XIV PREFACE,
consecutively, on their reverse sides only, for the first six | quires; there are niustakes in the seventh quire, and the eighth quire is not paginated at all. The manuseript is bound in red skin, and bears the arms of Pope Clement XI and Cardinal Pamphili. On fol. 172 4, are written 17 lines of small uncials which tell us that the manuscript was written by the care of the God-loving brethren Peter the deacon, Kellong the deacon, and their spiritual son, whose name is not given, and placed in the Church of Saint Michael of Gephroeneyét.' On the reverse of the same page are 13 lines of writing, the last of which states that the manuscript was written in the year of the Martyrs 672—A. D. 956.
The fragment of the Sahidie version of the Martyrdom and Miracles of Saint George, D, is preserved in the Vatican Library” The*leaves are eleven in number, nine paged iF —RA, and two, containing fragments of his miracles, wn- paged, There are two columns of writing to each page, and the manuscript was written probably in the viiith or ixth century. We learn from the colophon that the manu- script was written by two brothers called Stephen and John; and that it was made at the expense of Apa Jacob the son of the Arch-Apa Lués and Kalban, of the town of Shmin® Panos, “for the salvation of his soul, and that Saint
1 [ have not been able to identify this town.
2 See Zoega, Catalogus Codd. Copt., p. 240, no, elii.
3 A town situated on the east bank of the Nile not far from This, the Panopolis of the Grecks, and the modern Ahmim. It is a very ancient town (so Africanus, vili), and was famed for its linen manu-
