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His main achievement was as a cataloguer of manuscript collections. The rich Syriac holdings of the
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The departure of my Lady Mary from this world / edited from two Syriac MSS. in the
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Contributions to the apocryphal literature of the New
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S. Ignatius. Revised texts with introductions, notes, dissertations, and translations. Gr., Lat., Eng.-Syriac remains of S. Ignatius. (1885).
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