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I am acquainted with only three MSS. of the Arabic
original :
1. That brought by the Catholic theologian, J. M. A. Scholz J
from Egypt to Bonn and described by Gildemeister.
2. Fragments in the Berlin MS. Diez qu. 107. ~
3. Perhaps the Vatican MS. mentioned in Assemani, BibL
Or. I. 630, no. 78. 3 But this may
described below as II.
contain the work
The Ethiopia version of this work (Fans Manfasawi] is
preserved in Europe in the following MSS. :
4. Cat. Codd. . . BodL, VII Codd. Ethiop. (1848), no. XVI,
30 ff.
5. Cat. of Eth. MSS. /;/ Brit. Mies. (Wright, 1877), no.
137, i (Or. 550), p. 93.
6. Ib., no. 138, i (Or. 788).
7. Ib., no. 139, i (Or. 549).
8. Ib., no. 140, i (Or. 789).
The following are the passages from the Athanasian Canons
cited in the above work, according
the Bonn MS.
la
F. 72 , cap. 14, Concerning pollution
to the Arabic text of
-
9. (Certain
learned bishops have said that whoso pollutes himself during
the day, until the termination of evening prayer, may not
make the offering until the following day, because, accor
ding to the ordinances of both Old and New Testaments,
the day whereon the pollution took place has by then
passed over).
1
Cf. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographic XXXII, 226 fT., Quatremere, Recher
ches 94 ff.
Cf. (>.
A A 5,
u 9 ff.
3 Nomocanon, sen Pocnitcntialc^ Capita LII complectens de poenitcntiis
iniungendis pro singulis pcccatis. Liber inscribitur Mcdicina spiritualis. In
fol. bombyc. 98. Cod. Arabicus literis Syriacis exaratus anno mundi 7040,
Graecorum 1843, Christi 1532.