Studia Sinaitica No. XI: Apocrypha Syriaca
London: C. J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge University Press, 1902.
Quarto. lxxii, 158, 71 pp., with 8 collotype facsimile plates. Blue printed paper wrappers, spine lettered in black. Publisher's printed price cancel slip to lower front cover. First edition. Text block clean. Wrappers show light perimeter creasing, minor shelfwear, and slight chipping to spine extremities with a short split at the lower joint.
A foundational scholarly work in twentieth-century Semitic palaeography and early Christian apocrypha, edited and translated by biblical scholar Agnes Smith Lewis. Volume XI in the Studia Sinaitica series presents the critical first edition of two vital Syriac Christian apocryphal works transcribed from ancient palimpsests at Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, supplemented by Palestinian Syriac fragments from the Taylor-Schechter Cairo Genizah collection. Complete with extensive linguistic commentary, full English translations, Syriac type transcriptions, and eight photographic collotype plates reproducing the original manuscript hands. L3.
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