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INTRODUCTION
scholars the Syro-Hexaplar MSS above enumerated (pp. xi, xii).
Of
this, the earliest result was the publication by Dr. Skat Rordam (from
Add. 17103) of the Books of Judges and Ruth,* edited with much
learning, and accompanied by a Greek text adapted to the Syriac
(instead of a Latin Version such as Bugati and Norberg gave) an
example which in the present volume I Jiave followed. Dr. Ceriani,
Keeper of the Ambrosian Library, in his Monumenta f (Tom. I, fasc. 1),
with a view to a complete edition of the Version as extant, printed
Baruch and Lamentations from the Ambrosian MS, followed (Tom. n,
fascc. 1 4) by the Books of Genesis (imperfect) and Exodus (to ch.
xxxiii. 2) from the Br. Mus. MSS, Add. 14442, and Add. 12134.
To these he prefixed important Prolegomena. To him is likewise due
the publication (1874) of the entire contents of
the great MS of which
he is the custodian, reproduced in facsimile by photozincography.
Lagarde in 1880 issued (in Hebrew type) his Vet. Test. Fragmenta
Quinque (scil.,
the Syro-Hexaplar Exodus, Numbers, Joshua and
3 Kings, from the Br. Mus. MSS, Add. 12134, 144374 12183), with
4 Kings (Paris, Biblioth. Nat., Anc. fonds 5). All these five, with
what remains of Genesis, he re-edited in his Bibliothecae Syriacae,
completed after his death by Professor Rahlfs (Gottingen, 1892).
This volume, and with it Dr. Ceriani's facsimile edition, taken
together, give us the whole of what now survives of the Syro-Hexaplar
Old Testament, including the deuterocanonical Books (Wisdom,
Sirach, and the additions to Jeremiah and to Daniel) which Middeldorpf's
edition omits. But the Septuagintal 1 Esdras, and also the
Book of Tobit (which Masius reckons among the contents of his
MS), do not appear in either of these publications. Both have been
edited by Lagarde in his Libri Vet. Testamenti ApocrypJii Syr. (1861).||
* Copenhagen, 1861.
t Monumenta Sacra et Profana (Milan, 1861-63).
J This volume contains Numbers and 3 Kings.
I use " Hexaplar " as a general designation ;
but it is to be noted that of the
MSS cited above some Books are described as " from the Tetrapla
"
(viz., Judges
and Kuth, Job, the Minor Prophets, Daniel). Joshua is " from the Hexapla . . .
collated with the Tetrapla." 4 Kings alone " from the Heptapla." The rest are
"from the Hexapla" (or without any indication). All these MSS bear in their
text the Origenian asterisks and other like signs ;
and all (except Judges) are furnished
with marginal variants from the other three Greek translators 4 Kings
also from a " fifth," and the Psalter from a " sixth " as well as " fifth."
||
See note * to p. xii supr.