XII PREFACE. 2. An Encomium upon Saint George by Theodosius, Bishop of Jerusalem. Fol. 83 a. 3. The nine Miracles wrought by Saint George. Fol.950. The paper manuscript B is in the possession of Lord Crawford, and formerly belonged to Henry Tattam. It consists of 148 leaves measuring 8% in. by 5%. Each page is occupied by one column of writing of 15 lines. The quires were originally 18 in number, and some of the leaves have been much stained by water. Leaves 1 to 31, 40, and 179-184 are wanting; two leaves have been paged pe instead of Pe and ps; and leaves and poa ров have been bound up at the end of the manuscript instead of in their proper place. The manuscript is written in the Memphitic dialect in a fine bold hand, and belongs in all probability to the xiith century. On fol. 90, are three lines of Arabic which run:
الرب الاله سبحانه تبارك على المهتم بهذا الكتاب و يعوضه كما وعد في انجيله المقدس عن الواحد بثلثين و متين و مايه
pp. 92, 111. An Ethiopic version of the account of the martyrdom of S. George attributed to Pasikrates is described by Zotenberg, Cata- logue des Manuscrits Éthiopiens, p. 203; and for other Ethiopic ver- sions of it see Wright, Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscripts in the British Museum, pp. 102, 168, 189 and 190. 1 About A. D. 450. See infra p. 236. 2 The number of miracles attributed to S. George by the Ethio- pians amounts to as many as eighty. See Wright, Catalogue of Ethiopic MSS., p. 190. Digitized by Microsoft®
