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Church. Almost the latest reference to it in the Early Church is made by George Syncellus in his Chronography about 800 A.D., who preserved for us some long passages in Greek. The book was then lost sight of until 1773, when an Ethiopic version of it was found in Abyssinia by Bruce. This traveler brought home three copies of it: two old manuscripts and a transcript from one of them. From one of these, Laurence made the first modern translation of Enoch in 1821.

§ 2. THE ETHIOPIC MANUSCRIPTS.

There are seventeen manuscripts of this book in Europe. Of these, one is in Paris, a transcript of B in the Bodleian. Another is in the Vatican Library, but of this manuscript I know nothing further. The remaining fifteen are designated by the letters A, B, C, D, etc. Of these, Laurence based his text on A, and Dillmann on A, B, C, D, and E. For a description of these five manuscripts, see Dillmann’s Liber Henoch, Aethiopice, Annotat. original: "Liber Henoch, Aethiopice, Annotat." (Latin); "The Book of Enoch, in Ethiopic, with Annotations" pp. 1, 2.

Of the remaining manuscripts, all of which are in the British Museum, two were obtained by purchase (F, L in 1861 and 1862), and the rest fell into the hands of the expedition against King Theodore at Magdala.

These manuscripts with their numbers in the British Museum Catalogue are as follows:

Letter	Catalogue No.	Date	Description
F.	Add. 24185	19th cent.	Divided into 106 chapters.
G.	Orient. 485	Early 16th cent.	Without usual division and numbering of chapters.
G¹.	,, ,,	,, ,,	Consists only of xcvii. 6b—cviii. 10. See Critical Note on xci. 6.
H.	Orient. 484	18th cent.	Divided into 108 chapters.
I.	,, 486	,,	Chapters i—lx. 12a wanting.
K.	,, 490	,,	Divided into 107 chapters.
L.	Add. 24990	,,
M.	Orient. 491	,,	Without usual numbering and division into chapters.
N.	,, 492	,,	Divided into 87 chapters.
O.	,, 499	,,	Divided into 106 chapters.