nunc primum, ex antiquissimis codicibus manuscriptis in lucem editi, à Thoma Erpenio, qui & versionem Latinam adjecit. Colophon reads: Lugduni... Show morenunc primum, ex antiquissimis codicibus manuscriptis in lucem editi, à Thoma Erpenio, qui & versionem Latinam adjecit. Colophon reads: Lugduni Batavorum. Ex Typographia Sauariana MDCXIIII Excudebat Stephanus Paulinus. Title in Syriac and Latin; Syriac and Latin text in parallel columns; prefatory material in Latin. Show less
Introduction: The sources of the "Cave of treasures" and its contents. -- Translation of the Cave of treasures. -- Testamentum Adami. --... Show moreIntroduction: The sources of the "Cave of treasures" and its contents. -- Translation of the Cave of treasures. -- Testamentum Adami. -- Supplementary translations. -- Abraham and the city of Ur. -- The excavations at Ur of the Chaldees. translated from the Syriac text of the British museum ms. Add. 25875, by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge ... With 16 plates and 8 illustrations in the text. "In the Syriac title the composition of the work is attributed to Aprêm Suryâyâ, i.e.; Ephrem Syrus, or Ephraim the Syrian, who ... died in [A.D.] 373, but it is now generally believed that the form in which we now have it is not older than the VIth century."--Page [xi]. Main Heritage Compact General BS559 .M33 1927 Book Item-ID: i25847946 BIB-ID: 2746328 Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-294). Show less
discovered, edited, and translated by William Cureton. Includes bibliographical references. Show morediscovered, edited, and translated by William Cureton. Includes bibliographical references. Show less
