The Book of the Cave of Treasures in Syriac and Arabic

The Book of the Cave of Treasures in Syriac and ArabicThis Syriac and Arabic edition of the text of the Book of the Cave of Treasures was produced by Carl Bezold and published by him in Leipzig in 1888. Budges English translation of 1927 was made from a single manuscript in the British Museum which he deemed superior to all other available manuscripts. However, the Syriac text of that manuscript was not reproduced in Budges edition. In his introduction Budge refers to Bezolds edition as being an eclectic

This Syriac and Arabic edition of the text of the Book of the Cave of Treasures was produced by Carl Bezold and published by him in Leipzig in 1888. BudgeÕs English translation of 1927 was made from a single manuscript in the British Museum which he deemed superior to all other available manuscripts. However, the Syriac text of that manuscript was not reproduced in BudgeÕs edition. In his introduction Budge refers to BezoldÕs edition as being Òan eclectic text constructed from at least three manuscriptsÓ. In fact, Bezold made use of four manuscripts, including the same British Museum manuscript used by Budge. It is unclear why Budge would refer to BezoldÕs attempt at a critical edition as an ÒeclecticÓ text, but in the absence of an edition of the British Museum manuscript, BezoldÕs edition is reprinted here.