Selected Works of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Rabbula of Edessa, Balai, and Others

of which three contain this first treatise of ours to Hypatius, either in whole or in part; I mean our codex, No. 14574 and No. 14581. The fourth codex, however, is a palimpsest (No. 14623), which clearly shows the name of Hypatius still left in the margin of the first text on three pages. From fol. 21 to fol. 51, Ephrem’s treatise on Our Lord follows.

III.

A codex in larger quarto format, with larger but very elegant letters, triple columns, containing the two (first and second) treatises of Ephrem to Hypatius; the former is complete, while the latter is truncated at the end. Since the points are more plentiful than in the preceding codex and the grammatical forms suggest a more recent age, I think I am not far from the date of the completion of our codex if I suppose it was written in the seventh century. It should be noted that a later age is excluded not only by the shape of the letters, but primarily by the tripartite pages, a characteristic which, if I am not mistaken, seems to belong only to the older codices.

IV.

A codex in larger octavo format, quite neat script, very similar in the scarcity and distribution of points to codex No. 14570 (II), and it deserves to claim the sixth or seventh century for itself. Only the first two leaves of the volume pertain to Hypatius (Treatise I); the former begins from "Why" original: "lemâna" p. 37, l. 11 to "of the living" original: "debâye" p. 39, l. 11, and the latter corresponds to page 58.

V.

A palimpsest in quarto format, double columns, with smaller letters and lines compressed more than is usual, rewritten in the year of the Hegira 204.