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The " Paradise " of Palladius. 237
London in 1874 and the interest which Queen Victoria
and her Ministers and Archbishop Tait took in his
mission, but he shook his head sadly and said, "It is
true, they were kind, but they gave me no money, and
I want money." In answer I said, " Find a man hke
yourself and send him," and to my amazement he looked
"
up sharply and said, " I have found him. I send you !
I offered to carry a letter from him to the Archbishop
of Canterbury, but though he promised to write one
he did not do so. As I left he stood up and gave me
his blessing, and I saw him no more.^
Another notable and welcome visitor whom I saw
frequently was Mar 6liya Yuhannan Milos, " Metropolitan
of the Chaldeans" and "Vicar of the Chaldean Patriarch,"
whom I have already mentioned." Through him
I obtained access to many fine manuscripts, and he
helped me to acquire copies of (i) The Recension of
the Syriac Version of the " Paradise of the Fathers "
of Paijadius, made by 'AnS.n 'Isho' of Beth 'Abhe in
the seventh century; (2) The "Sayings of the Fathers,"
arranged and classified by 'Anan ' sho' ;* (3) a " Medicine " according to the great Greek
Book of
physicians,
which was in use in the hospitals of Edessa and Nisibis
in the early centuries of the Christian Era ;*
(4) a Book
of Medicine compiled from the works of native authors,
and from ancient Babylonian and Assyrian sources ;*
1 He died at Mardin on October 6th, 1894, aged ninety-five years.
Mr. Parry's appreciation of this splendid old ecclesiastic is both just and
see Six Months, p. xvi.
good ;
" See p. 72. His troubles and difficulties at Malabar are described
by Rassam, Asshur and the Land of Nimrod, p. 162 ff.
' Nos. I and 2 I published with English translations in my Book
of Paradise of Palladius, 2 vols., 1894. A revised edition of the English
translation entitled The Paradise of the Fathers was published in 1907
in two volumes.
* The section which dealt with the sexual organs is wanting. I
believe this to have been the great medical treatise composed by
Bar Hebraeus which is mentioned by Assemani {B.O., ii, p. 272,
No. 26).
' Nos. 3 and 4 I published with Enghsh translations in my Syrian
Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics, 2 vols., London, 1913.