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INTRODUCTION
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now in the Bodleian (Bod. Or. 161).*
The contents of Cod. 10 are, in
Ussher's words, " those parcels of the New Testament, viz. the History
of the Adulterous Woman, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and
third of John, the Epistle of Jude, with the Book of the Revelation, "f
that is, the portions of the New Testament which the Peshitta lacks.
They are placed in the order as named above by Ussher; but the
quire-signatures show that the Revelation originally stood first. Its
text of the Epistles is
very closely in agreement with that of Cod. 7,
and it also has points of coincidence with that of the Polyglots where
they differ from Cod. 8. From it the Syriac text of the passage, John
vii. 53 viii. 12 (the "Pericope de Adultera"), was first printed (1631),
by De Dieu (in his Commentarius in Evangelia, p. 443), to whom Ussher
lent this 'and other MSS ;
and a few years later it was inserted in the
Gospel text of Walton's Polyglot (1657), whence it has passed into
subsequent printed editions.
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It is disfigured by an egregious blunder
the omission of the negative in ver. 11, so as to read "Go and sin
more " ! The |J accordingly appears in brackets in the text as printed
by De Dieu and by Walton. This MS was long supposed to be lost,
the account of it
by Ussher (as above) having been misunderstood
as describing a complete Syriac New Testament. {
15. (Paris, Biblioth. Nat., Anc. F. 31, Catal 60.)
This is a (paper) MS of earlier date than Codd. 8 and 10, but ranks in
age with Cod. 7, being dated [A.D.] 1482 (^I2o2]). It was written at
Kuzhaye (]^-M!OD) in the Lebanon. It || appears to have been originally
a copy of the Seven Catholic Epistles, on six small quires, or rather
semi-quires (paper) but the first three are missing, and thus James and
;
most of 1 Peter are lost. What remains of 1 Peter is Peshitta, and it
and 2 Peter occupy quire 4. Quire 5 (presumably containing 1 John
(Peshitta)) is also missing 2 and 3 John and Jude fill three leaves of
;
quire 6, the fourth leaf being blank. After this is inserted a smaller
leaf, containing the Pericope de Adultera. It seems clear that this
* Catal, coll. 1, 10.
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Ussher's Works, vol.'xv, p. 342 (Letter ex).
| For a full account of it, see my Memoir in Transactions of E.I.A., vol. xxvii,
pp. 269 et sqq.
Zotenberg, Catal., p. 22, wrongly says 1582.
See Thes.
|| Syr., s.v.