAA^Sa Then follows an index of the chapters. Fol. 77 a. See Land, p. 133. 1. Of the ordination of Timotheus " the Weasel" {Ai\ovpo<;, ooo-iolr^', translated by K'to-n) as bishop of Alexandria: rdavx. A^.o . QoorCixaaj!^.-! retii^yw Aj^ Kl^^aiK*.! .x..T^ r«^ag.va rtlaJLaa ...or^ »S9eu3.i ^JLf< rdai Qor<'(kMj!^.i rdxi^^v^ A^ .«\\'w.l rdijsif^.i . .x.:i\^ ^coo . oooiaAr<' r^aco r^isixsQ.i ocn Fol. 77 b. See Land, p. 134. 2. Of the murder of Proterius : -* T,i QiL*ia\v^ A^^^rC (J^r^.i i<'cu»sn ^i:iii« rC^iuAo rC'iu^.'cas ii^^rC'o cd.tA-x. . Fol. 78 b. See Land, p. 136. 3. How many of the clergy, who had taken the side of Proterius, wished to be reconciled to Timotheus, but were hindered by the common people and the more bigoted priests : CUzlA :ua.1 CLa^ r or Petition, of Timotheus to the emperor, setting forth his confession of faith, and arguing against the letter of Leo of Rome : oosoii^na .^.io»i k'Ao-s rtfti ■\%^ ."la^i rdl.iaJLa coA\aisa*oo KwsoM^a .ared.i cn4«Bn.-i >l1-^ ^A*r^ A^o r^i.-uoL^rC. Fol. 83 a. See Land, p. 144. 10. Of the other Timotheus, surnamed tt^\in«s ^oiios (or r<'\in°>\a^i , or Salo- faciolus), whom the partizans of Proterius elected bishop : A_j^ r<'i«a_JL,T -* ^ -i HISTORY. riiina JLoi&vJM Ktoco r^'i^A^.SO.l . Pol. 83 b. See Land, p. 145. 11. How Timotheus Murus was conveyed from Gangra to Cherson {Xepawv), through the machinations of Gennadius of Constan- tinople and his party : ^rcnol^:i »<'A^^ r^hysa^ .^_ocniA!\^ . Pol. 85 a. See Land, p. 148. In the letter of Timotheus are cited the following authori- ties : Ambrose of Milan, fol. 90 a ; Athana- sius, foil. 86 b, 87 «, 89 b; Basil, fol. 88 b ; Chrysostom, fol. 89 a and b ; Cyril of Alex- andria, foil. 90 6, 91 « ; Gregory Nazianzen, fol. 88 b ; Gregory Nyssen, fol. 88 b ; Gregory Thaumaturgus, fol. 87 b (anathemas) ; Julius of Rome, foil. 87 a (two citations, one from an epistle to Dionysius), 88 b; and Theo- philus of Alexandria, fol. 90 a. The book concludes with a list of the bishops of Rome, Alexandria, Ephesus, An- tioch, and Jerusalem, from the council of Chalcedon to the reign of Zeno. Pol. 93 a. See Land, p. 163. v. The introduction to the fifth book, which treats of the reign of Zeno, is as fol- lows. Pol. 93 a (Land, p. 163). re'vsBrslSQ . ioA^ixi^orti' rtfLaiso ^..oKlA iusao . rc^siHt^'.i QoaavMo fv* n CV> .\ . 00.3 ea^ ^ • .1 CUSOflO ZACHAKIAS RHETOR. 1053 . iei^i.aJ^orc' Kbcno v^cno . r^lst Ai\n K'i-sar^isa . oocxDT^aa QaaQaA*aa.3 CUM.ii^rc'o fw new . \ -on -I A^. . .<>t\«g3 ^isaix.i ^rd2.i&=q r^^CLoOL^r^ iiol . o.tsj^.i ^on r<*i\nQJitr^ os.icnjooo cn.=j O-Savur^o . ^._ocn l^\ax..l T<' y "k.l i^US . f^Qat..SqCvJ^a r^yn-j . p. \ ^-^ r^rai cooK'iciai^ (fol. 93 b) ^jAjL rc'ioui.usa^ tv7ncv>.\ .tvi-^\ ^,1 cnJLSujO . twA'"*"^' A '\ ""^"\ . r^^^Qo^OQo r^CL&o ocn . rtfAnCUilK' l\'Si . coJui rCin'ji-t rtLtitl .' c»i«N*7ii_I.-i A s o . >• . \ nrt ,, \,^ -, rc'.V'K' . QaAa«Sl i\l\^Qoeuaa CUx^^r^.l rd^QalA^OK' (^.u.>to ^^^^cn oorC'Ax.sn i\^^ Av oA^^rCo .sah\ >cn 1 io.-UJ-ii . rtLaJL-Ss.i coA.lx.o . rtltioQa^r^ . .JLJ-^.i Qoo.-icaJOQa.3 rtlAcv^A ^~M^ yaaia A\\nT .1 ^cn . r^^OAiAT^.l rcla^'\ ciA .^cn^o -^ aJrC* ov.scri>a rtlJO.Tt-nl^.l oo.icnlooo cnxsa iAi.o Ar<'^ucr<'.'i .* rQa^ .°>\» ^,ia^..i am ocn r^-uowa A 1 n ^r^a . r^ioQo^rClA .j^JiMa CLs^.l ^crA A -in rc'&uiK' r^.to . QoK'^xSaj^ ooK'Ax.'gi t \io oa—ticuA^i— ^.1 en— a_^ . ~n altered into) . M'.i^rtf'.i am rcll.i_a.^o-^i Kll.TJJQ ^ "» orlL^i laaa^Q.To ^ (. ^.i^K^.i Aore' i^Qo ^ i\ .pc'.to ^:i .j^.iasa . r\ crA K'Ocd QIL.QIL..TJ3 ^^_ar.t ^cA jjA^uLf^i . rc'i^.ix.i r^-ien aor.i "" -< v. vl-a.t cnL:f cn^osa iiis p9.i .lem&s.i . r!» ^sa jtJr<' . yoK'Avsq.i^.i ^Oa r£ima . (^-.ixJOOAlr^a rlia ^30 K'lku.i.sa rd-icn ooorc'Ai "yi i \ ea_l K'oco Av i na . rc4\=ad93 Aj^ ^imcu ia.^o . rdSuA^oiioa (altered into rfocm.i) K'ocno pc'.tuoz. .aca< .t^ X^s ^,_a^\ .^.'Mx. .1&0 . rdAaQo.&K' ^^ . ^Jtq^.i r^T-1'.i.i rcLM-^'io rdlsa>Qa.SO r<^(<' ^cnJA A:^ iCDCi^K'o . cnifcA «^_oJL^.^r^.-i .X.1 — ^ ^-J^ . Qo.icn looo.i re^-l—st . ~"n opoij^ Aa. .laj^o . ^^m^^cn.i fd^^ .i7\.o ,^_Qn i\loo Ann*J3 .TA . od^O.tA rdA2a.i . rdSQOcnil >ik.:t ocn . t ^-30 O-X-i-^ . rr* 1 'l' \ . Qo0.lcalooo.l rd9aiM ^rd^^T* coa r<'ocD oul.l i^oenA«*-u.i ^sa a>o-C^ •.oJp*' (fol. 94 b) -iT^^-io . tCDOCOAartf'o ^.01*1 ^ol ^^ausn r^Uf^anAoso f<'>'no . r^i^oo rdsatoai ,_Ocosa^ or-u.O Qa.aJa>ir^ PC'A\ij»r<' K'AvA^tO i,_ocnJi.:k.OQo ^00 . t<'^r^A^GD t^'&v^aii tOcbo . r^^TJ&Ocn ioo-^'i^ r^Lx-^H-s . iv>rT* ^ t.iAva.i ^:i coAsa :i& cai.S)a.i . rt^T-am rtlico K'isardsa.i ^ T^at^.l vv^T^ r^T^t.! r<'^o.i.sAv-&.sa.t fr^ .s^^oJLSn . t I I \a \ooao-3 .JCT^ r^aJLaO-xOr^ wooo^fxiso . Fol. 97 a. See Land, p. 170. 5. Of Acacius of Constantinople and his anti-encyclical letter, and of Peter of Antioch and Paul of Ephesus; enL.i rt^T-aoM.t rAi\y>\yQoQj».i jure' .lAv^i mIco Qoa\cu&o oooiA^ A.^0 . rclAaO_iUr^^^r^ .V& .sah\ o^iiu.X'.i . aooQo^r^.io y\Oa^^r<'.t . 0gQjQr»\»qQ3 >4>:iii«<'o r^^Jba «OL>\ r^i^ Fol. 98 b. See Land, p. 173. 6. Of Martyrius of Jerusalem: rdz-.i io^igTsa A^. r^xsnr^jsa^ cnJUi xs^ coi^.i rC'Auc.i . Qa\^Qair<' iivs ^nYz-ioKla K'oq3.t ocb .-.^.riasa K'i^aisoacd r^savA rctoon tva^a oqp ^r^n Qs.icalOQolo Qfui^QoA rCbcD )oT.M±ao . rc'iijci r<:io:i.&xA&.i . Fol. 99 b. His Prosphonesis (oiuQauaaoova) is quoted. See Land, p. 174. 7. Of John (Talaia), the successor of Timotheus iElurus, and his partizan the priest Cyrus, and how Peter (Mongus) was restored to his see : cnL.i rc*s n if ..i reii . A^.i ^l4*eu A^. . .j^.toso . rc*T*»i>j.i rClaij^.i cp^osa \h\s r^^sQo&rc' rctocno rc'xuox. .scixao . cnl .«\ni.i n^TiTo jure* K'iojB A:^o . AxsojA^.i ZACHARIAS RHETOR coaQpia^ cooi\<\ r\ .s^.i ^OACD . Pol. 107 a. See Land, p. 187. Here the first volume ends with the doxology. Pol. 107 b. The second volume, which contained books vi. — xii., is entitled, fol. 108 b, 1055 volume (compiled) from the Ecclesiastical (History) of Zacharias." VI. The sixth hook commences with an index of contents. Pol. 108 b. See Land, p. 188. 