Historical printed page 485
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Work: Epistle of the Apostles
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Epistle of the Apostles — James original 1924, OCR
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485 EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLES The authorities for the text are : (a) a Coptic MS. of the fourth or fifth century at Cairo, mutilated; (b) a complete version in Ethiopic; (c) a leaf of a fifth-century MS. in Latin, palimpsest, at Vienna. The only edition which makes use of all the authorities is C. Schmidt’s, 1919. The Ethiopic was previously edited by Guerrier in Patrologia orientalis under the title of Testament of our Lord in Galilee. A notice of this text by Guerrier in the Revue de Orient Chrétien (1907) enabled me to identify it with the Coptic text, of which Schmidt had given a preliminary…
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- Epistle of the Apostles — James original 1924, OCR
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- Public domain
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- eng
- Source language
- eng
- Completeness
- Complete identified historical English Epistle of the Apostles section, printed pp.485–503 in the verified original1924 imprint, including source introduction and comparative Coptic/Ethiopic readings. Source notes and uncorrected OCR remain visible. No modern corrected/reprint edition, invented missing text or reconstruction.
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Recorded provenance: Exact source WORD text in LINE order from original1924 imprint retained in explicit page container. Full original XML exceeds native16MiB source-file bound, so no truncation or false raw-source claim: original remains immutable separately. This is distinct from the held corrected1953/1983reprint candidate. Complete identified historical English Epistle of the Apostles section, printed pp.485–503 in the verified original1924 imprint, including source introduction and comparative Coptic/Ethiopic readings. Source notes and uncorrected OCR remain visible. No modern corrected/reprint edition, invented missing text or reconstruction.
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