The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

APPENDIX C.
THE GIZEH GREEK FRAGMENT OF ENOCH.
This important Greek fragment of Enoch was first made
accessible to scholars under the editorship of M. Bouriant in
October, 1892, though discovered as early as the winter of
1886-87 at Akhmim by the Mission Archeologique Franchise
at Cairo. The work is done in a scholarly manner, but is not
quite free from defects. Some of these have been repaired by
Mr. Bensley, who has recently collated the MS. at Gizeh, and
from his note in the Academy of Feb. 1 1 six passages omitted
through homoioteleuton in M. Bouriant's edition have been
restored in the text that follows *.
Unhappily the greater part of the present edition was
already in type before M. Bouriant's work reached me, and
I was thus debarred from making extensive changes. Happily,
on the other hand, the many new readings I had introduced
into the text under the guidance of the MSS. GM were
almost in every instance in perfect accord with the new Greek
text. By the permission of the Delegates of the Press I was
allowed to make such additional changes as would not inter-
fere materially with the type already set up. But excise as I
would, I could not at times make sufficient room for the fresh
material, and so it occasionally happens that a text is followed
in the Translation, the justification of which is given, not in
the Crit. Notes which are immediately below, but in the
Appendix.
1 Since the above was written I have received M. Lods' list of corrections
from the facsimile of this Greek MS. which is about to be published, and
corrected M. Bouriant's text accordingly.