1. Of those who separated themselves from communion with Peter of Alexandria : r.f rt'isT, rtlla fir<' A^ rii^'-ipe'.i rCz.\ reltH-i.l A \'w . rd^Qtcuo ^Jsa .°> \ ■ .a_!k .TJia po.i tt^\'i-\P<' .X..10-Z.2Q K'Av—X.K'.l '*^ — i » 1 i«al:i . QaAQ«MiViVooQj.i cnlai «"\ -fi nn\ \ <\ Pol. Ill *. See Land, p. 194. 6. The reply of Peter to Pravitas : pdx.i 6t 1056 HISTORY. ^CLAcn ttiAcL&rdi-k\i\c0CU3:T . Fol. 112 h. See Land, p. 196. 7. List of the bishops of Rome, Alexan- dria, Jerusalem, and Antioch, dming the reign of Zeno: ^i^.i . .aLsa itia^ax.:! t^x.\ ^_aA»t t^'T'-* i^JcQA »x.'i ooeo . Fol. 114 a. See Land, p. 199. VII. The seventh hook commences with an index of chapters. Pol. lU b. See Land, p. 200. 1. Of the succession of Anastasius to the throne, and the expulsion of Euphemius, bishop of Constantinople : rdjjsa.TJi r«ix.i CD^O&Asa A^ .^..icoo . w^s nT..i r^J3iz..i cnL.i M*:t^r«'.'i . Fol. 116 a. See Land, p. 201. 2. Of the insurrection of the Isaurians : A^ ^ jsXsn r^s^-x.^ cqL.i ^Mi\^ t<^\ ^.I'vsa.i rd.ioto.re' . Fol. 116 a. See Land, p. 202. 3. Of the capture of Theodosiopolis by the Persians, and of their besieging Amid : .:k.:i099 r<*s->T.i r^anx.:i cnL.t t^i^^rt r<^-i . ivsa^ixr^i . f» r/ Si -I'irt'.i re* t li r^J-&->r^.1 . Aji>«a.2n r<*^-> t.:i rCijsar^Lsqi «i;i*iosixaA . Pol. 118 a. See Land, p. 206. 5. Of the famine at Amid at the time of its capture, and of the departure of the Per- sians to their own country : kLxjsou.i rdx^i r:i coisa Ckoaj rdijur^io ^.^at^.i onTi\-i KbcD.t .^eoii^rdi .^^iT.o rd.ooiA . Pol. 120 b. See Land, p. 210. 6. Of the building of the city of Dara by Anastasius, when Thomas was bishop of Amid': t<%siv^^n^ caA_^.i pS'Aux.K'.i r^-x-i . ^ioxJ ius.! rc'^va r^il Aj^ t^s-i T..1 Ai . -1^ KLsao-u&ua A\ i i -lA^K* i£acuj3 r^QoH.sA (sic) r<* i -aoco.l vAM^x^aa . Pol. 122 a. See Land, p. 213. 7. Of the expulsion of Macedonius from Constantinople : ctxA-ai t^ s n T..n ri .,_M-nJS3."l cpA\n<\*39 Aa. w^snTi.l Qoo^^^.l rC'^cuA.99 iu^.v» (M r<*ni\ico . Pol. 123 b. See Land, p. 216. 8. Letter of Simeon the priest and other Oriental monks at Constantinople, to their abbat Samuel, regarding the expulsion of Macedonius : . r^jt*xn »_a^:sas..T ps'A^i.^jt' wpAi « .i Ji^^ Ajt<'Q *aii T \ ...oxosai coAvoatSa A^-tj oiAQ«Mi\\^Qofto ^ Pol. 124 b. See Land, p. 218. 9. Of Timotheus, the successor of Mace- donius : r^..S3i-X.l cnA_>.i rt^.'h.T.Ax.i r^-Z.i rc'ocnn oaor^Ax 'i!\i\ A^. .«s\ ra.! . re* <> -it..i cnAisacus ti^^rC* ^rC.io ^...0^-a.sa i^vs rci\<\aAs9Q (sic) t&uu.vsoa . Pol. 128 a. See Land, p. 223. 10. Of the Council of Sidon, A. Gr. 823, A.D. 512 : r<''isor^»i.l cnL.i rCioo^.! Klx^'i ^OCD.l GOO.ICOJCUU Aj^ X^QO-^Q . ft* S T T .1 ^^uiLr^o rt'rcLsaJcsaJj.l . Fol. 128 *. See Land, p. 225. 11. The Ber)aii of the Oriental monks and of Cosmas of Kinnesrin, laid before the above naentioned council of Sidon : r£x.^ r^A^O^V.l Kliusaa ^iuLr^'o . Fol. 129 b. See Land, p. 226. 12. Of the Council of Tyre, in the days of Severus of Antioch and Philoxenus of Mabug : oo.ico-sooo .\ s.i ica_v.iii.i KLx.i oo.touaoal coasniar^ iuKlA^a ^r^ML>ia.l K'oii9cv\\o . Fol. 130 b. See Land, p. 228. 13. Of the death of the empress Ariadne, the insurrection of Vitalianus, and his vic- tory over Hypatius : ctA*.T itti:^^^i r^jt-i ^OorA rCaiasa cr.tmK'.I . Fol. 131 b. See Land, p. 230. 14. Of the death of Timotheus, bishop of '• Constantinople, and the succession of John ; and how many persons at Jerusalem, at the feast of the Dedication, were possessed of devils and barked like dogs at. the Cross: ZACHAEIAS RHETOR. 1057 r<*iinir^a i^aA, Fol. 132 a. See Land, p. 231. 15. List of the bishops of Rome, Alexan- dria, Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerusalem : rd^Lsa ti^zair^ . Fol. 132 b. See Land, p. 232. VIII. The eighth book commences with an index of chapters. Fol. 132 b. See Land, p. 232. 1. Of the accession of Justin I., and the execution of Amantius (cuLxA^a>a-.:i . Fol. 132 b. See Land, p. 232. 2. How Vitalianus was slain, with his notary Paul and his domesticus Celer (KeXep) : t^i-S0r^.S8."l cnA^n ^^^H t^Jft . r^O'iAy QoOli\i\-i Aj^ .:k..-iCLSa rf* 1 1 m^.i aux\visna^ iSiao . Fol. 133 b. See Land, p. 234. 3. Of the martyrs of Najran (Jl^sf^) ; being the epistle of Simeon, bishop of the Per- sians, to Simeon of Gabula: re'M^.i T and his invasion of the temtories of Hims (Emesa) and Apa- mea; and of the Oriental bishops who were deposed and left their churches: rcl_i.i , .^.oeo*»»J». pi euiAO o».-»AvJt.r^S relMuiua Fol. 141 a. See Land, p. 246. 6. List of the bishops of Rome, Alexan- dria, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Constanti- nople, during the reign of Justin I. : r«ix.i ooeo ^r^^ reUJJSaA^a rdart-a eoL.i ri'Aix.ri'.i :»^.-, oeb . !ja»3 rdj«m^ >i."i coAvM . Eol. 142 b. See Land, p. 249. 7. A short introduction to the four Gos- pels, written in Greek by Mara (Maras), bishop of Amid : Auri- wai^ia r^isJix.^ rciti rdaunoa^ri' rS-isxA •UsaK'.t 4\-*»Avl p3 ca^ . ^_ftA^«'^ '^AV '^^*^ "^^^^ :WS0»<'-'» Eol. 142 6. See Land, p. 249. It con- cludes with the passage regarding the woman taken in adultery, S. John, ch. viii. 2—11. reir..vi."l cnL.l ..^oAi^^arela can ^S rCoco Aure* ^KlAiaA>.T re^-ift 1 n -> rdACUoCft-ari' rCi-SS :u« retoep.-! . «ilcp vwf^.l rtinooi^ r^iiir^ IX. The ninth book commences as follows, fol. 144 b (Land, p. 252): K'i»rci:»^'^ ^-^ V-. r^T-'t'- i«3tt.n i\irC Ktoco.i .i^aosa r«^AvAA« S-SiO . riLsoo^S re'Av-.i^rc!' r^Ax-aJt-.l . coIm a)^ Ktaco ir.*»> ,-*.*»'•»- rd_iep icaa A\ia Ai. . Fol. 148 a. See Land, p. 258. 5. Of the defeat of the Persians by Bassus near Maiperkat, and of the death and capture of several of their generals : r^xs&M.i raivz.ri*a -A^ r^ctcn.t r.i r^s -i t..i roi . Pol. 150 a. See Land, p. 261. 8. Of the rebellion of the Samaritans: ZACHARIAS RHETOR. 1059 f^Jtoi^ ..^ocoA aaajxtr^a o.ii9a.i ii:saz. r/i.\AcL-».i rdaiik^rela . Pol. 152 b. See Land, p. 265. Compare Add. 17,200, no. 3. 