Ecclesiastical Chronicle, Volume 2

BARHEBRAEUS'S ECCLESIASTICAL CHRONICLE SECT. I.

we have also ignored certain contractions of words in very frequent use, such as Mshi ܡܫܝ for Mshiha ܡܫܝܚܐ .

However, in the proper names of men or places, we have chosen to indicate the smallest differences; yet if these occurred consistently the same way, then for the sake of brevity they were noted only the first few times.

Whoever wishes to look at the following table will easily discover what we ourselves think about the aforementioned manuscripts, namely that the London manuscript was rightly preferred over the Oxford or Cambridge ones for preparing the edition.

The letter C will denote the Cambridge manuscript, O the Oxford one, C O both. The larger numbers denote columns, the smaller ones denote lines.

1, 0 is missing from 1 up to 9.
1, 16, C has this: "that he may live, the announcer of the Persians who had gathered there: because of this, they were not even able to endure the fear of the riches. In their sight, the appearance of life [was] for the turning of their joys. And [he] heated them [with] the river of water through which they passed. And the faith which they established changed them from the death of wickedness. Those announcers from before. From before: while glorious."

3, 3, C "five" — 12, C "company" — 13, C "event" — 20, C "he says."
5, 3, C "the deacon and servant."
7, 1, C "the offering thus."
9, 17, O omits "the worker" — 18, O "the sign that you did not see" — 22, C O "as."
11, 1, C O "as" — 5, O "that he may hear" — 10, O "his brother" — 12, C instead of "her growth" has "her building."
— 19, C "they heated."
13, 2, C "the sign" — 5-6, C "it becomes. From the fear of the body from" — 8, C O "you will say thus" — 9, C "and the building," O "and her building" — 12 et seqq., C O "the anxious ones" — 21, O omits "the righteous" — 22, O instead of "they feared" has "they were cleansed" — 23-24, O omits "from now on them from death. From that wickedness of the village."
15, 1, O omits "that this" — 1-2, C "it is not" — 11, C "that I heard" — 12, O "the need" — 14, C "the life" — 19, C O "that he said" — 22, O "and they met him."
17, 1, C O "to how much" — 3, O "the bread" — 4, O omits "he said from the joys" — 7, O "lives from this summit of greatness" — 8, O "to speak" — 13, O "her beauty."