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INTRODUCTION
xv
Thus there are still lacking to us of this Version a large part of
Genesis, the whole of Leviticus, Deuteronomy, 1 and 2 Kings [1 and
2 Samuel],
1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah and the deuterocanonical
Judith, and the Books of the Maccabees.
Of these Books we have only a number of brief citations, some very
minute (often of a single word), which we owe to Masius, who in his
Syrorum Peculium (a short Lexicon (1572) prefixed to the Biblia Regia*)
gives many references to the text of his MS : to Joshua, Judges, and
3 and 4 Kings, which are extant in other MSS ;
and also to Deuteronomy
(the latter chapters from xv. 7), 1 and 2 Kings [Samuel], Judith
and Tobit (the earlier chapters,
i. vii. 8).
Other and less brief references
to Deuteronomy
and Joshua occur in his contributions to Critici
Sacri (torn, ii, Amsterdam, 1698). His use of it in the notes to his
Josuae Historia (see above, p. xi) is continuous throughout-!
SECTION V.
The Extracts printed in the present Volume.
In the present Volume are given, from the Syro-Hexapla :
1. A short extract from one of the missing parts of Genesis :
2. A single passage of Leviticus apparently the only one as yet
found :
3. A series of extracts systematically selected by a compiler, from
1 and 2 Chronicles :
4. A similar series from Nehemiah.
A. Two passages from
the Pentateuch.
1. The first of these, Gen. xxvi. 26 31, stands first of four passages,
written on a single leaf now prefixed to a volume (7145 Rich, Br. Mus.)
of fragments, very diverse in age and script, put together (presumably
by a seventeenth century binder) to form a copy of the Pentateuch.
This leaf, unlike the rest of the volume to which it has thus been
attached, is of vellum, and the script is estrangela (apparently of the
ninth century). It seems to have belonged to a volume of extracts,
* The "Antwerp 'Polyglot" of 1572.
f See the complete collection of these reff .
supplied by Professor Rahlfs to
Lagarde's Biblioth. Syr., pp. 24-32 f. Note that no excerpts from Esdras or
Chronicles occur in any of the works (as above) of Masius.