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INTRODUCTION
from the Harklensian manner and from the consent of most other
copies, which appear in the text presented by them,
as the Florentine
MS of A.D. 757 by Adler,* the Cod. Angelicas of Rome by Bernstein,
f and (more recently) an early MS (not later than 900) now
at Beirut, by Dr. Isaac Hall.J But of none of these has the identification
been, or can be, admitted as even probable ; though the
peculiarities noted in each of them may
be due to the retention
of some Philoxenian words or forms of words just as many (probably
most) Latin Vulgate MSS exhibit in their text an admixture of " Old
Latin " readings. The only relics of the unrevised Philoxenian (other
than our Epistles) that are to be accepted as such without doubt, are
the five minute fragments, above referred to (p. xxviii),
of the Pauline
Epistles found by Cardinal Wiseman on the margin of his " Karkaphensian"
MS, and published by him in 1828.
vi. 20, 1 Cor. i. 28, 2 Cor. vii. 13, ib. x. 4, Eph.
They are from Rom.
vi. 2.
But the Version of the Apocalypse, of which a short account is
given in Appendix III (p. 154 infr.), discovered and published by
me in 1898, has a good claim to be reckoned Philoxenian, bearing
to the Apocalypse, as published by De Dieu in 1627 (and printed
in the ordinary editions of the Syriac New Testament), much the
same relation as our Four Epistles bear to the Harklensian text of
same.
Of this Apocalypse the only known copy forms part (along with
the Four Epistles)
of our Cod. 12,||
which is the only complete Syriac
New Testament MS that has reached Europe from the East. If this
identification of it as Philoxenian be admitted, it follows that this
MS is to be regarded as a copy of the Peshitta supplemented into
conformity with the Greek canon by interpolation of these books from
the Philoxenian, or, in other words, that it preserves for us just so
much of the Philoxenian as suffices to supply the defect of the Canon
of the Peshitta.
(b) Further, our primary authority in the matter, Moses of Agel,
informs us (see p. xxviii supr.) that besides the New Testament the
Philoxenian translator extended his labours to one Book of
the Old
the
* N.T. Versiones Syr., p. 55. f Das heil. Evang. des Joh., Syr., pp. 3, 25.
t In Journal of Society of Bibl. Lit. and Exeg., 1882. Dr. Hall issued also a
phototype reproduction of two pages of this MS.
Horae Syr., p. 178, note 11.
See
|| below, Sect, xn, p. xlv.