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CONTRIBUTIONS 
 
 APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE 
 
 KEW TESTAMENT, 
 
 COLLECTED AND EDITED FECI SYEIAC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE 
 BRITISH MirSEUM, 
 
 AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND NOTES, 
 
 BY 
 
 W. WRIGHT, Ph. D., LL.D., 
 
 ASSISTANT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS, BRITISH MUSEUM. 
 
 WILLIAMS AND NORGATE, 
 
 H, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON; 
 
 20, SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH. 
 
 1865. 
 
TO 
 
 .CONSTANTIN TISCHENDORF, 
 
 THE EDITOR OF THE 
 
 EVANGELIA APOCRYPHA 
 
 AND OF THE 
 
 ACTA APOSTOLORUM APOCRYPHA, 
 
 THIS WORK IS DEDICATED 
 
 BY HIS SINCEBE FRIEND 
 
 W. WRIGHT. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 This little volume is intended as a humble companion 
 to the Evcmgelia Apocrypha of my learned friend 
 Professor Dr. Tischendorf of Leipzig. What he 
 has done in so masterly a manner for the Greek 
 and Latin texts of the Apocryphal Gospels, I have 
 attempted to do — I fear very imperfectly — for the 
 Syriac texts, so far as they are accessible to me. As 
 my manuscripts are, generally speaking, more ancient 
 than those used by Tischendorf, my great aim has 
 been to reproduce the text in each case as accurately 
 as possible, and to give a close rendering into En- 
 glish, so that the Orientalist may be able to judge of 
 my understanding of the document, and the Classical 
 Scholar to compare it easily with the Greek original 
 or the old Latin translation. Where the manuscripts 
 are torn or otherwise illegible, I have inserted within 
 brackets what I suppose to be the missing words or 
 letters. All other emendations and corrections I have 
 invariably placed at the foot of the page. I have also 
 added a few notes, pointing out some of the more 
 important differences between the several versions, 
 and explaining, or at least noticing, certain difB.- 
 culties; but to these notes I do not attach much 
 value, my wish being rather to edit and translate 
 than to annotate. If my labours are favourably 
 received, I shall be encouraged to bring out another 
 
6 
 
 volume, which I have now in preparation, containing 
 the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, such as St. John, 
 St. Thomas, Paul and Thekla, etc. 
 
 The documents contained in this book are the 
 following : — 
 
 I. The Protevangelium Jacobi, taken from the 
 Nitrian manuscript Add. 14,484, fol. 10 rect. — fol. 
 12 vers, (as at present numbered). This manuscript 
 seems, as nearly as I can judge, to belong to the 
 latter half of the sixth century. It is a large quarto, 
 written in two columns, in a fine, regular Estrangela. 
 The diacritical points were in many cases inserted by 
 the scribe, but others have been added at a much 
 later period by some industrious reader, and I found 
 it impossible to make any distinction between them 
 iu print. The greater part of this apocryph has been 
 lost, the text commencing with the words that cor- 
 respond to the clause avrr] rj rjfj,epa Kvplov iroirjaei w<i /SovXerai 
 
 in cap. xvii. of the Greek text. 
 
 II. The Gospel of Thomas the Israelite, taken 
 from the same manuscript as the preceding, fol. 12 
 vers. — fol. 16 vers, (as at present numbered). 
 
 III. The Letters of Serod and Pilate, taken from 
 Add. 14,609, fol. 120 rect.— fol. 122 rect. This is a 
 small quarto, written in two cohimns, in a good, 
 regular Estrangela of the sixth or seventh century. 
 It has been partially described by my friend Dr. 
 Land of Amsterdam in his Anecdota Syriaca, tom. I., 
 prolegom., p. 19. These letters, of which Dr. Tischen- 
 dorf possesses the Greek originals, are clearly a forgery 
 
of comparatively late date, I should say not earlier 
 than the end of the fourth century. The quotation 
 from Josephus, p. .t^ (transL, p. 17) is evidently made, 
 not directly, but through the Ecclesiastical History 
 (lib. II. cap. 10) of Eusebius, who died about a.d. 340. 
 I need hardly point out, that, in the latter part of the 
 letter of Pilate, the author forgets his assumed r61e 
 altogether. Whom he means by Justin and Theodore 
 I do not pretend to know. The passages quoted are 
 not improbably mere inventions of his own ; and he 
 may have used the name of Justin because Justin 
 Martyr cites the Acta Filati in his First Apology, 
 cap. 48 (edit. 1742, p. 72). As to Josephus, the 
 passage regarding king Agrippa has no connection 
 whatever with the rest of the letter. 
 
 IV. Under this head I have combined fragments 
 of two recensions of the well-known Transitus, 
 Assumptio, or Koifj,r)aK beatce Virginis: This work is, 
 as Ewald has already shown, most probably a pro- 
 duction of the latter half of the fourth century. 
 Older it certainly cannot be, partly on account of the 
 dignity and importance which it attaches to the 
 monastic life, and partly because of the works cited 
 or made, use of in writing it. These are, firstly, the 
 Testament of Adam, which can hardly belong to an 
 earlier period than the fourth century ; and, secondly 
 — if my conjecture (p. 60) regarding the name of 
 Qocujircl^Go or Qccoxaoo, ^rflavo^, Sejanus, be correct — 
 the Chronicle of Eusehius. 
 
 An edition of the original Greek text we may 
 
8 
 
 shortly expect from Dr. Tischendorf, who has dis- 
 covered it in two manuscripts. Meanwhile the reader 
 should examine the old Latin redaction of the work, 
 printed inLa Bigne's Maxima Bibliotheca vett.Fatrimif 
 torn. II. pars 2, p. 212 foil. ; and the Arabic version, 
 published by Enger, under the title of Ur^y. jUs-l 
 " — w*!l *1 L\jii ^ f _jU1, id est Joamnis Apostoli de 
 Transitu beatce Marice Virginis liber (Elberfeld, 1854). 
 
 Of Syriac editions or redactions I have now 
 brought to light no less than three. 
 
 The first of these is a fragment, occupying p. 
 yA — -^ of this volume. It is taken from Add. 
 14,484, fol. 7 vers. — fol. 9 rect. (as at present num- 
 bered). These leaves are palimpsest, but the more 
 ancient writing is almost wholly illegible. Our text 
 is written in a good, current hand, apparently of the 
 tenth century. It was left unfinished by the scribe, 
 who stopped short in the middle of fol. 9 rect. This 
 seems to nie to be the simplest form of the Syriac 
 text, and will probably be found to approach most 
 nearly to the Greek. 
 
 The second Syriac recension is that which I have 
 published, with an English translation, in the Journal 
 of Sacred Literature for January and April 1866. It 
 is taken from Add. 14,484, fol. 16 rect. — fol. 45 rect., 
 collated with Add. 14,732, which latter is a manu- 
 script of the thirteenth century. In this recension 
 the work has been considerably enlarged, in parti- 
 cular by the addition of a lengthy introduction, 
 narrating the pretended discovery of the book, and 
 
connecting its history with the chtirch of St. John at 
 Ephesus and the monastery on Mount Siaai. Ewald 
 has written a review of my edition in the Gott. gel. 
 Anzeigen for 1865 (Stiick 26, p. 1018 foil.), and it is 
 worth while to quote his opinion of the value and 
 interest of the book. " Man kann sicher behaupten 
 erst dieses Buch sei der feste Grund fiir alle die 
 unselige Marienverehrung und hundert aberglau- 
 bische Dinge geworden welche seit dem fiinffcen 
 Jahrhunderte immer widerstandloser in die Kirchen 
 eindringen und so viel zur Entartung und Lahmung 
 alles besseren Christenthumes mitgewirkt haben. 
 Das kleine Buch ist daher fiir die Geschichte aller 
 Jahrhunderte des Mittelalters von der grbssten 
 Wichtigkeit, und noch heute sollte man vieles hier 
 zu Lernende weit bestimmter beachten als gewohnlich 
 geschieht. Der ganze Mariencultus der Papstlichen 
 Kirche beruhet auf diesem Buche : man wiirde ganz 
 vergeblich eine andre Grundlage fiir ihn suchen, 
 trotzdem dass es durch das Decretwm Gelasii noch 
 einmal in friiheren Zeiten aus der Beihe der Kano- 
 nischen Biicher ausgeschlossen wurde. Die drei 
 jahrHchen Marienfeste bei welchen die Griechische 
 Kirche bis heute stehen geblieben ist und iiber 
 deren Zahl nur die PapstUche im langen Laufe der 
 Jahrhunderte inmer weiter hinausging, sind zuerst in 
 diesem Buche gefordert und sogar ihren Jahrestagen 
 nach bestimmt. Der Wahn von der unbefleckten 
 Empfangniss Maria's welcher in unsern Tagen zum 
 Dogma erhoben ist, findet nach S. 35, 18 — 21 nur 
 
 h 
 
10 GOSPEL OF THOMAS. 
 
 once on a time, Jesus was playing, and he sowed one 
 measure (h) of wheat, and reaped a hundred cors (i) and 
 gave them to the people of the village, (xiii.) And Jesus 
 was eight years old ; and Joseph was a carpenter, and 
 made nothing else but ploughs and yokes. And a man 
 had ordered of him a bed of six cubits (in length). And 
 there was not the (proper) measure in one plank of one 
 side, but it was shorter than the other (;"). And the boy 
 Jesus took the measure of the wood, and laid hold, and 
 stretched it, and made it equal to the other. And he said 
 to Joseph his father : " Do all that thou wishest." 
 (xiv.) And Joseph, when he saw that he was clever, wished to 
 teach him letters ; and he brought him into the house of 
 a scribe ; and the scribe said to him : " Say Alaph," and 
 Jesus said (it). And the scribe next wanted him to say 
 Beth ; and Jesus said to him : " Tell me first what Alaph 
 is, and then I will tell thee concerning Beth." And the 
 scribe took and beat him ; and immediately he fell down 
 and died; and Jesus went to his family. And Joseph 
 called Mary his mother, and spoke to her, and ordered 
 her not to permit him to go out of the house, that those 
 might not die who struck him. (xv.) But a scribe said 
 to Joseph : " Hand him over to me, and I will teach him." 
 And Jesus entered into the scribe's house, and took a 
 roll, and was reading, not those (things) that were written, 
 but great miracles, (xvi.) And again, Joseph had sent 
 his son Jacob to gather sticks, and Jesus was going with 
 him. And whilst they were gathering sticks, a viper bit 
 Jacob in his hand. And when Jesus came near him he 
 did to him nothing more but stretched out his hand to 
 
 (A) Heb. HMD. (i).Heb. ^13. 
 
 (_/) Literally, its fellow. 
 
GOSPEL OP THOMAS. 11 
 
 him and blew upon the bite, and it was healed, 
 (xviii.) And when Jesus was twelve years old, they went 
 to Jerusalem, as it was the custom for Joseph and Mary 
 to go to their festival. And when they had held {k) the 
 Passover, they returned to their house. And when they 
 had turned to come (home), Jesus remained in Jerusalem ; 
 and neither Joseph nor Mary his mother knew (it), but 
 they thought that he was with their companions (Z). And 
 when they came to the halting-place of that day, they 
 were seeking among their kinsfolk and among those whom 
 he knew. And when they did not find Jesus, they returned 
 to Jerusalem, and were seeking him. And after three days, 
 they found him sitting among the teachers, and hearing from 
 them, and answering their questions ; and all who were 
 hearing were astonished, because he was bringing these 
 teachers to silence, for he was expounding to them the 
 parables of the prophets and the mysteries and hard 
 sayings which are in the law. And his mother says to 
 him : " My son, why hast thou done to us these (things) 1 
 for we were distressed and anxious, and seekin'g for thee." 
 Jesus answered and said: " Why did ye seek me'? Do ye not 
 know that it is fitting for me to be in my Father's house?" 
 The scribes and Pharisees answered and say to Mary : 
 " Art thou the mother of this boy 1 The Lord hath blessed 
 thee ; for the like of this glory and wisdom in children 
 we have neither seen nor heard that any one has spoken." 
 And he rose (and) went with his mother, and was subject 
 to them. But his mother was preserving all these words. 
 And Jesus was excelling and advancing in wisdom and in 
 grace before God and before men. Amen. 
 (Here) ends the Childhood of our Lord Jesus. 
 
 (^) Literally, made. (V) Literally, the people of their company, 
 
THE 
 
 LETTERS OF HEROD AND PILATE. 
 
 THE LETTER OF HEROD TO PILATE THE HEGEMON. 
 
 Herod to Pontius Pilate the Hegem5n of Jerusalem, health ! 
 I am in great anxiety. I write unto thee these 
 (things), that, when thou hast heard them, thou mayest 
 grieve for me. For as my daughter, who was dear to 
 me, Herodia, was playing on a deep (pond) of water 
 which was frozen over, the ice broke under her, and her 
 whole body went down, and her head was cut off, and 
 remained on the surface of the ice. And lo, her mother 
 is holding her head on her knees in her lap, and my whole 
 house is in great sorrow. For I, when I heard of the man 
 Jesus, wished to come unto thee, and to see him alone, 
 and hear his word, if it was like to that of the sons of 
 men. And it is certain that, because of the many 'evil 
 things which I did unto John the Baptist, and because I 
 mocked at the Messiah, lo, I am receiving a just recom- 
 pense; for I have shed much blood of other people's 
 children upon the ground. On this account, the judg- 
 ments of God are just; for every man receives according 
 to his thought. But thou, because thou hast been deemed 
 worthy to see the God-man, on this account it is fitting 
 for thee to pray for me. And my son Azbonius is in the 
 agony of the hour of death. And I too am in aflOiiction 
 and great trial. For I have got the dropsy (a), and am in 
 great distress (b) ; because I persecuted the opener of the 
 
 (a) Literally, have collected water. 
 
 (6) Literally, deficiency (of -water), drought. 
 
LETTER OF HEROD. 13 
 
 baptism of water, who was John. Because of these things, 
 my brother, the judgments of God are just. And my 
 wife too, through all the grief for her daughter, her left 
 eye has become blind ; because we wished to make blind 
 the eye of righteousness. There is no peace to the doers 
 of iniquities, saith the Lord. For from now great aflSic- 
 tion is coming upon the priests and upon the writers of 
 the law, because they delivered unto thee the Just One. 
 For this is the consummation of the world, that they con- 
 sented that the Gentiles should become heirs. For the 
 children of light shall be cast out; for they have not 
 observed the things which were preached concerning the 
 Lord and his Son. Because of this, gird up thy loins and 
 receive righteousness, being mindful, thou with thy wife, 
 by night and by day, of Jesus ; and of you Gentiles shall 
 be the kingdom, for we the (chosen) people have mocked 
 at the Eighteous One. But if there be a place for our 
 petition, Pilate, because we were in power at one time, 
 bury ray household with care ; for it is right that we 
 should be buried by thee rather than by the priests, whom, 
 after a short time, as the Scripture says, at the coming of 
 Jesus the Messiah, vengeance shall overtake. Mayest 
 thou be well, along with Procla thy wife ! I send thee 
 the earrings of my daughter and my own signet-ring, that 
 they may be in thy possession a memorial of me after 
 death ; for the worms have already begun to issue forth 
 from my body, and lo, I am receiving judgment in this 
 world, and dreading the judgment that is to come. For 
 in both we stand before the works of the living God ; but 
 this judgment, the one in this world, is temporary, whilst 
 that which is to come is an everlasting judgment. 
 (TIere) ends the letter to Pilate the Hegemou, 
 
THE LETTER OF PILATE TO ItEROD. 
 
 Pilate to Herod the Tetrarch, health ! 
 
 Know and see, that in that day when thou deliveredst 
 unto me Jesus, I had compassion on myself, and testified 
 by the washing of my hands (that I was free) from (the 
 blood of) him who rose from the grave after three days ; 
 but I did on him thy pleasure, as thou wishedst that I 
 should join with thee in crucifying him. But now I 
 learned from the executioners, and from the soldiers who 
 were watching his tomb, that he rose from the grave ; and 
 above all I made quite sure of what was told me, that he 
 was seen in the body in Galilee, with the same form, the 
 same voice, the same doctrines, and the same disciples, 
 having changed nothing, but preaching boldly his resur- 
 rection and the everlasting kingdom. And lo, heaven and 
 earth were rejoicing ; and lo, my wife Procla was believing 
 (in him) through those visions which appeared to her, 
 when thou didst send (me word) to deliver up Jesus to the 
 people of Israel, because of their ill will (against him). 
 And now when Procla my wife (a) heard that Jesus was 
 risen, and had been seen in Galilee, she took with her 
 Longinus the centurion and the twelve soldiers who 
 watched the tomb, and went forth, as it were to a great 
 sight, to welcome the person of the Messiah. And she 
 saw him along with his disciples. And whilst they were 
 standing in astonishment looking upon him, he looked 
 upon them and said to them : " What is it 1 Do ye 
 believe on me? Know, Procla, that in the testament 
 which God gave to the fathers, it is said, that every body 
 
 (a) The Syriac text has " his wife." 
 
LETTER OF PILATE. 15 
 
 ■which had perished, should Hve by means of my death, 
 which ye have seen. And now ye see that I am alive, 
 whom ye crucified ; and many things did I bear, until I 
 was laid in the tomb. And now, listen to me, and believe 
 in God my Father who is with me. For I have burst (b) 
 the bands of death, and have broken open the gates of 
 Sheol, and (it is) my coming which is to be ' (hereafter)." 
 And when my wife Procla and the soldiers (c) heard these 
 things, they came (and) told me, weeping, because they 
 too had been against him, when they were plotting the evil 
 things which they had done unto him ; so that I too upon 
 my bed am in distress, and put on a garment of sorrow, 
 and take to me fifty soldiers along with my wife, and go 
 unto Galilee. And as I was going on the road, I was testify- 
 ing these things, that Herod did these things with me, who 
 planned along with me and constrained me to arm my 
 hands against Him, and to judge the Judge of all, and 
 to scourge the Just One, the Lord of the just. And when 
 we drew nigh unto him, Herod, a great voice was heard 
 from heaven, and terrible thunder, and the earth trembled 
 and gave forth a sweet smell, the like of which was never 
 seen even in the temple of Jerusalem. But when I stood on 
 the way, our Lord saw me, as he was standing and talking 
 with the disciples. But I prayed in my heart, for I knew 
 that this was he whom ye delivered unto me, that this 
 was the Lord of created things, and the Creator of all. 
 But we, when we saw him, all of us fell upon our faces 
 before his feet. And I was saying with a loud voice : " I 
 have sinned, Lord, in that I sat and judged Thee, that 
 avengest all in truth. And lo, I know that Thou art God, 
 the Son of God, and thy Manhood have I seen, but not thy 
 (6) Literally, opened. (c) Literally, the Komans. 
 
1 LETTER OP PILATE. 
 
 Godhead. But Herod with the children of Israel com- 
 pelled me to do evil unto thee. Have pity, therefore, 
 upon me, God of Israel." And my wife in great tribula- 
 tion said; "God of heaven and earth, God of Israel, 
 reward me not according to the deeds of Pontius Pilate, 
 nor according to the will of the children of Israel, nor ac- 
 cording to the thoughts of the sons of the priests ; but 
 remember my husband in Thy glory." And our Lord 
 drew nigh and raised up me and my wife and the soldiers; 
 and I looked upon him and saw that there were on him 
 the scars of his cross. And he said : " That which all the 
 just fathers hoped to receive, and did not see, (thou hast 
 seen) ; in thy time the Lord of time, the Son of man, the 
 Son of the Exalted One, who is from all time, has risen 
 from the grave, and is glorified on high by all that he has 
 created and established, for ever and ever." 
 
 Justinus, one of the writers who were ,in the days of 
 Augustus and Tiberius and Gains (Caligula), wrote in his 
 third discourse : " Mary the Galilsean, she who bore the 
 Messiah, who was crucified in Jerusalem, had not belonged 
 to a man ; and Joseph did not forsake her ; but Joseph 
 remained in purity without a wife, he and his five sons by 
 a former wife ; and Mary remained without a husband." 
 
 Theodorus wrote to Pilate the Hegemon : " Who was 
 the man, concerning whom there was a complaint before 
 thee, that he was crucified by the people of Palestine 'i If 
 many demanded this justly, why didst thou not agree to 
 their just demand 1 (d) And if they demanded this unjustly, 
 why didst thou transgress the law and order something 
 that was far from justice?" Pilate sent him (answer) : 
 "Because he was doing signs, I did not wish to crucify 
 
 (d) TAterally, their justice. 
 
LETTER OF PILATE. 17 
 
 him ; and because his accusers said, ' he calls himself a 
 king,' I crucified him." 
 
 Josephus says: "When king Agrippa put on a robe 
 that was ■woven with silver, and beheld the spectacles in 
 the theatre of Csesareia, when the people saw that his 
 robes flashed (like lightning), they said to him : ' Till now 
 we were afraid of thee as of a man ; henceforth thou art 
 exalted above the nature of mortals.' And he saw an 
 angel standing over him, and he smote him as it were to 
 death." 
 
 (Here) ends the letter of Pilate to Herod. 
 
THE 
 
 HISTOEY OF THE YIEGIN MAET, 
 
 THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. 
 
