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 were current among the dwellers in monasteries on the essentials of faith and works.

The English translations of the Homilies which follow the Coptic texts have been made as literal as possible, but in some passages the meaning is obscure, and the renderings I have given must be only regarded as suggestions as to their general sense. Most of the quotations from Scripture have been identified.

The Appendix contains Syriac and Ethiopic versions of certain Homilies which are valuable for deciding the order of the texts of the Coptic versions, and for illustrating their meaning. All the texts in this volume are edited from MSS. in the British Museum, and they, and the English translations given herein, are published for the first time.

E. A. WALLIS BUDGE.

Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities,

British Museum.

May 28th, 1910.