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APPEXDIX III.
THE SYRIAC VERSIONS OF THE APOCALYPSE.
The two Syriac versions of the Apocalypse (which I distinguish as
S and 2) referred to in the Supplemental Notes, are
1. The Version usually printed in editions of the Syriac N.T., beginning
with the Syriac column of the Paris Polyglot (1645), edited by
Gabriel Sionita. It was first published by De Dieu (Leiden, 1627)
from a manuscript bequeathed by Joseph Scaliger to the University
Library of Leiden (Cod. Scalig. 18. Syr.). Other copies of it have
since become known, one (Ussher's) in the Library of Trinity
College, Dublin (B. 5. 16, No. 1509 in Catal) ;
another in the
Mediceo-Laurentian Library, Florence (formerly the property of the
Convent of S. Marco, No. 724) ;
another (from the Nitrian Convent
of the Theotokos, in Egypt) now in the British Museum, London
(Add. 17127); others in Rome. Of these the Nitrian copy alone is of
ancient date, A.D. 1088 ;
of the others none is earlier than the sixteenth
century. But it is unfortunately incomplete. This text I designate
by the letter 2 (3d, 2/, 2/, 2w, 2p representing the Dublin, Florence,
Leiden, Nitrian, and Paris copies severally, the last being the copy
(not forthcoming) represented by the Paris Polyglot).
2. The Version published by me (Dublin, 1898), from the Manuscript
12 (see above, p. 2), which is unique as containing
N.T.,
the whole
not only (as above) our Four Shorter Catholic Epistles, placed
in the usual Greek order, but also including the Apocalypse, placed
immediately after the Gospel of St. John, and before the Acts. This
text of the Apocalypse is
also unique, no other manuscript having as
yet been found to contain it. It is quite distinct from, though evidently
akin to, the text of 3, both as regards its diction and method, and as
regards the underlying Greek text. I distinguish it as S.