ana translation

1 INTRODUCTION
corrected from the Harklensian (see Note, p. 130 infr.), as was noted
by Wetstein (Prolegomena in Clem. E., p. v [ad cole. N.T., 1752]).
From this MS he edited (eodem anno) the [pseudo-] Epistles of Clement
of Rome Ad Virgines* which it
appends to the Biblical text,
as Cod. 9
(see p. xliv) appends other documents bearing the name of Clement.
Cod. 20. (The Peckover MS.)
This MS, the property of Lord Peckover, is a complete Peshitta
New Testament, with our Four Epistles subjoined to the Three,
and followed by the Pauline. Prefixed to them is the superscription
"Four Epistles of the Apostles which are not found in all copies."
A note at the end of the volume describes it as " the New Testament,
the Peshitta Version, exceedingly accurate." Apparently, therefore,
the scribe regarded our Epistles as belonging to that Version, though
not always included in all copies of it. He gives, further, the
date and place of writing, "in the former Canun, A.Gr. 1787"
(= Dec., A.D. 1475), " in the monastery of Jacob the Egyptian Recluse,
beside Salach in Tur-'Abdin." Thus it was written under the same
roof as Cod. 1 2, but some three hundred years later, its age being nearly
the same as that of Codd. 1 1 and 13.
Its text too is, on the whole, of the
same intermediate character as theirs, but with much closer approach
to that of the A-group. Yet it lapses into B -readings at a few signal
points (notably 2 Pet. ii. 1, and iii.
10) ;
while in the opposite direction
it transgresses (like 13) by deviating (in three places, 2 Pet. i. 15,
ii. 6, and Jud. 7)t after the Harklensian. But for these blemishes,
it
might almost rank as equal in excellence of text to Cod. 12, to which
it adheres closely even in the place where they both err with 1 in
reading ;