PREFACE. XI
ان يخرجه عن ملك الدير المذكور مادام عامر بالرهبان دايما و السبح اله دايما ابدا
"This holy book belongs by wakf (gift or agente for various purposes) to the church of the Virgin in the convent wf Baramus. And no one has power from the Lord (may he be glorified) to take it out of the possession of the said convent as long as it continues to be inhabited by monks; and glory be to God for ever.” On the last leaf of the book the scribe has practised making in outline the borders and small illuminations which begin and end each quire. his manuscript is written in the Memphitic (Bohairic) dialect. in a good, regular hand of the latter half of the xivth century, and contains:
- 1. The Martyrdom of Saint George of Cappadocia by
4 Pasikrates his servant” Fol. 38.
{ The convent of Baramds is situated in Lat, 308 19’ N., Long, 300 16" E., in the Natron Valley, go9;:~) .¢2l9, near the convents of
- St, Macarius and Amba Bishdi, aud between the Natron Lakes and
the Bahar cl-Farigh. In Mahmid Bey’s map of Egypt it is placed at ‘the junction of the caravan routes from Alexandria and Tripoli to Cairo, For descriptions of this famous convent see Curzon, Viszis to Monasteries in the Levant, pp. 94, 95, and Butler, Ancient Coptic Churches at Egypt, vol. i, pp. 334—837.
2 For the Greek and Latin texts, see Lipomann, De Vifts Sanctorum, tom. li, pp. 231—253, (Venice edition); Surius, De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis, %. ii, pp. 278-281; and Acta Sanctorum, April 23, Appendix, p- vii. For the Syriac and Arabic versions of this martyrdom see Brit. Mus. Mss. Rich 7200, Add. 17205, 14734 and 14735; Wright’s Catalogue of the Syriac MSS. in the British Museum, pp. 1087, 1119 and 1422; and Rosen and Forshall, Cat. Codd. MSS. Grient. Pars i,
