The latter is shown by the presence of a colophon, which, although it was erased, we learn that it was indeed present. the London manuscript of the Syriac translation never contained more than 5 books. in the latter books, the special readings of DM cease almost entirely, and that 2. That this is not just a peculiarity of BD but that BD, as so often, represents BDM, may be shown by two further indicators: that 1.

This is only conceivable if the two halves circulated separately.

Furthermore BD also change the spelling of “Moses” in the first and last books (see chapter 6) in the first books it is always given in the form Μωυσῆς, – the form used throughout in ATER – but in the last books they agree with M which always reads Μωσῆς. This would not normally happen, and can only be explained because the copyist of the exemplar of BD felt that he was running out of space, and that could only happen if a particular size τεῦχος was specified for the first 5 books and therefore also for the last 5 books. In BD at the end of book 5 the manuscripts suddenly shorten in a noticeable way: see the notes on p.504, ll.14-16, 19/20, 21, 21-25, 26 – p.506, 6, 13-15. There is substantial evidence that the final edition, present in BDMSA, was divided into two τεύχη of five books, if not by Eusebius himself, at least prior to the translation into Syriac. In chapter 2 we showed that Eusebius originally issued the 7 books of the original Church History with a single book as a sort of appendix, and how from this single book in the penultimate edition 3 more books were produced. Each entry in that table is a kephalaion. In Schwartz, the “kephalaia” are the tables of contents that appear at the top of each book. In order to follow the argument, it is necessary to know that Schwartz believed that Eusebius revised his work several times, mainly to remove people who had been executed or whatever in the meantime, and so produced four “editions”, the last in 325 AD.

I have also added English translations of the Greek kephalaia given in the text, and overparagraphed at one or two points. Anyway, I have prepared a rough translation of the pages in question, p.clxvii-cliii, with a view to making them better known. Of course one reason for this may be that it is incredibly hard for any non-German to read. A handful of pages on “titles and kephalaia” in GCS 9.3, by the editor, Eduard Schwarz, has nevertheless remained unchallenged for a century.

They certainly knew how to write scholarly editions, those editors of the Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller series.

Eusebius history of the church online