DENHA, patriarch, 1270, N.: A Confession of Faith. GABRIEL, metropolitan of Mosul, 1282: Poems on the Creation, the Incarnation, and the Preaching of the Apostles.

DIOSCORUS, bishop of Gozarta, 1285: A Liturgy,

extant.

IGNATIUS, patriarch J. 1293: A Liturgy, extant. The personal name of this prelate was Joseph bar Valub.

SIMEON, presbyter and monk, thirteenth century: A Treatise on Baptism and the Eucharist.

CHAMISIUS BAR KARDACHI: a Nestorian hymnographer at the end of the thirteenth century.

TIMOTHY II. patriarch N. in 1317: canons, a treatise on the Sacraments.

EBED JESU, metropolitan of Soba, ob. 1318, N.: 1. A commentary on the Old and New Testaments; 2. A Book on the Incarnation; 3. Poems, entitled, “ The Paradise of Eden;" 4. A manual of synodic Canons; 5. Margonitho, or, "A treatise on the Truth of Religion;" 6. The Arcana of the Greek Philosophy; 7. A scholastic Refutation of several Heresies; 8. A collection of ecclesiastical Decisions; 9. Twelve Orations; 10. Various Expositions, paracletic Sermons, and Homilies; 11. An Explanation of the Epistle of Aristotle to Alexander; 12. Epistles; 13. A metrical Catalogue of the canonical Books of Scripture, and of the principal Nestorian Authors; 14. A Solution of various difficult Questions, Enigmas, and Parables.

AMRUS BAR MATTHAI, about 1340: the reputed author of a work called "Magdal, or the Tower," a system of ecclesiastical polity.

IGNATIUS BEHENAM, patriarch, J., 1412: a Liturgy and Poems, not extant.

GEORGE VARDA, 1538: Hymns.

JOHN ANANIAS XENAJAS, patriarch, 1484: a Liturgy,

extant.

EBDOCA, 1488: a Syriac Grammar; Biblioth. Royale, Paris, No. 169.

NOAH, patriarch, 1494: Poems.

THOMAS JABALLAHA, JACOB, and DENHA, bishops of the Syrian Christians in Malabar, 1504: an Epistle to Elijah, Nestorian patriarch, respecting the transactions of the Portuguese Romanists in that country. See the Epistle in ASSEM. Bib. Orient. iii. 590.

ELIJAH, patriarch, 1584: a Confession of Faith.

MOSES, a presbyter of Mardeen, in Mesopotamia, was sent to Rome in 1552, from Ignatius, patriarch of the Jacobites, on a legation to pope Julius III.: he may be said to have been one of the editors of the Peschito. (See Hora Aramaicæ, p. 77.) He wrote, 1. A Profession of Faith, which was translated into Latin by Masius, who published also, under the name of Moses of Mardeen, 2. A theological Contemplation on the Holy Trinity; chiefly compiled from various Syrian divines.

JOHN SULAKA, patriarch in 1553: a Confession, edited by Masius in Syriac and Latin, 1569.

EBEDJESU, patriarch, 1554: four Poems, and a Confession.

MOSES, patriarch of the Maronites, 1567: four Epis

tles.

ELIJA, patriarch of Babylon: a Confession addressed to Paul V.; Epistles to the same.

ADAM, archimandrite,* and in 1615 bishop of Amida : at first a Nestorian, but subsequently submitted to Rome : Three Discourses, one written in the former part of his

* A monastery was sometimes called Mandra, that is, a fold;" hence the title of Archimandrita, "the chief father or governor of a monastery."

life in the defence of Nestorianism; the two latter against it.

ELIJAH, patriarch, 1615: an Epistle.

SIMEON, bishop of Amida, 1616: Hymns.

GABRIEL HESNA, 1616: Hymns.

GABRIEL, a Chaldee archbishop, 1616: Two eulogistic Poems addressed to Paul V.

JOHN BASLUKITA, M.: a Poem on Man, composed at Rome, in 1627.

GEORGE AMIRA, M., studied at Rome, and was elected Maronite patriarch in 1633: a Syriac Grammar, (in Latin,) with prolegomena on the antiquity, dignity, excellence, and utility of the language.

ISAAC, bishop of Sciadra, 1629, educated at Rome : 1. A Syriac Grammar in that language; 2. A metrical Eulogy on Urban VIII.

JOSEPH ACURIENSIS, patriarch, M., ob. 1647: a Syriac Grammar, printed at Rome in 1645.

