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PREFACE.
The Coptic texts relating to the tortures and martyr- dom and miracles of Saint George printed in this book are edited from five manuscripts, three written in the Memphitic, and two in the Sahidic dialect. These MSS. are indicated in the following pages by the letters A, B, (0, D and E.
The MS. A is preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and bears the numbers Mareschal 23, Bodl. 157, ‘and MS. Copt. Uri liv. It consists of 179 paper leaves Ee aiving about 10; in. by 7’. Hach page is occupied “by one column of Coptic, and one column of Arabic writing,
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| generally containing 19 and 16 lines respectively. The quires are eighteen in munber, and on the top of the first and last leaves of each quire is written 1¢ X¢ ‘Jesus Christ,’ On fol, 3 a, at the foot of the page, are three lines of badly written Arabic which read:—
اذكر يا رب عبدك الخاطي الغرق في بحر الخاطيا و الذنوب الي لم يستحق ان يدع ....
1 See Uri, Bibi. Bodi. Codd. MSS. Orient. tom. i, p. 327. B