13. The reply of Severus : ioo^^^i rdi,i rQa_^ttr<' Qiax^rtLa rsV^j-^to oajx^ .sxM^r^a . Pol. 156 a. See Land, p. 271. 15. Of the bishops who were recalled from 1060 HISTORY. exile to Constantinople, and their confession of faith: rd&stt&i^ 1^ iQa:^Autssa»j.1 rtfx.i (sic) re^ia oaco^o . re'AtoaAsa ivu.TsaX euioAxr^ •cdo^pCi rd^A^aoA i,_ocoi\a_i-so_.eo Aa-.i iux&cB . Fol. 157 a. See Land, p. 272. 16. Apology of Severus, addressed to the emperor: r^!aiz.:i g(i1».i ioo^oxouLK'.'i rdx^i f^iot^w.l r^uioia A&S9 A^ iA-.iaso r^^^x.^.! dv4-.:t2aA ^ «^ *■» Are-ikjtia.T riAxv^rda ^CL&ca ksAsoX ^^ . r^^oalss . Pol. 161 a. See Land, p. 279. 17. Of the conquest of Africa by Belisa- rius : ,ea . Klu-iarC A^ iQa.^i\Jix..'l r^ti T»^V.\ ^\ nw (ttsittixs .ias iuca^^r<'.'i . Pol. 164 b. See Land, p. 285. 18. Of the capture of Rome by Belisarius : Qa*ittAa I-"' ^uca^ixT^.i f^;Mocni Av, . Pol. 165 b. See Land, p. 287. 19. How Severus presented himself before the emperor at Constantinople : t<. x-i ^ah\ , \ V Ai'^'i K'ior^'Qo A_^ ioo-^^uc^.i i^AsaX ,vw^r^o 0(uAq<\1i\i\qocuA . PoL 166 a. See Land, p. 288. 20. Letter of Severus to the Oriental priests and monks, regarding his quitting Constan- tinople: T^ior^oo.i f<'i>'V.\j<' ^ioo-^.i rdti . i^jjj.tsaa.l r^'ia.l.io r<^m&3 ^"n \h\ ^oA Fol. 167 b. See Land, p. 290. 21. Letter of Anthimus of Constantinople to Severus : K'A\i.\j<' .i-mo ^ioo-jLi r^jc->i Pol. 168 b. See Land, p. 292. 22. The reply of Severus : yioiuL:! rdti Pol. 171 a. See Land, p. 297. 23. Letter of Severus to Theodosius of Alexandria : r^i»'i\r<' . re'^iio ^-icoi-s Klt*i Qo.to.iK'i* AicA K-ior^to.-i . Pol. 173 b. See Land, p. 301. 24. The reply of Theodosius : ^ioiuL.i r<:i.i Pol. 174 b. See Land, p. 303. 25. Letter of Anthimus to Theodosius : r^^i.-UU^K*.-! tt.W.irt'i&i ixoA . Pol. 176 d. See Land, p. 306. 26. The reply of Theodosius : r^ t-i . r^mSk JU^ vasa»hiXr^ ^cA 00*00.1 rc'^.i K'l^i^r^ Pol. 178 a. See Land, p. 309. X. The tenth book begins as follows, fol. 180 a (Land, p. 313) : rdjoa r^i^soreiiaa ^r^ ivM^ (Sa craa.i iooj^itdu. TTi"°" 'i\i A ■ ^*«1 rdsioAcLxA r^^a.-VJk. ,sah\ rCks\s ,v* A«/\ ^aZSomo riA^ at Amid. This chapter is wanting, with the exception of a few words of the title : rdi,i i^ooi ^00 A^. . r^ioaiL.t Klavx..! ml>.i ^i^':i '**\"l ''\' '^"' l^MrC^s >Li^i.a] ^CDT-sK' K'i\os.3o]. Pol. 1816. See Land, p. 316. JOHN OF ASIA OR EPHESUS. lOGl 3. Of the priest Cyrus of ^*^ , who was burned at Amid : . r^juxa ooi-xjo A^. k'^^m This chapter is wanting. 4. Letter of Rahulas of Edessa to Gama- linus of Perrhe : ^sa ^oooi K'i«i\j<' ^so . . . . rc»i°>o rdiaiss . See Asse- mani, Bibl. Or., t. i., p. 328, no. 187. The remaining chapters of the book are lost, but their headings have been preserved on fol. 180 b. See Land, pp. 314 and xxii. XL The eleventh book has entirely pe- rished. XII. Of the twelfth book the introduction and the first three chapters are wanting. 1. The fourth chapter is imperfect at the beginning. The remaining portion treats of a likeness of our Saviour, which was dis- covered by a woman in a spring of water, the miracles wrought by it, etc. Pol. 186 a. See Land, p. 324. 2. Of a shower of dust that fell from heaven : i.^ . Pol. 187 a. See Land, p. 325. 4. " A delineation of the habitable world," crKdpi,o^ Trj<; olKovfievrji}, Said to have been ori- ginaHy composed for Ptolemy Philom^tor: . A.ia^.1 oa&.>i_oGo A^. ,:^^ccn -^'- -" i r^x.i iQ\*w\i°> Qprt'*»l\\<^.i r<'^ft\yi°>M-i rctoco.! ^i^ v>i=30 . Fol. 187 b. See Land, pp. 327 and xxiii. This copy is imperfect at the end. See Add. 14,620, no. 11. [Add. 17,202.] DCCCCXX. Vellum, about 11^ in. by 7^, consisting of 159 leaves, a few of which are slightly stained and torn, especially foil. 1, 3, 23, 83, and 109. The quires, signed with letters, were originally about 20 in number, but the volume now ends with the eighteenth. The tenth quire is also lost, and the first and twelfth are imperfect, leaves being wanting at the beginning, and after foU. 2, 83, and 96. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 30 to 38 lines. This volume is written in a good, regiilar Estrangela of the vu"* cent., perhaps by the same scribe as Add. 14,647. It contains — The third part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, bishop of Asia or Ephesus (see Asse- mani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., pp. 83, seqq., and Land, " Joannes Bischof von Ephesos, der erste syrische Kirchenhistoriker," Leyden, 1856) : 1062 HISTORY. r«:A-vz.o rc'Ax.i^i t<'iu>x.A\ (see foil. 57 b, 117 a, 128 b). The running title, e. g. foil. 3 b and 4 a, is ,iia rtfx.s^s r^iaj^oa-oaAaK' . K'm iiva.i Kliiit ^as&i&sa The introduction begins with the following outline of the plan and contents of the work.* Fol. 1 b. .j9Q\i°>*ar^A.i oda .nfii-imorC .-Uk tcn r^\ ->\ ^Osix^sa .1A^ . >i.jJ^^oaAr^A:a.i ^r^fio&j^ COS pofloo .* i^n^toi ^.i kLlsiI' r^aj.T^ ,-5acna^ jl^\ yt^r^ ^ : .^_octxj3.i ^.1 acn rOkAsa .UDCUuX r<^.T^o r^sa.l^o : tOiul rdfs.i am rd^io^r^.i ^i r^cp rixXo reLiicLLO [rori_i_sa mo r<\ iXi ^oA ^^.n^'ixsn.i h\.ASaJi ^h\^r^h\^aa^ ^_OJcn rCi&u-tivsa.l p<^iii-io '. ^..ocn^oX.i Klis&u^o K'iuiiiir^ pa^ : rt^mrns. .i r^h\a \ i \ ^Aooo OCR orAei KLlsvs ^i^^vfioK'.'i ^CD K'^Klx^O : cnasa.i >cn rdJiat ^<\.=3&\ak^)a.s .t -i wA^r^.i ^ kL^.a.T> r^2'X>:Tii.l .... K'.lorA iviA maAi.a ^o : .J9(\>t\irc'\y0niCXn.'t ^.i icb K'As^t-) o.Vk vyao •^^ Jtir^ r^ : i^jccnX r^^n.T^o ^."uca r^l.sv^ : cax^ni am rdioia A^. ft°knoQ5aX . ^..ocaa.i ^ojcn r^.icncii^'o ^i&us.i ^cp r<**7i T oi rcn ^.1 ^cd r^i^QjaaV rii.i om.i r^so^r^ : ^.TaCD.*! rx-»'i ocn.i ^..^-.K*.! ....OJcb ^ or^ .... iu^csa rC'itOSa.Ta ens rCLi\Ar^ r^A&co ^^^^OQ >)XSar> ^.1 tOO rCiux. ^:S9 k'i^.'Um ircla.>i-o oraa io.-uaoK'o . ^i&us.i coa.i ^cD K'l^a&lsb.-t w*i1t\" : k'.xm .\~inca r^ \^ -^ n m \'n ,• ^CD^O-SaO-k-S.l rCLl-3\l >^.l ^A>rdlo .- .■uA^-l r^Aavia OT^^uasrC'.l Ot^* tcn.i K'sJrda oocn ^^ i i tN^AlSW .iwi \ ya^siLi )ao.i-aui ^ »> t »> rdJcn >.vo.i ^-i-lob.i r^cvtJLio TSar^ ^cn ^cn.i r<'iu(^ : .