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lation {C. I. p, 252), but incomplete at the end owing to the condition
of the MS. It has been collated afresh by Prof. Wright for the present
edition.
(2) Borg. 18. From this MS Moesinger {Supplementum Corporis
Ignatiani p. 3 sq, Oeniponti 1872) first published the Syriac version of
the Acts complete. He describes the ms thus (p. 4) ;
'
Codex, in
quo haec acta continentur, a Georgio Ebedjesu
Khayyath, archiepiscopo Amadiensi, descriptus est in libro cui inscriptio,
Syri Orientalcs seic Chaldaei Nestoriani et Romaiwricm pontifiatm
Primatus. In hoc libro doctissimus auctor, p. 118, 122, et 129,
certiores nos reddit haec acta S. Ignatii extare in antiquo manuscripto
Nestoriano, nunc ad coenobium Hormisdae pertinente, ex quo, se ipso
operam qualemcunque praebente, jussu et sumptibus S. Congregationis
de Propaganda Fide inter alia opera haec quoque acta descripta sunt.
Hoc exemplar Romam delatum et
Bibliothecae Borgianae sub numero
xviii insertum est, ex quo acta, quae nunc publici iuris facio, describendi
copia mihi facta est '.
It is clear that the transcript was either carelessly made in the first
instance or carelessly copied by Moesinger. Indeed the unscholarly
way in which Moesinger has executed his task detracts considerably
from our obligations to him as the first editor of these Acts in their
completeness. In his translation of the Syriac (p. 7 sq) he is convicted
by his own text of omitting words and sentences from time to time, as
well as of other inaccuracies.
(3) Vat. Syr. 160 (formerly i), an ancient MS in parchment, in the
Vatican Library at Rome. This volume which contains these Acts of
Ignatius is described by J. S. Assemani Bibl. Orient, i. p. 606, and
(somewhat confusedly) also by
Occid.
II.
S. E. Assemani Act. Mart. Orient, et
p. 5, who published the greater part of this Syriac collection
of Acts, but omitted those of S. Ignatius; see also their Bibl. Apost.
Vat. Cod. AISS Catal. iii. p. 319 sq. Cureton attempted to obtain
a
transcript of the Acts of Ignatius in this volume, but did not succeed
(C. /. p. 362). In the beginning of the year 1870 I myself paid a visit
to the Vatican Library, hoping to copy them, but was told that the
volume could not be found.
Afterwards however, seeing a reference to
it as still accessible in De Rossi Inscr. Christ. Urb. Rom. i.
p. 5 sq
— (1857 1861), I instituted further enquiries, and through the intervention
of Dr W. Wright was enabled to procure a transcript made
for me by Dr Bollig, the Sub-Hbrarian of the Vatican, to whom I am
much indebted for this act of kindness. The readings of this ms therefore
are given in the present edition for the first time. The end is