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& Syrians.	908
The same among the Nestorians.	910
Notes on the preceding Rite.	911
7. Of the Abbot, or prefect of a monastery.	913
Names for the Abbot, or Hegumen, of monks among the Eastern Syrians.	913
Canons concerning Abbots.	913
The blessing of an Abbot among the Syrians and Greeks.	915
The rite of the blessing of an Abbot among the Nestorians.	916
8. Of the Abbess, or directress of a monastery.	916
Names for the Abbess, or Directress, of nuns.	916
Her blessing to be performed by the Bishop, and her duties.	917
CHAPTER XV. Of Schools and the study of letters.	919
§. 1. The institution and antiquity of schools in the East.	919
Names of schools, and their various meanings.	919
The institution of schools from the very beginnings of the Christian faith: where [the text treats] of the Doctors and Catechists of the early centuries of the Church.	920
Studies of divine and human letters cultivated in schools, and commended by the Fathers.	922
2. Ancient and recent schools of the Syrians, Chaldeans, and Persians.	924
The School of Edessa.	924
The School of Nisibis.	927
The School of Seleucia or Modaina.	929
The School of Dorkena.	930
The School of Mahuza, of the House of the Romans, and of Caliljesu near Baghdad: and that of Saint Gabriel on the Tigris.	930
Schools in the region of the Garmaeans.	931
The school in the region of the Elamites.	931
The school of the Persians.	932
The school of the Arabs.	932
The school of Khorasan.	932
The Adiabenian schools, and especially [those] in the region of Marga.	932
3. Schools at churches and monasteries.	934
The care of schools committed by bishops to the Chorepiscopus and monks.	934
Clerics and laymen educated in the schools of monasteries.	935
4. Of the method of studies and the examination of books.	937
The method of studies among the Jacobites.	937
What studies flourished in the Nestorian schools.	939
Rules of the schools.	942