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Excerpt from The Early Syriac Lectionary System
The importance of the document which is published for the first time in this Paper was pointed out by Dr Anton Baumstark in his interesting study of how the Bible was read in the Syriac-speaking Churches.l Dr Baumstark knew of it only from the description in Wright's Catalogue of the Syriac mss in the British Museum, but I should be ungrateful were I not to acknowledge my debt to him in having been the first to lay stress upon its value. Indeed, the extraordinary thing is that rm. Add. 14528 should have had to wait so many years for an editor.
Christian religious services are usually divided into Eucharistic, Daily, and Occasional Services. But in the case of Rites the arrange ment and order of which are imperfectly known it is best to treat them all together on a Kalendar, or yearly, basis. We are ignorant of much of the arrangement of early Christian services, because Service-books tend to be destroyed by wear, and are rarely recopied when the use they represent has been changed. And early writers in their references to the services of their time do not often give the precise details which alone are of value to us at the present day.
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