 To our beloved and believing brethren tliroughout the 
 "whole world, who are zealous after excellence, and seek 
 the work of life, and cleave unto the love of God at all 
 times, and are prisoners of his mercy ; peace and grace he 
 with you from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus 
 the Messiah, and His Holy Spirit. Amen, Amen. We 
 make known to the children of the mystery of faith, that 
 the Word of Life, which was with the Father, truly came 
 into the world, and was born of a woman by a great 
 miracle; and went about the streets as a child, to the 
 confirmation of His incarnation ; and received the educa- 
 tion of growth, after the manner of all the sons of men ; and 
 trod the path of baptism, and of fasting, and of working 
 of miracles, for all His true disciples; and tasted willingly 
 of suffering, and death, and burial, without any phantasy 
 or error; and rose with glory from the grave, without 
 having seen corruption in Sheol ; and took upon Himself 
 the humiliations of our race, that He might exalt us unto 
 His Father; and ascended with victory to heaven, with 
 great glory and a vast host of angels. And of all these 
 things we are witnesses, and we know that our testimony 
 is true ; because we have seen with our eyes, and felt with 
 our hands. And to every one who believes these things, 
 there is life for ever in His Person, because He is life and 
 
HISTORY OF THE VIRGIN MARY. 19 
 
 truth and light. And we were thus commanded by Him, 
 before He was raised up to heaven : " Go, teach, and 
 baptize all nations, in the name of the Father and the 
 Son and the Holy Spirit." Also He sent to us the gift of 
 the Holy Spirit, as He promised when He was going up. 
 And from that time we were scattered through all countries, 
 to. preach the Gospel of His kingdom. But Mary His 
 mother, after all these things, was continuing in great 
 sorrow, and was constant in prayer every hour at the 
 tomb and Golgotha. And she was much hated by the 
 people of the crucifiers, and many a time too they were 
 going to kill her. And they set watchers for themselves 
 beside the grave, and said with much eagerness: " If she 
 goes out thither to pray, let lier be stoned by you with 
 stones, because she is a mocker at Israel." She was the 
 daughter of Joachim, who was the seed of Nathan the son 
 of David, of the tribe of Judah ; and her mother was 
 called Hannah ; and her own name was Mary. And on a 
 Friday she took a thurible and incense, and went forth in 
 sorrow to the tomb. And when she had prayed for a 
 long while, she thus spoke: "My Lord {Rahhuli, *'i\2S) 
 the Messiah, whom I have in Heaven, send (and) take me 
 from this world; for lo, the Jews want to stone me." 
 And the moment that her prayer had gone up to heaven, 
 the angel of the Lord came down to her, and thus he 
 spoke to h6r : " Hail to thee, mother of God ! for thy 
 prayer is heard in heaven before thy Son, Jesus the 
 Messiah; and within a few days of this time thou shalt 
 leave this world, as thou hast asked." And when he had 
 said these things to her, he departed from her ; and a 
 great wonder seized the watchmen who were standing 
 and looking on, so that they said, " We can do nothing to 
 
20 HISTORY OF THE VIRGIN MARY. 
 
 her." But -when she had returned to her house, they 
 -went into Jerusalem and said to the priests : " Mary came 
 to-day (and) prayed beside the tomb; and we saw clearly 
 the angel of the Lord, who was speaking, with her ; and 
 for this reason we were not able even to speak to her ; 
 and now do whatever is good in your eyes." And when the 
 Jews heard this, they spoke to the Hegemon of that place, 
 whose name was Sabinus, whom Tiberius the emperor of 
 the Romans had placed there, and said: "We beg of 
 thee, my Lord Hegemon, send (and) order Mary not to 
 go out to pray by the grave and Golgotha. It is enough 
 for her that all Jerusalem is agitated by the child whom 
 she bore, that there should not be strife and mischief 
 among us and in our city because of her." The Hegemon 
 says : " Do ye go and order her what ye please." And they, 
 when they had gone to her, say to her: "Mary, remember 
 the sins which have been committed by thee before God, 
 and do not lead people astray and say, that he who was 
 born of thee is the Son of God; because heaven and earth 
 testify that he is the son of Joseph the carpenter. But 
 enter into the synagogue, and hearken to the law of Moses. 
 And we will lay upon thee a Torah, and absolve thee of 
 thy sins. And we will blow a trumpet in thy ears, and 
 thou shalt be cured of thy obstinate will. But if thou 
 dost not agree to these things, go forth from Jerusalem, 
 and do not go again to the tomb and to Golgotha; because 
 the Hegemon has commanded thus." Mary says to them : 
 " It was not right that ye should come to me with these 
 words, because I will not hear your words, and will not 
 receive your order. But this I do of my own will, for I 
 have no desire to dwell longer in your city." And the 
 Jews returned to their houses, because the evenio"- arrived. 
 
HISTORY OF THE VIIIGIN MARY. 21 
 
 Then she called the women of her neighbourhood, and 
 says to them: "The Jews say to me that they will not 
 permit me to dwell in Jerusalem, and therefore I am going 
 forth to Bethlehem to my own house. But, if there be 
 (any) among you who wishes to go with me, let her come." 
 For three virgins were dwelling with her constantly, who 
 were the daughters of chief men and rulers of Jerusalem. 
 One of whom was the daughter of Nicodemus, the friend 
 of the Messiah, and her name was Calletlia ; by whose 
 name is described the Church, the betrothed of the Son of 
 God. And another was the daughter .of Gamaliel, the 
 chief of the synagogue and the teacher of the Law, and 
 her name was Neshra ; and by the likeness of the eagle 
 is typified the King the Messiah, who^^bears upon His 
 wings the Holy Church. And the other was the daughter 
 of a (man of) comitian (rank), of the family of Archelaus, 
 and her name was Tabetha, for TabStha (the good) is an 
 epithet of the Holy Spirit, by which life is given to men 
 and all good gifts. These were the names of the virgins 
 who were dwelling with Mary the mother of our Lord, 
 Calletha, and Neshra, and Tabetha. And the three of 
 them answered and said to her : " Thou kuowest, my 
 Lady, that on thy account we have left our fathers and 
 brothers and all that we have, and with thee we wish to 
 live, and we will not leave thee till we die." Then she 
 stretched out her hand to heaven, and blessed them, and 
 said to them : " My prayer will be received before my 
 Master, whom I have in heaven ; because of all the 
 families of Israel you alone have done me pleasure." And 
 they arose quickly, and went forth to Bethlehem. And 
 there she prayed, and thus she said : " My Master the 
 Messiah ! hearken to the voice of Thy mother, and come 
 
22 HISTORY OF THE TIRGIN MARY. 
 
 to me, Thou and the Apostles, Thy disciples, that I may 
 see ye before I die. And by this I shall know that Thou 
 hearest me whenever I pray unto Thee." "When she had 
 finished her prayer, John was in Ephesus ; and the Holy 
 Spirit informed him, as he was going in to pray in the 
 church of Ephesus, and said to him : " The time is near 
 for the mother of thy Lord to depart from this world, and 
 she desires much to see thee ; but make haste and go to 
 her to jiethlehem. And lo, I will send thither all the 
 Apostles thy fellows." Then John prayed and said : 
 " Our Lord Jesus the Messiah, Son of the blessed God, 
 give my feet strength that I may go to Thy mother to 
 Bethlehem, and see her before she dies." And when his 
 prayer was not yet finished, the Holy Spirit placed him 
 on a cloud of light, and he arrived speedily at Bethlehem, 
 And when he entered into the chamber in which Mary was, 
 he found her lying on the bed. And he drew near and 
 kissed her on her knees, and said : " Hail to thee, mother 
 of God ; and hail to the Messiah, who was born of thee, 
 who has deemed me worthy to behold thee. Be not 
 grieved ; because thou art departing from this world with, 
 great glory." And when she heard these (words), she 
 was filled with great joy; and she answered and said to 
 John : " My son, the Jews have sworn oaths, that, when 
 I am dead, they will burn me with fire." John says to 
 her: "Our Lord Jesus the Messiah, thy Son, standeth 
 for thee." And the tears of both of them flowed over 
 from weeping; and the three virgins too were standing 
 apart and weeping. John says to her : " If thou, who art 
 the mother of God, art so grieved because thou art leaving 
 this world, what shall sinners do, and those who have not 
 kept the commandments of God?" Then the Holy Spirit 
 
HISTORY OP THE VIRGIN MARY. 23 
 
 informed us in all the regions in which we were, and says 
 to us : " The time is near for the mother of your Lord to 
 leave this world ; but rise, go to her to Bethlehem." To 
 Simon (Peter) It made this known in Eome ; and to Paul 
 at Tiberias ; and to Thomas in India ; and to Matthew 
 at Berytus (Beirut) ; and to Bartholomew in Armenia ; 
 and to Thaddseus at Laodicea ; and to James in the cave 
 of Zion. But Andrew, the brother of Simon, and James, 
 the brother of John, and Philip, and Simon the Cananite, 
 and Matthew, who became an apostle in the place of 
 Judas Iscariot, these five were dead. And the Holy 
 Spirit awoke them, and said to them : " Rise, but do not 
 think that the resurrection is come ; but on this account 
 do ye rise, that ye may go to Bethlehem to the mother of 
 your Lord, who is departing from the world, and asks to 
 see you." And as we were standing (perplexed) by many 
 thoughts, how we might go to Bethlehem, each of us from 
 where he was, our Lord sent us swift steeds and clouds of 
 light. And we were carried away by the Holy Spirit, 
 and came to Bethlehem. And Mary, when she knew that 
 we were come to her, rose up joyfully to meet us from the 
 bed on which she was lying, and says to us : " Blessed be 
 the Lord, who has fulfilled my desire, and sent you to me, 
 that I may see you and rejoice before I die. Now I know 
 that my Master will come, and I shall see Him, and then 
 I shall die. But I wish you to tell me, who told you that 
 I am dying, and how ye came, that ye are arrived so 
 quickly." We all say to John : " Do thou speak first, 
 because thou earnest first." John says : " I was standing 
 by the altar of the Lord, which is in the church of Ephesus, 
 when the Holy Spirit announced unto me, ' The time is 
 near for the mother of thy Lord to leave this world, but 
 
24 TRANSITUS BEATiE VIRGINIS. 
 
 make haste, (and) go to her to Bethlehem.' And 
 immediately" 
 
 "which are more than of all of them." The unbe- 
 lievers say : " Whence do ye show to us that the son of 
 Mary is the Messiah?" The lovers of the Messiah say: 
 " We are showing it." The Judge says : " Not with 
 (high) words nor with disturbance are ye to speak one 
 against another, but gently (and) from your books, for I 
 too am desirous to know how your wisdom is." The lovers 
 of the Messiah say: "Adam, when dying, commanded his 
 son Seth in his testament, and said to him : ' My son Seth, 
 lo ! offerings are placed in the cave of treasures, gold and 
 myrrh and frankincense ; and the Messiah is about to 
 come and to be taken by wicked men and to die ; and 
 through his death (there shall be) resurrection to all the 
 sons of men ; and he shall rise in three days, and shall 
 take my body up with him to heaven. And lo ! the Magi 
 shall come from Persia, and take this testament and these 
 offerings, and go to Bethlehem of Judah, and worship the 
 Messiah who is born of the virgin.' And so it was. And 
 the Magi came and brought these offerings and testament 
 with them. And from the testament of Adam all mankind 
 have learned to make testaments ; and from the Messiah, 
 who was born of Mary, all mankind, who were in darkness, 
 have received hght. From Adam to Seth letters were 
 written, and fathers gave (them) to sons, and sons gave 
 (them) to sons' sons, down to Abraham, all mankind going 
 on and saying, ' the Messiah shall come and shall be born 
 
TRANSITUS BEAT^ VIEGINIS. 25 
 
 in Bethlehem.' We then are not ashamed of what we 
 say." The unbelievers say: "Is the son of Mary better 
 than Abraham, who called on God, and He opened the 
 heavens and spoke with him as men speak one with 
 another 1" The lovers of the Messiah say : " Ye see that 
 3'e know nothing ! For we, who are lovers of the Messiah, 
 know that the Messiah, the son of Mary, created Abraham, 
 ere yet He was formed in His mother's womb." The 
 unbelievers say : " Is the Messiah, of whom ye are proud, 
 better than Isaac, who became an offering, and the savour 
 of his offering went up, and heaven and earth were 
 gladdened by it V The lovers of the Messiah say : 
 " Isaac's not being slain on the altar (depended) entirely 
 on (this), that it was about to be that the Messiah, who is 
 (born) of Mary, should come and die for all, and save the 
 world from error. For if Isaac had died, one offering 
 would have been offered ; but when the Messiah died, 
 the offerings of all creatures were offered to God in 
 Him." The unbelievers say: " Is the Messiah better than 
 Jacob, the like of whose vision men have never seen ? 
 Who went up (and) slept on Mount Gilead, and God 
 opened the heavens and spoke with him, and stretched 
 a ladder from heaven to earth, so that, if he had wished, 
 he might have gone up by it ; and the angels came down 
 to greet him." The lovers of the Messiah say : " Both 
 Jacob, and the ladder, and the angels whom he saw, are 
 types of the coming of the Messiah and of the mystery 
 of His death." The unbelievers say to the lovers of the 
 Messiah : " The ascent of Elias to heaven puts you to 
 shame, for every thing that he says is obeyed in heaven, 
 and every thing that he wishes is done on earth." The 
 lovers of the Messiah say : " Elias went up in a whirlwind 
 
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 to tliis heaven in which are fixed the sun and moon, and no 
 man worshipped him in his ascent except Elisha his dis- 
 ciple. But the Messiah, when He went up, went up not 
 merely to one heaven, but He went up above all the 
 heavens ; and lo ! He sits at the right hand of His Father, 
 and all creatures that are above and below, bow their 
 heads and worship Him and glorify Him for ever ; for no 
 man ever went up to heaven except Him who came down 
 from it, who is the Messiah, the Son of God, who was 
 born of Mary." The unbelievers say : " Let Moses the 
 prophet come, and his miracles, with which he chastised 
 Pharaoh and delivered Israel; and when Pharaoh wished 
 to hinder Israel, when he came to the sea, Moses lifted up 
 a dry staff and restrained the waves of the sea in heaps." 
 The lovers of the Messiah say : " Jesus too, who was born 
 of Mary, rebuked evil spirits, and they were scattered be- 
 fore Him ; and to Peter, when the sea was swallowing 
 him up, He stretched out His hand and lifted him up; and 
 if He had not had power over the sea and the land, 
 whence would all these have obeyed Himl" The unbe- 
 lievers say : " We are not able to dispute with you, be- 
 cause ye are imbued with (a) the doctrine of the Son of 
 Mary, .and if ye were to dispute with Satan, ye would 
 overcome him." The lovers of the Messiah say: "Ye 
 have not said a single word in which there is conviction (b), 
 nor do ye carry off the victory." The unbelievers 
 say: "Neither David the son of Jesse, nor Elisha the 
 son of Shaphat, who brought to life the dead after he had 
 lain down by him in the grave, nor Enoch, who was re- 
 moved and did not taste of death— there is none who is 
 
 (a) Literally, have tasted of. (6) Literally, rest. 
 
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 SO excellent as Jesus the son of Mary." The lovers of 
 the Messiah say : " Neither in heaven nor on earth is 
 is there (any) who is more excellent than Jesus, who was 
 born of Mary, and His exalted Father, who sent Him for 
 our deliverance, and His Holy Spirit ; and thus we con- 
 fess and cry out, and our children and our dead from the 
 graves testify along with us at this time, that the Mes- 
 siah, who is (born) of Mary, was about to come, and Him 
 all creatures were expecting, in whom light arose for us, 
 and as soon as He was born of Mary, He annihilated the 
 power of Satan ; and the like of the miracles and mighty 
 deeds and healings and cures which He wrought, no 
 tongue can speak, nor mouth explain, nor can those above 
 nor those below say what the Messiah, the Son of God, 
 did in the world." 
 
 Then the judge commanded, and six men of the unbe- 
 lievers were severely scourged. And after they were 
 scourged, the lovers of the Messiah said : " Do ye then 
 wish to escape with impunity 1 (c) We will show you 
 what we shall do. We will reveal all the frauds which 
 have been (done) in Jerusalem, before this just Hegemon, 
 whom our Lord hath sent to demand at our hands the 
 ignominy of Jesus, whom we crucified." The judge says 
 to the lovers of the Messiah : " Say whatever ye wish^ 
 and be not afraid." They say : " Where is the cross con- 
 cealed, on which He has crucified "? and where are the 
 nails which were fixed in His hands 1 and the sponge, in 
 which we offered Him vinegar 1 and the spear with which 
 He was pierced 1 and the crown of thorns, which we 
 placed on His head 1 and the robes of infamy, with which 
 we clothed Him, where are they concealed ?" The Hege- 
 
 (c) Literally, to prevail. 
 
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 mon says to the unbelievers : " Speak, and disclose what 
 they say to you." They say: " They too, my Lord, know 
 where they are." But the judge when he saw (this), 
 stood up on his tribunal, and made those swear who con- 
 fessed our Lord, and said : " By the Messiah, who was 
 born of Mary, and in whom ye believe, and in whom I 
 too believe, say what ye know concerning the Messiah." 
 Then the lovers of the Messiah cried out and said with 
 one voice : " wise judge ! Woe to us from the judg- 
 ments of the Messiah, when He comes to judge the world ! 
 Woe to us from Thy hands, Thou Son of Mary, whom we 
 have slain ! Woe to us, how we have injured Thee ! 
 And not Thee only have we injured, but also the Father, 
 who sent Thee to the world." The Hegemon says: "Dis- 
 close to me, where the cross is, on which He was crucified, 
 and the crown of thorns, and the spear with which He 
 was pierced, and the robes which He had on." They say : 
 " My Lord, these robes which He wore, we cast lots upon 
 them, and they came to one ; and we took them, and 
 folded them up, and placed them beside His cross, and 
 dug a deep hole in the ground, about thirty cubits. And 
 we wrote upon the cross of Jesus, and placed it a little 
 way off from the crosses of the thieves ; and we placed 
 a small stone between them, and heaped upon them 
 earth and stones ; and they were well concealed. And 
 opposite the head of the cross of Jesus, we made an aper- 
 ture hollowed out through the midst of the earth, so that 
 a man's hand might reach the head of our Lord's cross ; 
 and when an affliction comes upon any one of us, he that 
 is sick stretches out the tip of his finger, and if it reaches 
 it (viz. the cross), he is cured. May God prolong thy 
 days, illustrious Hegemon ! Lo, there are ten thousand 
 
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 five hundred and two souls, whom we know, and whose 
 names are written down, men, women and children, whom 
 the cross of the Son of Mary has healed and saved from 
 death, who are of the populace of Jerusalem. And when 
 we see a man who is sick, we go thither with him, and 
 he stretches out his hand through that opening and is 
 healed. And if any one has a sick person in his house, and 
 takes some of that dust, and goes and casts it upon him, 
 he is healed. And whosoever was healed, we used to 
 take a fee from him. And it was enjoined unto us, that 
 whosoever should reveal this secret, should be cast out 
 from among us with his whole family ; and that he who 
 revealed it should be slain. And we said among our- 
 selves, ' If a man be questioned, let him say, we have in 
 that place a pot of the manna, and of the water of trial, 
 and the staff of Aaron, and these things give help to every 
 one who goes thither.' illustrious judge I fetch Jona- 
 dab and scourge him, because he has in his house one 
 nail of those which we fastened in the Messiah, concealed 
 for himself; and he has saved from death by it more 
 than 550 souls, and has become very rich, so that he does 
 not know what he owns. For Avhich of the prophets and 
 of the fathers did wonders, and healed, and brought to 
 life, and delivered from death, like the cross of the Mes- 
 siah, or like a single nail that we fastened in His hands 1 
 How much more then shall that Jesus, who was crucified 
 upon it, give aid to every one who believes in Him ? 
 Come, let us raise up His cross from the dust in which it 
 is hidden ; and from the ends to the ends of the earth let 
 peoples and tongues come and worship the cross of the Son 
 of God, who gives life to all living things that believe on 
 Him." The judge says ; "Great is the thing that was con- 
 
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 cealed among you ; and because ye were angry with one 
 another, ye have revealed it. If the king hears it, he will 
 take off all your heads. Come, show me where these 
 nails are hidden, and where ye have made that aperture 
 over the head of our Lord's cross." And they went and 
 showed him. He says to them : " What shall I do for 
 you now V They say to him : " Command, my Lord, and 
 let these crosses be taken up ; and let the cross of our 
 Lord be placed in the temple of Jerusalem, and be 
 worshipped by all mankind." The Hegemon says: "I 
 am not ordered by the king to do this, but I will put you 
 to shame before all men; for I will not go near the cross 
 of the Messiah; for He who was crucified upon it, will 
 bring it forth from the earth in which it is hidden," And 
 he gave orders, and brought large stones ; and they heaped 
 (them) upon the place in which these crosses were hidden, 
 as it were ten times the height of a man, so that no help 
 might come forth from that aperture to the children of 
 Israel. And those who believed said to the Hegemon : 
 " Give orders, my Lord, and let thirty of the chief men of 
 the city of Jerusalem come, and scourge them, because of 
 the ignominy of our Lord, and because they have spoken 
 ill of the blessed (virgin) before thee." And the judge was 
 silent, and made no answer; and the day declined ; and 
 the judge passed the night in the Prsetorium in anger. 
 And the cock crew, and the Hegemon went forth, he and 
 his two young men and his son along with him ; and his 
 son had the disease of the gravel (and a disease) of the 
 bowels. And he went and knocked at the door of my 
 lady Mary, and her waiting-maid came out ; and he said 
 to her : " Go in and tell thy mistress, the Hegemon of 
 this city wishes to worship thee." And she gave orders, 
 
TEANSITUS BEAT-^ VIBGINIS. 31 
 
 and he came in and worshipped before her and kissed her 
 feet, and cried out and said : " Hail to thee, virgin Mother 
 of God ! and hail to the Child, who was born of thee ! 
 Hail to the heavens, which bear the holy throne of thy 
 Son, on which His Godhead is exalted. Mouth and tongue 
 are too feeble to recount thy praises, holy Virgin ! 
 The earth on which thou walkest, becomes heaven. The 
 heaven that beholds thee, gives a blessing to the creatures 
 that believe in thee. The healthy who behold thy chastity, 
 receive gladness. The sick who come unto thee, receive 
 help. I worship thee, Mary, the mistress of the world. 
 Stretch out thy hand and bless me, me and also this only 
 (child) whom God hath given (me) ; and pray for the 
 souls whom I have at Eome, that I may go in peace, and 
 see (them), and rejoice with them ; and that I may carry 
 presents and offerings, and come and worship thee, the 
 mother of God." Now Mary was standing and praying, the 
 censer of incense being placed before her ; and when she 
 heard the words of the judge, she finished her prayer, and 
 turned to him, and stretched out her hand and blessed him, 
 him and his son, and said to him, " Sit down." Now the 
 apostles of our Lord were there in the house, and were 
 thinking that it was day. And when they came out and 
 looked at the sky, they saw that at that moment the cock 
 had crowed. And the judge ran and fell at the feet of 
 the apostles, and said to them : " Peace be with you, ye 
 chosen (ones), who were chosen before the foundations of 
 the world ! and (hail) to your Master, who chose you to 
 be His heralds !" The apostles say: " We have heard what 
 thou hast done to the crucifiers, and we have prayed much 
 for thee." The Hegemon says : " Enough for them is the 
 scorn they are become before God and before men.'' The 
 