-ii\^lo .%. -^Ai^M^ •puLar^ ^^ •^ca..*OT_*r^ . ai*r^ rtfliCLLo.i cnsaloz..! OCR A. .^ . \ >« w «»i ^.iJkW .loojk.^r^ rdlo >jA>k'.'1o : .ao^ >^.i K'.icn ii\a ■:• .nmnwoK' ^.l^^u^ JLu.l tjAco .' K'oiO.&lso ^ca^a\-»r^ ^^ocolajicAo ^..ocn'Wb .* r^OSns oraa ^nn-qA .Vu ^r^a.>iD rtf'.T-kx.AK' rd*:»)oi.-t rdAA-Sa.i K'l&^oXaaMSa '. .ao^ ^.i ^iiva •:• [.tu] AaaoX f«cnAii ■ • ^'T* :u^ (\^Attqo »Jl»[r<'Ai5>3] •:• ror<'.i ocri rdjcasn txea ^-^(^ .icn-^^r^ rd\o : r^ »*woi:t »cn ^AiK'o . Aurc^i^-WTrq rejoins cna jaaQt-iOffOK' * . r^Ola oqp ^I'l^rC* .t& Section III. explained what Dynasties were co-ordinated by Jacob with the Roman Em- pire. The small fragment fol. 9 seems to belong to this section. Section IV. contained separate Chronolo- gies of each of these Dynasties. Then followed the Chronological Canon, commencing, on fol. 10 a, with Olympiad CCLXXVI., aa^'i joroi&x..i coi=» iktair^; and Abu Bakr, ^^r'%yii\ ^yy so 7 >* ■ t v> Jlojc^ A^ 6l , llfsix odpu OLA.3k taAl^ 71 > 5^2 >i^ • See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., p. 498, no. xvii., and t. iii., pars 1, p. 281, no. 2; and compare Dillmann, Das christliche Adambuch des Morgenlandes, p. 9. 2. A tract on the holy Eucharist and Baptism, entitled " the Question of Mar Simeon Cephas" (Simon Peter), fol. 60 b; txLa OlAo * f.irr\ n so l\ * v>^ >^ y> ^^A.-.^^ 7-^o &2 «:* oooy ^ a^ot-Sbo • J n y>(\ \ ^ HjoHl^:^ ****Vil\ AiJLto^ jbA9b3 -ja^i^ >ito 067 • UiQi^^ J v>r> <^ ^juaOa >i.^o ^jlmOu 7nf>\^\o ,'ja^Lio >A2k.^ SOLOMON OF ,{^2^\^ 2oo7 ^jlmOu 007^ • ,^ * "^ " 2aa3 ^a. Aoor^ \l^ ♦^Zll^^ ^07 \x • lAyx s^Ull AJU3 ^i v^2 « ^9 Otj^ OlA ^a^QijauV.^^ 007 ^o2^ vr^ ♦jLoN.T^ / 1 . V 7*i*TViTiat JLsu^ jt^2 •:* ^A\ >^>>^ A2oxa^ o7io7&i ^juia >i^ ^ju* J!^ ^iioa. o7Aio9\ ^^ , ^iiol:^ 2AaJc rL^2o • diL^ Aoa7 ^^ \ •^ - ^^a^ aJo * «^^ >o7blioifjL ^^ t*^2^ '730*3 ZIlAx oAixxa^ ^!2bo ^^i^2ak AL-BASRA, ETC. 1066 030U0 , JLijcte ojcauD ^•*'^^V >*-^» • ♦ ♦ ^^ ♦ • ♦ 'gjju ^07 See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., p. 498, no. xvii.; t. iii., pars 1, p. 281, no. 2, and p. 309, note 1. 3. A tract entitled "the Question of Ezra the Scribe, when he was in the desert with his disciple Carpus;" or "the Vision of Ezra the Scribe regarding the Kingdom of the Ishmaelites" (the Arabs). Title: 007 ^ liL^sb li^fS ^y2xi ^^2x vfisd^iil • Beginning, fol. 54 2i : ^U*- sP:>r> ^\ n ^La ^Joouc ♦ 07^ > soSa ^ *:* UL»A ZjL3f oux v^ ^2o !lf\ »»»^ Ia^^^ ^o.^au3 2oo7 tJ^ \x^ vjD^auii 2cA2 ^ ^jLxo ^o-aiA ^oi\^ > v> 9.^ •a7Adu^ v^O • 2^0Lm • Subscription, fol. 57 b : lifX 2fN.^ 26f^ ^^ ^9^0^^^ "Pu^ • 7* V'vyiT.2a> 2AA^\y> \x 2iafi3 See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., p. 498, no. xvii.; and t, iii., pars 1, p. 282, no. 3. 6u2 1066 4. The Testament of Adam: JuoA^^ "P^ i^ 7^^ * Beginning, fol. 67 b : vy^opoo «>^*ioi ^alto^Ao J/6aI OCO * ^fiXJp^ « See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., p. 498, no. xvii.; t. iii., pars 1, p. 282, no. 4 ; and Add. 14,624, no. 2. 6. Revelations and Visions of the Just of old and of the true Prophets, regarding the Dispensation of the Messiah : yj \} vJSOA l-a^^^ AOlA 0007a, ^.\.? Ziofk* !t^\\n:^ U^ax ^ 3^3-M.* Beginning, fol. 58 d: Z^oijD >i.to o2 sAJMXJt iAia^ ho^ ^2k^ 00:1 ^01^ ^^^ • orAoxslk Z^\oti s.Nv^TO A^ orAo .x^ia^ orAooxAla^ y\ . ,, «^/^ CxO ♦:♦ 2A'\.\P^ ♦ See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., p. 498, no. xvii.; and t. iii., pars 1, p. 282, no. 5. 6. The Names of the Nations that arose after the Confusion of Tongues : ^«J OOA oooT UodaX ^AJ^ hi oA^ ^ HISTORY. Beginning, fol. 77 b : ♦:♦ ^^lO'^Sulo'TXJC Mt3 fiulo • ZjuAo ^Oi^oio Z:>OLbOuX « ^.^AiLJio « ^KiT \n • ^2kpL.fi3 jLxi2^*aNjAo ♦7.*v>\.\o ^Udoi^ OOV^^O * Ul\X)io ^ >.fl3QJuia>OT ^ Ui2^ 07AA^ In the subscription this tract is ascribed to Andronicus, fol. 79 b : 2^.0%^ *Pr^ 7. An extract regarding Nebuchadnezzar from a discourse of John Chrysostom on the Past of Daniel and liis Companions, fol. 79 b : ^1, mO m^ « iyi'v^Aii^ jbLx ooA 7a£u2^ • e^ V^^* \^ *\"^^ "? ^ * ^laaA \X^ T >o7o\x oo>\iiA2 « Ok^jLi^ \i^^ hoOy, \x^ li^ol^ ^^ lix ♦7n.QkQn 2^3^ vjo^o • OCO •2^2La w3kA2o The subscription, fol. 81 a, states that the book was written by the priest Homo bar Daniel of Alkosh (near Mosul), A.Gr. 2020, A.D. 1709 : Abo \x.a. >^6yAl v^NnXw • dbooor jLciJua Z^oa^o .^^ -^ i^l^ Ajux Uxojo^l ot^jLd^ ) r ,T n ia SOLOMON OF AL-BASRA, ETC. 1067 8. The work called " the Bee," compiled by Solomon, metropolitan of Perath Maishan or al-Basra, fol. 81 h : 7^n<>\^ jb'X^ See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. i., p. 576, no. xvii.; and t. iii., pars 1, p. 309. A Latin translation of this work has been published by Dr. Schonfelder, Bamberg, 1866. The subscription, fol. 157 h, states that the book was written by the same scribe as no. 7, at the expense of the priest Joseph bar Hormizd, of Hordaphne ia the district of Amedia, for the church of the blessed Virgin Mary in that place. /^JLX "Tl ^ T •>oTo\x ^\y\oT ouia ou][^ aAo • oco 9. The Chronicle of Simeon Shankelawi ; a treatise on the Calendar, drawn up in the form of questions and answers, for the use of his disciple John (the son) of Zo'bi :* Fro'm the letter of John to Simeon we extract the following passage, fol. 159 a : ♦ sr^'\\ v>\a iouA.^ ] ii\ >.o ^^ c^^ «v^Aooa2 ^ Jli2 Z^ 2ot^^ >or ♦ ^ -^ V)' A i0uX.fi3A >07 ^ >o7o\x o\gk ouX.X3 ♦:♦ 7 . TO n \2 * ^079 Zicnrv • ^CTT 23^N^ AOJLS A&kxa "73^ OlA.:^ 2At.') n 2axjA^ ^^ \a>X^ ^2 Zxo70 • ^iLoifia ^^^ jA^ao >J^A3 Uol :t3uiio >Aik> OJ3 ^ >. ■ -> TO ♦ £:-. ^ot3 Av\i i^i-j-ioo 2A^^ij ^i-a-3^ ^ ^^j,^ U^Ol^ ^2 v^y>wa\i •:*|Ix^^ 2iAX3^ . 2-J-S^.^ibuM ^ a>\njo>>^ vyNo-x^-) n ^ Zxia liar jLaA:^ ^xA oai^ ^a^ Za^ i<^ ^i^ * .^^LkKk^ Z^ouxolLa sa2 2n^*01LX 2AaLA, 2^072^ CrtA^at "patte •SeeAssemani, Blbl. Or., t. 111., parel.p. 307. 1068 Zia . aa^ v>Aa*^>A0A2^ A'«»vi ^A A^ vpO^ AO .