THOMAS, bishop of Marga, 1663: a monastic History. JOSEPH II., patriarch, ob. 1714: a Work on the Nestorian Controversy on the person of Christ.

SECOND CLASS.-AUTHORS OF UNCERTAIN DATES.

CHUNAN, or John bar Isaac: a treatise on the fear of God; a Syriac Grammar and a small Lexicon.

ELISHA, Commentaries on Job, and the Epistles to the Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, and Philippians; Orations and Prayers.

JOHN BAR PHINYOKEE, monk, N.: seven volumes, comprising treatises on Grammar; against certain heretical Sects ; on the seven eyes of the Lord; and a non-extant tract on Bonds, (D'Aseree,) but in what sense is uncertain. MOCHIMUS, presbyter: against Eutyches.

AITKEN, monk of Mount Izla, N.: a Disputation;

Epistles; a treatise on Discipline; an Ecclesiastical History; and a Life of the abbot Joseph.

ELISHA BAR SAPHANIN, monk of Mount Izla, N.: a Commentary on the Psalms; Sentences; Enigmas. ABRAHAM KATINA, N.: Sentences; Questions. DOMNIUS: Orations.

SUSI: A Book of Thanksgivings.

ARA: A work against Magic; another against Bardesanes; and a third against Pacorus or Pacor. ZAKI of Sura: A Cosmogony.

JOHN ESTUNOIA, or the Stylite: A Syriac Grammar. JESU BAR ALI: A Lexicon.

GABRIEL (under Haroun Alraschid): A Lexicon.

JOHN BAR KALDON, monk of Beth Sajare, N.: Polemic and ascetical Treatises, and a collection of moral Epigrams, with the title of "The Beauty of Beauties," extant in the Vatican.

GEORGE, bishop of Nisebin: A theological Poem, preserved in the history of Thomas of Marga, lib. ii. cap. 12. BARITA, monk: A Monastic History.

ABRAHAM: Church-Constitutions.

SABARJESU, presbyter of Mosul: A Poem on Fasting, and a Disputation between a Christian and a Jew.

MADUSUS, physician: A Poem on the Epiphany of the Messiah.

JOHN BAR APHTONIUS, abbot of St. Thoma of Seleucia at Cansarin: a Poem on the Nativity, extant. THEODOSIUS, Jacobite: Epistles.

ISAIA, of Arzunita: A Martyrology.

COSMA, presbyter of Phanir in Colo-Syria: A life of Simeon the Stylite, and an Epistle.

JOHN of Apamea in Colo-Syria: Tracts and Epistles on the spiritual Life.

GEORGE, bishop of the Arab Christians: A Chronicle or Calendar in Metre.

PHOCAS of Edessa: A Commentary on the Works of Dionysius the Areopagite.

ABUCORA, bishop of Harran, J.: A history of a Disputation held between him and a certain Mahometan, before the Khalif Almamon, extant in the Bib. Royale, Paris, Codd. Syr. 126.

MOSES SEVERUS, or BAR CEPHA, J.: A Treatise on the Work of the six Days.

OMAR of Bassora, N: Theological Questions.

JOHN, surnamed the Scholar: A Treatise on the Creation.

ABRAHAM BEN NOAH: Against the Jews.

JAHIA BAR HARRIRI: A Treatise on the Priesthood. ANDREW of Edessa: Dialogues between a Master and Disciple.

ELIJA, bishop of Edessa: Explanations of some parts of the Gospels.

ABRAHAM of Bassora: A Dialogue.

ABULEZZIUS, presbyter: Prayers and Offices.

Ebedjesu in his bibliographical poem, art. 193, speaks of an anonymous work on the Incarnation; a "Book of Elucidations; and two volumes of Historical Narratives. There are several anonymous treatises, controversial and homiletic, among the Syriac MSS. in the British Mu

seum.

THIRD CLASS.-TRANSLATIONS.

THE literature of the Syrian church was materially enriched by the introduction of many precious works in religion and philosophy * from the Greek language. In this department we find such labourers as Rabbula, and Phocas of Edessa, Ihiba, Surin, Hippolytus, Cyprian of Nisebin, Sergius of Rhesina, Paul of Cyprus, Matthew Jona, Jacob of Edessa, Simeon of Garmæa, and others. Some of these translations exist at the present day, and

* Of the latter, are the works of Aristotle and Galen.