SYRIACJE.
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W. WltTGTTT, D.C.L., LL.D., 1'1l0FI:SSOR np "IUBIC IN TU. UIllYRR ITV A U
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SYRIACJE.
BY
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1. engaged this autumn in making a catalogue of the Syriac and .Ambie manuscripts presented by tho Society for Promoting Christian Knowledgo to the University Library of Cambridge, I came across a volume (at present numbered 20), of the "iiilb century, the contents of which, though mainly theological, are more than usually various and interesting. Unhappily, some wretched possessor of tho manuscript was earole"" euough of his property to mutilate it wantonly by tear. ing out the first four quires, and with them has perished nearly the whole of the most curious item of the eonten/;.,j, a heretofore unknown reeension of the" Secular Laws of the Emperors Constantine, Theodosius and Leo." Bruns and Saehau have edited in their Sy,.idCl,.IW. misrltes &chtsbuch aus demflin,ftw Jultrlllllldrrt (Leipzig, 18 0) no less than four redaetions of these Laws, two 'VIIIL!\1'
in Syriac, ono
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Arabic,! and ono in Armenian. 1 'Vc aro
now in possession of a fragmont of a tbird Syriac version, which must havo difforod very considombly ITom the other two. According to the subseriptiou, f. 2 b, these enaetmeuts were issued by the emperor Leo ahout the year 517 of the era of Antioeh, i.e. about .A.D. ·1G8. The old,.•t I This document was t.r:mscribeJ lIy mo for my tea4'}lOr tbe late Pro(CSlIOf nodigt'r. 1bii is not stated in the noLe in llruna'. Pr fact', p. vii.
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S)Tiac vcrsion known to us d3te~, according to Brnlls (01" cil., pp. 318-9), from A..D. 176 or ·177; thc oldest
manu.eript (Brit. Mus. Add. 11,52 ) b~nning of
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the ,-i century. reccnsion of the Law!-t, wllich I shall dc~igTlntc by the letter C, is shorter than the LOLHlon The new
:MS. (L), but lon~l'r thau that at Paris (1'). L has 1~7 sections; 1',,3; C, 9·;. '1'he Arabic translation (A.r.) giYl's 130, and the _\rmcnian (Arm.) HO. rrhc arrangement of the pnragl'fLphs too is very diffcrent. C 92 is = L 121, a section which is not found in the other redactions. C 93 is = Arll1. Ill, likewise not fonnd in the other redactions. COl, 9; are = P 7H, 70 = A.rm. 11 I, 145. The tcxt of C is unfol·tunately vcr}' earcl.,sly copicd, and the scribe Constantinc has not much claim upon our gratitude. ITe has written th('~c wor(h~ at tho
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