History of Mar Yahballaha and Three Other Patriarchs

so beautiful, so important for history, and so edifying for the practice of virtue. We hope to be able to offer them new texts before the end of the year that shed great light on the history of Christianity in Persia.

The new texts that we announced on August 29, at the end of the foreword to the second edition of the history of Mar Jab-alaha, are about to appear for the first time. They are of great importance for the history of Christianity in Persia, for the study of customs, and for the Syriac lexicon. We owe them to the generosity of Mgr. Abbeloos, who had the kindness to allow us to copy them from the second volume of his manuscript, pages 29–110 and 398–720.

The verse composition that forms the history of Mar Dinkha was sent to us by the Reverend Father Superior of the convent of Raban Hormizd of Alqosh original: "Alkousche".

Mgr. Abbeloos's manuscript was copied from that of the church of Mar Pethion in Diyarbakir, which appears to have been made in the 7th or 8th century.

We were obliged to vocalize and punctuate what we present here; we found very few words that bore vowels.

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