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

however, I do not know who he might have been, since from the beginning of the fourth century up to the sixth, there was no Bishop of Edessa by that name.

XXII.

B.M. No. 17202, fol. 182 to fol. 185.

A codex in large octavo format, of the sixth or seventh century, with double columns, containing, besides the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias, part of Rabula’s Epistle to Gamalinus.

XXIII.

B.M. No. 17238, fol. 71 verso to fol. 73 verso.

A paper codex, in large duodecimo format, written carelessly in the twelfth century approximately, containing a Hymn of Rabula. There is no doubt that in the remaining part of the codex, up to fol. 96, there are other songs by Rabula, but since the colophon summarizes the names of the authors under a general note, the individual songs cannot be returned to their authors. The case of codex No. 17254, fol. 164 to fol. 196, is the same, where poems of Ephrem, Rabula, and Marutha, Bishop of Tagrit, are commemorated.

XXIV.

B.M. No. 17213, fol. 36 verso to fol. 39 verso.

A codex in quarto format, containing single leaves and fragments of leaves collected from various lost books. Among others: The Epistle of the holy Mar Rabula the Teacher, to the blessed Mar Gamalinus (Cf. p. xiv). This part of the codex is written in double columns, in a fairly neat hand, in the eighth century approximately.

XXV.

B.M. No. 14591, fol. 55, fol. 139 to fol. 143 verso, and fol. 143 verso to fol. 150 verso (end of the codex).

An ancient codex, in octavo format, written neatly in an Edessene hand, apparently in the sixth century, in double columns. It consists of 150 leaves and contains, for the most part, [works of] Isaac the Great.