Add. 14,640
URI: https://bl.syriac.uk/ms/404
Date:
7th century
Estrangela script ܀ Parchment Codex, 159 leaves.
Wright's Subject Classification:
History
This manuscript contains: John, bishop of Asia or Ephesus. The third part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, bishop of Asia or Ephesus. In total, including sub-sections, this manuscript contains 7 items.
Physical Description
Vellum, about 11 1/8 in. by 7 1/2, consisting of 159 leaves, a few of which are slightly stained and torn, especially foll. 1, 3, 23, 83, and 109. The quires, signed with letters, were originally about 20 in number, but the volume now ends with the eighteenth. The tenth quire is also lost, and the first and twelfth are imperfect, leaves being wanting at the beginning, and after foll. 2, 83, and 96. Each page is divided into two columns, of from 30 to 38 lines.
Hand 1 (sole, Estrangela script):
This volume is written in a good, regular Estrangela of the viith cent., perhaps by the same scribe as Add. 14,647
.
Manuscript Contents
Note: Item numbering updated in digital edition.
Item 1 (Fol. 1a): John, bishop of Asia or Ephesus. The third part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, bishop of Asia or Ephesus [defective]
Title:
Title:
Title:
Title:
Notes:
- It is divided into six books, each book being preceded by an index of contents.
- See Assemani, Bibl. Or., t. ii., pp. 83, seqq., and Land, "Joannes Bischof von Ephesos, der erste syrische Kirchenhistoriker," Leyden, 1856. This valuable work has been edited by Dr. Cureton, "the Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, bishop of Ephesus," Oxford, 1853. It was also translated into English by the Rev. R. Payne Smith, Oxford, I860. There is also a German translation by Dr. J. M. Schonfelder, "Die Kirchengeschichte des Johannes von Ephesus," Munchen, 1862.
Item 2 (Fol. 1a): Book i., 42 chapters [defective]
Note: Of these there are lost, chh. 1 and 2, the beginning of ch. 3, the end of ch.
4, chh. 6—8, and the beginning of ch. 9.
Item 3 (Fol. 24b): Book ii., 52 chapters
Item 4 (Fol. 56b): Book iii., 56 chapters [defective]
Note: Of these chh. 44—56 are lost, and ch. 43 is imperfect at the end.
Item 5 (Fol. 84a): Book iv., 61 chapters [defective]
Note: Of these there are lost, chh. 1—4, the greater part of ch. 5, the end of ch.
22, ch. 23—29, and the greater part of ch. 30.
Item 6 (Fol. 116a): Book v., 23 chapters
Item 7 (Fol. 127b): Book vi., 49 chapters [defective]
Note: Chh. 38—49 are entirely lost, and of ch. 37 only a small portion
remains.
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