* *0 ** ^ Ui >kl2 Q^^^^-v A«2i^A^ * 1^013 v^ Jo « ^" * ;^^ \jl^ ^fiSUJ3Lfi90^ iAfX^ riAy» ^ otil ou»2 aJ 2iLloo Ul A2 • >cro\x ^Xioa n>^^\^< ^^i.\.^AQak> A • >Ao:^:^ ^J^ai ^ox\a. ^^ ♦ )^t^ Z— «-* . ^2 61 v^ >o7 >^.t2i6^ AxJLiA2 A -\ o^ 2Aioul 2a 2akO)L3 o^kxJJN^ The colophon, fol. 232 a, states that the work was written by the same scribe as the previous ones, in the year 2020, A.D. 1709, when Elias was Catholic Patriarch of the East. 'pOu.kJ] *l*OU3 *:• N •t'\ *l*^(\ \ »? J «^ ^ ^21 At. tin *:• U3«xnX3^l 2»f^ jai.a,Ay>\ 7 m ia t *:*2i&*^ . ^«^2 ^iV>\>\ isLX t^ ooro h^ixo . ^olA^^ h^ • 2Aob2^ 232 v^^oua . leijuiojta \\\sno ^jLiiOaa i^AA 7 - ^> >i.^ • >^ou32-a "pi-^i^o . 2^^>oak sfia^&iki^^ 2nAoAjo HISTORY. . ^^^^2 .^GnL:32o 2 7* * \ t >io\gj l\.^xo . 2 ■ \ >«o 2.^ oca2 Uoi 2A0 2oJc 2^..t\ Z^^ J.orxia "poi^ ^ ^ao^^nf) 2-^ • 2**o^N "inx Aa^ouio • 2 ■ 0^0 » ^^^ )»/y\h Uuxn ^ t^ojg >070Aa2^ * orAouO^ ijs * \«2*i^ J X » t n La * euobor .^^^is II^La ^)o^ • 2A2 2y» ▼ n 'pduaa^ o7A*ijo vjcany 2A^ia^o on I v>ii ^.^ of^ iA3u3u>o •2*a& • oco « 2A*i AJkMA 10. The history of Shallta, the disciple of Eugenius, 2\y « N j i^-^^ 2A« \tA * Eol. 232 J. 11. The martyrdom of Mamas at Csesarea in Cappadocia, lsoJ)6 ^L^O^ J^O^a%SO Eol. 253 a. See Add. 14,645, no. 38. 12. The history of Alexander the Great : ij3 v-fiabi^ < ch > Va> ^ . \ tA oioT *:* 2*107 ny>^ 2^Nv) wfiso^A*^ 2-— ib6or*i ^^* Beginning, fol. 258 6: ^^2*^j^ Ou^or fsn»'\»M 0007 A^ Ixkl Okijpo • 2a^ak ^2 2^070^^ , aji^^l ho^^ 2N\\o * ofAx a^puoo , o^t\ orA^o-xAaj 2^i nOioNjIO * oaju* 2*^<3ix^ 2^1-^OuSk^ ^oi^i^ifis >^oiauL\3 2Ai.^ojA ^oi\^ ^JSior 2\Vi.ino * ahcx^2 ^oju^^^^ 2A»ak SOLOMON or AL-BA§RA, ETC. 1069 li^l Ia\^^ 007 • s Q->6 T !» \^ n i The colophon, fol. 361 a, is similar to the previous ones. ^ » \ xA ^ ^^ ^ ^ «3xfi3L&A2^ >oro'iK na>o %ojK ttty i*) 7 ■ jK \ l^ Ajl.tt , 7 > yr> n \? jUaoux Jji*^Jlo 2jl3(^^ jLi\Hi > v>\o On fol, 2 & stands the following note : Ota Z^i^A^^ ooA •:• >oro/\J 2^ « ou/Xa ^^ ^2 \aA •:* >c7oA^2 The Hebrew Alphabet is written on foil. 1 a, 3 a, and 361 b. On fol. 362 b we read in Hebrew letters : itarr r\Mi2)i jQ \^\ «s r^.t I i» .rtf* rd.'i-S3.i K'Au*v»»r^, beginning: rjia.i »_0^ml^ pa rOrC* rd&ja t<',i\^» Jl^ ^__o^^A».t r^cn ; and again, foL 117 b : 2^^3k^h\r^^ rt^ i\ >t 1jc nl*:U4jL>r<' r^i^sa.i K'l&u^JL^ K'.icn r<'^ini°k-7 2. Poll. 118—181. Histories of the Egyp- tian Fathers, composed by Palladius, bishop of Helenopolis, the disciple of Evagrius, at the request of Lausus the chamberlain (TrpatTToo-tTo? Tov Kot.Tcovo<;) of the emperor Theo- dosius : sl^.l r^"i--S9 f^ixoi-ap^.i r^h\ i n\ °> f^lacC^l cn.TOaX^ . QaAo^JiXcn.i r^^cxaoa^n:' It begins with the epistle of Heraclides of Cappadocia to Lausus : r<:sic\ r<^p^ .aoo* jLO : re'Axi^ria (compare E-osweyde, Vitse Patrum, ed. 1615, p. 705) ; after which we find a second title, fol. 118 b : A^.i t<'iu:bJL^ e* t: n 1 ^ I'.i T^h\msr^i K'i-ao.i rt'^.te^JA oa>al h\oA ^-ss . Subscription, fol. 180 a: k'tso-i.-i re'ikvoia .aiv&sal yAx. oqoclA h\oA. : f:i.S9 l.l r^en r*3ao . r^cD nli.icna^ On fol. 178 a there is a note informing us that the bishop Abraham came with certain monks from the convent of Natpha to that of S. Mary Deipara, on Saturday, the S*** of lyar, A. Gr. 1630, A.D. 1319. ^» •\>^ r^n^ rCu'-ioflo ^:t K'i.^.iA duAO(<' re'i.a.-vsal ^eu pio Abocha pio Kl^orit (sic) jLxxoa Ao-fiBO(^ ^X-UX. i_t(<.3 CO KA* -« T ^CL.* . T20A*s' r^'i&uci.XA r^v».i.a , r^Mi-^a K'i^.lJb-i iia K'ctArsd Am .10 r<'i^usa COLLECTED LIVES. 1073 cos K'vo.1 pa A^.l . K'i^ao^..! cnsncunoo "pats ^^n ^^.1 r<'i\yt> rtlAr<' A^ rd\^ Another, but still ancient, hand has added the words .3^cnAr<^*w\ ^jsarCo ^jsnrcto , the last of which, read by the alphabet of Bardesanes, gives the name rfi9>\nr>p^ or Stephen. A more recent note, on fol. 1 a, states that the book was presented to the convent of S. Mary Beipara by one Yeshua' bar Moses, from a place called >iiA.i redi» . rrtoAre' i\.vL.i re'ij.i.i rdlco r^aiv^ >CDoiur<' (^.1 cai&z. . tlyintyiir^*.! r^xsxiosA r^u'icuto.i r^LOM ij3 .^oz. jijsa rf.icn ri'v^.-iA cascail&.i rdl^ p9i On fol. 2 a there is a short index of lessons from the Gospels for the Sundays in Lent, written in a hand of about the x**" cent.; and on foil. 97 b and 98 a we find the pas- sage 1 Samuel, ch. xvi. 1 — 11, inelegantly written, but of about the same date. The writing on fol. 98 b is too much effaced to admit of decipherment. [Add. 17,176.] DCCCCXXV. Vellum, about lOf in. by 8|, consisting of 134 leaves, many of which are much stained by water, especially foil. 1 — 29 and 106 — 118. EoU. 1, 3, 47, 130, 131, and 134, are also more or less torn. The number of quires is uncertain, but there are old sig- natures running as high as ca* (fol. 112 a). Leaves are wanting at the beginning and end, and also after foil. 3, 11, 19, 29, 37, 47, •^ 55, 118, 127, and 132. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 21 to 29 lines. This volume is written in a fine Estrangela of the vi"' cent., and contains — 1. The Histories of the Egyptian Solitaries by Palladius. Imperfect. Running title, e. g. fol. 1 b, t^^l*^:i K-Ax^JltA, . Sub- scription, fol. 61 a, rtfatoAo rditxTox. QSolx. to which an oriental monk, named Zakhe, has added : K'.Tasol^ m^.tI^ »^r^ a.^^^ icoIa A^ v\v& r^CD r<*iMi.vsa 2. Another work of Palladius, or rather of Hieronymus, entitled : K'Au_*_iL_t,4» ^ — •Tjj— ao— a oocD.i n:'Ai.viQa^re^ «CDO^r<' kLlsqcu.i ocb . r^si Qa->Qo.-ir<'^i cd^cusoacd Ao2i^ . n* 1 -»i T 1.1 rt^relisQ pa^ ^5 A>s\^ . re* » I T ^n -1.1 r^&i_&A-S«_z-sa ^ua^M.l reaiir«'."»] . Very imperfect. [Add. 17,216, foil. 46, 47.] DCCCCXXVIII. Vellum, about 8^ in. by 6^, consisting of 184 leaves, some of which are much stained and slightly torn, especially foil. 1, 40 — 43, 48, 67, and 184. The quires, signed with letters, are 19 in number. Leaves are wanting after foil. 1 and 8. There are from 23 to 30 lines in each page. This volume is written in a good, regular hand, and dated A. Gr. 1240, A.D. 929. It con- tains— 1. The Lives of the Egyptian Fathers by Palladius, or, as it is here called, " the work of Palladius on the profitable counsels of the holy Fathers," in a redaction different from that contained in Add. 12,173 (see Add. 17,264, fol. 65 b, and Add. 17,263). From the description given by Thomas Maragensis in Assemani's Bibl. Or., t. iii., pars 1, pp. 145, 146, it would appear to be the work of the monk Anan-Teshua'. Title, fol. 1 b : rdiiricu^o : rCsr^ rcbArc*.! oAm« A^. >\'r» 'fc .