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72 EPISTLES OE S. IGNATIUS.
SHORT FORM.
This is
represented only by a Syriac Version [2],
which was
pubHshed for the first time by Cureton in 1845 from mss recently
brought from the Nitrian desert and deposited in the British Museum.
In his later volume, the Corpus Ignatiannvi (London 1849), he reprinted
the Syriac Epistles with copious notes and dissertations ;
and from the
description which he there gives (p. xxviii sq), together with Wright's
Catalogue of Syriac MSS in the British Museum since published
— (1870 1872), the following account of the mss is derived.
1. British Museum Add. 121 75 [2i] ;
see Wright's Catalogue
p. 657 sq. On the last leaves of this ms (fol. 79 b) is written, 'The
Epistle of my lord Ignatius the bishop,' i.e. the Epistle to Polycarp.
From certain indications ' we may safely conclude,' says Cureton, ' that
this copy was transcribed in the first half of the sixth century, or
before
A.D. 550.' Wright suggests that it was written by the same hand as
no. dccxxvii, 'in which case its date is a.d. 534.' It belonged to the
convent of S.
Mary Deipara in the Desert of Scete, and was obtained
for the British Museum byTattam in 1839.
2. British Museiwi Add. 146 18 [So]; see Wright's Catalogue
p. 736 sq. Among other treatises this ms contains (fol. 6 b sq) 'Three
Epistles of Ignatius bishop and martyr' in this order, i ' The Epistle of
Ignatius' [to Polycarp]. 2 'Of the same the Second, to the Ephesians.'
3 'The Third Epistle of the same Saint Ignatius' [to the Romans].
At the end is written Here ' end (the) three Epistles of Ignatius bishop
and martyr.' 'The date' of the ms, says Cureton, 'appears to me to be
certainly not later than the seventh or eighth century,' and the same
date is ascribed to it
by Wright. It was brought from Egypt by
Tattam in 1842.
3. British Museum Add. 17 192 [Ss] see
; Wright's Catalogiie
p. 778 sq. This ms also contains among other treatises the three
Epistles of Ignatius (fol. 72 a sq) in the same order as before, i '
The
Epistle of Ignatius, bishop of Antioch ' [the Epistle to Polycarp].
At the end is written, 'Here endeth the First.' 2 'The Second Epistle,
to the Ephesians ' '
at the
; close, Here endeth the Second Epistle.'
3 'The Third Epistle'; at the close, 'Here endeth the Third.' They
are followed by two anonymous letters, which however Cureton has
identified as the writings of John the Monk and at the end of these is
;