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GENEBAL PBEFACE
THE contents of this Volume are by no means homogeneous.
Under
the comprehensive head of " Remnants " it includes portions of the
Old Testament and of the New : the former being excerpts merely ;
the latter, complete Epistles: the former belonging indisputably to
the seventh century ;
the latter, to be assigned rather to the sixth :
of the former it
merely exhibits the text preserved in a single
manuscript of the
; latter, it offers a critical edition based on an
ample Apparatus of authorities.
Thus the two Parts into which it is divided have hardly anything
in common, save what the Title expresses, that both belong to the
later Syriac Versions of the Bible, and that of the Versions to which
they severally belong neither has reached us in a complete form.
In Part I, I present a thoroughly revised text of the Four shorter
Catholic Epistles, which are not found in the Peshitta, but of which
this anonymous Version is, and has for nearly three centuries been,
included in the printed editions of the Syriac New Testament.
And
in the Introduction I have set forth the grounds on which I claim
for it that it belongs to the Philoxenian New Testament of A.D. 508.
Part II consists
of Extracts from the Version of the Old Testament,
after the Hexaplar Greek text of the Septuagint, which is
known to have been made between AJ). 613 and 619. They are all
(except the first two) taken from the Books of Chronicles and of
Nehemiah. None of these extracts, in fact, no portion of the
Syro-Hexaplar text of these Books has hitherto been published.
To have placed these Old Testament Extracts before the New
Testament Epistles would have been a more obvious arrangement.