Palimpsest

The book was much larger in size, and the underwriting from its yellowish tinge more easily distinguished from the clear black characters of the later work.

but the gospels looked very faint and forlorn their washed-out remains were partly often entirely covered by the female martyrology written ruthlessly across them by the vigorous hand of some devout and no doubt well-meaning scribe and it seemed at first sight as if little more could be recovered from the original than from those photographs Yet the almost complete edition of the Four Gospels in Syriac, transcribed from the Synactic Palimpsest, published by the Cambridge University Press in 1894, has since shown to the world how many difficulties can be overcome by true scholarship, self-devotion, and unremitting labor.

the archbishop's room not being always accessible the precious volume was at once transferred in the custody of a monk to an upper chamber opening from the wooden gallery at the top of the building and the narrow window not admitting sufficient light a rickety table was pushed out on to the gallery itself and here my husband sat down the first to attempt the deciphering of this almost illegible manuscript a strong wind was blowing flustering the leaves and chilling the reader but he worked quietly on until the monk on duty told us that it was eleven five p m according to our chronology and therefore time to shut the convent gate for the night By the kind interference of Mrs. Lewis, whose every request the abbot seemed ready to grant, the book was henceforth entrusted entirely to the care of our party.

It was taken down to the gardens and kept in the tents, and the work was considerably lightened by thus putting the time and place of it at the command of the transcribers.

In the outer wall high up is a square window with dim panes of glass.

and beneath it a little altar rather an open shrine three silver lamps always burning hang inside and a plate of solid silver is let into the floor below to mark the site of the burning bush the cross on the altar of exquisite workmanship is a gift from the emperor of russia nicodemus took it down and even gave it into our hands that we might examine the delicate details the artistic figures in the small enamelled medallions and the jewelled initials of st catherine that are skilfully interwoven into the arabesque tracery perhaps in our eyes the impressive beauty of the chapel was a little marred by the grotesque old pictures chiefly of apostles and martyrs that abound on the walls but the monks admire it all the more for these pious additions many of which are moreover long cherished presents from illustrious pilgrims not only this particular place but everything else in the church is kept with the greatest care and the good fathers do not allow rust and moth to corrupt their treasures it is different with the mosque that stands close by though substantially built it looks unused and neglected the bedouin that pass with their camels though allowed to enter prefer to say their prayers outside and the flat roof of the well by the roadside seems to be a favorite place where they spread their little mats and perform their devotions after washing in the water below at last on the afternoon of february ninth the abbot met us in the archbishop's room and the palimpsest was brought out from its secret hiding-place the photographs taken by mrs lewis were excellent indeed of their kind the book was much larger in size and the underwriting from its yellowish tinge more easily distinguished from the clear black characters of the later work but the gospels looked very faint and forlorn their washed-out remains were partly often entirely covered by the female martyrology written ruthlessly across them by the vigorous hand of some devout and no doubt well-meaning scribe and it seemed at first sight as if little more could be recovered from the original than from those photographs Yet the almost complete edition of the Four Gospels in Syriac, transcribed from the Synactic Palimpsest, published by the Cambridge University Press in 1894, has since shown to the world how many difficulties can be overcome by true scholarship, self-devotion, and unremitting labor.

the archbishop's room not being always accessible the precious volume was at once transferred in the custody of a monk to an upper chamber opening from the wooden gallery at the top of the building and the narrow window not admitting sufficient light a rickety table was pushed out on to the gallery itself and here my husband sat down the first to attempt the deciphering of this almost illegible manuscript a strong wind was blowing flustering the leaves and chilling the reader but he worked quietly on until the monk on duty told us that it was eleven five p m according to our chronology and therefore time to shut the convent gate for the night by the kind interference of Mrs. Lewis, whose every request the abbot seemed ready to grant, the book was henceforth entrusted entirely to the care of our party.

It was taken down to the gardens and kept in the tents, and the work was considerably lightened by thus putting the time and place of it at the command of the transcribers.

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