The Four Gospels in Syriac: Transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest 1593331851, 9781593331856

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THE

FOUR GOSPELS IN TRANSCRIBED

THE

SINAITIC

SYRIAC

FROM

PALIMPSEST

THE

FOUR GOSPELS IN SYRIAC TRANSCRIBED FROM

THE SINAITIC

PALIMPSEST

BY T H E LATE

ROBERT L. BENSLY

M.A.

LORD ALMONER'S PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

AND BY

J. RENDEL

HARRIS

M.A.

HON. LITT. D. DUBLIN LECTURER IN PALAEOGRAPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

AND BY

F. CRAWFORD

BURKITT

M.A.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

AGNES SMITH

LEWIS

«

•V GORGIAS PRESS 2005

First Gorgias Press Edition, 2005.

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1.

INTRODUCTION. § I.

Discovery and Decipherment of the MS.

H E manuscript from which this version of the Four Gospels has been transcribed was found by me in the Convent of St Catharine, on Mount Sinai, in the month of February, 1892. It was shown to me by the late Librarian, Galaktion, amongst a number of other Syriac M S S . and I was attracted by its look of venerable antiquity, also still more by the fact that, as nearly all its leaves were glued together, my eyes were undoubtedly the first which had gazed intelligently on it for centuries. On separating the leaves with my fingers I saw that it was a palimpsest; that the upper, or later writing, was a Martyrology, or collection of lives of women-saints, and that the under, or earlier one, contained a good portion of the Synoptic Gospels 1 . This I judged from the titles, and from the initial or final words of the lines which I could decipher along the margins. I therefore resolved, with the help of my sister, Mrs James Young Gibson, to photograph the whole book and thus take a complete copy home to Cambridge. During the process of development the first pages were shown to several Syriac scholars, whose eyes were, like my own, not sufficiently keen to read between the lines of writing in the photographs; but presently more favourable specimens appeared, and in the month of July 1892 some of these were deciphered by Professor Bensly and by Mr F. C. Burkitt, and were pronounced by them to belong to a version nearly allied to the so-called Curetonian, which has hitherto been known only from a single imperfect copy. It was now apparent that the manuscript was of great importance for Biblical criticism, but that the work of extracting the ancient text from it would be a very arduous one. Prof. Bensly and Mr Burkitt continued to work at the photographs, and some thirty pages were deciphered in the course of the autumn. But they soon perceived that a direct inspection of the MS. was necessary, and prepared to travel to Sinai for this purpose, accompanied by their wives. A t my request, they were joined by Mr J. Rendel Harris. T o him, indeed, we owed our first introduction to both monks and manuscripts. He had gained the goodwill of the former in 1889, when he discovered the Apology of Aristides ; and he had not only instructed me how to obtain the rare privilege of access to these Syriac books, but had taught me the art of photography. 1

I did not, at the first examination, recognize any part of the Gospel of John.

vi

INTRODUCTION.

My sister and I accompanied the party, in order that there might be no risk of failure on the part of our friends in getting control of the manuscript W e received a hearty welcome from the monks, especially from Galaktion, who was then Hegoumenos or Abbot. He at once gave the palimpsest into my keeping, and thus, during a period of forty days (8 Feb. to 20 March 1893), Messrs Bensly, Harris, and Burkitt transcribed the text of the Four Gospels, now printed in this volume. The pages which had been done previously from my photographs by Mr Burkitt were of course re-read with the MS. The name of each transcriber is signified by his initials at the foot of the pages for which he is responsible; where two names appear, they denote that the page has been revised by these two transcribers; and where the initials appear in square brackets, it denotes pages that have been read from my photographs since our return. The printed text reproduces that of the MS. line for line.

§ 2.

Description of the MS. The present condition of the volume, and the contents of the upper writing.

Our manuscript is numbered 30 in the Syriac catalogue of the Sinai Library, and is throughout a palimpsest. The volume consists of 182 leaves of vellum, including a leaf pasted in the cover; the quires are quinions (i.e. each consists of five pairs of conjugate leaves), except the eighteenth and last which has six pairs; and they are numbered doubly, viz. with Syriac quire numbers running in the usual order, and with Georgian signatures running the opposite way, which my sister was the first to observe. The vellum was once stout, but is now disposed to crumble. The leaves measure 8f inches by 6\. When I first saw them they were covered with the dust of centuries, and were stained in parts with a greasy substance, so that the steam of the kettle had to be used, by the Librarian's direction, to separate some of them. The whole book had apparently undergone a cleansing process during the interval between my two visits to the Convent. The upper writing (which, as already stated, is a Martyrology) is in a single column, in strong clear characters, with 26 lines on each page. The first leaf is in the binding, so that only the verso can be easily seen; this, like the recto of the second leaf, is covered by a pattern of painted circles, beneath which the earlier writing occasionally appears. On the verso of the second leaf, i.e. on the fourth page, is the preface to the Martyrology. It runs thus: : K'onlpi'.i :.=ja&i&rC:t

