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An Arabic text of the apocryphal acts of the apostles, including the martyrdom of St Paul, first published in 1904.

A transcription of a Syriac text from the monastic library of St Catherine, Mount Sinai, first published in 1900.

This 1870 account of women travelling across Europe to the Middle East began an adventurous career for the Smith sisters.

A meticulous inventory of the Syriac documents in the Monastery of St Catherine, Mount Sinai, first published in 1894.

A collection of scriptural lessons from a Syriac manuscript translated by Agnes Lewis and first published in 1897.

A transcription of a Syriac manuscript including Christian and Islamic texts, translated by Agnes Lewis, first published in 1902.

This 1898 work follows the later visits to St Catherine's Monastery by Scottish explorers and biblical scholars Gibson and Lewis.

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Excerpt from The Mythological Acts of the Apostles The manuscript from which I have taken most of these stories was found by Mrs Gibson and myself in the Coptic Convent of Deyr-es-Suriani, or St Mary Deipara, in the Wady Natron, Egypt, the monastery from which, fifty years ago, a great treasure of Syriac Mss. was conveyed to the British Museum by Messrs Tattam and Pacho. We photographed it almost completely during our first visit to the Conve...

Excerpt from A Translation of the Four Gospels: From the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest The 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

Excerpt from In the Shadow of Sinai: A Story of Travel and Research From 1895 to 1897 He 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 Publisher Forgotten Books...

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 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 ...

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