x PREFACE,
“Remember, O Lord, thy servant the sinner, drowned in the sea of sins and transgressions, who is not worthy RPG sac ate a :
On fol. 36, is a partially obliterated Coptic cross printed in yellow, red, and green colours: in the spaces between the four arms are written Ty, X¥, Ni and RA, and on each side of the foot of the cross is a dove. The initial letters of some of the paragraphs have been gilded, the border of fol. 44, is prettily iJuminated, and the headings of the several sections of the MS. are written in red. On fol. 82a, are two lines of Coptic letters which read:—
AQSOAAATOAMZLOATKZ Wp oe2zte AnAAOZpAAZMAATM
Beneath these are two lines of Greek letters, and then we have another line of Coptic letters thus:—
NOAX=zKocuigig acu.
My friend Dr. Henri Hyvernat of Rome infornis me that these lines give the date in which the manuscript was written; and as he intends to discuss them at full leneth in his forthcoming treatise on the palaeography of Coptic MSS., and to repreduce them by photography, it will be sufficient to refer the reader to that work. On fol. 1788, is a colophon in Arabie which reads:—
هذا الكتاب المقدس وقفا على بيعة الكنيسة السيده بدير برموس و ليس لاحد سلطان من قبل الرب سبحانه
1 I am unable to read the last three or four words of this scrawl.
