INTRODUCTION.

On col. b, l. 19 of the same page, we have the words ܠܒܪ ܡܢ ܐܒܘܗܝ except His Father, instead of the ܕܐܒܘܗܝ of His Father of Dr Wright's text.

On page ܢܿܐ 51 col. a, ll. 20, 21, we are told that in the midst of the dispute between the Christians and the unbelievers, the latter were scourged by order of the Governor in parties of six each; instead of only four being treated to that method of argument.

The story about the three crosses on pages ܢܿܒ 52 and ܢܿܓ 53 would be in flagrant contradiction to the tradition of the "Invention of the Cross" by the Empress Helena, were it not that the suggestion of the Christians about burning the crosses of the two thieves does not appear to have been carried out.

On page ܢܿܕ 54 col. a, l. 26, we have the word ܫܪܝܪ true/certain very distinct in the palimpsest, instead of ܫܪܝ he began; and this alters the sense to "And everything that He said to me, is true and perfect," instead of "He began and He finished."

On page ܢܿܗ 55 l. 24, we should have expected ܘܐܫܬܪܝ and he was released/loosed instead of ܘܐܫܬܦܠ and he was brought low/humbled.

On page ܢܿܘ 56 we may trace a purely Semitic tradition in the statement that Adam, Seth, Noah and Shem came to adore the Virgin, no mention being made of Japhet.

Page ܢܿܚ 58 represents the text of both sides of a half leaf with a portion of the other half attached. The compiler of the Selections had fitted to it, as conjugate, a portion of a manuscript written in a late Estrangelo hand (f. 45) containing the text of a Syriac Hymn. This he had trimmed in order to make it fit into his Transitus Passing (of Mary) leaves (f. 146 is from the same manuscript.) Some lines are therefore missing, on both sides of the leaf. f. 52 b on col. a fits very well into f. 52 a so far as the sense is concerned; and I have made the rest into a consecutive narrative by interpolating a few words from Codex Harris at the foot of col. a, and at the junction of f. 52 a col. b, and f. 52 b col. b; also between f. 52 b col. b and f. 62 a on the following page.

On page ܢܿܛ 59 we may remark that the obligation of abstaining from meat until the ninth hour of the day (about 3 p.m.) is still enforced in many Christian families of the Coptic nation. (See The Story of the Church of Egypt, by E. L. Butcher, Vol. I. p. 25.)