: eo(ia) i^'isa

: auK1 :

:

: ^cux^

:

:onLu

.¿u.a.1 i r d z c u i

Av.reTJS3.Tn

:r^iubu

: r^,MLi\t.

: A*. rrCtJtM

r£ib

:

:

: OOCACVA.I c n i u w - s a l i i

: cdlo&x K'AWSO

By the strength of our Lord Jesus Christ, (the son) of the Living God, I begin, I the sinner, John the Recluse of Beth-Mari Kaddish, to write select narratives about the holy women, first, the writings about the Blessed Lady Thecla, disciple of Paul, the Blessed Apostle. Brethren, pray for me.

INTRODUCTION.

The story of Thecla ends on fol. 21. :woaJu&

:cncis^Jno

VII

On the same leaf begins

:r£*&\orf

:

:

• »^fl«Sa1^.

toicaflor^.l

-j

The acts and martyrdom of the Blessed Eugenia and of Philip her father, and all those who were martyred with them. This ends on fol. 52. : pc'AVL»

:rO^.i

On fol. 53 begins : cn.vsoAaivi

: ri'iAu-sj

: K'i^oi.i

: rdaicuso.i

irfkuxJza

The story of the virtuous acts of the discipleship of Pelagia the harlot of Antioch, a city of Syria. This ends on the 69th leaf.

On the same leaf begins

: wcuuvss

: r^L»vs>a

: rc'iiiisa^.i

: rcAujkS.Ai

: jaabx

Again, the story of the Blessed Mary, who is called Marinus. This ends on fol. 76 and on the same leaf begins .KLiiiUSQ&lr-e'-a

: rdjuuooiskor^.i

:

: ¿3C\b\

Again, the story of Euphrosyne in Alexandria. This ends on fol. 84, and on the same leaf begins . QocLsojittUK' : r c ' i u i a a ^ . i

: aciii

:

The story, again, of the Blessed Onesimus. This ends on fol. 91. :ooaa

: o.icaa.1

On the same leaf begins

: ^aLk^g

:aajj»oi.i

rc'Aio.icas»

:aoi

: peLi^i^irdLs Again, the martyrdom of St Drusis and of those who witnessed with her at Antioch. This ends on fol. 95. :r£LxJsax. :

On the same leaf begins a

: re'iair»

: P^AU-.TO.I

: K'AM^T.^

Again, the story of St Barbara in the city of Heliopolis. On fol. 100 begins : r f & i ± l a :

ci'&Gacoj»

:.=jgA\

Again, the martyrdom of the Blessed Mary. 7

*

Vlll

INTRODUCTION.

On fol. 105 .«^¿Ubfto : p^LUTUpi'.i ¡ r c ' i u L L i i

:aoii

Again, the story of St Irene. On fol. 137 fSa

i,*ag : A x .

:&\acn.i

: iflaa : oocvx»^ : • i a ^ i o ^ o p C

: ,1 -yirvi-i

: iVAuj.isa : KLia.tuaLx

Again, the martyrdom of the Blessed Euphemia, which took place a mile from the town of Chalcedon in the days of the Emperor Trajan Caesar. This ends on fol. 148. On fol. 149 begins : Minimi's iri'AAaAxa

:co&iLs

: ¿xA^.ia

: aoii

Again, the martyrdom of Sophia and of her three daughters, virgins, Pistis, and Elpis, and Agape. On fol. 159 begins : (^¿xlo^is

: rijjto.iK'ii!

