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

XVIII.

A codex of the greatest authority, in quarto format, completed by the neat hand of an Edessene scribe in the year of the Greeks 873 (A.D. 562), containing the Epistle of Rabula to Andrew of Samosata, the Epistle of Cyril of Alexandria to the same and to Theodoret, the Response of Andrew to Rabula, and part of the Epistle of Rabula to Cyril.

XIX.

A codex in octavo format, with double columns, written in the seventh century approximately, containing Rabula’s Epistle to Andrew of Samosata, Cyril’s Scholia on the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten, the Discourses of Mar Jacob, the Chapters of Philoxenus of Mabbug, and a Discourse on the Faith by Julius, Bishop of Rome.

XX.

An intact codex, in large octavo format, with double columns, written very neatly by an Edessene hand, of the seventh century approximately, containing Cyril’s Epistle to Rabula. After which is Cyril’s "Treatise on the Human Nature of Our Lord," translated from Greek into Syriac by Rabula, Bishop of Edessa. Cf. Preface, p. viii.

XXI.

A codex in large octavo format, with double columns, written in a very neat Edessene hand in the sixth or seventh century, containing part of Rabula’s Epistle to Gamalinus possibly Gamalianus. Assemani describes the fanatical sect in question in the Bibliotheca Orientalis in reference to the Edessene Chronicle No. 89 I, pp. 409, 410. Assemani makes a certain Paul, Bishop of Edessa, a friend of Gamalinus and a defender of the truth against that sect; who,