Author: H. B. Swete

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Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781331861065

Excerpt from The Akhmim Fragment of the Apocryphal Gospel of St. Peter: Edited With an Introduction Notes and Indices AT the end of November, 1892, shortly after the appearance of M. Bouriant's editio princeps, I published for the use of students a tentatively corrected text of the newly discovered fragment of the Petrine Gospel. This reprint was issued again in February, 1893, with some corrections obtained from the MS. through the kindness of the late Professor Bensly, whose recent death has brought upon all studies of this kind a loss which it is impossible to estimate. The text which I now offer to the public has been revised throughout by the aid of the heliographic reproduction of the MS. just published by M. Ernest Leroux of Paris. Through the courtesy of M. Leroux I am able to enrich my book with a specimen of this facsimile. The Introduction and the notes which have been added to the text are based on lectures delivered in the Divinity School at Cambridge during the Lent Term of the present year. The results at which I have ventured to arrive were reached independently, but in preparing my materials for the press I have freely availed myself of all the literature upon the subject which has fallen into my hands. It is difficult to discriminate in all cases between details which have suggested themselves directly and those which have been gathered from other sources; but I have endeavoured to acknowledge, in passing, the most important of the debts of which I am conscious. 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."