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Some Pages of the Four Gospels Re-Transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest with a Translation of the whole Text is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical w...

Excerpt from Forty-One Facsimilies of Dated Christian Arabic Manuscripts: With Text and English TranslationIn conclusion, as we are told by Deacon Simeon, the copyist of No. XXXVI. That imperfection exists in the soul of Nature, and the defects of the sons of Nature are not unknown, we would echo his prayer that every one who reads in this book, and finds any defect or fault and puts it right, God may put him right in this world and in the oth...

Excerpt from Forty-One Facsimilies of Dated Christian Arabic Manuscripts: With Text and English TranslationIn conclusion, as we are told by Deacon Simeon, the copyist of No. XXXVI. That imperfection exists in the soul of Nature, and the defects of the sons of Nature are not unknown, we would echo his prayer that every one who reads in this book, and finds any defect or fault and puts it right, God may put him right in this world and in the oth...

Excerpt from Light on the Four Gospels From the Sinai PalimpsestThe page which I have chosen from 362 others for the illustration, exhibits as its first word, nay, as its first letter, one of those minute points in which my reading of the Syriac text differs from Dr Burkitt's. Its upper script is turned upside down.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comT...

Excerpt from Light on the Four Gospels From the Sinai PalimpsestThe page which I have chosen from 362 others for the illustration, exhibits as its first word, nay, as its first letter, one of those minute points in which my reading of the Syriac text differs from Dr Burkitt's. Its upper script is turned upside down.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comT...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Syriac Mss. In the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount SinaiConvent of St Catherine on Mount Sinai was made by me in the month of February, 1893. It is not a complete catalogue of their contents, the time at my disposal (forty days) and the necessity of completing other work to which I had set my hands having precluded me from compiling anything that goes much beyond a mere index. I took advantage of an opportunity t...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Syriac Mss. In the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount SinaiConvent of St Catherine on Mount Sinai was made by me in the month of February, 1893. It is not a complete catalogue of their contents, the time at my disposal (forty days) and the necessity of completing other work to which I had set my hands having precluded me from compiling anything that goes much beyond a mere index. I took advantage of an opportunity t...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Syriac Mss. In the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount SinaiI have taken the story of Cyprian and Justa in Arabic from the Sinai ms. No. 445, a paper codex of the twelfth century.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to...

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Excerpt from In the Shadow of Sinai: A Story of Travel and Research From 1895 to 1897He was taken from me very suddenly in the spring of 1891, and my sister Mrs. Gibson being a widow also, we resolved that our next year's trip Should be to Sinai. That summer saw the publication of the Syriac text of the A polog of Aristides, which had been dis covered by Dr. J. Rendel Harris in the Sinai Library in 1889.About the PublisherForgotten Books publi...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Mythological Acts of the Apostles: Translated From an Arabic Ms. In the Convent of Deyr-Es-Suriani, Egypt, and From Mss. In the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai and in the Vatican LibraryIV. Cod. Sin. Arab. 405, from which I have taken the Martyrdom Of St Paul and St Peter, has also been described in Mrs Gibson's catalogue. It is an undated paper ms. Probably of a late period, containing 236 leaves, each measuring 33 ce...

Excerpt from Through CyprusCome travel soon thy friends will be replaced. Come work, and life's true sweetness thou shalt know. Success and fame are never found in rest, But cares are. Leave thy native land, and go. For water, that by standing waxeth foul, Is sweet and good if once it 'gin to ¿ow. No eye of watcher will observe the moon, Unless her wondrous changes she doth show The hunter starts before the lion dies The arrow hits not ere it ...

Excerpt from A Translation of the Four Gospels: From the Syriac of the Sinaitic PalimpsestThe convent of St. Katharine on Mount Sinai stands on the barren granite rocks of a narrow desert valley 4500 feet above the level of the Red Sea, and some 2800 feet below the summit of J ebel Mousa, on whose precipitous side it rests. A community of monks dwelt there from a very early period.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Syriac Mss. In the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount SinaiConvent of St Catherine on Mount Sinai was made by me in the month of February, 1893. It is not a complete catalogue of their contents, the time at my disposal (forty days) and the necessity of completing other work to which I had set my hands having precluded me from compiling anything that goes much beyond a mere index. I took advantage of an opportunity t...