Curetonian Syriac
Early translation · syr c · translation 3rd–4th century; manuscript 5th century
The Old Syriac Gospels, translated before the Peshitta, in a 5th-century manuscript from a monastery in the Egyptian desert. William Cureton published it in 1858. Its last leaf of Mark has 16:17–20.
Contents
Parts of the four Gospels.
Where It Is Kept
British Library, London (Add. 14451).
Cited For
- Mark 16:9–20 “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils …”
Early translations show the Greek their translators had, sometimes older than any Greek manuscript of the passage that survives. Their abbreviations name the language: it (Old Latin), vg (Vulgate), syr (Syriac), cop (Coptic), arm (Armenian), goth (Gothic), slav (Slavonic).
