The Book of Governors

The page features a red double-line border. The text is arranged as a table of contents or index, with Arabic numerals in the left margin (likely referring to page or verse numbers in a source text) and Syriac numerals in red in the right margin (referring to section numbers). Footnotes at the bottom provide variant readings from different manuscripts (Br for British Library, Bd for Bodleian).

22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding those for whom this consolation happens after the departure from the world 1

Regarding the notification of how it is made known to the human being: [and] which [is] by hands and lives
25 Which are given to be given: but it was the will of the son of God
27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding when it is known: and regarding what he said 7.

28 . Regarding those who were provided for: from where they came and where they left the earth 8.

29 . Regarding the knowledge against which the day departed from the first of one 9.

. Regarding the tranquility and grace [of the] human being from the first of one: and regarding 10.

30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the service of the sacrifice
31 . . . . . . . . . Regarding the new altar of the earth: and regarding the priesthood which was revealed 11.

33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding the sword which [was] by the commandment which [was] by the hand of Moses 12.

34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding the knowledge, [the] new [one] for the first of one 13.

35 . . . . . . . . . Regarding the change again for the first and the lives which [were] by the hand of Moses 14.

36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding the foundation original: "smakha" (Br reads "skhara") (1) first, what is [the] support 15.

37 . . . . . . Regarding the joy [and] the sweetness of the prophecy: which cancels the inheritance in one prayer 16.

39 . . . . . . . . . Regarding the bricks of the first original: "(h) qadmoya" (2): and regarding the distinction of the sweetness of the virtue 17.

41 . . . Regarding the change of greatness: after the change of the sight and the hope of the new world 18.

42 . . . . . . Regarding that which he said: and the testimony of the Most High which rejoiced in it 19.

43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding the creator of the administration to him who illuminates 20.

. Regarding the knowledge of him who illuminates after the first of one lives: and [of] the pattern 21.

45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . of the eternal [one] which is found 22.

. How the siguma a term possibly referring to an arrangement or specific monastic rule was provided for: [and] they were hidden in the fullness of the entire departure
48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in the service of this
49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding the earth and the beautiful lives 23.

50 . . . . . . Regarding that how by means of consolation: and regarding the kind of service 24.

52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding the discriminators who know the gift of lives 25.

53 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding salvation: and regarding the meanings of the revelation 26.

54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regarding the hunting of the heart of the consolation 27.

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(1) smakha. Br reads skhara. (2) (h) qadmoya (N.E.)

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