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INTRODUCTION. XXIX
For the first 10 canons (flf. 323^: 327$) I had the use of
a copy made from this MS. by Mr. Crum;
(flf. 328^ 338$) I used photographs taken by
for the remainder
Mrs. Crum.
This MS., as having been made directly from the author s
copy, is our best authority
for the Macarian collection. Be
sides it, a partial copy by Mr. Crum of a MS. of AD. 1680,
now in the Bodleian (Hunt. 32), has been collated for 59
61, 65 70, 73, 74. It is thus described by
catalogue (I, p. 40) :
No. LXII. -
same hand as the preceding. !
Uri in his
Paper (bombycinns] codex, written by the
Foil. 238. Contains the 2nd
part of the Canons of the Alexandrine Church, consisting of
13. Athanasius of Alexandria : 107 Canons.
Finally, for 55, 56, wanting in R,
I used Mr. Crum s
collations of the Paris MSS. no. 252 (De Slane p. 68), a
copy made for Wansleben in 1664 (cf. KRQ. 122), and no.
238, probably part
canons (cf. KRQ. 136).
of a distinct collection of Alexandrine
Unanimous readings of these Macarian MSS. are in the
following pages indicated by M, those peculiar to the Va
tican, 2 Paris and Oxford (Bodleian) MSS. respectively by
Mv, Mp, Mb.
I had originally noted in the margin all the variants of
the MS. M. Subsequently, in order to reduce the cost of
printing, but contrary to my own wish,
I restricted these
to a selection. The reader will however still find all variants
of importance noted. As in the case of the Hippolytan
Canons, I should have been glad to omit in the present
edition the division into separate canons, an arrangement
1 c No. LXI. Paper codex, elegantly written, in AM. 1397 = AD. 1680.
(P- 39>
2 It should be observed that this MS. was frequently corrected by its scribe
in accordance with the rules of grammar: e. g. he read in the copy before him
j? S^AMA]^, but corrected it to ^yJ LkjJ . I have for ^ the most part ignored such variants.