Note 225 — Chapter IX
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The following partial list of the works of these erudite twins on subjects connected with Scripture and Oriental literature gives some idea of their extraordinary attainments and of their prodigious activity in researches that are usually considered entirely foreign to the tastes and aptitudes of women.
Some Pages of the Four Gospels Retranscribed From the Sinaitic Palimpsest, with a translation of the whole text by Agnes Smith Lewis.
An Arabic Version of St. Paul's Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, Galatians and part of Ephesians. Edited from a ninth century MS. by Margaret Dunlop Gibson.
Apocrypha Sinaitica. Containing the Anaphora Pilati in Syriac and Arabic: the Syriac transcribed by J. Rendel Harris, and the Arabic by Margaret Dunlop Gibson; also two recensions of the Recognitions of Clement, in Arabic, transcribed and translated by Margaret Dunlop Gibson.
An Arabic Version of the Acts of the Apostles and the Seven Catholic Epistles, from an eighth or ninth century MS., with a treatise on the Triune Nature of God and translation. Edited by Margaret Dunlop Gibson.
Apocrypha Arabica, Edited by Margaret D. Gibson, containing 1, Kitab al Magall or the Book of the Rolls; 2, The Story of the Aphikia Wife of Jesus Ben Sira (Carshuni); 3, Cyprian and Justa, in Arabic and Greek.
Select Narratives of Holy Women, from the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest, as written above the Old Syriac Gospels in A. D. 778. Translation by Agnes Smith Lewis.
Apocrypha Syriaca Sinaitica, being the Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariæ, from a Palimpsest of the fifth or sixth century. Edited by Agnes Smith Lewis.
Forty-One Facsimiles of Dated Christian Arabic Manuscripts, with Text and English Translation, arranged by Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, with introductory observations in Arabic calligraphy by the Rev. David S. Margoliouth.
The Didascalia Apostolorum in Syriac, edited from a Mesopotamian MS, with various readings and collations of other MS, by Margaret Dunlop Gibson.
The Arabic Version of the Acta Apocrypha Apostolorum, edited and translated by Agnes Smith Lewis, with fifth century fragments of the Acta Thomæ, in Syriac.
The Gospel of Isbodad in Syriac and English, by Margaret D. Gibson.
Acta Mythologica Apostolorum in Arabic, with translation by Agnes Smith Lewis.
For an elaborate and sympathetic account of the labors and discoveries of Mrs. Lewis and her sister, the reader is referred to an article from the pen of the learned Professor V. Ryssel, in the Schweizerische Theologische Zeitschrift, XVI, Jahrgang, 1899.