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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at|http : //books . google . com/ ^^RA»^* Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google THE COPTIC VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE NORTHERN DIALECT vol.. I. Digitized by VJ OOQ IC -^v" HENRV FROWDE, M.A. rUBLISHBR TO THE UNIVERSITT OP OXFORD IX>NDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK Digitized by Google THE COPTIC VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE NORTHERN DIALECT OTHERWISE CALLED MEMPHITIC AND BOHAIRIC INTRODUCTION, CRITICAL APPARATUS, AND LITERAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION VOLUME I THE GOSPELS OF S. MATTHEW AND S. MARK EDITED FROM MS. HUNTINGTON 17 IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1898 Digitized by VJ OOQ IC Oxford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, M. A. niNTKR TO THE VNIVRRSITV Digitized by Google — 7 CONTENTS FAOB PSKFACK ......... TU IxTBODCCnON : Text xiii Translatioii xvii Critical Apparatus xxxii Description of the Manuscripts xxxrii Begister and Additional Headings of the Coizon Catena cxxx Snpplementary Collation of MS. Brit Mns. 131 cxli The Qostxl accobdino to Matthew .... 2 Thx Ck>8PEI. ACCOBDINO TO MaBK 282 ASDinOHS AND COBBXCTION8 484 Digitized by Google Digitized by Google PREFACE This edition of the North Coptic Version of the New Testament was undertaken at the suggestion of Dr. Wallis Budge, Keeper g£ the Egyptian De- partment of the British Museiun. The original idea was to ascertain the character of the MSS., and to print a text with various readings of ten or twelve authorities. After the collation of thirty MSS. of the Gospel of S. Matthew, of three Lectionaries, of the Curzon Catena, and the sufficient examination of six other MSS., it seemed best to give the result of this work in full, thereby saving the laboiu- and time of other investigators in a somewhat thankless field, where the recent date of aU the MSS. deprives them of great interest. For the other three Gospels, twenty-two MSS. including the Catena and Lectionaries have been collated, and to these are added four which only contain the Gospel of S. John. Besides collating Mark i, Luke xxiv, John viii as test chapters in eleven other MSS., the whole of the Gospel of S. Mark was collated in two of them, then Luke xxiv Digitized by Google viii PREFACE. and John viii in four more which only contained those Gospels, and many chapters of three of the eleven were collated for all the three Gospels. Thus the character of forty-six MSS. has been determined with adequate certainty, and their contents with unim- portant exceptioiis shewn to be fairly homogeneous. Though two dated MSS. of the thirteenth, two probably earliei', and one of the fourteenth century were found during a visit to Cairo in 1892, the greater number of the oldest have been brought to the libraries of Europe. Rome, Paris, Berlin, London, and Oxford contain most, while Gottingen and two private English collections preserve some valuable specimens. The collation of many of these, begun in 1890, had been nearly completed in the autumn of 1893, by which time a large number of readings had been arranged and the MSS. finally classified. Printing began in the spring of 1894, but the first sheet was not printed off until August. Since that time the work has slowly but regularly progressed, and the three years have been chiefly occupied in compiling a con- cordance for the Gospels and a complete comparison with the Greek MSS. and other authorities cited by Tischendorf This work, however, as well as a dissertation upon the chapters and sections, must be reserved for another publication, which will also con- tain a collation of the English Revised Version with the Coptic text and various readings. It was in deference to the opinion of Professors Digitized by Google PREFACE. iz Ludwig Stem and Ignazio Guidi, and of the late Professor Lagarde that the text of one MS. was printed without attempt at emendaitionr The last- mentioned scholar deprecated the expense of time upon collation of other MSS., believing that the oldest Bodleian MS. contained the only ancient text. Before this important opinion had been heard, colla- tion had already revealed several interesting facts about the MSS., justifying the performance of the work, and shewing that the printed Bodleian text is not alone in its purity, but whik exhibiting more important omissions than other MSS. contains ad- ditions absent from two others which may be classed with it. Until much labour has been expended upon the material collected, no final conclusion can be attained concerning the character of the Version. The first impression produced by a superficial study of the text and various readings tends to confirm the prevalent estimate of the Version, and it appears probable that this estimate will remain established until documents of another sort are discovered in Egypt. The theory of the preservation of an unchanged form of text in the Egyptian Jacobite MSS. is also strikingly con- firmed by those collated. Corrections indeed occur in all, yet frequent notes in several state that the corrections are Greek and not Coptic, implying as plainly as possible that the Jacobite Copts jealously preserved a tradition as to the correct readings of Digitized by VJ OOQ IC X PREFACE. their Version against Melchite, i. e. Constantinopolitan readings or innovations. The text and variants are now submitted to the comparatively few scholars who can use them, with a hope that as regards the Gospels there may be in future no ground for the lament expressed by an eminent German authority, 'We are afraid to use the Coptic Bible.' As for the translation which has been made at the desire of Bishop Westcott and the request of the Clarendon Press, much can be learned from it respecting the peculiarities of the Version ; and many interesting facts relating to the Greek text will be now accessible to those English readers who may have patience to bear with the crudeness of the literal rendering. Besides the debt of gratitude which is pre-eminently due to Dr. Wallis Budge for his first su^estion and continued interest in the work, thanks are most gratefully given to several learned men whose names may also be recorded. It was the favovirable verdict of Professors Hyvemat and Guidi, upon a specimen offered by Dr. Neubauer to their criticism, which induced the Delegates of the Clarendon Press to accept the proposal for the work. Dr. Gregory of Leipzig gave important advice as to the method of col- lation, and such accxiracy as may have been attained is laxgely due to his valuable counsel. Dr. Bieu, Mr. A. G. Ellis, Professor Stem at Berlin, and Professor Zotenberg in Paris, devoted much time to questions Digitized by Google PRKFACE.

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