32 TRANSITUS BEATJE VIRGINIS. 
 
 apostles say : " And what have they done that is not to 
 their disgrace ? But now we tell thee, that lo ! it is sixteen 
 years that we have gone forth proclaiming the gospel and 
 the preaching of our Lord Jesus the Messiah in all regions. 
 And when each one of us was proclaiming His preaching 
 in the place to which he was sent, the time arrived for 
 this blessed (one) to depart from this world. And with- 
 out our perceiving it, or any one telling us, the Holy 
 Spirit revealed to each of us, ' The time is near for the 
 mother of thy Lord to depart from this world; go to her 
 unto Bethlehem.' And when each of us heard (this), he 
 was in much perplexity, because we were preaching at 
 the ends of the earth. And each of us said to himself : 
 ' Whence shall I get a swift steed 1 that I may go with- 
 out delay, before she dies whilst I am going V And when 
 this thought arose in our hearts, the Holy Spirit made (it) 
 known to each of us, and a cloud of light was placed in a 
 chariot, and in the midst of the chariot was set a throne, 
 covered with glory. And when the Holy Spirit drew 
 near, It said to him : ' Behold the steeds that your Lord 
 hath sent you from heaven. Rise, sit upon them, and go 
 to His mother unto Bethlehem.' And accordingly Peter 
 ascended with haste into the chariot, and stood in the air 
 between heaven and earth, looking at the apostles who were 
 coming to him. And as he was standing, the apostles 
 came from the four quarters of the world unto him ; and 
 those who were dead, were raised, and came along with 
 those who were alive, to worship the holy (one). Thus 
 we came from those places in chariots guided by reins, 
 and on clouds of glory we entered Bethlehem with troops 
 of angels, and worshipped the blessed (one) ; because God, 
 who was born of her, commanded us, who chose us before 
 
TRANSITUS BEAT^ VIRGINIS. 33 
 
 the foundations of the world, that we might be preachers 
 concerning His living words and concerning the wonders 
 which He showed. And He sent and fetched us accord- 
 ing to His will, that with our testimony He might crown 
 His mother, and we might see and assert that this is the 
 woman who gave birth to God. And we came to Beth- 
 lehem, and they stirred up the people of Jerusalem 
 against us. And the Holy Spirit said to us : ' Do not 
 go anywhere, lest the Jews should think that ye are 
 afraid of them.' And It brought us to Jerusalem, and 
 no man saw us, and we entered in here, because we car- 
 ried the holy (one) on her bed, and the Holy Spirit car- 
 ried us ; and glorious robes of flame were spread over us. 
 And after we were here, our Lord willed to disclose the 
 glory which He was preparing for His mother ; and the 
 angels of the Lord were seen going in and coming out to 
 salute the blessed one. And there was a great tumult, 
 that the Jews might be put to shame, and the Son of God 
 and His mother be glorified." 
 
 These things the Apostles spoke to the judge, when he 
 went and worshipped them. And again the judge 
 besought the blessed one and said : " I beg of thee, 
 my lady, that I may learn of thee, how God, who 
 came into the world, dwelt in thy virginity." The 
 blessed one says to him : " Hear and receive my words, 
 and give glory to God, who sent His only (Son) from the 
 heaven of His glory, and He dwelt in me. I do not know 
 whence He entered into the palace of my members, but, 
 as I was sitting in ray house and making coverings for 
 the door of the temple of the Lord, on the first day of 
 the week, at the ninth hour, an angel opened (heaven) 
 and descended unto me. And a light shone through the 
 
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34 TRANSITUS BEATJS VIRGINIS. 
 
 whole house in which I was sitting, and he said to me : 
 ' Hail to thee, thou blessed among women ! My Lord 
 is with thee, and will rise from thee (like the sun).' 
 And a sweet odour was diffused through the whole house ; 
 and the foundations of the house too sent forth waves of 
 odours through the whole quarter. And after the salu- 
 tation with which he announced (this) to me, he departed 
 from me. And I arose, and set forth incense, and fell 
 on my face, and glorified the name of the grace of my 
 Lord, that I had seen a wonder like this ; for, from the 
 time that I was born into the world, and came forth from 
 my mother's womb, no man knew me, and I saw not the 
 way of women. And He was born of me like a man, 
 and was reared up like the children of Adam, and like an 
 infant in the streets and like a child He ran about, and 
 showed miracles and wrought wonders, and walked in 
 the world like God, and every thing that He said to me. 
 He began and He finished. And I saw that men were 
 not able to do the miracles which He did. And the envi- 
 ous Jews took Him, and crucified Him, and slew Him ; 
 and He was placed in the grave, and raised Himself up, 
 and rose and appeared to His disciples, working the won- 
 ders and miracles of His glorious Father; and He 
 ascended to heaven to His Father ; and if the Jews do not 
 believe in Him, I and Joseph the carpenter and His dis- 
 ciples believe in Him, that He is the Messiah the Son of 
 the living God ; and I assert and beheve that He who 
 was born of me shall come and demand His blood of His 
 crucifiers. And He used to say to me that, Hwhen e re- 
 moved from the world. He would come to me with troops 
 of angels ; and as He has assembled His disciples from 
 the four quarters, I accordingly am expecting Him to 
 
TRANSITUS BEAT.E VIEGINI3. 35 
 
 come, that I may see Him, and to place His hand on my 
 eyes, and to take me out of the wicked world, and hide 
 my body and carry my spirit away in safety whitherso- 
 ever He pleases." " 
 
 These things spoke the blessed Mary to the Hegemon 
 and before the Apostles, and he believed much in Mary, 
 and drew near and cast down his son before her and said 
 to her : " I beg of thee, mother of God, heal this only son 
 of mine, who is tortured by cruel diseases." And the 
 holy one stretched out her hand, and made the sign of 
 the cross on the boy, and spoke thus : " In the name of 
 my Master, whom I have in heaven, let him be healed." 
 And straightway the boy was cured by the prayer of 
 Mary. And the judge went away from beside the holy 
 Mary, and wrote down all the miracles and wonders 
 which the mother of God had done. For the mouth of 
 man is not able to recount the wonders and cures which 
 the blessed one did in the world. 
 
 And the Hegemon was dismissed, and went from the 
 city to Rome, and went in unto the Emperor and the 
 nobles, and related to them all the miracles and wonders 
 which Mary did in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. . And the 
 disciples of Peter and Paul went to Rome and wrote 
 down whatever they heard from the judge, who had gone 
 up to Rome from Jerusalem. And they also wrote let- 
 ters and sent them to all who were in the West, to Mount 
 Sinai, and Egypt, and to Thebais, and Pontus, and Asia ; 
 and they wrote in their letters that great was the glory 
 with which she departed from this world. And they also 
 wrote to their teachers Peter and Paul, (saying : ) " When 
 ye have buried the holy one, let the book of her glorious 
 deeds come with you to Rome, for lo ! the ends and quar- 
 
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 ters (of the world) are full of her glories, and people be- 
 lieve much in her, because, since the judge came from 
 beside her, he has narrated here concerning her, and 
 •whoever confesses her, she helps him greatly and every 
 one who calls on her. 
 
 The wonders vhich the blessed one wrought. She ap- 
 peared on the sea, when it was troubled and raised itself 
 to destroy all that was on it ; and the sailors called on 
 the name of the blessed one and said : " My Lady Mary, 
 mother of God, have mercy on us ;" and she rose like the 
 sun and delivered ninety-two ships and the souls that 
 were in them, and none of them perished. And she 
 appeared by day on a mountain, where robbers had fallen 
 on the brethren to slay them ; and they cried out, 
 " Mother of God, help us ; " and the holy one came and 
 smote the eyes of the robbers, and they were blinded ; 
 and these escaped and were not injured. And she ap- 
 peared to a widow woman, whose son had fallen into a 
 well of water ; and she screamed out and said, " Mother 
 of God, have mercy on me ;" and the holy one came and 
 snatched him out of the well, and gave him to his mother, 
 and he was not hurt. And again she appeared in Kome 
 to a man who had been sick sixteen years, and no one 
 cured him ; and he took a censer and cast into it incense, 
 and said, "My Lady Mary, mother of God, help me;" 
 and at that moment she appeared to him, and he was 
 healed, and stood up, and went to the church before the 
 whole people. And again she appeared to two women, 
 who were going along the road, and a black snake came 
 out upon them to devour them ; and they screamed out, 
 " Mother of God, save us!" and at that moment it split 
 open from its head downwards, and they were not in- 
 
TEANSITUS BEAT^ VlEGINIS. 37 
 
 jured. And again she appeared to a merchant, who had 
 borrowed a thousand drachms to go and trade with 
 them ; and as he was sitting, eating bread, he arose and 
 his purse (dropped") from him (and) was lost ; and he cried 
 out, " Mother of God, help me ;" and at that moment he 
 found himself standing over his purse ; and he departed 
 rejoicing. 
 
 And whilst she was doing these things in Eome, the 
 Apostles were beside her in Jerusalem. And when the 
 morning of Friday dawned, the Holy Spirit revealed unto 
 the Apostles : " Take up the holy one and go forth from 
 Jerusalem by the road that leads out to the head of the 
 valley beside the Mount of Olives. And lo, there are 
 three caves, one within another; and in the innermost 
 there is a raised seat {or bench) on the right hand. 
 There go and place the holy one, until it be told you 
 (what to do). And they arose in the morning, and took 
 up the blessed one; and the Jews were looking on and 
 saying : " The disciples of the seducer are carrying Mary 
 and going away." And the blessed one was looking upon 
 them. And the Jews made signs one to another and 
 said: "Lo, Mary thinks that she has conquered (us), and 
 goes forth from Jerusalem." And there was there a 
 man whose name was Yiiphanya (Jephunneh), both tall 
 and handsome of figure. And the elders of Israel said 
 to him : " Come near,* Yiiphanya ; blow upon Mary, and 
 she will fall down with her bed (litter) ; for she thinks 
 that she has conquered and goes forth from Jerusalem." 
 And Yuphanya ran up with violence and cast his arms 
 upon the litter of the blessed one that it might break, 
 and hung on by it that it might fall, and the Jews might 
 come and burn it. And when Yuphanya cast his arms 
 
38 TRANSITUS BEAT^ VIRGINIS. 
 
 (on it), an angel of fire smote him with a sword of fire, 
 and cut off both his arms from his armpits. And he was 
 crying out and saying : " Ye Apostles of the Messiah, 
 have pity upon me." The Apostles say : "Whycallest 
 thou on MS 1 Call on my Lady Mary, whose litter thou 
 didst wish to break." Yuphanya says : " Mother of God, 
 have mercy on me." The holy one says : " Give him 
 his arms." And Peter drew near, and took up the arms 
 of Yuphanya ; and when he had spat on one of them, he 
 said : " In the name of Mary, cleave to thy place." And 
 he fastened them, and he was healed. And Peter took 
 a staff which he was holding, and gave it to Yuphanya, and 
 said : " Do thou too go (and) show a great miracle with 
 this staff to the Jews; perhaps they maybe ashamed; 
 and tell of the holy one, what she hath done for thee." 
 And Yuphanya went and fell down before the blessed 
 one, and said to her : " Pray for me, that I may go forth 
 (and) preach among the Jewish tribes, and chide them 
 for their disbelief in thee and in thy holy Son." And he 
 began to bless the holy one in the Hebrew tongue, citing 
 texts from the Law and from the Prophets, until the 
 Apostles were astonished. 
 
 And Yuphanya went away and arrived at the gate of 
 the city, and struck the dry staff on the threshold of the 
 gate of the city ; and straightway it put out leaves and 
 produced twigs. And the Jews saw the staff that it 
 budded, and were ashamed. And YUphanya cried out 
 and said : " Blessed is the Messiah, who was born of 
 Mary." The Jews say: "What hath befallen thee, 
 Yuphanya 1 " But he said : " This hath befallen me, that 
 I am become a disciple of the Son of God and of Mary 
 His mother ; for my arms were severed from me, and I 
 
TRANSITUS BEATiE VIRGINIS. 39 
 
 begged them of her, and she gave them to me ; and when 
 Peter had spat upon them he said : ' In the name of 
 Mary, cleave to your place ;' and he made them cleave 
 unto me, and I was healed ; and he gave me this staff, 
 which has budded. And now I believe that she gave 
 birth to the Son of God." The Jews say to him : "Verily 
 thou art mad, Yuphanya." But he said: "Ay, I am 
 mad ! Come (and) see what the dry staff can do." 
 They say to him : "What can it do'?" He says: " Thus 
 Peter commanded me : ' Every sick man on whom thou 
 layest this staff, shall be healed.'" And Yuphanya went 
 in and laid it on a blind man, and he saw the light; and 
 every sick man on whom he laid the staff, was healed. 
 And he commanded every sick man who was cured to 
 cry out : "Blessed be Mary, and blessed be her Holy Son." 
 And Yuphanya was healing all the sick and afflicted that 
 were in Jerusalem. 
 
 And when the Apostles had gone to the caves that were 
 at the head of the valley, they entered and found in the 
 innermost one a seat {or bench) of clay, and placed the 
 couch of the Blessed One (on it) 
 
 and assemblies of spiritual beings, whose troops were 
 without numbers, and their ranks without end, who were 
 coming and praising, band by band ; and every tongue in 
 its own language was crying glory ; and they were hover- 
 ing over the blessed Mary. And the chariots were 
 coming last, one of Moses, and one of Enoch, and one of 
 Elias; and then the blessed chariot of our Lord was 
 coming after them. And heaven and earth were praising 
 
40 TRANSITUS BEAT^ VIKGINIS. 
 
 on that day ; and tlie dead, who were buried, gave glory 
 from their graves. And a pleasant and sweet odour went 
 forth from the highest heavens of His glory to all parts of 
 creation. And they carried the blessed one to Paradise 
 with this glory, and her holy body was placed there. And 
 when she was carried up and reached the gate of Paradise, 
 the sword that surrounds Paradise was taken away, and 
 the holy one went in with glory that is unspeakable into 
 Paradise, the celestials and terrestrials being intermingled. 
 ^Lnd they placed her in boundless light amid the delicious 
 trees of the Paradise of Eden ; and they exalted her with 
 glory on which the eye of flesh is not able to gaze. And 
 our Life-giver stretched out His hand and blessed Mary ; 
 and He was raised up from beside her to His glorious 
 Father, and His promise is life to all those who believe in 
 Him. 
 
 Then the twelve Apostles returned to the Mount of 
 OHves in the same clouds of light, and went and kneeled 
 down and prayed, thinking and saying : " Great is the 
 glory which our eyes have beheld at the departure of the 
 blessed one." And again they prayed and said : " Lord, 
 give unto us that we may command the people and 
 nations concerning the commemoration of Thy mother, 
 that they may make unto her commemorations and offer- 
 ings from year to year ; because we know that every one 
 who makes unto her an offering and takes refuge with her 
 before Thee, when he cries unto Thee, Thou wilt answer 
 him ; for there is no other God but Thee, who art wor- 
 shipped and glorified along with Thy Father and Thy 
 Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen. Happy are they 
 who make a commemoration of the mother who bore Thee ; 
 and happy are we, who have been deemed worthy to be 
 
TRANSITUS BEATJ5 VIRGINIS. 41 
 
 blessed by her, and have seen glorious things, Therefore, 
 Lord, as Thy Holy Spirit promised us and said, do Thou 
 give us power on the last day, when Thou comest, that we 
 may sit on twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of 
 Israel, who have not believed in Thee, nor in the mother 
 who bore Thee. And let us confess the glorious Trinity, 
 Father and Son and Holy Spirit, for ever and ever, Amen." 
 And may Thy mercy. Lord, and Thy grace, and Thy 
 goodness, and the forgiveness and pardon of Thy com- 
 passion, come and be poured out on the "(writer,) feeble 
 and sinful and stained with crimes ; and through the 
 prayers of Thy mother, pardon his faults and sins ; and 
 forgive all the shortcomings of every one who participates 
 (in his work) ; now, and at all times, and for ever and ever, 
 Amen. 
 
 (Here) ends the history of the Departure of the Mother 
 of Grod, the blessed mother. May her prayers be with us. 
 
THE OBSEQUIES OF 
 
 THE HOLY VIRGIN. 
 
 " And he gave a sign to liis father that he might know 
 God. And the son answered and said to his father : ' I 
 beg of thee, my father, if I have found grace in thine eyes, 
 bring a httle of our earnings, (a) and give it to this one 
 who is aflflicting my soul, that perchance he may leave me 
 and I may not die.' Then his father brought the half of 
 his property, and placed it before his beloved son, and 
 answered and said with a loud voice : ' I beg of him who 
 is afflicting the soul of my son, take these goods, and 
 grant me the life of my son.' And after these things the 
 boy was greatly afflicted; and again he answered and said 
 to his father : ' My father, he who is afflicting my soul 
 does not cease from me ; perhaps what thou hast brought 
 to him is altogether too little for him; and because he has 
 seen that it is too little for him, he afflicts me exceedingly.' 
 And his father arose, and brought all that he possessed, 
 and along with it he borrowed other (property) and 
 brought it, and placed it before his beloved son, and said 
 with a loud voice : ' I beg of him who is afflicting the 
 
 (a) Literally, toil. 
 
OBSEQUIES OF THE HOLY VIRGIN. 43 
 
 soul of my son, take all that I have, and leave me only 
 my son.' But the boy was greatly afflicted ; and when 
 he was near death, he turned to his father and said to him : 
 ' My father, thou seest that neither gold nor silver nor 
 any thing else can be given for life, save a heart that is 
 sincere towards God. Rise therefore, my father, and take 
 these goods, and build with them places for strangers, 
 that they may enter in and dwell and rest in them ; and 
 give also of them to the poor and orphans, and we shall 
 find peace for our souls.' These things the son said to his 
 father, and his life ended; and his father did all that his 
 son had said to him. And when eight days were past, 
 and they did not come to king Solomon, according to the 
 covenant they had made before him, that after seven days 
 they would go to him — and the eighth (day) passed, and 
 the ninth, and they did not go to king Solomon — the 
 king sent after them, saying : ' Why are ye not come, 
 that I might settle (matters) between you, as I said unto 
 you V And the father of the boy answered and said : 
 ' My lord, lo it is eight days since my son departed out of 
 the world. Had I known he was dying, I would have 
 given all I had to my son not to distress him; but all that 
 he said to me, I have done.' And when Solomon heard 
 this from the man, he said : ' The evil spirits know what 
 is going to happen. Because of this, men say, ' It is not 
 they who mock at us,' because they do not know the 
 things which are said by them.' " 
 
 Then the Apostles gave their assent to what Paul 
 said ; for they were wishing him to speak again with them, 
 that he might not press them, and they might (not) 
 reveal to him the glorious secrets which our Lord taught. 
 And again all the Apostles answer and say to Paul : 
 
44 OBSEQUIES OF THE HOLY VIRGIN. 
 
 " Brother Paul, speak to us with words, because we hearken 
 unto thee kindly ; for our Lord hath sent thee to us to 
 gladden us during these three days." And Paul answered 
 and said to Peter; " Since ye have riot chosen to reveal to 
 me the great things of Jesus, yet ye will inform me, if ye 
 go forth, what ye will preach and teach ; (for) I too, 
 would know how to teach with your doctrine." Peter 
 says to him : " Brother Paul, this word that thou hast 
 spoken is good. Since then thou wishest to know and 
 hear what we are going to teach and preach to men, hear, 
 and I will tell thee. I, if I go forth to preach, will say, 
 that no one who does not fast all his days, shall see God." 
 Paul said to Peter : " Father Peter, what is this word that 
 thou hast spoken 1 For they will not hear thy word, but 
 will arise and slay thee ; because they are wicked, and are 
 not acquainted with God nor with fasting." And again, 
 Paul turned to John, and said to him : " Do thou too tell 
 us thy doctrine, father John, that I too may so teach and 
 preach." John says to him : " I, if I go forth to teach 
 and preach, will say, that no one who is not a virgin ail 
 his days, is able to see God." And Paul answered and 
 said to John : " Father John, what are these words to men 
 who do not know God 1 For men who worship stones and 
 stocks, if they hear these things from you, will throw us 
 into and shut us up in prison." And again, Paul turned 
 to Andrew, and said to him : " Father Andrew, do thou 
 too tell us what is thy thought, that I too may teach and 
 preach (it) ; lest perchance Peter may think that he is 
 great and a bishop, and John also be proud of his being a 
 virgin, and because of these things they may speak great 
 (words)." Andrew says to Paul: "I, if I go forth to 
 preach, will say, that no one who does not leave father 
 
OBSEQUIES OF THE HOLY VIRGIN. 45 
 
 and mother, and brother and sister, and children and 
 houses, and all th^t he hath, and go out after our Lord, is 
 able to see God." Paul says to Andrew : " Father 
 Andrew, the words of Peter and John are Ught compared 
 with thine, for thou severest every one from the earth in 
 one moment. Who will hear your words at this time, and 
 lay a heavy burden on himself V And Peter and Andrew 
 answered and say to Paul : " Paul, friend of our soul, tell 
 us how thou desirest that we should go forth and preach? 
 Paul says to them : " If ye will hearken unto me, do these 
 things, and let us devise such things as they are able to 
 do, because they are of recent origin and know not the 
 truth ; and let us say to them these things : ' Let every 
 man take his wife, that they may not commit adultery ; 
 and let a woman take her husband, that she may not 
 commit adultery.' And let us appoint for them one or two 
 days in the week, and let us not be very hard upon them, 
 lest they become remiss and turn away. But, if they fast 
 to-day and become a little weary, they will persevere to 
 the time and say : ' To morrow we will not fast.' And if 
 they come to the time for eating, and find a poor man and 
 give to him, they will say : ' For what do we fast, if we 
 do not give to the poor,' and they will know God in their 
 hearts. And let us also say to them : ' Let him who is 
 feeble, fast till the sixth hour ; and let him who is able 
 till the ninth; and him who is able, till evenino-.' J^j^d 
 when we have given them to drink as it were with milk 
 and have turned them towards us, then we will speak to 
 them great and glorious things, words that will be useful 
 to them." 
 
