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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
these (Cod. 20) he was so good as to photograph
for me the needful
pages. The other two (Cod. 19 and the Harklensian. Cod. y) he kindly
placed in my hands for collation.
My acknowledgments are also due to the Rev. Professor W. Emery
Barnes, for his ever-ready responses to the applications for information
and advice which I have repeatedly had occasion to make to him. Also
to the Rev. Dr. J. B. Mayor, for useful suggestions and corrections
affecting my Greek Text and Notes attached to it.
To the Rev. G. H. Gwilliam, B.D., Editor of the Peshitta Gospels,
I desire to repeat my thanks, already offered elsewhere, for making me
acquainted with the remarkable MS which in his List of Authorities,
as in mine, is noted as Cod. 12.
I have also to thank the Rev. Professor D. S. Margoliouth, and Mr.
A. F. Cowley (Sub-Librarian of Bodley's Library), for many kind offices,
the latter especially for the pains he was so good as to take in tracing
out for me the history of the MS (Cod. 8) from which the text of these
Epistles was first printed.
In this First Part of my work, and yet more frequently in the
Second, I have had frequent occasion to consult the Rev. George
Margoliouth, of the Oriental Book and MSS. Department, British
Museum, and I owe much to his wide and exact knowledge, and his
unfailing kindness.
I have also to acknowledge with cordial thanks the material services
rendered me by members of my own University. The Rev. Dr. H. J.
Lawlor, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, has recollated for me with
minute care the texts of the above-mentioned Codd. 9 and 14, and also
of Codd. 15 and 16. The Rev. A. Edward Johnston, formerly Principal
of the Church Missionary Society's College, Allahabad, has made for my
use a full and exact examination of the Arabic Version, comparing
it
point by point with the Syriac. From the Rev. Arthur A. Luce, now
Tutor and Assistant Chaplain of St. Columba's College, I have received
invaluable assistance throughout, in every part of my labours ;
not only
in re-collating MSS, but in careful reading of all the proof sheets, and
in correcting errors of omission or inadvertence, and ambiguities or
inaccuracies of expression. Without his aid, I should have been ill
able to bring my task to a satisfactory completion. If (as I hope) the
book as produced is found to reach a high standard of correctness, the
credit is largely due to his painstaking diligence, quickness of eye, and
sound scholarship.