A. E. Burn

The Athanasian Creed and Its Early Commentaries: (Texts and Studies: Contributions to Biblical and Patristic L) A. E. Burn

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...is twice written with a flourish. The ornamentation is elaborate. At the bottom of four of the pages are rude pictures of animals in black, ornamented with red. There are a large number of erasures in the MS. The writing is fairly regular, and not unlike that of cxx. Zoega in his Catalogue (p. 225) places it in class vm. He gives (p. 225 ff) selections from it (cc. xiv 3--xv 2; xxi--xxm), which have been translated into French by Dulaurier (see note on p. 220). Written and lithographed by Revillout, Apoe. Copt. pp. 30--42; printed by Lagarde (from a transcript made by Guidi), Aegyptiaca pp. 9--29; translated in this edition, pp. 152--159. MSS of various Sahidic Fragments. Br. Mus. Or. 3581 B, a Sahidic fragment iu the British Museum It consists of one leaf, numbered--as it seems--p,. The right side is torn, but only one letter completely lost The greatest length of the leaf is 12J in.; the greatest breadth 10J in. The columns (&£ to 10 x 3 in.) contain 31 lines. The stops are adorned with red. Initial letters are large, and completely in the margin. Red is used for purposes of ornamentation. Thus the marks indicating a quotation (7), some of the letters on the top lines, and the A at the beginning or end of a line, are ornamented with it. The sign occurs; part of it being in green, the rest in red; and-j-is also found. The handwriting is large and bold. There is also half of another leaf, numbered e, c, the first and third columns of which are completely gone. Another fragment, numbered Mc, Mc is in the same handwriting, and is perhaps part of the same MS. The most interesting leaf is printed and translated in this edition, pp. 162--165. Br. Mus. Or. 3581 B, a Sahidic fragment in the British Museum. It consists of one leaf, of which the numbering i...