Note 712 — Chapter XVIII · VINCENT FIGGINS, 1792.

Novum Testamentum Syriace denuo recognitum atque ad fidem Codicum MSS. emendatum. Impressit R. Watts. London 1816, 4to. Dr. Buchanan was born in 1766 and went to India in 1796, where his researches led to the discovery, among other things, of some interesting Hebrew Manuscripts of portions of the Bible, on goat skins and tablets of brass. He died in the year 1815. The Syriac Testament was corrected by him as far as the Acts, and completed by Dr. Lee, Arabic Professor at Cambridge. See ante, p. 68.