“The whole MS. consists of 216 pages, each page averaging
“about 28 lines. Sometimes towards the middle the limes number
«33 and 34. The portion of the Syriac text printed in this Part I
“is the beginning of the attempt at a reproduction of the docu-
“ment in its entirety, so that, page in our text nearly correspond-
“ing to page in the original, and line exactly to line, word for
“word, red type for red, and black type for black, we shall be
“enabled in the course of time, if encouraged, to accomplish the
“task of reproducing the whole document in fac-simile Estrangéla
*“‘ characters as contemplated.
“The translation strikes off with the Latin rendering of one of
“the documents already given in Mansi’s L’Abbe. The English
‘translation here given points to those very important matters
“connected with the characteristics of this MS. ; for it relates to
“what occurred after August 8, and to the case of Ibas and to
* the unfolding of the unlawful acts of Dioscorus and partisans at
‘the Synod, by which its President perverted it into a Concili-
* abulum and that Conciliabulum into the Latrocinium of Ephesus.
“The Emperor had summoned the Synod for August 1. Its first
“session, three extant fragments concerning which are given in
“ Latin and Greek in L’Abbe’s ‘ Conciliorum Collectio,’ took place


INTRODUCTION. XV.
“on August 8 It is the Session on Saturday, August 20, of
‘‘ which mention is made, and that on Monday, August 22, pro-
‘“‘ ceedings of which are recorded, in these Acts alone.
