The Book of the Ecclesiastical

Composed by

Mar Gregorios, Maphrian of the East, who is Bar Hebraeus.

WHICH

COPIED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, EDITED BY JOINT EFFORT,

TRANSLATED INTO LATIN, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL,

AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANNOTATIONS BY

Doctor of Sacred Theology, Honorary Canon of the Metropolitan Church of Mechelen, Member of the Roman Catholic Religious Academy and the Asiatic Society of Paris,

Parish Priest in Duffel

AND

Doctor of Sacred Theology, Honorary Canon of the Cathedral Church of Namur,

Professor of Sacred Scripture and Oriental Languages at the Catholic University of Leuven,

and President of the Maria Theresia College

PARIS

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1877