 Then all the Apostles murmured, and would not ao-ree 
 to the words of Paul. And as all the Apostles were 
 
46 OBSEQUIES OF THE HOLY VIRGIN. 
 
 sitting before the entrance of the tomb of Mary, and dis- 
 puting about the words of Paul, lo, our Lord Jesus the 
 Messiah came from heaven with the angel Michael, and 
 sat among the Apostles, as they were disputing about the 
 word of Paul. And Jesus answered and said: " Hail to 
 thee, Peter the bishop, and hail to thee, John the virgin, 
 ye who are my heirs ! And hail to thee Paul, thou adviser 
 of good things ! Verily I say unto thee, Peter, that thy 
 counsels were at all times detrimental, thine and Andrew's 
 and John's. But I say unto you that ye should receive 
 those of Paul; for I see that the whole world shall be caught 
 in the net of Paul, and it shall prevent (or anticipate) 
 them. And then, after these things, j^our maxims (or 
 opinions) shall become known in the latter times." And 
 our Lord turned to Paul and said to him : " Brother Paul, 
 be not grieved that the Apostles, thy fellows, have not 
 revealed to thee the glorious secrets; for to them have been 
 revealed the things that are on earth, but to thee I will 
 teach the things that are in heaven." 
 
 And after these things our Lord made a sign to Michael, 
 and Michael began to speak with the voice of a mighty 
 angel. And angels descended on three clouds ; and the 
 number of angels on each cloud was a thousand angels, 
 uttering praises before Jesus. And our Lord said to 
 Michael : " Let them bring the body of Mary into the 
 clouds ." And when the body of Mary had been brought 
 into the clouds, our Lord said to the Apostles that they 
 should draw near to the clouds. And when they came to 
 the clouds, they were singing with the voice of angels. 
 And our Lord told the clouds to go to the gate of Paradise. 
 And when they had entered Paradise, the body of Mary 
 went to the tree of life ; and they brought her soul and 
 
OBSEQUIES OF THE HOLY VIRGIN. 47 
 
 made it enter into her body. And straightway our Lord 
 dismissed the angels to their places. 
 
 And after these things the Apostles say to our Lord : 
 "Lord, Thou didst say to us, when Thou wast with us, 
 when we besought Thee that we might see the grave of 
 Mary, that it would be well for us ; and Thou didst say to 
 us, ' If ye wish to see this, abide till the day of the depar- 
 ture of Mary, and I will lead you and ye shall see dread- 
 ful things. 
 
 The dreadful place of torment which the Disciples begged 
 of our Lord that they might see. 
 
 And when these things were said by the blessed 
 Apostles, our Lord made a sign with his eyes, and a cloud 
 snatched away the Apostles and Mary and Michael, and 
 our Lord along with them, and carried them to where the 
 sun sets, and left them there. And our Lord spake with 
 the angels of the pit, and the earth sprang upwards, and 
 the pit was revealed in the midst of the earth. And our 
 Lord gave place to the Apostles, that they might look, as 
 they were wishing. And when they drew near and looked 
 into the pit, those who were in the pit saw Michael ; and 
 there was a great weeping and groaning; and they 
 answered and say to Michael : " Michael, chief of the 
 angels, Michael our strength, Michael our general, hast 
 thou prevailed to-day in thy contest on our behalf ? For 
 thou hast forgotten us during all this lapse of time. Why 
 dost thou not beg on our behalf from our Lord, that he would 
 grant us a little respite from torment." And as soon as 
 Mary and the Apostles saw (this), they fell on the ground 
 because of the distress of those who were in the pit. And 
 our Lord raised them up and said to them : " ye 
 
48 OBSEQUIES OP THE HOLT VIRGIN. 
 
 Apostles, rise and learn; for I told you beforehand that 
 ye would not be able to endure the sight of these things. 
 If I had conveyed you to that outer place where there is 
 not a breath of mankind, and where there are many tor- 
 ments which differ from one anoth er, what would have 
 become of you 1 " Then Michael spoke to those who were 
 in the pit, and said to them : " My sons, the Lord liveth, 
 the Lord liveth ; He liveth who is about to come to judge 
 the dead and the quick ; He liveth who hath power over 
 all creatures ; for there are twelve hours in the day and 
 twelve in the night, and these are nnmbered with praise, 
 and offering goeth up to God ; and the angels fall down 
 and worship His grace, and intercede for all creation, and 
 for all mankind. And the angel who is set over the 
 waters, drew near and besought God, saying : ' Let the 
 fountains of waters^ increase because of the race of men; 
 for they are Thy image and Thy likeness, Lord. On 
 this account I beseech Thee to hear me, for I am Thy 
 minister. Let thy mercy be upon the waters, and let them 
 increase over the whole earth,' " 
 
 " ' and I will place them in a secret place under the hand 
 of thy power, that they may not find them. And when 
 I have done this, they will not be able to flee and leave 
 them ; for we have heard that Joseph, when he was dying, 
 made the children of his people swear that, when they 
 were going up, his bones should go up along with them ; 
 and when I have done this, they will not be able to flee, 
 unless they take them along with them, and they will 
 remain under thy power in Egypt.' And after these things. 
 
OBSEQUIES OF THE HOLY VIRGIIV. 49 
 
 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, arose, and ordered that a pit 
 should be (made) in the midst of the river. And he took 
 the bones of Joseph, and placed them in a . . . box, and 
 smeared it with bitumen . . . , and inscribed the name of 
 Joseph in a roll, (writing) ' These are the bones of Joseph.' 
 And he put the roll in the box, and commanded that it 
 should be placed in the centre of the pit in the middle 
 of the river. And when Pharaoh went in, he laid hard work 
 upon the children of Israel, and said to them that they 
 should go forth. And the children of Israel answered and 
 say to Moses : ' Let us go forth first to the bones of our 
 brother Joseph, because he made our fathers swear that 
 his bones should go up along with the children of Israel.' 
 But Moses went, and did not find them ; for the children 
 of Israel did not know that Pharaoh had taken them away 
 from them. And when they did not find them, they rent 
 their garments and wept bitterly ; and they groaned and 
 cried unto God, and Moses along with them : ' Lord God 
 of our fathers, why hast Thou forsaken Thy people 1 For 
 Thou didst turn unto us ; and after Thou didst turn. Thou 
 hast turned away Thy mercy from us, and we are become 
 like a desert land, which has not seen water.' And after 
 along time, the river was laid bare. And when it was 
 laid bare and had passed away, the children of Israel cried 
 unto the Lord and say : ' The sin and folly of Thy people, 
 ' Lord, Thou hast remembered ; on this account Thou 
 hast concealed the bones of our brother Joseph, that we 
 might remain in this bondage for ever. And now turn 
 unto us, Lord, and deliver Thy people from the slavery 
 of Pharaoh.' And when these things were said by Moses 
 and by the whole people, I came and spoke, I Michael the 
 angel, and said to Moses: 'Moses, Moses, God hath heard 
 
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50 OBSEQUIES OF THE HOLY VIRGIN. 
 
 your groan. Kise and go to the river, and smite the 
 waters with thy staff, and the hidden treasure shall be laid 
 bare before thee.' What thinkest thou, Mary's As soon 
 as Moses smote the river, did not the box in which Joseph 
 was placed, appear and come to the dry land 1 And Moses 
 opened it, and found the roll in which was written, ' These 
 are the bones of Joseph ' ; and he took them and conveyed 
 them to their land unto their fathers. And after a long 
 time 
 
 them according to their wish. And He sent by the hand 
 of the Apostles to them (to ask,) were these things not so? 
 And He said : " These are the shepherds of the house of 
 Israel, who are praying for the sheep, that they may be 
 sanctified and made glorious before the sons of men; and 
 themselves they are' not able to sanctify, because they 
 exalt themselves like the strong. Did I not give them 
 many signs V And the Apostles said : " Lord, lo, they 
 beseech and pray and repent, and kneel upon their knees. 
 Why dost Thou not hear them V Our Lord says unto 
 them : " I too was willing to hear them, but there is 
 deception in them, (as) ye too know." And when Jesus 
 wished to show the Apostles for what reason He did not 
 hear them. He took them up to a mountain, and let them 
 become hungry. And when the Apostles had gone, they 
 asked of Him and say to Him : " Lord, we are hungry ; 
 what have we then to eat in this desert V And Jesus said 
 to them, to go to the trees which were before them. And 
 He said to them: "Go to those trees Avhich are over- 
 against us, whose branches are many and fair and beauti- 
 
OBSEQUIES OF THE HOLT VIRGIIf. 5l 
 
 ™^ ^t a distance, and from them ye shall get food." And 
 when the Apostles went, they did not find fruit on the 
 trees. And they returned to Jesus and say : " Good 
 Teacher, Thou didst send us to those trees which are over- 
 against us, and we went and found on them no fruit, but 
 only branches, which were fair and beautiful, but there 
 was no fruit on them." And Jesus said to them: " Ye 
 have not seen them, because the trees grow straight 
 upwards. Go therefore at once, because the trees are 
 bending themselves, and ye shall find on them fruit, and 
 get yourselves food." And when they went, they found 
 the trees bending down, but they did not find fruit upon 
 them. And they returned again to Jesus in great distress, 
 and say to Him : " What is this, Teacher, that we are 
 mocked 1 For at first Thou didst say to us, ' Ye shall find 
 trees which are straight, and there is fruit on them ;' and 
 we found none. Why are we mocked 1 But it is fitting 
 that Thou shouldest teach us, what this is that has hap- 
 pened; for we think that what Thou didst wish to teach 
 us is false ; for by a visible power the trees were laid 
 hold of and bent down. If this be a temptation, make 
 known to us what it is." And Jesus said to them : " Go 
 and sit under them, and ye shall see what it is that abides 
 on them, but ye shall not be able to bend them again.'' 
 And when the Apostles went and sat under the trees, 
 straightway the trees threw down stinking worms. And 
 the Apostles came again to Jesus and say to him : 
 " Teacher, dost Thou wish to lead us astray, or to turn us 
 awa,y from this ... ?" 
 
NOTES. 
 
 THE PROTEVANGELIUM JACOBI. 
 
 "TjBe Greek text to which reference is made in the following 
 notes, is that of Tischendorf, Evangelia Apocrypha, Leipzig, 
 1853, pag. 31 foil. 
 
 Chap. xvii. enTJSa** A^-, reading tov ovov ainov, with Tisch- 
 endorf s MS. A.; otherwise the translator would have used 
 cnlA\t<' (pni^i ci'^'O instead of cnVsaM ("YIOHj^^**)- — The clause 
 Koi rjKokovdei 'Iai<7rj<f) is wanting in the Syriac. — jiOJ^n reli^is. 
 All the Greek MSS. have ■^ei/Mci^et avTrjv. Our Syrian either 
 translated very loosely, or he had before him some such reading 
 as iOikei wpoeKBelv. — The whole of the last sentence, koX 
 KaTr^yayev avTr^v k. t. \., is wanting in the Syriac. 
 
 Chap, xviii. The text of this chapter is much shorter in the 
 Syriac than in the Greek, the entire latter portion, from ^EyiSa Se 
 Iwarjip TrepieTraTOvv onwards, being compressed into a single 
 sentence, which may have run thus : ^Eyco 8e 'laarjcf) vepteTraTOuv, 
 KoL elSov TO, TrdvTa eKdafi^a' koI Travra virh drj^iv eXvero koX t£ 
 Bpofio) aiiTWv Boekavvero. 
 
 Chap. xix. About the middle of this chapter the Syriac text 
 is again much shorter than the Greek. The translator seems to 
 have read : kuI r\v vecj^eXr] tfxoreivr] emaKiai^ovcra to aTrr/Xaiov, 
 e£U9 ov i^dvrj to /Spei^o?. k. t. X.. — Kll rcta^^ r^CJcn.1 ^.1-Sa 
 cai A^Qo, i.e. o ov %<i)pei i? (piKni avrr], as in Tischendorf's MS. 
 B. — Jt.O reii-W OCT) »A), Z^ Kvpio<; 6 ^609, iav firj YBco, ov fjL-q 
 iTLoTeva-w OTi irapdevo^ eari. 
 
 Chap. xx. >.^z^J >cUj, " show thyself," is a very loose 
 rendering of a-^rj/idriaov aeavT'r^v. Probably the translator had 
 * different reading in his MS., the more so as the same words 
 occur again in the following clause, »j^ )^*»< ,CU» r^K" 
 
54 NOTES. 
 
 >AupC r<''^0&\a, which has no equivalent in any of Tiachen- 
 dorf's MSS. — ».^jiiA. Aurc*.!, eTri/ceirai a-oi. — .Z.O dfuaixiQ, per- 
 haps Kol irpoaeXOovaa elSev on nrapOevo'; eari, — oUi^ i<'cttir<', 
 o ^609 /xov, omitting t&v •TraTepmv. — The Syriac presents no trace 
 of the clause aXXa diroSo'; fie Toh irevTjCTW (or Tolii yovevcri jjlov ;) 
 nor is there anything in the Greek MSS. to correspond to the 
 words >.ala A A^ocn k'^O.I^qo.i JtS^fi, a little farther on. 
 
 Chap. XXI. ,x.o r<lioa:i ^sa'-iX rc'iao. Apparently Kal /caXecra? 
 Toii? dp^tepeK, dveKpwev avTOv<; Xiycov, Uov yiypaTrrai irepl tov 
 ^a(n\koci<i on jevvarai. — The clauses ovtw; yap ykypainai; koX 
 direkvaev avTOix; are wanting in the Syriac. — Owr^.i rd'M.i,^ 
 0.^000. The Greek MSS. all have the singular, referring, as 
 we should naturally expect, to the star. — Jt.o tcnorc'vu .-rao, 
 KoX iSovre^ TO 'jraiBiov fierd t^? fj,rjTpo<i avTov Mapidfi, Treo-wre? 
 TrpoaeKvvTjadv avrS, km •jrpoa-riveyKav avra B&pa, '^pvabv Koi 
 afivpvav KaL Xi^avov. 
 
 Chap. xxii. r^lta^j p3 .AA!k.:i relvat vyf**, kuto, tov 
 
 Xpovov, ov r]Kpi^(oa-e •Kupd' twv fidr/aiv, exactly as in Tischen- 
 dorf's MS. N. — r^'iwrc'rc'ocn oviAo, kol ovk fjv totto?, omitting 
 aTroKpt;(/)?j? with Tischendorf's MS. D. — .s.o rclai pCiooaio 
 Kol TO 6po<; eKelvo Biicpaive avTol<; ^oi? fxiya. 
 
 Chap, xxiii. red^^oA, apparently reading, with Tischen- 
 dorf's MS. C. el's TO Ovaiaa-Trjpbov Kvpiov, or eh tov vaov Kvpiov. 
 — orA oiisaK'o reLzij.-i i.ix-O. Read ca\ i^K*© Xeytoi/. — 
 
 ^f*'"^-"** t^ll ore' OVK olha<;, X^ Vjl.- — The Syriac has the 
 clause KoX dirriKOov oi inrTjpeTai, koI dirrjyyeLkav avTco, which is 
 omitted in some of the Greek MSS. — ri'^.i-Sa .icntui, fidpTVi 6 
 6eo<; oTi 6K%eets fx,ov to alfia. — r^i£k\ and t<'A>a\Aa> rdi.i seem 
 to be a double rendering of the word dOSiov, and there is nothing 
 to correspond to the words ek to. Trpodvpa tov vaov Kvpiov. 
 
 Chap. xxiv. In the Syriac the words /cara to edo<; are 
 placed after dTrrfKdov, ol lepeit being omitted. — ^a\ \v-» 
 
NOTES. 55 
 
 •"Clr-saSn, elarjkdev eh to a/yiaa-fia. rtl^AS-oO :ux.r<'.l r^sa.l 
 r<lArtfA v^K*, T^ at/ta Kelfievov icaX •treir'q'yo'; 'haei \l,do^. — 
 
 The whole of the following passage, from koX d/covcra? tov Xoyov 
 i(f)o^ridrj to XlOov yeyevrjfievov, is omitted in the Syriae. — The 
 words Kal rpel'; vvktw^ are wanting, as in Tischendorf's MSS. 
 B, F", F* ; but the reading K'pA.^^ rihcnc,^, " manx) days," 
 does not occur in any of the Greek MSS. 
 
 Chae. XXV. ri''i.v'S3 T^h\osn, •KiKpm Qavara, as in Tischen- 
 dorf's MSS. G. and H. — The words 'T7]v Bcopeav kcu are wanting 
 in the Syriac, as well as the whole of the last sentence, from 
 €<TTai Se ri 'xapt'i onwards. 
 
 THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS THE ISRAELITE. 
 
 The Greek text to which reference is made is again that of 
 Tischendorf, Evang. Apocryph. p. 134 foil., especially his .Swaraj. 
 ThomeB GrcRce A. — The first chapter of the Greek is altogether 
 wanting in the Syriac. 
 
 Chap. ii. Compare the Pseudo-Matthcei Evang., ch. xxvi and 
 xxvii, and the Evang. Thomcs Latinum, ch. iv. — The words 
 rdAjjOs ,»^ca\ ^idno most nearly correspond to the quibus 
 
 singulis fecit araciunculas {aratiunculas) of the Pseudo-Matth. 
 — The Syriac omits the clause km X07&) /Movm iirera^ev avrd. — 
 
 JLO r^.^a!^i ^ A.ri.x,o,,as in the MSS. Par. and Vind., in 
 which e« Trj<i ;!^;etXe(B? or {iXew? seems to be a blunder for i;c t?}? 
 IXvo'; or elXvoi. — The Greek has nothing equivalent to the words 
 ,'t^ojt» A.^ cnai^O. — The words i.ssri'.i ^^rti'pD.txa seem, as 
 stated at p. Kj , note c, to express the dfia tS> Xoyo) of Tischen- 
 dorf's text B. (cap. iii., last line but one). The Pseudo-Matth., 
 
 ch. xxvii., has ad vocem imperii sui. — »s.o ^amH^ (^^* Here 
 again the Syriac follows the MS. Par., vTrar/ere TreTo.a-O'rjTe Kal 
 fiefivrja-Oi p,ov ^a>VTe<;. Similarly in Tischendorf's text B. virdyeTe 
 TreTdaOrjTe Kal fUjwrjaKeade fj,ov ^covra. — In the last sentence the 
 Syriac has " a Pharisee," whereas the Greek A. mentions " the 
 Jews,'' and B. "Joseph." 
 
56 NOTES. 
 
 Chap. hi. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxvi. and xxviii., 
 and the Evang. Thomce Lat., ch. iv.— .Jk-QJU )a^, " with 
 Jesus." The Greek has " with Joseph." — The Syriac text omits 
 all the abusive epithets of the Greek and Latin. 
 
 Chap. iv. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., eh. xxix., and the 
 Evang. Thomes Lat., ch. v. — jCDAar** ^^j " with his father." 
 The two Greek texts have 8ta ri}? Ka>)M)'i and. fikaov ttji; irokew'; ; 
 the Latin combines both readings, cum Joseph per villam. — 
 vO^ AuK* r<^i\jL. r^oo, as in the MS. Par. o-vtovto to iraiBlov 
 
 e'x^cov. — Instead of SlSa^Ke, the Syriac has the verb in the plural, 
 and stops short at evXoyelv. 
 
 Chap. v. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxix., and the 
 Evang. Thomce Lat., ch. v. — ^3.zmO is doubtless (as sug- 
 gested at p. .a*, note d) a mistake for ^xZmO. The Greek A. 
 has Kal irda-xpvai.v ovroi, and the Pseudo-Matth. m.uUi dolentes. 
 — The words subsequently put in the mouth of Jesus differ 
 considerably from those in any of the Greek and Latin recensions ; 
 and the Syriac omits the passage koX ol ihovTS'i ijto^rjd'qtTav 
 eirolrjcrev 6 'Irjo-ov?. — ,x.o vA KSi^Off. The Syriac 
 
 text is by no means clear, but the translator seems either to have 
 omitted firj before evpta-Keiv, or to have confounded it with /ie. 
 The clause ovk olSa^ k. t, X. is also wanting. 
 
 Chap, vi — viii. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxx. and 
 xxxi., and the Evang, Thomce Lat., ch. vi. — r^x*s rcV\\ OK". 
 The Greek and Latin texts represent Zacchseus as filled with 
 surprise, instead of anger, at the sayings of Jesus. — t<l=qi^ 
 ,1.0 >o\Mrd\, as in the Pseudo-Matth., tu non vis Jilium tuum 
 tradere ut doceatur scientia humana et timore? etc. — Al=ao 
 •XiO jjL&x^a. Pseudo-Matth., et si quis est qui possit hunc 
 infantem tenere et docere? — .1.0 (<'ia^t r<la.il^ r£.'»A 
 
 The nearest approach to this in the other texts is in the Evang. 
 Thomce Lat., where we read : numquid creditis, parvus erit 
 
NOTES. 57 
 
 parvuhs iste? — .r^AsAso ooA i^c<'o ' ji^^ecu ^qsOj r<^^ 
 
 «E.o. This passage agrees substantially with the Pseudo-Matth., 
 ch. XXX., from Auditis Jesus quce dixerat Zachyas to the end. 
 