: re*A\o.ion» : ¿aa&\

Again, the martyrdom of Theodosia the virgin. On fol. 160 begins :

: K^o.irc'An

: ri'&a.icna>

: aoh

Again, the martyrdom of Theodota the harlot. On fol. 163 b begins : rth\o< \

: •> °>rc' : A

jera

rC&< T

o

nfb\C\ rd

r^i

a

TITn

1

¡KUioia r^.t » -1

x-.TCV

•

D.I

rci__MOTic\

so ri^oon

IrCo

KLlK*

: .aadt

^ —'

K'l

s.io

^

t'

—«

KLar^.l »

Kill

pdijLi

. r^-ocx .l A\ m

.ro

rj_5a..3

.Gn-iAaèt-a . ora—i \

ri'cnArc'

àv_i*_icx

r^uxA

pì1x_..t_dO èvuJ

r

. jaèìàvx.ri'a

>r¿_x oca

1 ~i

K*èui

ocno

r &

i

oca

.r¿l2»-ir1?

_»cnc\

«ga.i

>>cDO z..i

ri&v » \ - i q ^ \

-»eia

rd»_ï_=3

^ ¿3

fVàxAaèwaA

«.en

AoooK'.t

: rtèn—x.o

rdiiLa.!

Oqp.l

*

.

ori'

^»cnct

>_»i_sa

^ « \

ì^.m. -i

•

ri"ài—ai

^i \ i o

ft\eu\o

K'rtlsaèAàu

n

pCà\ i \ - i r i ^ O

Ç-S3.1

i

T.

(sic) ï t s A m s a A x o r^ T

xi

à\jso__»_ao

. è\_»nç^_,iè\

: KLL>.vo

KL^K* V,SB

r f . r ii „1

>v\.t.

ooA

K'.TOJSO

^jsa

< fol. 165 a

^ . * —«

c o i rnooa

.cñA

A »

•«'V v

icario

*

r^iuusa

rCUioi ..I^ » \ y cni_=a

I ^ oep

coà\oeraAr.1

r^Lsai—u

' - i * t* -

*aa

^sa

: rdjsa_»_mu-ï.

.K'enAri.l

A

m

: ..mn \

.j u i

jcooà>—»K\i

• ^

: n«í_ii_uPC'

f i i o n a. r>

rícn-AK* oep

i-sarCo

A^o

A s.

1^

^

: oivcLUri

^jsa

ríca-lri

^JSn i

orí

era—sai m

i-soK'.i

.ènri_î

• • ri'i-oàv.J

ricopri

.a—03

ríll.i

r i 1 « % -».1 .

.j \

rdi-iO-us

ocn.i

A "i

orí

riè\reli

^ i-w

«w.i

A.V-30-à

cokoh'-i—»

cn_l >-uO

Kltco-lri r¿\=>

cn-_l__*.i.i cn—L_*.io

xii

INTRODUCTION.

iViro-sfluacA cv_loo

. K L n ä • s .1 (COLTTLS

ri'crAri'.l

. tV-Saluai

^sp

rfA>CV l the termination of 90. The first would bring it down to the sixteenth century, which is manifestly absurd, and therefore we are almost shut up to the conclusion that it is which gives A.D. 778. With this coincides the opinion of Professor Bensly, who was alike skilful and cautious in matters of Syriac Palaeography, and who assigned the upper writing to the eighth century.

§ 3.

The older books which were pulled to pieces to supply the scribe with vellum for the Martyrology.

The scribe of the Martyrology did not write on new vellum, but supplied himself with material by pulling old volumes to pieces and cleaning off the original writing. But, as the obliteration was not perfect, we can discover what the old books sacrificed to his purpose were, and a great part of their contents can still be deciphered. The first volume which he attacked was an ancient copy of the Four Gospels in Syriac—the subject of the present publication—which supplied 1

We should expect KU»i » r> tvn-n\ \ . t\ i_=j c

xvi

INTRODUCTION.

the vellum for the first fourteen quires and one pair of leaves in the fifteenth quire, or 142 leaves in all. Of course the Gospel MS. had to be picked to pieces when the writing was washed off and was reduced to a mere heap of pairs of leaves, out of which John the Recluse formed his new quires at random, without the least reference to the original order. Thus with every new leaf the decipherers of the old writing found themselves in a different part of the gospels, and the decipherment had to be followed by a reconstruction of the old quiring and original order of the leaves. The results of this reconstruction and the present order of the leaves are exhibited in the tables {infra, pp. x x v ff.) which will make the matter clearer than any mere verbal description. But the Syriac MS. of the Gospels did not suffice for the needs of John the Recluse. When he reached his fifteenth quire only two leaves of it were left, and to make up the quinion he borrowed four leaves from a, Greek MS., identified by Mr Burkitt as containing part of the Gospel of John, belonging to the fourth century; and four leaves out of a Syriac volume of Apocrypha. The fifteenth quire was composed as follows: Syriac Greek Syriac Greek Syriac

(Acts of Thomas) (Gospel) (Gospel) (Gospel) (Apocryphal)

together with their five conjugate leaves in the reverse order.

