2. On Cureton's text (title above), of. Fragments of the Cure- tonian Gusjiels, e<iited by W. Wright (London, IS721, 4to, only 100 copies printed for private circulation, first published bv E. Roe- diger in Monatsberiditt der Berliner Akademie, 8. Juli'is72, pp.
* Cf. the Important notice of P. de Lagarde, ifittheilungen, I 111-120, 194-190; further, p. SI, ii. 30-38, ' Die arabische Ueben*elzung des UxyyiXtop h,a Tiffripw.'
t The first to call attention lo the importance of this Com- mentary of Ephraem was not Ezra Abbott (T"** .du(A</rsAtp of the Fourth Gospel, Boston, ISSn). but P. de Lagarde in his edition of the Apostolic Constitutions (Pref. p. vii), 1802. Already in his earlier j)aper, de ^Vrjco Testamento ad versionuni orientidium Jidem etiendo (Berolini, 1857), he made uae of Ephriem'i Armenian Commentaries.
657-559 and 6 pp. Syr. ; J. R. Crowfoot, Fragmenta Erangelicn qriee ex anti'pta recensione versionis Syriaeai Xovi Testamenti (Peshiio dictiie) a Gul. Curetono imlgata sunt, Lond., Pari prima 1870, Pars altera 1871, ObservatioJls on the Collation in Greek of Cureton's Syriac Fragments of the Gospels, 1872 (lo be used with caution) ; Fr. Baethgen, Evan^elienfragmente : der Griechische Text des Cureton'schen Syrers wiederhergestellt, Leipzig, 1885; H. U. Harman, 'Cureton Fragments of Svriao tiospi-ls' in Journ. of the Soc. of Bil/l. Lit. and Exegesis, j"un&- Dec. 1885, pp. 28-48. On Bowes and Holzhey see immediately. Other papers of Hermansen, le Hir, Wiideboer ; especially on the meaning of the superscription KCISDI (by Mai, Qildemeister, Land, TregeUes, Wright, Co»-per, Ewald) see FRE^ iii. 172= i/rt. 112. For a recent discussion on it see Journ. Amer, Orient. Society, xv\n. (1897) 176-182 and 361 1., between ChariesC. Torrey and R. Gottheil. That it forms the opposition to ' Gospel of the Mi.xed,' i.e. To,t'\an'8 Diatessaron, and means 'Qo8pel(s)of the Separate,' cannot be doubted any longer.
3. Literature on the Sinai-Palimpsest : (a) On the discover^ and the copying of the Sinai-Palimpsest, see, on the one hand, M. D. Gibson, How the Coitex was foniid : a Narrative of two visits to Sinai from Mrs. Lewi^ Journals, Wyf-9.?, Cambridge, 1893 ; on the other, Mrs. Bensly, Our Journey to SiiMi : a vij>it to the Convent of St. Catarina, ttnth a chapter on the Sinai Pal- impsest, London, 1896. Editio princeps : The Four Gospels in Syriac, transcribed from the Sinaitic palimpsest try the late Robert L. Bensly, M.A.' . . . a)ul by J, Rendel Harris, M.A. . . . and by F. Crawford Burkitt, M.A., with an Introduction by Agnes Smith Lewis, edited for the Syndics of the University Press, Cambridge, 1894. t This has to be supplemented by A. S. Lewis, Some Pages of the Four Gospels, retranscribed froin the Siiuiitic palimpsest, with a translation of the whole text, London, 1896. An earlier translation had been published by Mrs. Lewis, London, Macmillan, 1894 ; a German one, with an Appendix, is due to Ad. Merx, Die vier Kanonischen Evan- gelien nach ihrem dltesten bekannten Texie : tfebersetzung der syrischen im Sinaikloster gcfundenen Palimpsesthandschrift, Berlin, 1897. The second part (Erlduierungen) has not yet appeared. Cf., finally, 'Last Gleanings from the Sinai Palimp- setit' (Expositor, Aug. 1897, pp. 111-119), and ' The EarUer Home of the Sinaitic Palunpsest' (Expositor, June 1900, 96i), and Studia Sinaitica, No. ix. (1900) pp. riiiff., xxiii t., where it is shown that John the Stylite, who in the year 778 used the Codex as Palimpsest, was a monk of Mar Conon, a cloister of Ma'arrath Mesren in the district of Antioch (a small town about equidistant from Antioch and Aleppo). The Expos. Tii>ies (vols. xi. xii.) contains a series of papers by Mrs. Lewis entitled ' What have we gained in the Sinaitic Palimpsest?'
(b) Convenient collations are : A. Bonus, Collatio Codicis Lewisiani rescripti Evangeliorum sacrorum Syriacorutn cutn Codice Curetoniano (Mus' Brit. Add. llt^l): cm a<ijectce sunt Lediones e Peshitto desumptce, Oxonii, 1896, 4to ; and CarJ Hobdiey, Der neuentdeckte Codex Syrus Siiuiiticus untersueht : mil eiiu-in vollstajidigen Verzeichnis der Varianten des Cod. Sinaiticus urui Cod. Curetoniiinus, Miinchen, 1896,
4. On SPsee the Literature quot«d in Nestle, Jntrodxtction, p. 103 ; UH. p. 227 fl. ; Scri\ ener, ii. 6-40, with the help of Gwilliam and Deane. On the printed editions. Church t^uart. Rev. 1888, July, 257-297 ; The Syriac New Testament trans- lated into English from the Peshitto Versions, by James Murdock, with a historical introduction by Horace L. Hastings, and a bibliographical appendix bv Isaac H. Hall, 6th ed., Boston, 1893. The first edition of Widma'nstadt (1655) is still the best, or that of (Leusden and] Schaaf, Lugd. Bat. 1709, 4to, together with the Lex. Syr. Concord, of C. Schaaf (ed. sec. 1717); then the editions of the American Bible Society of New York (with Nestorian vocalization), except for the Gospels, which are now at hand in the ed. of Pusey-liwilliam (Oxf, 1901).
Of Dissertations on the text of the NT besides those con- nected with the discovery of S*, there are none to be mentioned of recent times.
The Later Versions op the NT.—l. The Philoxeniana. — Syriac scholars did not rest satis- lied with the Pesh. NT. In the year 508 AksCnnya or Philoxenus, bishop of Mabhogh (485-519), with the help of liis cliorepi.sco|ius, Polycarp, undertook a literal translation of the whole Bible. Besides the NT, the P-ialnui in this version are mentioned by Moses of Aggel (between 550 and 570), and portions of I.minh survived in the Add. MSS 1710U of the British Museum, and have been edited by