 Instead, however, of .x.o A»ijsor^.i oeo kIsjA^o, we find 
 
 there merely: Ipse enim potest qui dignus est. — »i^\ vsar^te 
 .xxt .^QoOaA r tf I'Ni'w . In this passage the agreement with 
 the Greek and Latin texts is less close. The whole description 
 of the letter A is omitted, and the subsequent speech of Zacchseus 
 much shortened. The difficult sentence about the "smith's 
 anvil," (in which read "can teach," instead of "can learn,") 
 has no exact equivalent in any one of them. The nearest 
 approach to it is in the Pseudo-Matth., where we read as follows : 
 " Jesus autem dixit ad didascaJum Levi ut quid me percutis ? 
 In veritate scias quia ipse qui percutitur magis docet percutientem 
 se quam ab eo doceatur. Ego enim te possum docere quae a te 
 ipso dicuntur. Sed hi omnes cseci sunt qui dicunt et audiunt, 
 quasi aes sonans aut cimbalum tinniens, in quibus non est sensus 
 eorum quae intelliguntur per sonum illornm." There is also 
 something similar in the Evang. Thom<p Lat. (p. 162), Me autem 
 oportet te docere, etc. 
 
 Chap. ix. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxxii., and the 
 Evang. Thomee Lat., ch. vii. — k'^ulz.i r^saenxa , as in the 
 Pseudo-Matth., et cum esset ibi una sabbati. 
 
 Chap. x. of the Greek text, corresponding to ch. viii. of the 
 Evang. Thomee Lat., is wanting in the Syriac, as also in the 
 Pseudo-Matth. 
 
 Chap. xi. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxxiii., and the 
 Evang. Thomm Lat., ch. ix. — ^ux. .sit is. The Greek and 
 Latin texts all have " six years of age," instead of " seven." 
 
 Chap. xii. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxxiv., and the 
 Evang. Thomee Lat., ch. x. The Syriac text is shorter than even 
 the former. It agrees, however, with the Greek in reading 
 "100 cors," instead of "three." 
 
 Chap. xiii. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxxvii., and 
 
58 NOTES. 
 
 the Evang. Tkomce Lat., ch. xi. The Syriac text is again shorter 
 and simpler than any of the others. 
 
 Chap. xiv. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxxviii., and 
 the Evang. Thoma Lat., ch. xii. The difference between these 
 and the Syriac text is great, but less than between the latter 
 and the Greek. According to the Greek, the teacher only 
 falls down in a swoon {i\i7ro6v/j/rja-e). 
 
 Chap. xv. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xxxix, and the 
 Evang. Thomce Lat., ch. xiii. The text of these as, well as of 
 the Greek, is far longer than the Syriac, to which the follow- 
 ing are the corresponding passages. Mera Se ')(p6vov tivcl erepov 
 ircCKiv Ka6rf/r)Tri<;, yvijcrio'; <^tXo? wv rov 'Io)a"^<j), euwev avTw, 
 A<ya'ye /j,ot to TraiBiov eh to irathevTripiov 'law's av Bvvr]6S) iyo) 
 
 /leTa KoXaKeia^ BoBd^at avTO to, ypdfifiaTa Kal elaekdcav 
 
 dpaaix; et? to BiBaaicaXeiov evpe /3i^iov Keifievov iv t& avaXoyupf 
 KM Xa^cDv aitTO ovk d.veylvmo'Ke to, <ypdfj,fuiTa to, iv avT&, aXKci 
 avoL^wi TO (TTOfia avTOv ekdXet, Trvev/iaTC cuylm, Kal iBiBaaKe rov 
 vofiov Tov<i -TreptearcoTa^. 
 
 Chap. xvi. Compare the Pseudo-Matth., ch. xli., and the 
 Evang. Thomce Lat., ch. xiv. The latter agrees very closely with 
 the Syriac, though, like the Greek and the Pseudo-Matth., it 
 adds to the narrative the death of the snake : et vipera mortua 
 est, KoX TO Brjpiov eppdr/T], 
 
 Chaps, xvii. and xviii. of the Greek text are wanting in the 
 Syriac. 
 
 Chap. xix. Compare the Evang. Thomce Lat., ch. xv., the 
 second paragraph ; and also the Pseudo-Matth. ch. xl*., according 
 to the text of Tischendorf's MS. B. The Greek text agrees 
 closely with the Syriac. 
 
 THE LETTER OF HEROD TO PILATE. 
 
 Page \; line 18. oaiiantn:', Azbonius. Perhaps Zenobius 
 was the name intended by the writer. We have no notice of 
 any such son of Herod Antipas, nor does this name appear at 
 all in the genealogical lists of the family of Herod. 
 
NOTES. 59 
 
 Page w^j line 17. Kllaoi^, TlpoKka, Procla or Claudia 
 
 Procula. See Tiscliendorf, Evang. Jpocrypha, p. 274, in the 
 Evang. Nicodemi, pars I. B., ch. IV. Tore fjXde /M]VVTrj<; airo 
 jrj<i UpoKkTj'i Tj)s 'fvvat,Ko<s UtXaTov Trpos avTOV. — In tLis same 
 line I have printed Klb.Ta , because the word is distinctly so 
 written in the MS. The dictionaries give the form r<xjxa ; 
 e. g. Add. MS. 7203, (i_j>^) v-y^i- '^J^ rtfjciio i_a:i «<xlH*a 
 
 THE LETTER OF PILATE TO HEROD. 
 Page r^L^ , line 2. v^J^\^^ is a not uncommon form in MSS., 
 instead of the more accurate Kl&'ii^^ (Matth. xiv. 1 ; Luke 
 iii. 19, ix. 7). — Line 18. tviii\ii. The author follows that 
 tradition which gives the name of Longinus to the centurion who 
 presided over the execution, not to the soldier who pierced our 
 Lord's side with the spear. See Fabricius, Codex Apocryphus 
 Novi Test., 2°^ ed., t. iii, p. 472. — Last line. Instead of .^.i, 
 the more correct orthography would be >Jfc..t. 
 
 Page vSA, line 1. This appears to be a quotation from the 
 Testament of A dam, from which I have given an extract in a 
 subsequent note. 
 
 Page •\^; line 15 foil. I must confess my ignorance as to 
 the Justin and Theodore whom the writer cites as contempo- 
 raries of Pilate. The passage of Josephus may be found in the 
 Antiquities, xix. 8, 2 ; but our author seems to have taken it 
 from Eusebius, Hist. Eccles., ii. 10. 
 
 THE HISTORY OF THE VIRGIN MARY. 
 
 Page v^, line 14. Ta.t-sa K'^oiLajtf r<li.i, "without any 
 phantasy." The writer alludes to the doctrines of the older 
 DocUce, not to those of Julian of Halicarnassus (oocililo^ 
 »<i^^^), the contemporary and opponent of Severus of Antioch. 
 
60 NOTES. 
 
 Page jja, line 18. >loan. On the use of this word in our 
 book, I think it as well to quote the remarks of Ewald in the 
 G'ott. gel. Anz. 1865, Stuck 26, p. 1027. "Dass die gerade in 
 diesem Syrischen Buche so oft vorkommende Anrede >l<Xsi 
 Rahul an Christus, wie der Herausgeber andeutet, nur im 
 Lautwechsel von tii;!*! sich unterscheidet ist zwar gewiss : allein 
 man muss doch dabei vorzuglich beachten dass nach dem 
 bestandigen Sprachgebrauche dieses Buches nur Maria ihren 
 Sohn so anredet und sonst so nennt, wenn sie aber zu Anderen 
 iiber ihn redet dann einfach «^&ai euer Serr (oder Meister) 
 
 sagt. Dieser Unterschied der sich durch die ganze Sprache des 
 Buches hindurchzieht muss seinen Grund haben : und wir thun 
 dabei wohl zu bemerken dass auch in demselben Buche des N. 
 Ts, z. B. bei Markus oder bei Johannes, die Anrede pa^^ovi 
 oder vielmehr wie die bessere Lesart nicht nur Joh. 20, 16 
 sondem auch Marc. 10, 51 lautet pa^^ovvlvait der gewohnlichen 
 pa^^t so wechselt dass jene die bei weitem seltenere ist und doch 
 nicht etwa eine Steigerung des Begriffes enthalten kann. Denn 
 eine solche Steigerung ware an sich hier untrefFend, und dazu 
 iibersetzt Johannes in seinem Evangelium beide Anreden 
 gleichmassig mit BtSda-KoKe. Darum ist es durchaus wahrschein- 
 lich dass die langere Aussprache nichts als das Klein- oder. 
 vielmehr das Zartlichkeitswort wiedergiebt welches im Aramai- 
 schen iiberhaupt weit naher liegt als im Griechischen. Dann 
 erklart sich auch warum nach unserm Buche bloss Maria ihren 
 Christus so anredet ; und ebenso leuchtet nun ein warum das 
 Wort im Evangelium des Johannes nur einmal und zwar im 
 Munde eines Weibes erscheint." 
 
 Page •\i^, line 8. coCM»rela.flo. In the text pubhshed by 
 me in the Journal of Sacred Literature for January and April 
 1865, the name is written riXxzxso and pointed in the younger 
 of the two MSS. rClAra.a>, Sebiane or Seviane. Probably the 
 writer had read in Eusebius (Chronicorum Canonum libri duo, 
 ed. Mai and Zohrab, p. ^l\)oiSejanus, the favourite of Tiberius, 
 
NOTES. 61 
 
 and either imagined him to have been governor of Palestine, or 
 thought that his name would do as well any other : Sr]'iavo<i 
 e7rap)(pi} Ti^epiov Kala-apo<; irepX Tekela^ aircdKeiai tov edvov; Ta>v 
 'lovSaicov iroXKd <Tvve^ovKev<Tev rS Kal<rapi,, ws ^iXmv iaropei 
 ev Tcp ^. 
 
 Page 1, line 20. rtiu^^taai cn^is. In the other text he 
 is called KliJL'spaa — * •~' "\, "Tobia the comitian" (Ko/irj- 
 ruiv6<;). 
 
 Page .ai> line 15 — 21. The list of apostles in the other text 
 (Journal of Sacred Literature for January 1865, p. ai», and for 
 April 1865, p. 137) differs both as to their number, their names, 
 and the places where they were. Here we have thirteen : there 
 only twelve ; viz. John, Simon Peter, Paul, Thomas, Matthew, 
 James, Bartholomew, Andrew, Philip, Luke, Simon the 
 Cananite, and Mark. Matthew, instead of being at Berytus, is 
 placed ooQ im , for which Ewald would read wocu3=£V 
 TrXot'a), rsla^lrdss {G'ott. gel. Anz. 1865, StiicJc 26, p. 1025) ; 
 Bartholomew is in the Thebaid, Qa<r^.a&i3, instead of in 
 Armenia;, and James is stated to have been in Jerusalem, sitting in 
 the church of Zion, .^.OJeD^S i<'A<.T!ki3. It is not impossible 
 that K'^VkSoa may be merely a corruption of Kdi:u»o- 
 
 Page -^, line 17. The corresponding passage in the other 
 text may be found in the Journal of Sacred Idterature for 
 January 1865, at p. iA, or for April 1865, at p. 144. — Line 19. 
 I have translated rc'Axiaas by "with (high) words"; but the 
 fact is that f<'o\ l*nn is nothing but a corruption of k^Aiv n— 
 " with clamour," as we read in the other text, 
 
 Pag3 si, line 3. In the Testament of Adam, KH^^.i 
 ^arc* ^..ftsrC'.i , Add. 14,624 (ninth century), fol. 8vers. and foil., 
 we read as follows (fol. 9 vers, iu^saz. . cnia AuaA ^a.irS" vsar^ 
 ^O •:■ . rdliit i^a ^ r^sai^ r^oArC' rC'^rV.i ,^3 
 
62 NOTES. 
 
 >1 ri'oen \:xr^ oeni \\r9i •:• rs'.it^lal xl&sq •:• rcVu.il 
 K'coXr^ .K'cnlr^ Kbcn^.l ^v&a^ ••J-m.i^ Kll ^.irti* "pnr^ 
 
 «<'r<li\Qo r<lla\ "iAva rdir^ rOcqs Tji^^O,! .vA rtliK* 
 K'coQo col r£^r^a .vA r<lJr^ poLuQ K'^Ck^al . rdiJJL.i 
 
 .r^lsaMl vyiUb ^ocn A,»\a i<Lis\ i^\30 .vy.iil'o r<'ocn^ 
 rdla^.1 vy r£ir^ jaaf. r^io .^jis^rtf* >S)a\^.i A^39 
 •:• r<lii<' .tLA\SQ rCiiAoAxa pa.is3 ^ vvM!^^ •:• Aeux.a 
 Aiifl:^ K'^xJS) ^udlo : r<lir<' >'^A^ rc'^cos vv^A^i^ 
 
 rcllT<' Klocn.! kx'sncu r<'^i^ i^ao •:• .^..Qma r^iK* AJjcsa 
 .vosa ^vzal.i K'i^al t^irs* ^«xA»i •:• rs'ian o^t 
 
 r<llr^.ia^O o^OcfAr^^.i vdXtSa* ^ vA rclir^ .a^coao 
 . . . . K'pi KllK" .aoftio •:• [d\Aa]-;i vyrt' K'co\rC^v\A 
 
 " I have added this word. Compare above, r^-ir^ .t.a^ refcrAr^ 
 
 ■^ 
 
NOTES. 63 
 
 >cno^(<'.l vy.TlAo vA &.»o rC^uaqsosa 
 
 r^l&O^^ t<'<&\r^.-t .iujc tia ^\^'Six. •:• .r<*i*giT,i r^i^CUr^A 
 (fol. 10, a.) vsCUir^ ^pib h\iS ^\pi rdli-ir^ mLA .^^UO 
 >ma .vyOjjr^' Axscnl oQl^^n vv&vm K'.ioiaX.l w*ll\ Al^M.l 
 
 ^.T>cno •:• rdilx..! ^a^K' rAvu .t^*ai\s .1 ctiovmI r<« 1 ¥. 
 • i^'.iaa f^Atdvia:! iiad\& Aujl T^Jr<'o •:■ ca^OQo rC'oou 
 AoLool (^Qcu.ii^ tAiJ.'u:^] ^'sa >cnoiaxio >ar^ ckijsao 
 
 A!^^ .r^juSax..! r<'^CvijLiJo rd^rclisa ^ Ti.ir^ t(\\^r<'o 
 .rtf'^CDQoo ptfti-sai. ^'V'^c^ .>T=i^r^ (<'crAr<'.i cnsal^.i 
 .r^Aaiu.iA caua^vuo .K'&vsaa* rf'snt. r<^l\**is K'oqso 
 
 •:• r^^i^sal K'.iocaiI TujaduaA 
 
 Page A, line 9. ^*HaJ^ rCAvx.r*', "six men." The other 
 text has " four," and the Arabic translation " forty." 
 
 Page .t-M, line 9. ^\k.o >ii.. I am strongly inclined to 
 think that the correct reading is poAx-O ^> (^^ '^^ ^he MS. A. 
 of the other text, p. ^ij last line,) " everything that He said to 
 me turned out true and was fulfilled." 
 
 Page eosa, line 16. p«i»Oor^O, "and to Asia," i.e. the 
 Roman province, of which Ephesus was the chief city. 
 
 Page \'Si, line 12. For the corresponding passage in the 
 other text, see the Journal of Sacred Literature for January 
 1865, p. ti, and for April, p. 150. 
 
EERATA. 
 
 Page ,v , line 22. For Aik read Av. . 
 
 ^M, line 7. For AjI read Aj^,!. 
 
 -^, line 3. Here the MS. has A.r<'ite*r^. 
 
 .^^, line 13. Read .jdu^.TJaoso. 
 
 A , line 7. Read ^..o^^i^isis.-i. 
 
 ya , line 5. Insert the letter ' v ' after «_oca\A. 
 
 vsa, line 5. Read t<'(^vb.Tnl. 
 
 9, line 5. Read " can teach." 
 
 23, line 10. For "Matthew" substitute "Mat- 
 thias." 
 
cnoo >*vsi ti\i..M.i m<ool 
 
 ^.^asui\a«^ os^o ol\ ..jk.ax> ^..ocal i.±af^o .r^.icp >cd 
 
 al\r<'.i&o .^iJATSa .=30^ ^..ooaX ...o^rtf* ^jb»jL&zsa redo 
 O.VL r^LxAjir^ (<3UiAa .r^Uu>«^ Aum^ Cia^o w^iiiiT 
 ^Tsarc'o .^ojc* ^al r^julz. .soh\ o^rc'o .^'ioo.-i (<L^o^ 
 ^ ^ v^cpii orC ^1.3^ ^ ty.s\A<.'t .rclx&Lsa .col 
 •:• •:• re's CO 
 
"p^xsa t^TJsan cKuooX nso 
 
 i..Oeal js.sax. r^ r^i^:^. r^.Tii^ A^^n r^jiAaX ...Olr^' 
 .•'»^ ti-sa . cnl ^i.sar«'o coi-sa o^^ reSMuLiz. ollr^ 
 .»_Ocaj3)a.ta.i T^Llij'r^ ...OaQal.i . .^.oz* ...omX i-Snr^O 
 
 .^cub h\o\ o^i&cDO .r^jL>'r^.a r^'irsl^ ^..ocaa MAi.r^ 
 
 r«'Hr^[^]o ^ Mi inT iO »JUsoo."l rd&OQo .j^riAr*' .r<''ir<^ 
 ^.^r^ iK..O^V» f^^ ..it^OXt ...OQaX i^r^a ^..oma AvA 
 
 ^^^r^" yi MAT *ao . .^..ocoT ai ^jJATSa rtfliL'rc'.'i Ic^aa 
 
 .r^'ir^^ »^ensj cXMkSLZ.re' r^o .^xi&i^a.i rdiii'r*^ ..OJri' 
 
 K'du.sa.tna .^1m ^M^^r^.i .nli&jsa rt'.icn >cd T**'*n 
 
 ^i^iji\^eq rcH-Sol .^V»3 . \X.r^ redo .r^'ir^^ .^Qona ^r^o 
 .^ocn.i K'.icp >CD t^i*w ^ .^^.t A\Mn'\ n£ar^ .^1m 
 
•^9 ;ia*is9 >^i.±a.i orx>OcA 
 
 CD.%=i^Ax. ^ v^a^ ri'^o .r^VM ^A^ ^^rc" r^x.cno 
 
 .s*nT. T^z.osa rdz.OM .rdix-osai cnl Ati-SaK'o rcl2ir<l3ba 
 tjjSao .r^icQJ ^ol A\0 pBOA ^.^i^iuiir^ rc'oaAK' 
 
 i^'icnA riLz.CCn rC^jtSa.i r^xttsa ol .^d'isa Axvaoo rdisa 
 (<'<^f<'o .^coOa cos rctoon. pa^Qo.! i<llir<' och >jL^^r<' 
 .ms ,ii*^.i rCdA^a jji^^relo r<lx.as9 com^i^o .KlzaA 
 Aaon^o ^.^ir^ AnT.O .»_air<' i^QoO^.i i<lsaH-\^ kAcd.i 
 r^lat [i&ua ^].2aa i..Ocoi'easjr<' A>o\ »..Oca2b.irilA^..OJr^ 
 . ^ i.air^ ivxbk^r^ [k'pc^]^ 
 
 Si> 
 
 rti'A r«llJ»\ .^is ^..OcaA&'ioa A^.O .^a^iio ^^Aao 
 Kl^^ rdlir^ Ar^ ij-*9 ...OctA i-SOfV ^.^cnl A iv~w* 
 

 >L»v9a i^i-son (n*oal .zlso 
 
 pal ^:ia.^A relsao ^^Aaoai ...omaosw iqaosa'i.^ ^xalooi 
 
 ^o .^i^soa vvi^^oz. ivxM^ «..ocnl ^.iTi«\o ^^ 
 rtf'acai.i oii&O .^i^sa.i kI&Im »_a^i^ ya.a .^oo \^va 
 . ^QOCVa.l >CDa99'i.^ »..AJr<' AnT.o .K'icru Ck^l l<'^^M 
 T^t^OAs cnSiT.O . i^lS^ .... rtll'iT<:ia ^..OJrC ^a>[o] 
 . . . . .12k .i<'^A^^[a ^QoCL>.l] msoz. .s^o 
 
 ^.OfiQai.l .^cniiru Ktocp >MOt<'.i A^^ .^r^so.lxi .._AMr<' 
 
 ^coat<'[.i] rS'oolr^ [reivM] ^.^cnSii. rc^osao .lyciArC 
 ^O . . A»fc . ii^ iui^^rti' .v^^a:bA »ca*iuia.[z.] r^XsoA 
 
 jcnosav^ Avix\ rsiien AA^ .ini^.lAxrc' rc^vsa voa>i..i 
 
«<lfiO 'p^xsn t^ijM.l oiiOoi 
 
 ^MnAKSa r<lA.i .^.oaI Aii.S)9(<'[o] Ti\^i\sa.ta ^.^&Lr^[o] 
 
 rdnaiz.^ AxiPC* ^i\[o] .hurf relaur^ >*='[■"'] rS'Acaau 
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 iijani'.T Aao .T<'enlr^ vyf^ rslsoljk^ vnAcpO .rc'Ax-isa.-?^ 
 ^.^o^^j.l dijAZ.K' i<\ rgt-z-ixia :t ^vmO .>ix.O li-x. >1 
 