The MS. of the Syriac Gospels was now apparently exhausted, and the scribe continued with leaves from the volume of Syriac Apocrypha (Acts of Thomas and Repose of the Virgin, as identified by Mr Burkitt). Thus the sixteenth quire was composed as follows: Syriac Syriac Syriac Syriac Syriac

(Repose (Acts of (Acts of (Acts of (Repose

of Mary) Thomas) Thomas) Thomas) of Mary)

together with their five conjugate leaves.

The vellum of this MS. is coarser than that of the Gospels. The seventeenth quire is taken entirely from it. In the eighteenth a fourth MS. is employed, a Greek one, in sloping uncials of the eighth century; the scribe thus destroying a text almost contemporary with himself. From this MS. (the contents of which have not yet been identified) he took six double leaves, including a leaf which is pasted in the cover: thus completing a volume of 182 leaves. Before leaving this point it is interesting to observe that some further leaves of the MS. of Syriac Apocrypha are, perhaps, extant in the Sinai library. The importance of this observation, which I owe to Mr Harris, lies in the fact that the coincidence, if established, renders it almost certain that the MS. of the Martyrology was actually written at Sinai, although in his preface the scribe calls himself John of Beth Mari Kaddish. How else would the stray leaves of the destroyed MS. of Syriac Apocrypha have found their way thither ?

xvii

INTRODUCTION.

Mr Harris thinks that the remainder of the MS. of Apocrypha was employed in the palimpsest Arabic MS. which is numbered 588 in the Catalogue of the Sinai Arabic Codices. This identification rests (1) on the similarity of the vellum, (2) on the probable agreement in size, the leaves of the Syriac Apocryphal text used by John the Recluse having been slightly cut at the edges in order to harmonize with the rest of the volume, (3) on the character of the script, and (4) on the coincidence of the contents. In confirmation we subjoin the following extract from Mr Harris's transcripts, which clearly belongs to some form of the tract known as the Repose of the Virgin:

*

*

*

*

Cod. Sin. Arab. 588. * *

Fol. 6b from

the end. Col. 1, 1. 17.

rtT -71 \

Col. 2,1. 17.

K'—irt'o ¿^ ocaA

rC'ocn

KLUULLX.

^•

^

»^OCN

¿v»K\i

c\ca_»ii_»r

(i)

NOTES BY J. R. H.

The transcripts made by me on Mount Sinai have been verified, as far as possible, from Mrs Lewis' photographs. It often happens in the reading of a palimpsest, that the photograph of it will bring up some details of the faded writing with greater clearness than is attainable in direct reading. I have not, however, made any distinction between letters or words transcribed from the MS and those few additional details which may have been deciphered from the photograph. Where the text shews some peculiarity of spelling, I have not thought it necessary to add a justifying note at every point; and I hope that as I have made a careful search for printers' errors, the results of which investigation are given in the table of errata, that the pages which I have printed may be taken as a true representation of what I read in the Codex. I am much indebted to Mr Kennett for his assistance in reading the proofsheets, and for many valuable suggestions. S. M A T T H E W p. 5 b 19 (Mt iii 2)

I am very doubtful over the word Avjsa.xn. I printed it because I read it and took it to be a copyist's error for ¿xaio. But it is quite possible that a closer scrutiny of the passage will shew that the error is my own.

p. Sa 2 (Mt iv 14)

A point should, I think, be added after tV » n , if one may judge from the photograph.

p. 8 a 15 (Mt iv 18)

Probably the missing word before cndxaifls is . n i ^ , but I cannot read it clearly enough to print it.

p. 18

In many places of this page the writing has been scraped out with a knife.

p. 26 a 2 (Mt xi 18)

The text is clearly ^»•¿anK'o and not .^oAurC ^-isarc'a.

p. 35 « 9 (Mt xiv 3)

The spelling i°> is not clear; it looks somewhat like Qpft°A\°>; the whole of this page is hard to read, for it is covered with a diagram of painted circles, and the text can hardly be read unless the paint were washed off. The left-hand margin of the page is also much broken and a good many letters are carried away.

xxxvi

NOTES.

p. 36

More of this page can be read by detaching the flap of the binding: but this I hesitated to do, for fear of damaging the book.

p. 37 a 2 (Mt xiv 32)

