Three Letters to the Monks

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Syriac text of these three letters which he copied himself from the Vatican Manuscripts.

I may not close without expressing my gratitude to Prof. Guidi, of Rome, and to Professors Grannan, Shahan and Pace, of this University who kindly consented to examine this dissertation before it was printed and offered many valuable suggestions.

To Prof. Guidi I am also indebted for a description of Syriac Manuscripts 135, 136, and 138 of the Vatican library, and also for the anonymous notice on Philoxenus which he transcribed for me from Syriac Manuscript 155 of the Vatican. He had also the kindness to read the proof-sheets of this dissertation and took the trouble to correct the Syriac text on the original Manuscripts in the Vatican Library, thus ensuring, even in the apparently most trifling details of punctuation, an accuracy too often wanted in similar publications.

The Catholic University of America,

February, 1902.

A. A. VASCHALDE.