 .cax&AA Oca po-uJo . r^yao 0.^=i ^Q9^&)r<'Q . »or3Q. \ j ^ no 
 
 .>CT3asK' ^o\ O.Z.S r<li-sas\ ^osO .rdtxsxjsa >cna3r^.i 
 r^i^ ^000.^0 r^rC' '. cars ^jJ=a*or^?9 r<^ r^.icv> »j^ 
 rdijbxxsa o^Qcp.i (fol. 451) .cn= ^v^jsojcrss ps'.ajsoli^o 
 .lij^rS'.i ocn.i iu^a^cno A»ii.rC'o . rslij r^aAr^:i cni-a 
 
 r«C^r<lls>9.i psixia>o ocp .rdsA:^ pa jJ^^Ski r^'W.T r^aco 
 
 . cni rdJri' r<ivi»o . rc'JrirS'.i ctA rdJp^ r^^Qosa rcitl&cn 
 
 rtUcvsi^r^ rsftuirso!^ ya^X^a JftvsarC ^Acn .rcliAS^ cnl 
 
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.r!!'ofAr«d df«aL.i r^AtAurtf" ,ct3 rs'aop.l -.ixJO K'wmJO 
 ...^ocriiso ,^_oAvJr<i' ^Vm.1 A.m.-«^93.i r^.icu ^vaoo r^sal.i 
 
 i"^tr '•'-'* pi'AijjLi ^A^ OOCT3 ^Qa*i&0 . r<lx..'lCU).l r^*»oi 
 
 r^TJsa.l tqsa&rcdsa a^w^Kb . cn=ar«d .Ts^.i ax. J^2>. 
 r^^oi rC'oqsO .rc'iKuno!^:! m:sa\jel ^xo^o ^r<l^i 
 oca r<'«uK'.'i cni= j*ai\JOa . r^^.icu »_oA^cria.li t<'pA,^^ 
 .1.^^ \\r^ .1^ '^-V-'*^ i-<«xAz. oi^r^ ^cn ■:• .cd^xLjO 
 
 rt'i-x. rdJ.a.^K'n »A.1JS3 ^W.t jAxi-sa >.&X99 i^ire' 
 
 •. ps'cnlr^ ci3X.A\ .300 O . >i»> Aajao .i-»x. •:• rK^iulrsa^ 
 r<x:Lxt r^o . v=> rc'ii.o cpiji.pC.1 t^x.'Mx. ^so co.Txm.A i:w..l 
 (<'->/<' T<s}i\.» .1^ rdAr^ . >5a.icn dniviA A^ rd&«(<' ^ 
 
 .t^ci\ iuMiO r^Ti^ AtinS^ .^ist. .sJL&va r<* i t n.-vn^B 
 
 VMrCO •.casj Auocn r<ls&u.i ri'Aua cnlbka K'icoOJ jjlA.io 
 
 . jja.i >^1930 >.&sa^ ,\--si3 .r^ia dfi^^i-s )j^\:».\x. .A 
 
rt^o .^u^ Aas r^ixtr-a .^k-oz* ^..j^.i cn^o\oi&o 
 mil oaJu.i T<hh\r^ amsa cD^o\oiak \V^ ^LM .tm.tmJA 
 
 r<Av«jirnT3 >^Qo ^Lsa XmlUw .s~wt :t^o .^imX^inN cn^ol 
 ...i^re'o •^oen ^*tv^ t<'^T=i.-t r^^pooa:! A.\^ . rCtooD 
 i<l\An relno^i A r^lViK' ^.1 .cnT<M\ ml Aus ^l-M a-mI^ 
 .re^K* At pi" .1^ pS'Avjsas yxa p3 . f5'A<T»»oif» rtfA.l A\n;' 
 
 .K'AvaAVgia r«^>x>Qo rC'iqaai.i r<*\tvo .^isa .t-uA^ ^^.ior<' 
 
 <A\o ^^cni'v cis^ asaeia . r^ljsaz. pa »...a^i.:a ...oaA 
 Qooi\^(<l& .^i^inr^ rtflUkcno .pci.ujA&u:aX cnsar«' .-u^ 
 :ijk . r^^ir^A r<^i*7iT. Avxa nK'rtf' A«^ >^o r«'^aLa>T=ar) 
 o^r^ ypt^ji am .T&Q .|Cno.i*r<'^ ^^n^.l t^aiuAsA ir<lij 
 
 .tCiM.l i^'^'vM.i^ A^.o r<Au[u tcnolab A^. K'to-iA K'ocru.i 
 
r^Vul ^'l pt'i.'giT. .r^bcia^ Klitax. nxA:^ i^t^ t^a.lch5q.i 
 ^ii\r^^ ^1 rc'cod'-i^ .k'^o.tm ^.^oaOfU >.iiA\a5\SLi\ ^vm.i 
 
 rdiorA ^r^ >1 . lAx&ia'^ >&Aj±a> |i!^<uc& . r<'m\ \. .1 cn^i-sa 
 >1 h\»r^:\ t^hvi&Ji A.^ »Jk'^CV . t^cnAK' .acn^.i «i.-u«JL* 
 ^j>J!^r<'o ...^cns pS'.ijjfVo rc'\j»»V'o rt^taiTs Atrc*.-! ■. >=qo^3 
 
 drtsaiiM .r^Lk^.1.1 lOaol^Ki dfu^Mz. .1^0 .miM.ia rt^saoia.i 
 qs^&iao cn.tft^' ^i^X^O >cno.i«r<'^ dfiri&^K'o .cn^oA^ 
 '.K^TSa.i ^n >cnftM* V 5t. • vA ^^ ml ^ijMrt'o .cnialo cn\ 
 n^o .ciu dr«ca.^^:i oocn ^taqoo t^Ai.-»-^ oocn ^^ 
 
 .rc'ioH^ ctiA ^^oooA^s »..a^=i.\j ^.jisalo .reC=aLk..i 
 »^coo (<LaCv\^\ ^.19:^1 )o.V53 ^ij^^z. .rc^MuAz. ^i^r^ 
 t<'A»A<cpa ^..ocoi ji^ob .osa^(<' iiape' •:• . vyi^ r .^ 
 r<li.±no .r<MLj,iz. ^\sar^ .rs^Ti'i'l*? ^.ico r<'oalr<' )e.V3 OOco.! 
 ^iiv nasa ^s Kix-oo . »_oqoA>Aioanl retacn r<lla o.ia^ 
 
 X MS. 2.fC, with i-ed spots on the Z. 
 1 ■ o 
 
^ .l\^caio . ^sAxiior^.l oAA^coa ^opii^ ^..O^.l 
 p3 p^r*' .t>a!& p^ .r^osa^K' isar^ •:• •ptf'Au'isi ^ciai^ 
 (<'^^caa ».aL^\ relirtf' .ia^ r^i<' .K'.ico .xa^.K' t<*^\*7i 
 .sio i<ll rtfunTra.! T»^ cna.1. 1 ^ . w^tiVi-i ..^ogoI^ ;p«i 
 ^ cnl ji^ra ooo *. aL^ .'w'^^^p^.i tji^ocd •col r^T<' 
 
 vyr^ .^cn rc'oola OOcn ^i^M.!^ ma.i rti'iSukO.i A^ oz^o 
 reli'ina:^ K'^CkA.l rnxsa jioAi ,sah\ t<i:i .K'-ioiUk. rCsaost 
 
 r^X^.l AusO .r^lsacu .1 *»is O . rc!laa,.\^i^ >l4 r^o 
 A\(<'0 ".p^Uvsa.l r^'iso-.! r^ar^Sk coi-al r^bco 
 
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 . aA*i t<'A\iiT*7iT*a dui^io .pQai.S9 >^i.sa.i m^iiia 
 
 A:^o ^.ini^o ■:■ • >aA no^t^i rtf^^^ re'ricD nCcKia.i-sai 
 ^oLc .TSartf'o r«!j^O ■. ooA^ A^. juio mi=a.u .v^^O 
 
 " MS. yj,^ ^ooi^a. '' Kead }.,i^jo ? ■ 
 
i<l»ii AtrVo r^^^3k. am pa Ajulx> : cnius cx^s .z)r<:l 
 
 lii^^ .r<Jcn r<'\t<'i\ K^^.i Aa.i .^ .ToikSao .oraua ^jOoo 
 
 ^1 Ai»r<e'.i ^jsarclj ■.At<'<3ucj99 jor^ »j<[s ^..Auis ^ijnrc'o 
 cn!^a.z.o .(<llTu0.3:i rclisao . i^llTJa.l r<i^QaD K'l^&on >axa 
 •:• .^^ Airt'.i Aa.\ Kliiicxsk. ^jscoj ...ajeoa •...^oierjre'.i 
 TtJ.l A}i^ .|Ca«.i^O .a.vaA r^in.tr< .vHm^^ r^.t Or<' 
 
 rdi^a ,!b..-w r^i rclsa.-v^ .21^ crA i&\^o .r^i\CC33 pa cos 
 .13.^ r^^msr^ pio (fol. 450) reliii pa ■i*\^f<:i»r<' .rdla 
 cntttAfl vyre* "-. r^^o^jb pa Ai%o t-tfr^a ijaar^o rdilis 
 T^LsaSk .>cno.i'r<^ ^is.in.i (^^^^ :i-»> v»y(<' one" . K^jLixsai 
 ArA re^-i.io^. A^ oi^ .-lA^^rtf'i .^k.az* orn ^r<'T<^ 
 . cas iir^^p.! t^i^^ ^ cmi\^ jnw'i odft .cos piaansa.i 
 rf^Ao i<^sa»i^ ^.^kitRll Kf^ir^:! oox^qqcA ait^aio pao 
 
 re'.l.TM A^ ^..o^ df^AuaMlo ....OAAuLLa rotten >z^»-l 
 
 T^.&arc'o , r^^ II kucn ^Ti>snJL T^l^»r^ A ocu* ooi .A.nx. 
 cA\(<'o ^.^^.1 onooAii .z*i Ajs. v^ina^ tin ^..a^ r<u=v!h. 
 .rclx.cn .^o^ rw^^K'r^xsn ....ooA i^r^ •:■ . ciA cuclmq 
 
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i<'<)uiJo '. m=i ,&JLai (<'Au&a\o r^AOJk.i ruAs^o .>cncu;!^ 
 .rc'ocD iTiiNa ^cn r<lir<lab >ijsa .^i^r^ •:■ (<'ocn .ti-i^.i 
 
 r«l!k.ir<' ^..^-A^O . cn^,i\^ .i<^ ...OJr^ ^Q90 ..^r^ ^^^O 
 r<*ni\^ A^ ^la^^O . ^tsiiT^ ^idkHi vv>r<' rf*"-^'«- i 
 ^aav)a . t^'ooji^^ r<*°>'i'n\ ^ Aiio fOoiJAMirC'o . ^cljc->.i 
 
 vyK* .r^^irc' 0,^1 rc'iuAu r^hx&Sk I'l^*- .:^c\x>.i 
 rStocos reCsao ^jj^.l cpoaxx] jL.il jmk'i en.-^r^ r^iJ^SM.T 
 
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 . »..oca<or>S)iz. ^ATLa^UtO '. ^ois ^ix^.v.! nc'iue^ ^^'iito 
 jii%o ^^vsa i-a.i qaooxs tOarC".! .rtlJA^'O r^iuo rC'-i.a^i 
 .*)aix<io(<'n r^'&isix. ^ ^..ocnu^rtf'.-i ^cd .i<'^osn ^ 
 J^x.a»io cQSaSk. ^^ ^lAirc' •.cn^i^.i jure' ^vm.i r^lsao 
 
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.vii^ ocD .yat»%J33 ^1 rtf'wiT'ai .niicn r<li:t&^ ^:icdQ9 
 • t^'ioao) ^ jjlS.i cna:i i^ii*V3 >oci3 ^jAOosq cnlo .r^^r^.i 
 
 ^i.TSa rc^ivM^ rdlo rd^ r^O .>\idru.i rdsaoA redo 
 ^..ovsaii^.l ff^^ .rtilaaLsA (<'crA(<':i rf\s» r^M«T*a .la^.t 
 
 >£aM-i oii^rc' •. o.i^A^r^.i \h\s ^jsoo -v rAin re'sSi^ 
 ^.^^ ^OMSa ,_;^'— ^^-»--^ .^o^t^.i A^&sa . w*ij.iT*aX 
 . ^olzaior^La tOcni KdA\H ^cni&l ^lA^. • ^^T^^ *-~9^ 
 pa .A>£i^i cpinx. ^.^^.1 reln^it r^osa^rtf' r<^cn "p^o 
 tSOij'-iX rdij.i v^r^ •:• . ^l°>n\.i .^cxb.i cni^^ ^.VK' 
 •:• . ...olj*.iA> redo O'isare' »_oAun<' ^j^^s.i ^o.-col^ .rc&nixsa^ 
 ■ Ann\r^ tcnolsk.! K'oaj.a >t\'w re^*r^ . ^..oscp ^xssar^ 
 . >criOT-Jir<l.=3 iJ^Ju^W.1 ^^cn r^j^op ^JLlre' rd^^re'o 
 .^^-■1 K'l^iial >cno .KlLu ca=i ooX ^laic.i rd\^^Qor<'o 
 re^reSbo .cnz*is end ^X^Qo.i Ocn relao&.l rellA&O .ma 
 
 Kli^.l i.^Jre' rtfA*t<' ^I'^nJ »i-5a ...OJcpp .^i^r< . ^..ft^i 
 ...^ml >Snor<'o '. cnx>i pci«r<ls A^. yxo >5'Vj» .i& ^n 
 ^n^i-sj p3 .iLA^K'.i r^jLAZJSoa .isor^o ^.jvsasj cuiiorc'.i 
 oi^pe* . coa (<lirc'pa>arcq r<lin:'Ap^ •. soa ^..o^isaaqso 
 
A^l r<'&uH.s ^cfA&O . tcpoarc'i rduSOt ^ .ahu K'cdO 
 
 K^sa .Air^ioa^ru ru^.i «..av.i& t^j^.IO .AiK'iQa^ru 
 
 >;2aMi ^T^rti* •:• :^ijAdf\ ^A\^' r^^al^ >on<xV\s>^ '^..o^rtf' 
 pS'.irET.x-a r^rtl^ .)cutS9 ^'SS •iL^r^'i .^ojc^o . rfijLiT*?3\ 
 
 ^cn col oocp ^SkSaducJM rc^&^r^ ^ ■.t<'ocd .\i\ir. rdl 
 .z.oril.1 ^IimA T~q ru . rc'ici^^ ^i^r^* •:• ^.^mi^ 
 
 .\'^t. ia .■s.TAr^ rC^O .,JC<r<' id .vo.i r^o .t<'io:^ 
 vyujj Kilo . rc'iaa ci^i cn^cvA oo^^rtf':! ^ rtf'Ausa ijjt^'.i 
 is ,^aza vyK" i&usa.! ^A . )ny^ r<A K'l&iOSQO ijAuc.rtf'.l 
 reAo rA,5ati3 r«lX . r^^ux-sal >saMi ^rwr^ ■:• .^vsa 
 .5a.i2a ^ ."liiA^r*"."! ,2^.0x1 ^so iAxjsa.i Aul •. r^lsi-irslsi 
 . i<lx>:u3 caMoio ^uiio^ cnuxu..! t^mli T*a tcnosK'o 
 
 ® Read ^*cn.3. 
 
i<lsal .rS'iaSi^ ^TWr^ ■:• .onJsarC'.-i rc'ooi^si ia^^Au 
 r<'oq3i jLuQeur^ .sa . ^^iurc' ^t>^m coa.i i<UMXSa i&U-Sa 
 r<:ljL.sax. ca=3 osnooao oala^aa.'! r<^Jb<i xilooo t^laioa 
 
 ^ rdsoLk. jaoi^O .A^ JP^ia ^CUsUO r^^rcll oca 
 
 ooa ^H-a Aa.i r^llaiOii -.ivcso.i ^.t r^LM-xZJM .rC'ocD 
 iiu.^a «::m\ .t^iaSA ^vsoK" .r^'cnlrC'A '^.aiiaAxr*' 
 
 ovu ru r<'v-M.l K'ovm vyT^*! '. .acva^d ^ rCntr^n 
 r^iisu. (<'cnli<' M^l^O ..VkV^lO^a voa.i jAoo.l .K^zljila 
 oIk'.i .rd2b.iru rdsox. ^ r^hCLsoo M^eaa .cxxsu^ Alsso 
 ^h-siif^ ■'■• • aXSUJU r^'itJSk. oiijjLSO .K'ocn juop cos p/^-' 
 -. r^VM:i r^^rusio rtf'i^liaooo .aon^^O . i<^ix:=a\ >saM-i 
 
 ^...a&l iQois .K'.MkLZJMl tSaMiA r^'ia^^ ^*'i^r^ •.■ .oocn 
 
 ,:9Xul ^vsar^ . i-v.ii 00.20 rtfl^^rela rtl^^.l Aao 
 
 .:^izii3:i rc'.-icp rctoazi i^A's.\v-) jAw i^'.Ak' .r<^>»ix.Ta\ 
 cajaGoSns crA .i^Qo jar< r«Aa .(<'iciaQ90 rClxsox. ma 
 no.Ml=> cA joloo.-f ^.1 t^MLLZ^sa .cp.TiSil^ ,vzAr<' r^'Arti' 
 .^iop r^Vsaz. ....QoaiZi ^ A:b>\ r«Ar<' . jalc^ r^liJSiz. k'.tmA 
 
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T^Li^ j^^r^ t<ir^ 3*^.1 ..O^H^op ps ^r^^.&&sa r^rtf 
 >±awi ^T^r^ ■:■ .^.o^^ca:^ m^iur^ ^K".! .r^rc' 
 qiia &UU cnJLi tAi^i^.ia .m^ ^rd»] .1^ ya^r^ . r^txtxsaS 
 
 cn^osoao . Bosnia r^cv:L reLur^ ps oyA^O r^^rc^.l 
 jiooio . ^jsbcu K*!^ JriA "pAaiO . t^Tiil-i ^..oooL^ r^^saMOi 
 
 .AttVo ^CD w*l -)'i<\aO .r^.ioi >a*Am<L<.i1 ^i\nV.o 
 ^ .li*^r<'.'i K'uLiT'm orA ^.i^^o . K'^iociit.i ynij\Aixa\ 
 
 ''aacoa recoil r<'o ^i<^Ha ^acalskO . r<'&v3J>'iuk ts^\:^h\r^ 
 Tl^ .^coisr^ rclsa.t^ w*i'i'-i >.iiil a=)ca> t^lliio rdliu 
 
 . .Xa'isaK'.i ...osaa ^^coa r<^ ^.1 ^1m . 7inji\A<in-> 
 .\\*^ «gi^ vyr^ '. cffia:^ Alsao r^.isax, jjd\2kO r^ciArdl r<'in.'i 
 
 ^ We should probably read i_.3i\.3Z| & .»S yj)] ,^ .<-»oai ^so^Ak) 
 .]An"A-'^ and omit the words l^fS ^oi^so, which occur again 
 immediately below. 
 
 " The MS. has ]<n=A° '^<3^- 
 
.h\asar^ t^m^ rtf'.TMrt'o ^.o^VMrti'.i >1 ^..a^i.tz.0 >^x\j 
 rC'&u^a ^&0 cnl rdJK' r^VMO Acxai r^^r^^ iuk..T> rdx.cn 
 .^.O^aCU* a.Usn »\ .^.oi.WrC'Ax.'i Klir^ r<*is-i r<:it<' .rtf.Jr^ 
 
 • — 
 
 ^so T^&^.-| rdlai cnA .aia v^i.i cn.iart'.i r^L.tCboi KVioi 
 cn&u.x.T30 .;nw\Aixal cni\al At .scnioo rt^K'.rdbA^ 
 
 . .TM A-ioqA .tjj a^QAtVai «..OT|:39rV(^ .r<Vz.cx^La redo 
 
 ° Add. 12,174, fol. 449 rect. 
 F 
 
>ocn ^*>°>T.o .>&i.^ t^uiT'a ,^ox> »-i:^ >^ <*«3 >rri^ 
 (^^oiia ^^ ^cp ^r^ .Ki^a ^ ...Om^l^.l r^s^.i 
 
 ^ iiurs' r<*ni«Mi >a\ relai^ rdl^cp t^r^ r^cnlrtf' ^.iL.i 
 ov^ Kiln ^A»r<'o ti^Lx^giJ ^-O^ns^ Kli-sa r^LsoL^ 
 (fol. 9) r^luoi ^ iv^.-iort' ^:t*on .rtf'cfAr^.i ,CDCU.iaci& 
 .^ r^XSir^a ,^Ocd ^>diur^ ^cna.i .^aI& A&a relz..ic\a.i 
 
 ^..Qs'witX .^OMliuaX .cD^ol oil osa&a r^r^ .r^lJcn 
 Klssa^o . oaftji'ii^-i ooolcL^Q .»=aocpTa ^u^.iot^ 
 rcMsair^lra >sa\oi\iaio .ooo^^iiaa >Atta\o .o.-uois 
 ™.,.._oca^n i<'&\i-:b>::aa .aooJuAo rf'ini.iAj >iivAo 
 )CnCLMr^ .aQn s »0 ,.^s? w »,..i >cnaur^ ^l OoOi<'i.'Ur^ 
 K'oqi.'i r<^ii»o rdUAxi ^^s*jnT o QoaSu]u;&o ^Xmcu.-i 
 
 ^'Vsari'o °. ...OJrc' ^'U^K' rti^.tooi t<S*oio :ooen 
 Ki\r<' .>!^99 r^sajjOJi ^..ovaqo^ r^o o»(\x) .^..ooA 
 casnt^ ^o\ >«iAiiAa\ ^jolir^*^.! '.^^ioaxi r^.icn Al^^ 
 
 "' Read va-*on,j . " The MS. has <Qj] twice. 
 