The word A\nflf»°> is not certain: probably it have been better to 'star' the place. The 09 and Ax are, I think, right; and the word i u l x . in my judgment, which is what one have expected.

p. 40

In the right-hand top corner there is a small hole in the vellum which has destroyed a couple of letters. In v. 12 after «"iiSau there is another small hole, but nothing is here lost, as far as I can see.

p. 54 a

There are some scribe's errors in this page: in Mt xxi 32 he reads for ^ o A u a a » c n and lower down has for ^ n i H i o a A i i .

p. 56 b 2 (Mt xxii 19)

Two letters are lost, through a hole in the vellum.

would letters is not would

S. M A R K p. 82 a 10 (Mk i 29)

We should have expected oooi.tJK'o, but the word has evidently puzzled the scribe. The photograph shews some traces of the missing o.

p. 91 a 15 (Mk v s)

I am not quite clear over the word probably it would have been better to put it in brackets.

p. 100 b 8 (Mk vii 18)

In the MS A o a seems to be written Ao*».

p. 101 a II (Mk vii 26)

n^Av_L-Soir^ is,

of

course,

a

scribe's

blunder

for

r^JusoW. p. 121 a 6 (Mk xiii 25)

The missing word

is probably

in fact

I read all the letters except v.. p. 123« S (Mk xiv 11)

The MS is clear for c^-Lj^.

p. 131 a 14 (Mk xvi 4)

The final yud in •Atri'o is quite clear in the MS.

p. 131 b (Mk xvi 7, 8)

It

is very difficult in these verses to determine whether the feminine verbs have the final yud. My copy has in v. 8 .»rant, and ^n&i, but not • A t K ' ; and in the last line after i a o K ' the MS shews what may be a mark of punctuation or a final yud. Probably it would have been better to mark the final letters with suspicion.

xxxvil

NOTES.

S. p. 15s b 19, 20 (Lk vi 44)

p. 1 5 6 « 9 (Lk vi 47)

LUKE

I suspect that the r< in r^-iK'i* is absent from the text. In the same verse ^sa has dropped out before rtfLsOA. CUjrf sic!

p. 156 a 17 (Lk vi 48)

The «» at the end of ^ o n i c i ^ v i i is, I think, not in the M S ; at all events, the photograph shews no sign of it, and it should probably be removed.

p. 160 a 23 (Lk vii 44)

¿xvw; so, apparently, without a *»>

pp. 161, 162

These pages suffer from the loss of a large part of the margins, the leaf being much broken.

p. 166 b 2 (Lk ix 1)

The error for is curious; MS, however, as it appears.

p. 169« 17 (Lk ix 32)

The MS is clear for a i m * .

p. 169 b 10 (Lk ix 35)

We have probably printed r£jcn by error for GJco.

p. 170 b 7 (Lk ix 45)

I do not print in the MS.

p. 189 a 14 (Lk xiii 25)

K ' i s o is, I think, cnisa in the MS : at all events the last letter should be marked doubtful. In the same verse ^iTn-ao is not quite certain.

p. 1 9 0 « 1 1 ( L k xiii 3 2 )

r£sacu is in the MS.

p. 205 b I ( L k xviii 2 2 ) p. 2 2 4 b 1 0 ( L k xxiii 8)

I print the

for there is no sign of -»

sic! j t t u t u ' w l is quite clear in the MS.

S. J O H N p. 289 a 19 (Jn xiii 22)

The form u^cn is peculiar, but I can make nothing else of it. I tested it with re-agent for ^ c n but could not detect the letter I was in search of.

p. 291 a 4 (Jn xiv 1)

oca is the reading of the MS.

p. 291 a 20 (Jn xiv 5)

The scribe seems to have dropped the o in KLmiop«'.

p. 292 a 14 (Jn xiv 17)

I think I see traces of a point over co in o r w i - ; indicating the feminine (f]

sic.

p. 240 b 8 (Jn iii 8)

o c n ] expunged.

p. 2 4 1 a 14 (Jn iii 13)

p a ] sic.

p. 242 a 7 (Jn iii 23) p. 243 b 4 (Jn iv 2)

sic. r -1

.

S f t w a ] this word is doubtful.

There is a smudge or

erasure at the end of the line, and the first letter may be a X

W h a t is certain is the 1 and a stroke

following it which may be a * or the first half of a •»*.. p. 2 5 3 « 9 (Jn vi 1)

sic.

p. 256 b 12 (Jn vi 40) and p. 257 b 16 (Jn vi 54)

^onosnuap^o] the spelling of this word is especially distinct even in the photograph.

p. 258 a 13 (Jn vi 60)

K L t a s ] sic.

p. 258 b 1 (Jn vi 63)

nil»

* ] the first letter of this word appears to be i .