• rdz-t.vo rH-aJux rdiiA^ctsa t^%\*ia iJCC&o r^K'oJLa .• ^<'i^O'iAul.».^ r^a_\r.i .^.ortlLa-o on proper circumspection in our thoughts, words and actions. Eol. 31 a. Chap. 9. riraCLM A:w.i : rd^J-i^.t ,^.or<'\<\n Klu^LAK'.i rcd^acujo K'A^cuL^jj'ijajo , On love and compassion, and the receiving of stran- gers (or guests). Eol. 50 6. Chap. 10. A_:k.."! : K-ijaa-i-s] «>.o«^^ °> n enl oqs ^oxmJ juK* [Aa pa ,Au»ioa.ia] , on humility, and that a man should despise himself, and deem himself inferior to all men. Eol. 60 b. Chap. 11. K'Axcuit A^.i : iaa^.-vu.-i .^ot^Lab, on fornication. Eol. 75 a. 1075 Subscription, fol. 80 b : rdXre'cLx. cLsaJLx. •svu tywiT-ia.i AxSkOo i^.t .no^ r^iijtLs .ao^.i ^ ii.1t r'-i-=n.i^ I'i \ tw A^ r^JVMrc', on the workers of miracles. Eol. 83 b. Chetp. 3. r^i^o.>.-u.ML>.i K'iao.i.i ca^osi A^., on the grandeur of the solitary life. Eol. 86 a. Chap. 4. p^HsJO.Io rc^sa^;;^ »JO.&o rcAr^'ai. r«'<^o-iiu±a.i ^\ Aa A^ , conversations and actions of the saints, and profitable and concise counsels concerning every sort of virtuous deed. Eol. 91 a. See Add. 12,173, no. 1. Chap. 5. An encomium on the monks of Egypt, from the commentary of John Chry- sostom on the Gospel of S. Matthew, hom. viii. (see Opera, t. vii., p. 140, line 26, Km Tivov:»A .1 1 1 V .1 : cdA^ttLxA^or^ .^v^.^n<^^.^^l^gt>^ft■n^ rdaftnt»t°tr<' . Eol. 166 U. This chapter has been omitted in Add. 14,583 ; but see Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. iii., pars 1, pp. 145, 146. Chap. 6. : r^iyenJiir^n rtfji-wK' rdaijc. rdJVMr^ rdaivaij cd^ujl^z.k'.i . Eol. 170 a. Marg. tcoo^n^ r^iAvSJ ^cniijre'.i , " this is by Abraham Nephtarenus." See Asse- mani, Bibl. Or., t. i., p. 464, no. 7. 1076 LIVES OF SAINTS. Chap. 7. r<'i»oa*ij(x&o rdirrtxJL ^o^ rda-.-ui racv&o »^»^euLo nc'^ojuox^sa .aoo\ rih\Uf A^ "^ *-l" K'AxeoiiK'.l KLso^AvA -*».^- ^1 , beginning : . r^it»\ Ardi. rd*»r<' f .zjr^ GfA ii:i\ r^L&irc' .col xsar^a coAuVoa ^iu.i . Fol. 180 a. Chap. 10. r^Aica*4«i».i txia\sb , hortatory counsels, beginning: A.2ls A-j^go ^^cd .. vyc&) T^I&V^^ K^.t '• v^ ^^ ^»°>\ i'tOX. ^eusa.l^.l . • "T-^ ^Aitt>o .T 1 •to .Si^a >* <^ cnJLMj vyr^ r<'i\.i-l.uoi t^AM.! rdui (sic) K'ciAk'i .J^cxjL^.i cn^oz-irC' On fol. 184 6 there stood. a note, the greater portion of which has been almost completely effaced. Fortunately, the last six lines are still legible, giving the date 1240 (A.D. 929), when Cosmas III.* was patriarch of Alexandria, and Basil. I.t of Antioch: tcoa^ MVrtls ^k^ksir^'o ^iir^sno .j&Ar^ iux. rdsacu.T co^&s rAy n t. [)aa i -i cos] cixa i^m^ iJC^'io KLiJaoJjo r9."1 >coQ *p w'io . v\i\oA^.l t^co^ucb . KlA^soo K'iii.l Aa A^. ...oocaj [Add. 17,174.] DCCCCXXIX. A volume about 7 in. by Q\, consisting of 179 leaves. Of these foU. 1—24 and 104— * See Le Quien, Or. Christ., t. ii., col. 476 ; Renaudot, Hist. Patr. Alexandr. Jacob., p. 336. t See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., p. 349, no. 26 ; Le Quien, Or. Christ., t. ii., col. 1376. 179 are vellum, but the rest are a coarse, brownish paper. Many of the. latter are much stained and torn, especiaUy foil. 29, 30, 34—37, 59, 60, 64, and 68—103. The quires, signed with letters, are 16 in number, mostly of 12 leaves. One leaf is missing after fol. 24, and another after fol. 179. The number of lines in each page varies from 20 to 28. This manuscript is written in a clear, regular hand of about the xi* cent. It con- tains— I. The Lives of the Egyptian Fathers by PaUadius, in the same redaction as Add. 17,174, from which manuscript this seems to have been copied. Title: on \ i.» \ ^ T^^JLjsa A V (sic) : jaiL.iJL^.i r«'<^o-U3&v^sa a. Part I., in eleven chapters, preceded by a short introduction, showing how the reader should make use of the book. Chap. 1. A_^ rda-sa.i-a (sic) ^..or^ ?> n jx.a r^JLxixa ps.t ix^xooi^ . Fol. 1 b. The introduction commences thus : ,^.a_iA.A_flo oA si^^ (sic) rdA.&*.-(0 . rdl^vo A \*w.i : r<'iv.Aj'i^CL9a rt*\ rn -> T^ixLJ.i ra iu&orC tCDO-l_S(<' ^ AcL&r^o : rii.fiA AcLvi COLLECTED LIVES. 1077 Chap. 3. rtCl^iA A:^ .• re'^^.i ^_o»^iAo Xo : rcli^^.i . Fol. 16 b. ■ Chap. 4. ,03 1:^. (sic) : rd:^r«:3ir^.i ,,^t.i .^_o» rt'inQji-iiBrt-w . Fol. 24 b. Imperfect. Chap 7. A_^.i : f<» ^ Ti T,s ,_^\ <^ >. jLo : r«%fAne'^al.i rCiico^^aaiuLaa . Fol. 31a. Chap. 8. A_^ : k* i \ •wAx.i ^.,oriti_9a.i rdJVMr< rtlsio. (sic) «<'A^ca^.•^ . Fol. 142 a. Chap. 7. r^ok.i rdsa^^ »ia&o p^rCoiL r<3uxJa K'^cnsrC'.l . rdi&Jbno . Fol. 143 b. Chap. 8. r^lAre'o-x.o rc'(^<\a«^i£a ,sah\ ^^^3 LIVES OF SAINTS. rdua^is rci^v*. . Fol. 148 a. Chap. 9. r»culAto . cnz^ >>- eiA Aure* 4. A prayer of PhUoxenus of Mabug: ,^eauu&i& rtfx*."»j>s r^A^ol- , beginning, fol. 178 a: t^isao »^i.is- rifeolpe' vyAur^.i vA vyAur^.t A-i^cD vA . r«lx.*.va K'Axolijj.i Colophon, fol. 179 b, but imperfect : r^^ : K'iii.'l ^1 A& . JLO T^lar^ r^jLsat. K'Aoouio >s?o .zA^o A^a tr^.i 1^ A^ ^o^Au.! : en 1 I i> vwrc* rC'Av.&j.