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INTRODUCTION
After Codd. 1 and 2 it will be convenient to disregard numerical
order, and to pass on to the other MSS (9, 12, 14), which may be
distinguished from 1 and 2 as forming a later subdivision of group A.
Cod. 9. (Cambridge University Library, Oo. 1, t. 2.)*
This is the second volume of the great Syriac Pandect (the "Buchanan
Bible"), which, though the vellum of which it is composed
is much
damaged by damp and decay, is one of the most notable monuments of
Syriac Biblical antiquity. It was presented to the University of
Cambridge by
Dr. Buchanan in 1809. The New Testament in it is
complete, except that it lacks the Apocalypse. Though
it exhibits our
Four Epistles, it places them, not in their proper order, but together,
subjoined to the Three of the Peshitta. It adds, however, a note in
which it reckons them all together and on a par, as " The Seven
Catholic Epistles of the Apostles." This tacit recognition
canonicity is hardly weakened by
of their
the fact that next after them it
places ' ' the Six Books of Clement," documents coinciding in the main
with those which are known as the " Syrian Octateuch." f From this
MS Dr. Lee J derived many corrections of the text of our Epistles, and
of the Syriac New Testament at large, for his editions. It gives a
general, but far from uniform, support to the text of Cod. 1, deviating
now and then into the readings of the later MSS. But in no case
does it follow 1 in its exceptional lapses (as noted above), save in the
instance of the word .OOlAxK^J (see above, p.
xlii ;
also notes on
2 Pet. ii. 13, Jud. 12 (Syr. text),
and Note on p. 107 infr.).
Its script is estrangela,
of the modified form affected in the
twelfth century in Tur 'Abdin, the district of N.E. Mesopotamia,
* See Cambridge Catal. Syr. MSS, p. 1037.
t For these six documents, see Journal of Theological Studies, vol. iii, pp. 59 et
sqq., where Book 3 is printed by Dr. Arendzen, partly from this MS and partly from
one at Mosul. It is the ' Apostolic Church Order ' (see Bishop Wordsworth's
Ministry of Grace, p. 34), the Greek of which has been edited by Harnack and
others. Books 1 and 2 are the Testament of Our Lord edited in Syriac by the
Patriarch Rahmani (1899), in English by Dr. Cooper and Dean Maclean (1902).
J See a memorandum by Dr. Lee, Classical Journal, vol. xxiii, p. 248, where
he states that he collated it (" the Travancore MS ") for his Syriac N.T. of 1816.
He notes that it is " a Jacobite copy," and remarks that it " could not have been
brought into India earlier than 1663 " (referring to Assemani, B.O., t. in, pt. ii,
p. 463, for the arrival of the Jacobites in India in that year). See also Milne Eae's
Syrian Church in India, ch. xvii, p. 269.