ana translation

INTRODUCTION
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(apparently a place visited by him in a journey
from his home to
Tur-'Abdin). The Four Epistles were published from this MS in
photographic facsimile by Dr. I. H. Hall, The Syrian Antilegomena
Epistles (1886). From it were derived many corrections of the text
of our Epistles in the New York edition (N) of 1886, as (e.g.)
O (for >) prefix to UoJA^D (2 Pet. i. 3), U?OO (16. 4), JiGl (ii. 1),
U^ (ib. 17), insertion of
(iii. 5),
^ and J2J* (ib. 13) also of
;
(2 Joh. 5),
^OldlyOda (2 Joh. 6), .OOlLiJ (3 Joh. 9) and of
;
(Jud. 10).
But the editor has not followed its omission of the
negative (2 Pet. iii. 10), nor its readings, ]> (2 Pet. iii. 1),
iAco
(3 Joh. 10).
In all these places, it agrees with the A-group ;
and on
the whole, its text is about on a par with that of Cod. 3.
Cod. 13. (Wetstein's MS, Amsterdam, Biblioih. des Eemonstr. Gemeente,
No. 184.)
This MS now exhibits only the Acts and Epistles, but the numbering
of the quires (quinions)
shows that it has lost the first 173
leaves (17 quinions and 3 leaves of an eighteenth), no doubt containing
the Gospels.* It now begins with Acts i. 1 (on
the fourth
leaf of quinion 18, having evidently been intentionally divided at that
point from the preceding quires).
The order of the Epistles is, (1) the
Three Catholic of the Peshitta, (2) the Pauline, (3) the Four. The
scribe Cuphar (fQQO) states in the colophon that he began
it in a
monastery of Gargar, and completed it in the monastery of the Theotokos
at Mardin, A.Gr. 1781 (A.D. 1470). Gargar
is a bishop's see,
suffragan to Melitene,f belonging therefore to the specially Jacobite
region of N.E. Mesopotamia. Thus, in place as well as in date, it is
closely akin to Cod. 11. In text, however, it leans less towards the
A-type than either Cod. 11 or Cod. 3. Yet it agrees with the A-text
in a few of the places above cited (under Codd. 3, 11); scil., 2 Pet. ii. 17,
iii. 10, 13 ;
3 Joh. 10 ;
Jud. 10 :
and, moreover, it has the very important
A-readings lwJ&-M (
2 Pet. ii. 18), O prefixed to .J-So (Jud. 4),
}AjiQ_**2 (for AA-M, ib. 7), none of which is given by 11, and only
the first
by 3. In the last-named place, however, it has evidently been
* As these 173 leaves would give room for other matter besides the Gospels, it
may be that the Apocalypse followed them (as in Cod. 12).
t Assemani, Biblioth. Orient., t. ii, p. 260.