Of Weight, Including Coinage.........44 56
Of Capacity, Local Usages..........54 63
Of Area and Length............57 66
Concerning Names of Places, in Part......61 71
Individual Sites.............61 71
The Quarters of the Heavens.........80 77
The Geography of Palestine..........81 80
The Stars............... 82 81
Geographic Terms............83 82
Colophon...............84 83
Syriac Text of Manuscript A........... 85
Collation................. 119
Only this one heading occurs in the Syriac. The rest of the analysis included in the Table of Contents is added merely for the reader's convenience. |xiv
APPENDIX
I. The Alphabets in Syriac Manuscript B.......135
II. Translation of the Greek Text of § 21.......136
III. Translation of the Fragmentary Conclusion of the Greek Text Following § 24.............138
IV. Summary of the Weights and Measures.......142
ABBREVIATIONS ETC.
Most of the references in the footnotes are written in full, or so nearly so that no special key is needed; but the following abbreviations occur:
A British Museum Or. Add. 17148, the manuscript used as our text
B British Museum Or. Add. 14620, all of whose variants are given in the collation
c The symbol employed by Lagarde ( Symmicta II [Göttingen, 1880] 149-216) for Oporinus' edition of the Greek text and retained here in the footnotes
K The Karkaphensian manuscript belonging to Mar Severius, archbishop of Syria and the Lebanon, the variants from which also are given
L Lagarde's edition of the Syriac text in his Veteris Testamenti ab Origine recensiti fragmenta apud Syros servata quinque (Gottingae, 1880) pp. 1-76; his variations from A are collated