the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

xxiv The Booh of Enoch
X. Vatican MS. 71 (cf. Mai, Script, veterum nova collectio, Romae,
1831, T.T. 2, p. 100). 27 foil. 3 cols, of 32 lines. 171h cent.
Enoch only. 98 chapters.
!/. Munich MS. 30. 61 foil. 25x15 cm. 2 cols, of 20 to 28 lines.
17th cent. Division into chapters only at the beginning.
Enoch only.
2;. Paris MS. 50 (see Zotenherg's Cat.). 17th cent. Enoch (division
i2.
into chapters only at the beginning) and other works.
Paris MS. 49. 18th cent. Copy of 6.
iffl. Garrett MS. 17x12 cm. 2 cols, of 22 lines. 19th or end of
1 8th cent. Enoch only.
j&. Westenholz MS. 7 1 foil., of which first and last two are empty.
2 cols, of 24 lines. 18th cent. 106 chapters. Enoch only.
Relations of the Ethiopic MSS.
(a) Two forms of text, a, (3, of ivliich (3 is late and secondary.
There are two forms of the Ethiopic text. The first is represented
hj g-^gmqtu (and in some degree by n), which we shall hence-
forth designate by a, and the second, which owes its origin to
the labours of native scholars of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, by all the remaining MSS., i. e. /3. The result of
these labours has been on the whole disastrous ;
for these scholars
had neither the knowledge of the subject-matter nor yet critical
materials to guide them as to the form of the text. Hence in
nearly every instance where they have departed from the original
unrevised text they have done so to the detriment of the book.
But it is not to be inferred from the above that a always
represents one type of text and /3 another type opposed to the
former ; for the attestation of neither group is wholly uniform,
as each group is divided within itself. This statement holds true
in a much greater degree of a. Indeed, the cases are compara-
tively few where a differs as a whole from /3. Fifty readings
out of fifty-one which any editor must adopt will have the
support of one MS. singly as g, m, q, t, u, or of groups such as
g in, gq,qt,g u, g m\q, gm t,gm u, &c., and the fifty-first time of