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XIV PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
texts, and whose knowledge has been placed freely at my disposal
wherever I had occasion to consult him to Professor
;
Guidi who, though an entire stranger to me, transcribed for me
large portions of Coptic texts from manuscripts in the Vatican;
to Mr P. le Page Renouf, the well-known Egyptian scholar, who
has edited the Coptic Version of the Ignatian Acts of Martyrdom
from Professor Guidi's transcript ;
and to Bryennios the
Metropolitan of Nicomedia, whose name has recently gathered
fresh lustre through the publication of the DidacJie, and to
whom I owe a collation of the Pseudo-Ignatian Epistles from
the same manuscript which contains that work, I am also indebted
for important services, chiefly collations and transcripts,
which will be noted in their proper places, to Dr Bollig the
Sublibrarian of the Vatican, to Dr Zotenberg the Keeper of
the Oriental Manuscripts in the Paris Library, to Professor
Wordsworth of Oxford, and to Dr Oscar von Gebhardt the
co-editor of the Patres Apostolici. Nor should I be satisfied
without recording my obligations to the authorities and officials
of the great public libraries at home and abroad. The courtesy
and attention with which my troublesome importunities have
been almost uniformly met deserve my sincerest gratitude.
Other not inconsiderable obligations will be mentioned from
time to time throughout these volumes ;
but it would have
been impossible for me, at every point in the progress
of the
work, where I have consulted private friends, to note the fact.
One name however I cannot pass over in silence. I am only
one of many who have profited by the characteristic unselfishness
which led the late Mr A. A. VanSittart to devote ungrudgingly
to his friends the time which might
well have been
given to independent literary work of his own. Those sheets
which were printed while I was still in Cambridge had the
advantage of his careful supervision. Lastly;
I have been
relieved of the task of compiling the indices by my chaplain the
Rev. J. R. Harmer, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, to
whom my best thanks are due.