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

Introduction xxvii
u. This MS. would form a good third to g and q but that it
is so imperfect after chapter 83, for nearly one-seventh of
the entire book is omitted in the course of 83-108. These
omissions ai'e made in the most capricious way. Sometimes
words, sometimes phrases, sometimes whole sentences and para-
graphs are excised to the entire destruction of the sense. Not-
withstanding as w is a valuable MS. I have most faithfully
recorded all its omissions and changes. In chapters 1-32 it
alone preserves the true text in 3 (note 23),^ 4 (note 33), 2^
(note 40).
n. Of MSS. of the second class n is by far the best. Indeed,
though in the main embodying the second type of text, it attests
more unique and oiiginal readings in chapters 1-32 than m or I
or V. Thus it stands alone in giving the original text in 9^^
(note 15),i 103 (^ote 37), 10' (note 21), 22' (note 29) (?). Alone
of MSS. of the second class it gives along with various MSS. of
the first class the true text as in l^ (note 18),i 14^1 (note 10), 25'
(note 19), 89*^^ (note 4), &c. Thus n exhibits the characteristics
of both types of text.
§ 9. Editioxs op the Ethiopic Vehsion.
Laurence, Lihrl Enoch Fer-iio AetJnopica. Oxoniae, 1838. This
text was issued simply as a transcript of a, one of the MSS.
brought to Europe by Bruce, the great Abyssinian traveller, in
1773. The transcription is not very accurate in the early
chapters, though the errors are as a rule easy to correct. In
chapters 5-10 there are ten; most of these have passed over
into Dillmann's Apparatus Criticus, and from Dillmann's to
Elemming's. As the text advances it becomes more accurate,
so that I found its citation by Dillmann to be sufficiently trust-
worthy for use in the present edition.
Dillmann, Lile}' Eenoch, AefMopice, ad rjuinque mlicum fidem
editus, cum. varih lectionibus. Lipsiae, 1851. This edition was
based on five MSS., ahcde. No further work on the Ethiopic
1 The references enclosed in brackets are to tlie critical notes in my edition of
file Ethiopic text, 1906.