Spicilegium Syriacum: Containing Remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose and Mara Bar Serapion, Now First Edited, with an English Translation and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Spicilegium Syriacum: Containing Remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose and Mara Bar Serapion, Now First Edited, With an English Translation and Notes

The Manuscript from which the materials for the present volume have been chiefly derived, is one of those which were Obtained by Archdeacon Tattam from the Syrian convent in the desert Of N itria in the year 1843. It is now numbered amongst the Additional Manuscripts in the British Museum. Several leaves were added in 1847 from fragments subsequently acquired by M. Pacho 1 and four more were again supplied from other fragments procured also by him from the same source in the year 1850. At present the volume consists of one hun dred and eighty-eight leaves. Originally it must have had more than two hundred and twenty; for the last gathering as it now stands is numbered the twenty-second, and each gathering consisted of ten leaves. It is imperfect both at the beginning and the end, has suffered mutilations in several parts Of the volume, and some of the leaves have been much stained by Oil. It is written in a large bold hand in two columns: the headings of chapters and the titles of separate works are dis tinguished by red letters. It appears to have been transcribed about the sixth or seventh century Of our era.

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