^ioi r<'.ico r^m^t^n .,^A3t»-l enA\OXJr<' Aeou- [Add. 14,683.] DCCCCXXX. Paper, about 8^ in. by 6|, consisting of 142 leaves, many of which are much stained and torn, especially foil. 1, 2, 116, 116, and 122 — 142. The quires, signed with letters, were at least 17 in number ; but the first two are lost, and ^and v* are imperfect. Pour leaves are also missing after fol. 39. There are from 18 to 25 lines in each page. This manuscript is written in a good hand of the xiii* cent., with numerous Greek vowels and other points, and contains — A work entitled " Illustrations of the Book of the Paradise," rdfla..i"»a.T rtlraix^s r^'Hcooj . in four parts. It seems to have been also composed by the monk 'Anan-Yeshua' (see Thomas Maragensis, cited in Assemani's Bibl. Or., t. iii., pars 1, pp. 144, 146), and is written in the form of a dialogue between a teacher (f<:aj» or »^ cnavoo " Here end the Illustrations of the noble deeds of the Eathers, which were written in the book of the Paradise in three parts, two by Palladius and one by Hieronymus, — com- posed in the form of questions and answers by the blessed Mar the Bactrian, from the convent of , through whose prayers and those of aU the Saints of our Lord," etc. With reference to the blanks we read on the margin : ^ij*l r^cnoa. cucn '^ OOCD r^jaoM^^.i ^.^oif^ ^i'A^ k^^docu . "These names were rubbed out. By thy life, 0 reader, if a copy falls into thy hands, supply them, that thou mayest be forgiven." We should probably supply the names of 'Anan- Yeshua', .^oxui^ , and of the convent of Beth-' Abe, n^ ^s Aua . Part fourth, sections r^ — coa ; imperfect at the end (see Add. 17,263). Title, fol. 65 b : ^\jLsa r^Ltxixsn ,jk.ax* ^■vso.! cnlui A^. rc'^uxurt' K'^o^l^i T^rC'az.i r^icnoi .^^x&sai •:• r^afib.i r^i^o^o : i^mK*.! r^rc'ax. ax>^pCi [Add. 17,26i.] DCCCCXXXI. 8, consisting of Paper, about 10^ in. by 6 230 leaves, some of which are much torn, especially foU. 1, 20, 77, 80, 82, 83, 92, 100, 105, 112, and 228—230. The quires, signed with letters, were at least 26 in number ; but the first is now lost, and leaves are missing after foU. 9 (one), 19 (nine), 30 (one), 101 (one), 222 (one), and at the end. There are from 20 to 25 lines in each page. This manuscript is written in a neat, regular hand of the xiii"" cent., with occasional Greek and Syriac vowels, and contains — The greater portion of the fourth part of the " Illustrations of the book of the Para- dise," viz. from the middle of section cp (Add. 17,264, fol. 71 b) to vai . The principal rubrics are — rc'^oi^uck <3^xsa A_^ . ^cnsr< ^CU.io . r<'crAr<' Pol. 56 a: r<'i^ii->iuM r<'A\ai_.em ^ v Pol. 103 b : . rc'i^ais&M'tJSQo r^cui A.^.i Pol. 117 b : pe'^aviv'w l^.i . Pol. 143 a : rtf'^ciut.i re^avo A^s . Pol. 157 a : r^h\o.3^^ Aa..i . Pol. 164 b : rCi^'isa.i^ ,'is«) A^.i . Pol. 168 b : Klio'vM »-u» Ajw.-i . Pol. 178 b : K'^cnartf'.i peliio^ rcdAlsasa . rc'^oi^usa.i ^\ Aa A^.i The contents are, therefore, in great part identical with those of Add. 17,174 and 14,583. On the margin of foil. 65 a and 148 a there are notes, from which it appears that the 6y 1080 LIVES OF SAINTS. manuscript was brought from the East, from the convent of Mar Matthew, Mar Zacchseus, Mar Behnam, and his sister Sara, by a monk named John of Beth-Cudidia (or Cudida), to a convent, the name of which is not specified. Fol. 65 ffl : r^l^ r£icn rclsii&a r^vn.l Aa r^.l rCVkftx. rt:aAi^ (sic) cDO^K'o enaAi^ KtaXr^ ^sa jJrdX re£i\\ax. (sic) Au*rdlo . ^i'Bn\v. >LA r^.nco pi'i-.l ^ ,coQin«M.t Fol. 148 a : k^^ pdieo r^sh^ks r^XJt^ 1a. rdsii^ caj>^tAt'i5ao ,iYMi:».i rClJuLO K^zilla ^ K'CU.i p«^~« cnLti rc'^u On fol. 148 a another hand has recorded that it was presented to a certain convent (the name seems to begin with the letters dn) by the brothers John and Zakhe. A^ rt'.ico K'[v».lA] >CDii.»i£a rttocKU ii.i K'.ieo . .x-a On the margin of fol. 132 b there stands the following note, barbarously written and scarcely intelligible : K'.va^ ^^ A ai- •\xxU]Br<'.-| (or r^**vA) ^vA Aur^ enii^ K'l- which may perhaps mean : ^^i A^ cA.. ^iaA CD^ K'ij»[a >i]ena .vso.t rCi.*.! [Add. 17,263.] DCCCCXXXII. Vellum, about 8^ in. by 5f , consisting of 66 leaves, some of which are much stained and others sHghtly torn, especially foU. 1 — 7, 18, 19, 52, 67, 59, and 60. The quires, signed with letters, are now only 7 in num- ber. Leaves are wanting at the beginning and end, and also after fol. 63. There are from 21 to 27 lines in each page. This manuscript is written in a good, regular hand of the x* cent., with the exception of foU. 41 and 48, which are more recent and apparently palimpsest. It contains — Part of an Abridgment of the " Illustra- tions of the Book of the Paradise," rc'icnea rdJ9a^.iv&.i r^aivAi (see Add. 17,264 and 17,263). It preserves the form of a dia- logue between certain brethren (rdiiK") and their teacher (rdatfls) , but there is no divi- sion into books and chapters. [Add. 17,175.] DCCCCXXXIII. Vellum, about 7| in. by 5^, consisting of 28 leaves (Add. 14,631, foil. 17—44), some of which are much stained and torn, espe- cially foil. 25, 33, 35, and 44. The quires, now only three in number, are signed with letters. One leaf is missing at the begin- ning, and another after fol. 24 ; how much is wanting at the end, cannot be determined. There are from 25 to 33 Unes in each page. This manuscript is written in a small, neat hand of the ix"" or x*** cent., and contains — Anecdotes of holy men and women, chiefly Egyptian, from the earliest times down to the end of the v"" cent. They are num- bered with red letters on the margin, as far as .Ta, . Only the first anecdote is altogether wanting, but ^ , r£sk , .a^ , and .Ta , are more or less imperfect. [Add. 14,631, foil. 17—44.] COLLECTED LIVES. 1081 DCCCCXXXIV. Vellum, about 9| in. by Vi, consisting of 33 leaves, several of which are much stained and torn, especially foil. 1 — 4, 9, 11, 13, 25, and 33. The quires are signed with letters (fol. 16 a, originally eo , afterwards \J) . Leaves are wanting at the beginning and end, as well as after foil. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 14, and 25. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 19 to 24 lines. This manuscript is written in a large, bold Es- trangela of the v* cent., and contains — Acts of Martyrs ; viz. — 1. The martyrdom of Paphnutius, ^euAa.i K'l^o.icnoo ; imperfect at the be- ginning. Fol. 1 a. See Add. 14,645, no. 23. 