Excerpt from Catalogue of the Syriac Mss. In the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai Convent 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 that has never before been granted to a European visitor, and which sprung directly out of a visit paid by my sister, Mrs Gibson, and myself to the monastery in February, 1892. I had then the pleasure of discovering and photo graphing the palimpsest, No. 30, which contains the Four Gospels in Old Syriac, a Palestinian Syriac Lectionary, No. I, a tenth century Arabic codex of the Gospels, a ninth century Arabic codex of some of St Paul's Epistles, and a Greek Liturgy of St Mark of Alexandria; some of these being hitherto unknown in Europe, and others being known by one, or in the case of the Liturgy, by two copies only. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.