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Excerpt from Fragments of the Commentary of Ephrem Syrus Upon the Diatessaron
Of my identifications have been made. It is a late paper ms. In the Nestorian character, consisting of 323 leaves; originally there were more, but a number Of leaves have disappeared at the beginning Of the book, which is a commentary on the Penta teuch, and I think a single leaf has gone at the end. Possibly there may be one or two lacunae. The Gospels begin as follows: Matthew on f. 13 r. (the previous leaves being occupied by the remains of the Commentary on the Pentateuch), Mark on f. 145 v., Luke on f. 169 v., and John on f. 237 r. (ending on f. 323 As might be expected, the Commentary is largely of the nature of Catena, and the authors quoted are sometimes (but not Ofien)
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