PREFACE. XIII
"May God (may He be glorified) bless him that had this book written, and may He, as He promised in His holy reward him thirty, sixty and a hundredfold."
manuscript when complete were same as those of A, and the variant readings from what remains of it are printed at the foot of the pages of the translation, because my edition from the Bodleian MS. A, was in type before I know of its existence.
The parchment manuscript C is preserved in the Vatican Library, where it bears the number 63 it was brought by
Assemani from a monastery near the Natron lakes. Many of the leaves have been injured by water, and some are so rotten that the letters can only be deciphered with the greatest difficulty.
The Martyrdom
written on
172 of the manuscript, the leaves of
ff.
106
of Saint George
is
which measure 13 in by 9 3/4. This portion of the manuscript was originally a separate book, and bore the number (267) which
CZ the
first leaf.
is
still
to be seen on the lower
The margins
of the first
margin of page are ornamented
with an intertwining line border painted in divers colours. This page is divided into two unequal parts by a painted line
ornament, in the upper, or larger,
work written in
is
the
title
of the
slender uncials, and in the lower are the first
few words of the text of the martyrdom. The manuscript is written with fine tenth century uncials in the Memphitic dialect. is
The 67 parchment
leaves on which the
written are divided into eight quires: the
first six
eight leaves each, the seventh contains seven,
(which
is
martyrdom contain
and the eighth
unnumbered) twelve. The leaves are paginated
