The book of protection : being a collection of charms, now edited for the first time from Syriac mss / with translation, introduction, and notes by Hermann Gollancz ... with 27 illustrations.

Date:
1912
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Credit: The book of protection : being a collection of charms, now edited for the first time from Syriac mss / with translation, introduction, and notes by Hermann Gollancz ... with 27 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lo the Evangelist! ^ Stretch forth, O my Lord and God, the right hand of Thy compassion from the High Sanctuary. Grant the food of those who worship Thee—an abundance of the heavenly grace of Thy sovereignty.’ This is the ordinary Chaldaic prayer before meals. On the last page the following occurs (in ink) in a third hand:— rrf yx. isq rC'.ico-ft) vra r<'.lco (c) (modern for K'ocn (sic) CTDOTiJaA K'l.vsa rtll (sic) cno.ir^ ^This MS. (is the property) of Mirza son of the deceased martyr George from Abajalu [two hours’ walk from Urmiah]. The man in whose hand it will fall and he will not return it to its owner, may he be under the ban of Mar Simeon.^ Codex B is very small in size, consisting of 118 pages carefully written in Estrangelo proper, nine lines to a page; and, as I have remarked before, it has the vowel signs throughout. Particular attention should be called to the large number of Fathers and Saints occurring in § 5, some perhaps hitherto scarcely or not at all known, many more than the number mentioned in the corresponding incantation in Codex A, § 52. Codex C (in the words of Wright) is written in an inelegant Nestorian, probably of the eighteenth century, and I might add that, in proportion to its size, it contains a large number of scribe^s errors. A striking instance is to be found in § II, more especially when compared with B.M. § 55. As regards the texts of A and B, the MSS. are in the main correctly written: scribes^ errors are pointed out in footnotes to the passages as they occur. Headings and other expressions