2. The martyrdom of Apollonius, Phile- mon, Arrianus, and the four Protectores : O—SO- T^iQ\yn\H-^ rtfijai*^ ^cn.io (sic) aocu^rio t^'i>ix. rf-Tcnoo . Fol. 2 b. Imperfect. See Surius, " De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis," t. iv., Dec, pp. 260, seqq. 3. The martyrdom of Miles and Abrusim : Fol. 8 a. Imperfect. See Add. 14,654, no. 1,6. 4. The martyrdom of Maria, k'^o.-icdo) rd*is3.i . Fol. 15 a. Imperfect. Compare Surius, "De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis," t. iv., Nov., p. 6. 5. The martyrdom of Sophia and her three daughters, Pistis, Elpis and Agape : \ \ ».A..^^ re'A\ w .^-i.-t r(^ \ *iH 1 *JH 'JkCiCO ^A. < .-^ ~« . Fol. 22 b. Imperfect. See Add. 14,644, no. 9. [Add. 17,204.] DCCCCXXXV. Vellum, about 9^ in. by 7|, consisting of 50 leaves, most of which are more or less stained and torn, especially foil. 1 — 3, 5, 7, 9, 11—15, 22, 24, 27, 28, 31, 34, 43, 44, and 46 — 50. The quires were originally signed with arithmetical figures (see fol. 30 a), but a later hand has marked them with letters. Leaves are wanting at the beginning and end, as weU as after foil. 1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 17, 24, 27, 31, 32, 33, 37, 41, and 44. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 27 to 32 lines. This volume is written in a fine, regular, Edessene hand of the v"" or vi* cent., and contains — 1. A collection of Martyrdoms ; viz. — a. The martyrdom of Akebshema (Acep- simas), r<''»iT-i n ^ , Joseph, j&»cu , and Aitilaha, rCeo-J — *^\,^r^ . Fol. 1 a. Very imperfect. See Assemani, Acta Martyrum, pars 1, p. 171. b. The martyrdom of Miles, Abriisim, and Sini : r r^\ T*yi T*w >-i_>co.to r^r % t n po_»oo 01.1=9 rV.io ^,j^o.ii.i crL..-io_z^ . Fol. 3 a. See Asse- mani, Acta Martt., pars 1, p. 66. c. The martyrdom of Zebina, «•* * • -1 , Lazarus, iw:»A , Marutha, rCi^avsa , Narsi, >-floij> , and others. Fol. 5 b. Imperfect. See Assemani, Acta Martt., pars 1, p. 215. d. The martyrdom of Shabur (Sapor), Isaac, Ma'na, Abraham, and Simeon: rc'^o.icn» jL»*Qour<':io . ioj^nj iua.i r^&cuiQa&r<' iaax..i ^xeJLs o.tooQor<'.i . ^^^•aiT..io ^acDVsK'.ia . .JLO ^h\ r^_>oov& (^_&JLsa ^<> -« » . Fol. 8 b. Slightly imperfect. See Assemani, Acta Martt., pars 1, p. 226. e. The martyrdom of Badema: K'^a.icoo) 6t 2 1082 LIVES OF SAINTS. f^i.,1 Ju^ 1^38.13.1 . Fol. 10 b. Imperfect. See Assemani, Acta Martt., pars 1, p. 165. /. The martyrdom of Shahdost, ^oso.icnx. . Fol. 12 a. Imperfect. See Assemani, Acta Martt., pars 1, p. 88. g. The martyrdom of Bar-hab-be-shabba : rvlixsuLsa rt^nT-mja.i rf'^o.icDOo . Fol. 12 b. Slightly imperfect. See Assemani, Acta Martt., pars 1, p. 129. h. The martyrdom of Tharbu (Tarbula), her sister and her servant : o.3iif.i re'i^oicooo cnAua i\i:5.-io cb^io . Fol. 13 b. Imper- fect. See Assemani, Acta Martt., pars 1, p. 54. i. The martyrdom of 111 men and 9 women : ^'in\^ ioo^.tMO r<(«-».= . rr<'o . ,cd . T^h\Ok \\ .\\-?3 , the wife of Claudius Csesar, who went to Jerusalem and discovered the Cross of the Saviour for the first time. Fol. 32. This leaf narrates how her daughter died suddenly, without any apparent cause ; how, by the advice of her eldest son, the three crosses, which had been discovered in the tomb, were successively applied to the corpse; and how, when the Cross of our Lord touched her, the young woman was immediately restored to life. See Add. 12,174, fol. 291 b. 3. A fragment of the Doctrine of Addai, or Thaddseus, the apostle, .."ik".! K'^aialsa r^«xAx. . Fol. 33. This has been printed by Cureton in his Ancient Syriac Docu- ments, pp. en — t . 4. Selections from the prose writings of Ephraim; viz. — a. A discourse on Simon the Pharisee and the woman that was a sinner (S. Luke, ch. vii. 36—60). Fol. 34 a. Imperfect. On fol. 38 a, at the top, there is written, in a later hand, pa.iar^ .iso.! rdaa^ioA^ ^ rx.sa rdj-sw.t.i to the end. fi. See Add. 14,614, fbl. Ill b, from the beginning to the words .._o_ir^ r^rt' % \co K::ik.'i^ ^sa ial ^^.sixii.n (fol. 112 a, at the top). Slightly imperfect. Fol. 45 b. y. The remainder of the second dis- course in Add. 14,614, with much addi- tional matter. Fol. 46 b. Slightly imperfect. These three discourses have been edited by Overbeck, S. Ephraemi Syri etc. Opera selecta, pp. 105, seqq. S. Beginning : rcnl& iA^ft- . Fol. OK* . r<'^V'U..'l OTil-i>'j[*gi r<'A\s-i\ iji n 'jA rtfa-ioi jSW rda-io.l »_O0ft*a!^Aus ar^ . ^\snr^ jca ^_acni tjsok'Avsi ^r<^i^.i ,Axsar<' . Fol. 48 b. Very imperfect. The words >i*iar^."« otJL..i and tisa.-t enL.i ^i^r^ are written in red ink, by a later hand, on foil. 46 b and 48 b. d. Two mutilated leaves. Foil. 49 and 50. [Add. 14,654.] DCCCCXXXVI. Vellum, about 9f in. by 0, consisting of 94 leaves, many of which are much stained and torn, especially foil. 1, 2, 7, 17, 35, 78, 79, and 90 — 94. The quires are 11 in num- ber, but only one or two are complete, leaves being wanting at the beginning, and after foU. 7, 15, 24, 43, 53, 60, 70, 78, and 86. There are from 27 to 35 lines in each page. This volume is written in a fine, regular, Edessene hand of the v*'' or vi*"* cent., with the exception of foil. 44 and 45, which are comparatively modem and palimpsest (see below). The contents are — 1. The Doctrine, or Preaching, of Addai, or Thaddseus, the Apostle, at Edessa; im- perfect at the beginning and in the middle. Subscription, fol. 9 b : cn^cu^Lsi . ^*^\ r. riuMio rdAiL>^.i cn-Mrc' . r<'A< '\\'va 1084 LIVES OP SAINTS. yAx.^ar . Beginning, fol. 18 a : Aujt-s h\^oux.r< r^Jtao-o.-t rdwoii K'^ ■ 1 « w.raa hstsco T^A^AuK- . f^4»iAu»>o K-Axai r^AuDCOCXSoX ..-■vr rdox^zjsa ^ojc* .-i=a ^o^^ t^sOmO rC^oV^U* K'seo pis vy-rSto . otA«cA KVjco >«.V ail K'oeo K-rcli^oo reii^ Inx. . reWxJSS .^oz. .^ji-so.1 en °md\ cu»ax.»iao ."to . Subscription, fol. 23 b : h\-sa. \ t. K'ttijJi jjL^Ai-r.re' rdia-K'.t r<\-n i raxAoco . ^olt^orda ^iln\ ^A . re'AvlSsJUetjuSO rtlAeo.i r^A\Ql\'S»'n-i 5. The martyrdom of Judas, a Jewish convert, who became bishop of Jerusalem under the name of Cyriacus : r^\»usn2Lam . rd*aoca* nrtjco ,cnoAur^.T . r^.ioco. rdi=)0^:i r^icnw .a.T^ t^oeoo . Qo