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INTRODUCTION
our Four, beginning with 2 and 3 John ;
2 Peter breaks oft' in ii. 4,
and Jude is lost ;
then (after a gap) come the Pauline Epistles. It is
probably a century later than Cod. 4 but its ;
text, though intermediate
like that of Cod. 4, exhibits a larger proportion of A-readings, some of
them important, as for example the JSO1 for fovSl of 2 Pet. ii. 1.
The MS is furnished all through with marginal variant readings, some
from the Harklensian (see note *, p. 101 infr.).*
Neither of these MSS yields any note of place. Apart from them
stands another group (Codd. 3, 11, 13, 20), likewise intermediate in
textual character, all of the fifteenth century, and all tending more
than 4 and 5 to the A-text.
(6) Of Fifteenth century.
Cod. 3. (Br. M., Add. 17226, Catal cxxiv.)
This MS contained, when entire, the Acts and Catholic Epistles, the
Four being subjoined to the Three, but has unfortunately lost most of
the Acts, and the end of Jude, breaking
off in ver. 20. No note of
time or place is now forthcoming, but it is
probably of the fourteenth
century. Its text is appreciably nearer to the A-type than that of
Cod. 5, and it shows in places a distinct affinity with Cod. 1 (as, e.g.,
in Jud. 7), repeating even its errors, as in 2 Pet. iii. 2 (.Ol-S^O), iii. 7
But it follows the A-text in 2 Pet.
(^AflDl).
ii. 1, 10, 11, 17, 18,
though not in omitting the negative in iii. 10.
Cod. 11. (The "Williams MS.") This MS (Acts and Epistles)
is
now in the possession of Mr. Robert S. Williams, of Utica, New York.
It was acquired by his brother, a missionary at Mardin ;
and an Arabic
note records that it was written at Hesna d' Kipha, in Tur-'Abdin, in
A.Gr. 1782 (= A.D. 1471). It is thus locally connected with group A,
especially with Cod. 12. It was copied for the owner, David of El-Homs
(in the Lebanon country), from a MS acquired by him']' at El-Keifa
* Also its corrections of 2 Pet. ii. 4, 2 Job. 10 (see pp. 103, 121, infr.), may be
Harklensian.
f If Dr. Hall rightly interprets the words of this David, the original of this MS
which concludes it. He
was a compilation by the unnamed writer of a poem
suggests that this writer may have been one of the Christians of the [Syro-Indian]
Church of Malabar, but does not state what the " indications " are which (as he
says) " favour this conjecture." It seems improbable and the fact that the
;
compilation includes Prooemia taken from the Horreum Mysteriorum of Gregory
bar-Ebraya (ob. A.D. 1286), marks it as the work of a Jacobite, probably not earlier
than the fourteenth century. I have not found El-Keifa elsewhere mentioned.