The

word

does not look

like

rcU*oi;

it is

more

like rdx-^-i. p. 260 b 24 (Jn vii 2 1 )

p. 267 b 16 (Jn viii 47) p. 268 b 14 (Jn viii 57)

»^cim

sic.

sic. ^ j j j t s a « ] sic.

p. 268 b 15 (Jn viii 57)

the vy^is in Professor Bensly's transcript;

photo-

graph illegible. p. 269 b 9 (Jn ix 9)

Between ( » i a r t

and . O - i c o

there are marks

which

look somewhat like the letters V = . p. 271 b and 272 a

p. 273 a 7 (Jn x 3)

T h e tops of these columns are lost through the M S being torn. i—1 cnA»cu*»o] the letters ju* of this word are, as I have indicated, K'itcuu

illegible;

not

r -I

however

every

letter

of

ver. 8 and all the letters of coA»Ojjj ver. 4

except the u have

as

cn^AxUO.

are clear even

hesitated r1

to

read

in

the photograph,

cnixcujjcv

instead

( . » a c u u is assured in Jn x 26.)

I of

xlv

NOTES.

p. 274 b 4, 5 (Jn x 18)

-»cnxVn.x.K'... -»cmiOjjaorf.i] in each case the -» at the end is clear.

p. 274 b 18 (Jn x 21)

ne'cu.Ti] sic.

p. 275 b 18 (Jn x 33)

* ] the place corresponding

to

the

asterisk

is

filled by two letters which look like > 1 . It is not impossible however from what is visible in the photograph that the scribe wrote j a ^ . i a ^ by a dittography. p. 275 b 19 (Jn x 33) p. 280 b 8 (Jn xi 45)

. c o W ] there is clearly no r*" after the en. isa

sic.

p . 280 b 1 1 ( J n x i 4 6 )

^^olsw-co]

sic.

p. 282 a 21 (Jn xii 3)

i^^A.i] sic.

p. 283^ 7 (Jn xii 9)

i t a A ] sic.

p. 284 a 8 (Jn xii 20)

ri'oeo] sic.

p. 284« 15 (Jn xii 21)

.cix»vu£al] of this word the 1 at the beginning and the cr> and point at the end are photograph; the is more writing. There hardly seems letters between the end of the of the 00.

quite distinct in the covered by the upper room however for two m and what is visible

p. 285 b 18, 19 (Jn xii 36)

T h e break here indicated is visible in the photograph, though the line preceding and the line following are illegible.

p. 286« 7 (Jn xii 39)

VSor^] sic, not i-SOri'.T

p. 286 a 8 (Jn xii 40)

sic, not

p. 288 b 7 (Jn xiii 15) p. 288 b 10 (Jn xiii 16) p. 293 b 9 (Jn xiv 31)

p. 295 b 23 (Jn x v 24) p. 296 b 22 (Jn xvi 9) p. 3 1 1 « 3 (Jn x i x 40) p. 3 1 1 « 22 (Jn x x 1)

sic. r d i i ^ a p i ' is added above the line by the scribe. ftio&n] the stroke at the end of this word is simply used to fill up the vacant space at the end of the line as in a few other places in this MS. ^ _ O A . i v \ ] sic. sic. K'Av^JOjj] r c ' i ^ i c u i transcript. rr —1 1—1 . r c i l ^ s a . i ] r t l n . i ^ a transcript, but with a mark of uncertainty.

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p. 312 b 21 (Jn x x 16)

NOTES.

the £ at the end of this word is not very clear.

p. 317« 16 (Jn x x i 19)

• * * j ] the photograph is here blurred: if a certain mark be the top of a At, the missing word may be K'.toAuu ; if however the mark be only an accidental stain, the word will be . w i t V A mark at the end of the blank space looks like the left-hand limb of a u .

p. 318 a 18 (Colophon)

^cnocna^pw] the scribe appears to have misspelt this word, correcting it immediately.

p. 318 b

This column is occupied by 24 lines of illegible Estrangela writing (comp. Mrs Lewis' Introduction, p. xx). The words » » Yv^ori' ^xJcd appear to begin the first line. The writing is certainly not that of the scribe who wrote the rest of the MS, being somewhat smaller, the pen moreover being differently held. It may however be of about the same date.

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