A catalogue of the Ethiopic Biblical manuscripts in the Royal Library of Paris, and in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society; also some account of those in the Vatican Library at Rome ... To which are added, specimens of versions of the New Testament into the modern languages of Abyssinia / and a grammatical analysis of a chapter in the Amharic dialect. With facsimiles of an Ethiopic and an Amharic manuscript.

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1823
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Credit: A catalogue of the Ethiopic Biblical manuscripts in the Royal Library of Paris, and in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society; also some account of those in the Vatican Library at Rome ... To which are added, specimens of versions of the New Testament into the modern languages of Abyssinia / and a grammatical analysis of a chapter in the Amharic dialect. With facsimiles of an Ethiopic and an Amharic manuscript. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the words in verse 23, “as it is written in the Law of the Lord.” The two MSS. vary more in chapter viii. ver. 16, than in any other passage; or at least there are not more than one or two verses where I have observed so much difference. It is, therefore, presented as a specimen of the nature of the variations. St. Luke viii. 16. No. iii. cdA£vo: HP***: roH'fr'L: (dkyik^ : Ypp : : y/a y: % Y: h Wnft: : yYy : ,ecAF:-nc¥f: aa: .pSaaot:: No. 18. (D AAP: HJP/h-fc: ^irliYY: ; #51£^Y: Y/BY : Y1&.C :: (DA m: ap : y/ay: °?<^Y: ha^ha: yi*™ : jpYacy: £n: yYy*31! : (DYncu: AAA: Ftthar:: But it is time to leave a subject upon which it was merely proposed to throw out some hints for the consideration of the Ethiopic Scholar. On the whole, I entertain hopes that, by the aid of the MS. No. 18, a part of which 1 have copied, together with those which the Bible Society itself possesses, the projected edition of the Gospels may exhibit a tolerably accurate and faithful text. 1 proceed to insert, as above proposed, some notices, extracted from two of the MSS., respecting their dates, and similar particulars, as also some extraneous pieces, appended or prefixed to them, which seem not entirely without interest. In the first leaf of No. 18, which is a fine folio MS., written on parch- ment, we find the following inscription : ayyyy1: A-ft:: cdcdaj^ : (D^S^a: Y&a :: (DU-aYp: Ai: ak<5.: ucAtf-: tow: (dak : a^k : Rtt: tow: [n]a™ : ^tow^p: Y° A'n3nx£0A: h^y : (D32A: 3>k,a :: abt : /hYCPY : hk-a^: (l) There is some appearance of a small portion of the leaf having been lost at the com- mencement of the piece. Perhaps it was written AA A°YYI as I have found it elsewhere. Any letters which were not quite distinct in the MS. and which I had doubts are inclosed in brackets.