>.sTSa pa^ }Ocb .1,3:^^1 K'^O&van ^orx>cn:sax. >Oori 
 ■.^ca<^\^ >iSk.o .rtf'iva.^^o r^'iuo K'^Aik ..^:sa.i cosar^ 
 
 JLa.a^^ . ^cnX ^ijsnr^'o Jixt^ hx^vsO rf'i'WTA coi.ii'K' 
 ^jsaao .fs*u-i^ >A ^di^.ia.^ aQ-M.\n ^duK" A^ioibr^.i 
 i\.\r< >i\ol T<ir\a . vy^.lJul mlaa i«-*7'* rttuuxsa AAai 
 K^K" rtl^^.i rdso A.^3 .•>! AurS* .s.Tnic.'I lyjr^ kCjL.v 
 
 
 crA .s\a v^i.i msar< . crA ^T-Sat<'o ooOQo&K'.'i rc*^: 
 vv>1-»^:t rd\£|^ >^^0 -rfJkCo rtflsal^ ^ i!i^^.1 r^Jst 
 i.txsj K'cno .^cLiAAuaX cp^ol vA Aio ^cn'ios rfAri' 
 .'ttA' A^ ^'.vcp .vyHsjJ rs^Mkiix. a^.omlA ^sqa^ r^Ui^* 
 
 on^t-Mrc'Q .^ibljA d\&s.l vCaK'^cA Atrt".! cumi* >Jl\il3 .sen 
 r^^aoio -.cn^cA^ polx. Aj^.i^ r«A.T&0 .^a»^ rcA.v^ 
 ;n.w.\Ai I n\c\ .rC'icncu.'i r ^i i si cn^vjsaoo r<lz..tcu9.i 
 ^Qcn oxt&ur^ 00=3.1 rti'AvA^ A^ .1^0 .rd!2i^ ^kAAd 
 
 " Better ».-£vj1. ' The M.S. hasjoi^); twice. 
 
.)a*'VM ».^cai r^xsar^ .rd.i^on .ta^ rdiasa\cn.T \\'- a 
 . r^pf K'.T-is., >.lA=i^ ^50 rc'.icn rt^rC . r^irS* rAaaiO 
 
 >\ ^ijsars* r«^.-ioca< . ^ca\ K'vsoK'o cn^os.aLZ.n rclxiA 
 
 r^i s-i.i hJtSc: ^r^ ..ji^r^r^ . >1>.1 K'Av&s.i ;:iD.4ja&UJU >\ 
 »_5^i- oosi:^ rt'AxioAxrs i^^AAA^ .r<'A^t<'A> >±a2^ AAr<'A».'i 
 
 r^ii.V^ r<lsilxz.i 03202=9.1 .K*!^^ cr=iix.O .rcVjuTTw.l cfCOui 
 
 icDO^^ A> :i .r^MSx:s3 r^l^Asb A^A^^a r<va '^0.^19x3.1 
 
 msax.O .QoOrdiAir^ h\±s^ K'oai^^aj : r<uA^su3i cnA^isi 
 crii±Q.l : rC^MJa r^wQi K'Ava.^^ K'i:sot<'Ao3S . r^b\^a^ 
 
 ■^ Better ^lU._^ 
 
 ' Before Z_Q^,35 the MS. has qiVi a"ij, but with marks over it, 
 indicating that it should be deleted. 
 
'.Q.mA.r.rc' ^i wat "w *r«l\ ^.i-sa msa^ ^..OT^sar^.i .^tij«o 
 
 . r^'i in .T>^ ^-lA^ r^V-sao^ ^^t^ ^vsa . t^Jort \ \ 
 .msask. AJbOrSa.i ^^Vm ^i<''i>cai r^x-sa^ ca&r«lA=aAo 
 r^Lx.cno .^l»x^x.r^ mjsask. ALsai.i r^V&rtf' r<'.icn A^O 
 
 *. oaAi\2l^^a K_^vx>.t.2a=3 .^..^o^s K'l&uciso kLsta* K'ocnit 
 
 j^w\"\-k\ .^\^\i (<Ao .rc'cnXr^' ;p.ta t^^ ^.T^a.^.! kVo!^ 
 
 ,&;uaj.l ocn cni-si r^.^lK'o r^liJSax. ^.o^rx* ^iqaoo.i 
 K'oocou >&>'Bai.O r^Avajt. &v&aL Ao^ r^\r^ .r^T-^ 
 
 ,'^\ ^iQBM&ISaO i<'(&uior^ >&Aai. ^USaaOOO .(<lz.OS0.1 
 
 <= So the MS., with two marks over each word, showing that tlie 
 scribe saw there was something wrong. Perhaps we should read 
 a^a.^] a^^M.^ P . ^ Better Of^] . 
 
 " Better ^..pj/l. '' Better ^-^i^jZo. « Better |-i£D]Ili!Co. 
 
■.^cni& ^CD id^a oa:»(<' ^.i ^n^isa .CD^a&Asq.l r<'^iaQo 
 r<'<^a^^ rCiaj) .t*^0 .^ocp t<sa.xa r^iisi K'^O.^i^a 
 
 . ^i-sarCo ^..ocnl oocn ^a2a>Qo (<'iai] .-u^ rcfio^^: 
 
 „1Q . OQC13 
 
 rti'^Lwva.S'S ^ocp.i A v. .^.OAi.93 ^o-^^^ Kia^r^iLs 
 tCDO^K'.'i r^iXkt< .y\ I niQ-*:i ^ocp cn^ia .A.>iQa*ru 
 . rV.iooot.i w^^nr. »=a .t>o.1 i-a ...^un caj^i\ K'ocn 
 
 Klsqi-i..^ .' K'l^oi^n ^tsacu ^=a .iMao .;>a<^sa K'ocn 
 .T&O A»i-.<xt rC^CViV^-a K'tslo .T>^0 .A<\nT. rd^QOoaO 
 .^ocn r^xsar^ r^JU^cp .cpA^Qs-i-i Axi^K* »<'r^A\Qo rcli.i^ 
 rdaoV^. pa tXtia.i i.tx. r^LaSuza >\ ^rtf'.i r<*ijiiT«a >iasi 
 cD^cA^n crii\^^V30 . iXisa^JuM.^ ^^^^^ «<i.ieu rCco.i r^cn 
 rtll^cno cp^ol iuubJ K^isa.i coi^r^Aso / r^jinx^ iuaXoo 
 iuk^n^r^ (fol. 8) .ri'colrC' ix.iL |jA ^sAjc .ciA ■issptf' 
 
 . r^cn rdsoL^ ^ '' Aup^ K'n'M . rs'icx^A rC'ivsaclA r<lx-cn 
 A<oX p3 Atr*" oA i^sarS' ^cn .tao .iAr^Lz..i rslsiAr*' 
 
 '' Better "^.J|> and afterwards m2^|a} . 
 
 en 
 
^j\»r^ : \.±jsh\ en \ \s:t r^-USXtcn^O r^-i.iiw ^jjjt^ 
 ^IXSlso .'r^lij.i K''&xL=a ^^ao rc'^oi&ujsa A,^ ^jj^±&4j.l 
 Kltau. .' ^voor^* cn^vsaMOaO .^i^xnl i^oaX(<'.'i cojaajjA 
 
 ^j^..-tasa .^jsar^ ^asarC r<lz4.-io oouoio . rt'wiTra .^^oz* 
 
 vyK* rClaCVX. Aua .SvS>x.O .re'iiaT r^'^ioSQ.tAua t<'A«Avir«' 
 rCAu*_ai^ A 1 ao . cni>aiitti.aAvJMi re'iia^A rc'inz. 
 4:.i:io . rOu-j-i-s .^.ocniAS r<»ai.Sk«i>r^= . rs'Av.sacuj.t 
 . r^Aus ^oicu^ooio r^-sao^ao r<'Ausaaii.:so."» KUsiori' 
 r^xw Au.pe'-ljLn- 7a.:^o .-rS'i.Hi. rc'.'UJSaXA* .^ocoiAl 
 ^*An^.^\ or^ pa.T-Sa r«A\Qii=5CD p«Ai K'^ioa.aQ r^^osao 
 r^A3i9 t^VM r<A .T^ .(^Au:=a ^xs ^ rC'^MtxaiX.&ua )aaO 
 A jKtti.i ,^.tti\i K'Av^K^sa tcnol^ Anno . Aojlz. 0.^=1 
 rC:D^ r^jiaax. 71.:^ r<^»uA K'^a^va jAqoO .>cncvar<' ^o\ 
 r^.icba* ^*on,V^ ^cnao .r<la.rdLs3.i r<'rd»\to i<du«0 
 \ \ «* i .m*b\»r^ t<'di\T>vx. »..A\oneriQo.l ^Vts -.i^o .^hur^ 
 ^sa.GnJ»i ^Goa.i Aao .^."wrdsj (5t\o . ^i\i's-> ^vm.t 
 ,cooAur<' rtiji Ocp.T l\si . on-socojaa paSisA:! reiii cnl AurC 
 
 ^ Add. 14,484, fol. 7 vers. 
 
THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE LAST DAYS AND DEATH 
 
 or THE 
 
 VIRGIN MARY, 
 
 THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD ; 
 
 WHICH IS ALSO CALLED 
 
 The Transitus, Assumptio, or Koif^riffig 
 Beatce Virginis. 
 
p<'.TctA otA ooen ^2^ A\»rcjp<l^ ^^ . ptf ,\..\yqa\A >ia ^ss 
 
 ^T^^ r«Lia..r<' .r^.tcial orA oocn ^a^^ AurOp^A al »j^a 
 crA jjoi. . r^^ait<a, ^ axmi.i ^.t-^sq ^.toi^o K'qocou 
 ^6ci3 c^^^ 1^^ . rc'i^O^r^ (<'oop .-^iist..! A^-a.! •.ooQ\^\t°t 
 cnz^ r^Vi rdiJStXian ,coaix^^^ ^%if3r^^c^ .ca&ii\«'.i 
 
 re'ocn K'vmo .T^sars'Qflsj f<'ijjj\.i p«l\i^Qop<' rS'oeo .Ti-i\ 
 
 ^ oqa ^rc' A^-^q Aa&M . vO-Sa ^Ocn ^Am.i rdacjtr^ 
 
 iv-saA-s. ■:■ . K'l^cisaA.'i vyrt* r^ocn »on i w*ao '.€0.1.2)3 
 .0:0. wnoicp ^ol.i opa\\*°>.i rf^v^^ 
 
>^^ Qo.ioiqa ^oli 
 
 p«:irA» . rCcnlK' i= r<^3fij^\ r/]^ .Aup^ Auk's Av^:i< [pCooo] 
 Qo.ioicri ri'ArS' . vvAx[boa\r^] redo i\\»» v\4iQxj[re'A] 
 oocu* .rdXav. VV3 "^ .la^.K'.-i poJkre' A^ioo^r^ ijia ^njk. 
 r<'Ax=>i t^Avo^js ^:t ,A\Aun:' .A*iQa>r^.i cncnlrC' |.V^ Aa^qa 
 '.A>iQaar<'.-i eoeai»<' .criUi f<'j^iK'o Kx^ax.:i r^ca^r^ ^\jsar^ 
 wyrti* r<t.\o •.Qoa^\ » "> ooQ.i.^.l3i ,q30-'UL2w vyr^ ri\ 
 
 . vv A\«ieva.z.Av3 >.\C3A %^.iA\r^ r«dT<' . >j.i^OT^Ai r€-icaSk 
 iiv\a»a .rAaaaco'x^a ,A\Aur«do A txsamrc'o ^io ^.i »-^^ 
 .i^c<'o . cn-ii\^.i r^Avsacuc. cos AvtK* .1^ .Auvi>0 coa 
 (^Jkrcl^ r^h\cnsr^ «^caV& ^..Ola.ni.'l cxiAOo.i ^.usg Ocn 
 rtfjtir^.i cnirj .'reiiat.i <ni.2a vy^i vyi3V=> .oy»» r<Aa 
 .* K'Ausa Avx3 ^ ^OLO .ytoavsa.sa >cnoAx*r^.<t r^Lsoai^a.! cnia 
 
 cooiV^Qoo^^ >::aa,»a oocpn t^liaAuisQ ^ .tm qocojA-qoo* 
 r<'ijqr<^saT> r<'om .sAv.& oon . Q9a,«r<^^o coOii.a.jJLo 
 ,eri : rCAvi\ i \ ^ ^ pa.vso.t .caL.i K'AviAi.i (fol. 122) 
 b\t}co r^\ .^\ T-iorCla .^J3.nr<'s den r^^jmujaal .Af.iL.i 
 tO-a rur^ • JStiOoo.* r<'ocn orxa.ajL. ni\Q . (<'ia,^ Axocn 
 Klz-saMO oqp . PC'A<Aur^ r<As r<'Atar>:vAa .^oscu rti'Ocn 
 r<'A.i Aucua pa^vMO . r^Ausa.To rC'AfAuK' ^.1 ,opeU3 
 CU93 .rtfliosa^cp ooa\\«'\l .sAi^ osO'io.-iK'Af ■:• . r^ia\^ 
 K'oco ^a.i\J.i .vysa.Tfl r<li^^=s tcnai^ c<'acDi K'ia^ 
 
 1 J 
 The MS. has u^JO^j ^al^lj . 
 
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 A\&.:aiT. na.o .rc'oenci'i.i r«'.T>&Ub..'i icn >l>.i K'l^dftnflsao .Aoxx..! 
 
 ^i-iTt>3fL»3 .1^ .OQcn crAaCUdl ...OJcn Ar<n A^sa .^Ukia 
 r^ili^" .Apc'.i vypS" . cfi-=> OOCT3 ai-5».Qos r<'A\ t V -> ooqs 
 r^z.aa\ .xalrC'o .r<fjJ\or«^ r<'oor3r<' >Q9i:>..i tr^,'3.%,Y*7i-i 
 [»A>Au]ip<' pa^ ^iXJsaM [rtLi-saJocn'i A iniri'O [.^<'A^]a»i^.^ 
 
 )^.i&fr<'.i .>=> ^K" r^aco T^oo Qs.ioicn ^cn.i .^ocn 
 
 r«^ocn >JVu .i<l«»ior«la on=i i\»ui ^.i .i& .^oio3.Sa >VM^t^ 
 AuA^ ^.1 r«lJr^ .K'.-umX^ paSb. .\,\?7i *ao ^r<^ .1^ ^~^:^ 
 OaOCDi .A ».o&\salz.r<'.i Kti.iK' ocn <v>oci3.i .^i^.-u.i vsoa 
 ^OA iGoU^VM .T^ »«.! »!»> . Aa rti'iao K'^'ia.t t^isa 
 .iuocn T^r<' rdlsai r^aao . >cno\\^ >3.Ta ^rif A.«k. A^i 
 
• ^A^a* r^Auiu r^bvLsa Ausa ^so paxis pcCi*r!' Oco ^^o 
 r^ri'.i duocn rsCss^ .ta .vvIas^ cms ^^Ocn ^t^ooo 
 ^ '• r<lx.cD ^.1 A\&1> .CD^a3-xA^ vA ^^O^Z.(<' 
 . qainjA oocn ^i\i-l (<l\o.i2^-i^cor<' ^o r<''iia!V^Qaa 
 i«'i».r<' ^.-1 ^r^v^ (fol. 121) •rS'Auba Avia ,2a col ^qij.t 
 r^Axio-a ori=j .^r^Lki^ iVw^r^ rdUi^i . A i.Sor^'Axre'.'i 
 
 • lOnoa^aliuD ^..omao r^Axoi^Asaa mso •ruLoacnaO 
 . \\XM cn&vsauA rciQocpi&a rtfAr^" • ^.Tm ^a.i-Sa r«A .t^ 
 rrtno . r^.TM r«li».ir<'o r^'^saz. r<'q30 . >i^.i rc'(^OAlsalo 
 
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 .^jgtmX rclncn rc'ooa.l t^sua rdlia^ *\^~»' .* A^rCiooArC'.i 
 ,^OX> ocn ^oja.i ^q3^iMc<' ruooi^ >cn AxN.'aiT. .1^ r^x..eno 
 r<lioi\l n °qoil\i\ \ ooLSi^k. ^va.i r^LA^ iVu^rdn 
 coA oocp ^'iAgi.i .,._0-lcn ■.'ifiaj^'-i^*T<i2^0.A^'i^Qor<Ao 
 coSkO^i^ A-iriAx.i ^\rV .r^i rC'OVM.Vi vyr<to .(^iajol 
 ooop ^4SaAa ^.i .i& . >cDO.'TJaal^ ^:^ na^VMO . r^Ux&z.sa.'i 
 ^..oaii i^rti'o ...Ocoa tm .cna oocd ^tTMJO ^>cnLCni\0 
 rtSo^al >cf].1 . .&.1 . ruj30i& ^^^irtf" ^l-siicosq A OXsia 
 
 ^ Bead -.-Ziul 4 " Read u:ai^^^. 
 
r^lsT^ cnlA ocas .^o^ idx^reb .r<'calrc'.i ,cncLu.i 
 icx&j.i (Ai?^:i A^^ .trii-sqto.T ooix^ ^iaiy^n^ .cp^vai 
 XS3t< rClUz. r^hvixs ,niuLl AvA .t<'<^(Urd&.l relXj^ 
 r^m& A^ rS'Sfip*' K'^i r!li^\or<' •.iji\__relr.ori pa ^. r^i-Sa 
 cucn .r<lix>.iu vA o.^ols.K'.'t A^^ .r^coasu >r3&\2i A^O 
 .rc'Ax'i. r<** 7 i rh^ ^.^lOcoii a5aix..i re^sal^.i r<AL:99Clx. Tt^ 
 ^ar^" oiSi^ ^'^ *^ 'V3^ ^.^ti^uu rc'icnoj.i ii^,cncua 
 ioQore' rcCios AcA^ .cnis A:w.o r^i-sa A&. >oco »..\^^sn.i 
 
 r<''-n 'TIS ^_o^!u.io .vv^^r^ >:^ .&.(\zA ^rti' i&.-i^.sa 
 . r<l|jti<l&a] (JJW3 rclsuk. [i*^ ^t* • r<'^a^\99 re'ocn^ 
 
 .Aur<*\i\a t&vxaA icaaiciaxi . i^\\^CiJLsa ^Ooa f<ist 
 
 .r^iiAvSk ^ijaartf*:! vyr^ rC'icx^t r«li.a\ idv^n »_aicn 
 . K'&x^^^ ^..Oml r<laki,T-:a p/uiTrq .^cxz>:i qa^^i^ljsaa 
 r^JLt'.ls vA ^iox. .\f\h\h\ir^ ruDoi& ^ns^. poAu ^Ocp 
 r^.lcna^. vy.irC^ A «^ocnm . A>n (<'Au]V2>-Q >^i=i.i 
 
 S^&i^l r<^*.l ^O .t^Jt^* A-ih*w T^ca t<'i'aj\v r<lL>.io 
 i<'mA(<'.'1 tCPoHiis>. TD.Tn ^Lu ^i-Tiin ix^^'idis . r^LlK* Awn 
 ^1 ocp .ocp «<:Aa\.i r^i'-K^ V .1 rUs^n ^1 rdJcn .ccIm 
 
.•:-.>a\x. ^oix.ioK'.i i<lJOsa\£f3 cdo2i^L& ooa.i!^ia\ : oo.ioicn 
 
 ft* 111 M.I >cn ia^idifis . >lsw v^ .ar<l^i ^^ AxsrriT.:! 
 rUMrC'i i<li_S).i r<^ia r<Si^.iuLaa .t& .r^:ioicri »1 ^ocd 
 
 .miMbS mx&ios j^. Gajc<i\ ciA rcl.^,»nT, cnoat^ rsVrao 
 
 .v\^oA K'^rV.i ^ocD A\.i.n^ ..^oz* r^\ -> \^ocr3 A^^ 
 >13.tA kIj^.-i ».j:^'' cnivlss .N-^^T.r^o .-icuiAa icno^vurc'o 
 
 AajDsa r<'cT3 . rf>»iT*ga-i duJvanck •ix^.vsax^a kiAiCUa A 
 
 . \ Ti h-w caAX.aw vv>i^ ^Ur^" Ao&.i . racial r^.i >onai<^ 
 r^ncn A^^ .jfir^ is cfAK" ooA K'vm^.1 ^az.:i ^.1 ^r^ 
 . ,i-3 ^.1 <w i.ici3tt<' . >l:k. ...oA^^i re^o ocd ...aa.\ 
 >iur^ .sah\ r^llKb .;)0(<1a r<lln«\'w.i K'ii&JL:! Kll^Orda 
 tiurCo .r^^aSa ii^^iocui .r<ai r^cuoalao rdl^Or^Lzs 
 
 " Add. 14,609, fol. 120 rect. 
 
