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passages has recently been published by Dr. Leipoldt *.
If the EccL Canons be reckoned to have extended in this
volume to p. 79 2 , then some 47 out of the 62 pp. thus
missing before p. 141 (the first of those here published) would
be occupied by the lost part of our Canons 3
; that is to say,
these would have begun about p. 94. Some 15 pages there
fore (79 to 94) would still remain to be accounted for. This
gap the Apostolic Canons would adequately fill.
The texts are here printed with all visible diacritical marks 4 :
the papyrus (BP) in columns as in the original, the parchment
in continuous lines. The sections of the Arabic
MS. (NV)
version are added for convenience in the margins. Lacunae
and completions of lacunae are indicated by square brackets,
doubtful letters by dots below them, estimates of the number
of letters missing occasionally by a corresponding number
of dots.
1 In Texte it. Unt., NF. XI, i/>,
p.
37 ff. I here add a fol. (pp. 59, 60)
to Leipoldt s fragment. This volume therefore contained, like Or. 1320
(Lagarde s), the whole of the Eccl. Canons; and the two MSS. are practically
contemporary.
2
45 lines of Lagarde s = print 2 pp. or I fol. of this MS.
3 Reckoning some 35 lines of the present translation of the Arabic to I fol.
of this Coptic MS.
4 For the Vienna fragt. I depend upon Prof. Krall s copy.