THE LETTERS 
 
 or 
 
 HEROD AND PILATE. 
 
cai •\z&.t r^r^ . cfA .ta^ rtitl (fol. 16) i>^ ytx^a 
 .-WiO (XIX.) •:• -:■ dixMiM^K'o r<'<^^&cu ,aas jjl%JO en.T>rc' 
 ^cAx.ir^ oocn oltr^ ^jJiL r^'ioast.^-i^ \s ,^cuc< rc'ocia 
 Atr^SoA ^a^i-SaAo j&ooClA r^.i.^-^ r<'ocn ^K".! vyi^ 
 
 ^^^ .(^sncu Qcn.i «lior<^ o^rc' .-uiO .ocn ...ocn^oA 
 
 . paAjcirt^ ._ocaA a^Stcn .j^Qt « A acpO.M.&x.r<' K^ .i&o 
 .!& iCDCUnJWZ.K' H^<^ K'^^ l^so . cni oocn ^isno 
 .^.^ticol Ar^xsso ..^tcni^a .^.sax.0 rc'<«\\ Ha ioxs .salh.» 
 i<am jiiuLsa.i A^'sa . oocn ^is*ai.a Aa oocd ^t^so.i&vmo 
 rdldusq V\. ...oml rc'ocn jaic^sa . rdl^Asb ^orA ...OGrA 
 . aisar^ eiA T^V93r^O .r^coosaxn^ r^h\riil£ia r<'no rc^iTii.i 
 ^i\abo ^ocD ^^aii ^co ^ ^.t?:^ r<lusa\ .,^s 
 ^j^h\»acp iis-i r«ll.sn .TSnr^'o ^Ox> r<li^ * ^'V c''"''" 
 .rehco^xA A riAo ►arS' iua.l : .^oAuK' ^a:^^^ r^ .A 
 cn.sa(<' ,co inir^ . ^i-sal ^iJSiK'o r^Jb'-i&o r<''i&co oj.^ 
 ii I \^ K'son vyK"."! .rtf^i-sa i^^va .r^jJA^ r^CDl 
 ^\ "T* » (<l1o ^vm rcA r rt'\-i r^^tM&M.i r<'<^aax.^ 
 rebcD r^.i&vJSao .ca:»r<' ^la:^ Atr^* >J30 . AAsq .ur<'.i 
 .^^Ckz* .^cn KAab ^ciA& ^ocp r^i\^i ^.t eaJinr^ ^.^oA 
 ^cA i^i^Cka-A^o i<Ai.sa&.MS r^.i'io rc'ocn i^Aca ^i 
 
 . ^*Sor^ r^ilri' >ii» ^cAo rtficiAf^ 
 
r<LiSaA »..ajt<' ,^r^a .t i \a r^ocD tOoaso.! »cb r«'i\Aci^ 
 
 .:^ito ..jk.ciz* rfooo r<l2k.&ULSa ^\a .aodio (kii.) .i^ocn 
 ..^r^ .sCTLtO ^iCMk i^VdSQ .i^mo r<:^M.i r^.vw K'^i^oo 
 .ik.<\z« iu^^^p^oco jCooAur^ (XIII.) •:• . . •;• rc'(^iB i^ial 
 
 .cnifVXM ^ ^OCD r<£^i& r^rtf' .r^Lzx^XM.l rdi;&.i r^.-uxs 
 (A^^rCo K'oaxa.i »cfi K'^v-mojcso ..^O-z^ r<'i\\ xmhc'o 
 .»cpasi<' ^Qoo.A xsar^a . criA\in m\ m<ojL«'o oaM&xJsso 
 
 AuaA GaA:a^re'o .K''v&a» >cnai°> \ i.i r^^ -. »..^v\a^co.i 
 ..^.ClZa i^r^o .A^r< xspr^ .r^X&io oral VM(<to .r^i&ob 
 ..^Ciz* eoX isa(<'o .^&3 VMr<::i.l rti'i.&ob .sahy A^ar^O 
 \saref hus \s». ^.i*cpO .^Are'>cn r^lLSa po.ToO.1 >X i^r^ 
 .iusao A&a cndu^x.T90 .tcnuMSoo rVi&ob Aax.o .vA 
 caJsar^ "p^VSKL^ J&oocu rc^ico . >a>OJUr«' ^ol Aire' .^b^ozaa 
 . rA\jS3 ^ i=A jio^l.l >ci30a,&i^ rtiA.i cn:«JB.&0 . mi TSor^o 
 ^1 r^V&oo (xy. .ml ^iw'wa ^iLrc^^^iuai ...oomi r^.l 
 .mA rears' ,&1sq r^rtb >1 •mOMix.r^' . J&QoCvA \spr^ .vm 
 . i<'ocp r^iaO rd^TAk Anz.o . rc'nSkOo ^*aA .:^cvxi ^.i A^ 
 .ao^o (xvi.) .rs'AuDiol »<'A>"'iso.iA< r<;A«V . ^a^Avii.i ^qo cA 
 AitVo .rCiQajLo A^oiiJj.i cnis .aaa2k.A ^oocu rctocn i.ix. 
 T^.l&r^ .rc'aaLa OOcn ^l^yn^ ^.l .1^ . on*5ns. .3>i.c\x> r<'ocn 
 ■. .^OJE* ml .aiodptrCvio . cn.T>('<!a .aaiivxl ^iv&i r^^M 
 
cfti-^rc'o . .^rtlsil coA r^iios ^i.vsa coA fours' .^Asia 
 ^.1 >At •K'ocn ajAu. Ati^L^ .t^ ^.1 003 .i<Aci&(ar<A 
 
 rdUiJ.l oqA naK'o . r^iua^Au^ ,co A-^ craul ritoeo r^4» 
 003 i\Ji ^.T>cn .(^ocn ja^hvt. ^.1 ocp .cnidvs isorclJO 
 
 riUri' ..3c\j.Sl r^ Oqao .pi'ii i<'.Tt-SO .^La ,t^ r^oVnl 
 r<'^^:U3 ^WmAvm vosa.i ^Air^ TJ^arV:! r«llr«' max^o ^.1 
 acq pD-l^a r<l^cn .'TJnrtf'o K'i^Qo ocp i<4^ .r^l^oooao 
 r«£lS9 Or*" .003 r«lakKli.sa ore* oeo i<'orAr<' ore" .r^ai 
 • ijMK'o .J^ox* r<*i\\ v\ml^ ^.vofj .r^rti'.^.ij r^ isqr^ 
 ^oVaHO rc'iril^ ^..OcnjB iul.i ^A<f<' t^'ip^A ^OeTa^ 
 ^\3 ^.1 .so^ (l^-) • »<'-iJ."i-'» reUiis r^'ir^j^ r^'icni^n 
 .T^x\r^ Aa>. ,St.ajL» r^aco r^A-Aupa r<'ik3.z..i re::=no.&a 
 .oaiv. r^'iM ^03 a%M .1^0 .ivcao rc*i\\^^' ^sa .Ta* A%io 
 
 tCDClZJK' tOSO.tMT^Q (fol. 15) .tOSO.lO-MLjLS .Jk.OX> .Z%0 
 
 . KlA2^\ |C«i«^.iJ^ ^K'n . cnA ^TSax'o ^u:a.i octi.i 
 . oA 0003 1-"*'^ ^n ..^cn . o3^.tz. kA.1 .i^r^ i^ojuo 
 i*\^ r^:io3 •. ».aJi . cnl i^Kta rfh^isa .t.— ^vmlJ ^rboa 
 q3&v&.z.V3 7u3 ^cix. .^n Oqs .vvdva.ix. r<lJrx' .rc'oos cosax. 
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 r^^'i-MM^ ^ ^ r^cfiAr^A ooo3 ^^n « "iT*a oon rdj-lj^.i 
 V •'» \a .:^aZ' K'oosn iiua ^Va ^^ .so^ (^I-) '(^03 
 rtilz.A^.1 »* * -'T' -"^ . rtLiSa rdJaoJtaA cnior^ os^i.vz. ^ux. 
 
rdm v^rCn r<^i\\,\ m^zm cxuao . isit^o .^oocu r^_L^ 
 
 idlba:! r^lsa ^co .pdiaiw (fol. 14) ooA ■isars'o °^Q9CU 
 «.^^l=a T-aX .^._ctGaA rdUr^ r^i-^cu rc'cnsoz. ^cdO 
 
 .huoMsa am r^ooosaxao hvir^ rc'osccaia h^ir^ .A ^vA 
 
 AxjMji^r:'! i<lm • oci3 GoAt.i.i ^sh ,ma.t\nxi : icnoA^. 
 T»^r«ll .^..OAQai^) .\\ »A<r<'.i yaxsa rcdz.r:' AuKls^oi 
 
 Hi 
 
 r<A .l^sa JUK*.! paoAttaso ^Ui^six. kA r<d»j ^co vYi^n 
 
 ,\ ty * » f*^^ '^ . . yaaavsn.Si jur^ r<'v-w rctA r^licn vyrc" 
 ...aa.1 Axiwr^'s ^.isaa .^oAurs' ^isa.i^^ ....ocnl isarsto 
 i\tr^ ijAu 7S.T20 .aoA<o . »_oAv.ocd ,Acat<'.i i^lar*' .^.v.i 
 rtfllo CL-A^ CL.2>i-»iJL .la. ^.1 «_auri ....asA ^ssre*.! A 
 
 '^ Read i^Q^-t , 
 
•pMa .^OXm ri'yu .T&o . jts»ar^ ^^^ocniuiiaA Ar^ . ..^ax* 
 
 rdMOi ^ iujLXSk^c<'.i r<l3.^.i (^ix^ooo vyr^ . ^..oxar^ 
 .ao^o (l"^') .f^oz. ^ OCD r^AV .Tn»o .ai*d^A .aoi\0 
 
 .^rif rc'.'Ui^ 9Cpolsi ^oAm r^qa rC-i\^ .ilA^r^ r^&SOar^ 
 
 ^91^ i*ws*wl ^r^* jjL^JCSn ru v^ ^r^ r^-*^ r<licp . col 
 
 r^isal .isjf^o col Ktacn Alsao t<'t\\ h\o\ ^.i .aia (v.) 
 
 t<\ oAr<' ..^cuxj TSnr^ *^'>A ^^^ ^cn ''^i-iTi'iO 
 r<'ocD .^.tj r<!'i''in\ r^oqs ru *. >af^.i losolsa >Ocb ^SOxSlm 
 
 ^n ^Q0CU .cni OOCD ^JLX.i.1 ^CD 010^^r<' C|3^2kZ.iaQ 
 
 • tX f-.v-nn ^ nn^ KtocD^.l vA r^n&ob . coA i^rc'o 
 ^?l rdl^lsQ (vij — VIII.) . ^.1^^ r<<&Uk..-ua rdX.l iil^Aur^ 
 fCDAsr^ TUk. A\sx=>a .t& cnsrsiT. .>A\ r^bcD cn=az.:t .■u> 
 ocno-sr^ AcoclA isprito . rdz&a pi< i \ \ or<' .■iars'a 
 ^reli.1 v<im pi*i\\l pcAx.^ ^^^ (^ >Attar^ K^sa.T^ 
 
 ^ Perhaps ^a^O. Gr. xai Tratrp^ovo-ii/ ofToi. 
 
.Trn» \.s) K'ocD .T^ •. r^ifciT *a .^oz* ^.i r<4^ ('I.j 
 A-i,n*ao reijcia.i r^J^ir\:t rc'A\i'3.\.rw .1^ r«'ocn r^^iuLsa ■;<¥ 
 w*\ >'» < T> ^..omA ^idfto .rdiriaX ^..oml r^i&sao r^aco 
 ^^z. ^..oooaJ .^ocoA .1 Ts o K'AuiiiA ^..oou A^^o 
 r^*i^^ A-n\p .r^^x&i r<^li\y t<'n\i ^ Anzo .^ti^z.O 
 
 reV.ioixu ^ .zir^ ^:t ioa>VM .cnso^ K'ocD (fol. 13) ^r^ 
 . tcno-sre* ^QocuxA i^rtf'o ^xAqs .1 is :u:i f<*i\^' ^o:^ 
 r^l^ Aa^^K'At-iT-ia .col i»r<'0 .jb_az* A^. cnui^^ 
 .^Qocu Atrfo .K'ivaLZa .\iW. r^.i "p^ssa . rc^^ .na^O 
 . r^^vnza ^cp ^K* VL^ rtlsal .crA .%»K'o cos K'r^O 
 
 .!& .^^0^.=a .1^ ^cp r<'H^^ ^.1 Att^* . ^mn.i ^Aar^ >\ 
 XSar^ Atrc'O . .1 \ ca.2ai\ Oco r^z_>T-& rCy-u ^:i 
 icno^r^ Qcn 3r^ n^i&V ^iM.l ^.i qsia (ni.) . >q30StLi<Hl 
 iaj^O «<'d\_3i^ ^ T^iuiOQ9 Ant.O ..^cix> )ii^ rc'ocn 
 rc'ocn .Z1&.1 ^op r^j»u ..oiK' .oi^rCo t<'Av»nn\ ,:^idfO 
 
 » Add 14, 484, fol. 12, vers. ' 
 
 •• The MS. has iaso, but the points " indicate the transposition of 
 the letters. 
 
 "> Read jio]j _*^a) ")0»a 1 expressing the Sfia ra A070) of Tisohen- 
 dorf's text B, p. 151. 
 
THE GOSPEL 
 
 THOMAS THE ISEAELITB, 
 
 ^ OB 
 
 OF THE INFANCY OF OUR LORD. 
 
.rtf'^oi&Qo rtfli.i .h\Ar^ xur^ r^xSkX r«l».i.i .oA A-aiaM r^xx 
 a-i-S-» r<lo re^i&t A^nA^t^ (5*01^3 i^rClLl.i ^n r^m^si 
 reU.VS^-rj pfAr^ (XXIV.) . A^.oA<r^ ^^^n!' A_*iQa-K' ►La 
 ..^Jr*" i'l^ir*' r<lAo . r^.t-i-v vwr^ ClAirC' .r^soAjL..! 
 
 ^jOMwaieio .r<'^oA^ cnSoLcs oocn ^..^rciiu.i rCli^\A 
 
 cnMin.tJq .a^x^Aj^ K'vmO . r^x-visa Aual A^o ...opaisa 
 K'oqs ruLoo . (^£b>(<& vyr^.xj^aAO .TAZ.«<'.t rcisa.i «<i.=a.i 
 
 rti'^di A^o oA-ar^^rc' rdsi^.i r<'(3^a''ix. A^sax. .-i^o 
 
 ^ • • 
 
 rdl.l rclx.no-a.1 r^MOi ^JM cfaA jL^^r^.i cucn . ...OSkSasA 
 
 . T.\JN 1 K* wiT*g3 K^isoA K'Vm.I KLSO.t^ K'^XASQ 71 S^^ 
 K'OCD ."l^ r^cp r<l3^ Avadfi^ .sOa^^ Aa^cd r<llr<'(xxy.) 
 .r^VTSn r^hxosn oo.ioica Ausa a& .^jaiz.ior<^ r«Ux.a^L 
 rdaJLA^z. rcdj..! r^sa.v^ r^io-w r<'i^r^l >z.^ ^.1^ 
 T^hvsaSLM A .aca*.i r^cnirdA ^:i i^Jr^ . >« t\t "w .poAx.irti' J99 
 o o r<ljci3 t^a&\& .aaAi&rV.i 
 
 •:• o •:• ja^xsa >i\Xsoi cn^O.TA^rc'o ^jas.i cp.Aoss poVi. 
 
•:• ^..ocnTiA^Kli ait i^" r^i\*i»»t<' r^Vsiortls ^.^qso . nocoA 
 r^x.a^;^ oisa OMXsari Qo.ioicn rC'oqs .^.V ^» .1^ (XXII.) 
 
 cnidjaz.o . ^m.i ^i\\riA\5q r<'.io!L'.'i >*vsa div:^i±az. .Vi 
 
 d\Ao .^ tcncuz^^ rHJ^r^i ^Ocd r^i^O .r^ici^i dftalo^o 
 .r<!'i«j!^\t<''V»j»<'o .>iT>\r<'3rU»jA\A^t<'^j:bco .rs'ii^rc'rs'oas 
 yXju ^»0 . cni-3 )a.5>. rtf'-'Sarill , ^ -i ri PCVtiAri'.i K'^oJ^ 
 ica.iJS3 r^'.^i r^^opcuo . cn\ i.nO ocn r^io!!^ i.M^&^r^ 
 cnu^rcli-sa.-i (fol. 12) l\:d9 .ocib p<'io-\ ..^vcaA psIocd 
 .^..ocoA rttaco i^A m ocpo ..omsa^ t<'Ocn AunS* r<ii.so.t 
 Aval r<iEM.-i "i.-w-o .^oA rs'oqa reisbij ^."i cD.io'ion (kxiii.) 
 
 rCcnirt'.t jAurC' pdix-sax-ia r^rtf" ^.^ctA is3t<'o rt^'i&t rtUi^. 
 OAir<':i KJirc* .^:t« rd\c\ . r^rC ^*s>3t<' r^i.sg.i coL^jcaao 
 epia .ceaoiop isopi'o .cni oiwr^O r<lXM.i cvAire'o . ,i=i 
 oiwrS'o peiii.l ■i.TJLO . A*i«a*f^ A.s^ v^:»u.l .t>&\>. r^cB.i 
 'Aur*" .^.-vJ r^d OPS' .v\va a.^,*?^ Av.»p<'i»'ijc- VMPC' .cnl 
 
 " Such seems to be the reading of the MS. ; or it may perhaps be 
 iQ^^^j, as the word is not quite distinct. I would read ?a2^l|.J, 
 
 '■Eead w.3i.»2l*A.^. 
 
>1 i\oq3 K'^cd&Qo.i A2^ rfHir^ r^'-aio .r^'VSir^O ciu 
 nLiini' rd^LsQ dftisoK'O . r<^i\\\ nck^^rc'.i i l \ -) 
 
 J&Qocu rCcno (xxi.) .>ilz.ior^ re^\2i^ AittSk..! rel».Vi. ^Acd 
 '^aLciOKls r<3i r^x.o^z. rCocno ..lOcoA jioStJ . -ii\^ A\r<^ 
 r^&Sba (\jk*r^ ^ijaarEb r^^cL^a Ti^ o^r^* . .iQca>.l 
 ^^re'o n^jLt.ltaan ^Vm T*^ crra^^OA ..IOgoab :u*^r^.l 
 r^LXM.1 i.<tx.o .jA-ldrtr^* Qp.ioicn .s*»ii. .1^0 .cnX .i^QosX 
 TSaWct »..OJr<' Ar<'JL.O .r^cas^ ^aHi r«'iaO r«^O^b i^ 
 1^ ■*«* rdisao .r^&\»i .'iL^tta.i .a^^^ rd&<re' ^..ocal 
 Ar^Z.O .(<'.iOGa*n Tuja ius .col ^i^i^ . >q3al:^ M..A&1 
 ...O&VjVm r^ii\T^ r^iia i^OcnX i^rtf'o r«^a\sal »_aJpC 
 
 r^j3L&cui (A°P d'^^Lia icnj.i cn^osia .aA^ liusa.i KfaACX^ 
 
 '^ ,cauii»»AZ.(<'.i r«!:»o . pg*t\\^ JL^ osa^ a\t . oo.ioicD 
 .1^0 . ctA nci-^ootVo l\r^ r^lJr^ ^r^.i . >JOr<'euM o^ 
 re^i.Tsaa ovM.i ocp rta^OA, K'ono . r«lz.o.^M aj3%i 
 ^ A.vl Asaoo o^rc'.i r^^^a.T^ ^..omjsa.-Mi K'oas A\r^ 
 
 "Bead ^Ou^^^aSS . f Read b^Ti^JO^MaAJ? . 
 
iAi . ^QoO* ml i^rc* .,03 rc'^^ii^ i^'.icp r^&uoorc' 
 ^1 r^Als .t<'A\is*a'i ma jioiao cnsojk. '^trti'o .^uw^o 
 r^ei^ iVM^K'^l r^snx^ rc'A<is.*BH-i ^ocn pc*\\'sa r^'ioaoji 
 r^'^uoorc' 'ivkiio .cnsartf' pbiJM ^ rti*.!^ .aoal K'ixK'O 
 .r^iwu K^cp n^ovu iuVMl r^ai A Oqs r^sacu .dfivnrtf'o 
 
 rC^o^a .>^<sg.TD i^:^&ulk':i A iur<' K'i^.'wm r<'owM -i^ 
 ^aIx. (<''i»)r^ .col jiS^Qo !<:! r<llA& rOcni "p^^n .dr«.il< 
 Auwi* r«:lr^ .rellrti' r£i»ucrasa t^A.i r^'colr^ K'lijM ocn yM 
 .r^\^r^a (<d\T^:sai r<'^<<3or«' dObk.o (xx.) .,q3 t<dAo^.i 
 
 r^T-ta >>.1J3 T^^^ioa Tools. di\»jQ90 . >ua ru^o r^.in^ 
 rellr^ t<L^i\.l A\.99 .iXa^.iitr^ .AuK' K'cnlre' •ri'iiori'o 
 >i.tfl A>tti&^ rdlo . .aftnviao jLuQO'r^.lO ^cnisrC'.-i 
 f^(&)euQ>t<' v^axa.i .iot^\s>.:u Aiir^ r^'tso .t<xir^ ^iia 
 .iuocD r^adu (fol. 11) vviio K'i^^o .Auoco K'.'iaA- 
 .^i,cUka r^iJSO Jbiaax. ^doIx. .i^rSte rsJ^rdsa rdi^ 
 .re'^cutt>r^ »a1 ritacoAxo . r< ^i\\\ ►a^.t^W >»•»« >li 
 ^.l^co r^\ h\cS Xvshao .r^h\axM "poti-sa i^^^^*^** 
 
 " Read y:)O^A, . 
 
:t& cnVM .ao^o .jiaSJ.i t^^-n ma iur<'.i ocp i-a.^ 
 r^xit ^V3 r^cn.i r^CD OAJSa ■. ^i.sa .ml i^rC'o .r^llLw^ 
 .3qoCu\ r^vs]r<' .ivaui ^VaO .rC'.TM .1^ >^k^0^i& rilSr^ 
 
 -.r^ioK'A «n^^ Ax!i^»i .t^o .\oio t^am-i k'-stmo .noijsao 
 
 t<'<^i:>:» jji^aLrtta (xyiii.) .^aaj.i .acDiOfaa ^a iurf.1 
 jsl^IO .tODAial ma\^ A^. ^o^iirc'O .^^ mLwrc'o .re'.TM 
 vAmsa .^qocXa ^.1 r^Lir^ •TclmA Ai«n-» i<'^*Qor<' t^'^ -1* 
 
 (<'^^re' ^vu ^rtJcD (xix.) .onooa^^ ^nrcsa A^ •\ap'io 
 Avyt< A\rV r<lak*rdl . >1 ptf'iiori'o .reSaV, (Ss r^&uxs.i 
 
 .^.»p^ .m\ A\Tiot<'o •. AurS" Aaioo^r^ ^so . >A 'AiijwK'o 
 .(<'<^V>-Sa K'.ictia r^'.-ui.i r^scq >cd ^ . >1 'A\i.»r<'o 
 ^Oqa ru . A ^T^rCo . »ca >^it&M .ml ^VMrtf'O 
 ^=i'i^r<':i ,cn »crj po^iia .ml ^i^(<'o .r^.ico vv^^r^* 
 
 » Add. 14,484, fol. 10 reel. 
 
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