THE

LAUGHABLE STORIES

COLLECTED BY

MÂR GREGORY JOHN BAR-HEBRÆUS

MAPHRIAN OF THE EAST FROM A.D. 1264 TO 1286

THE SYRIAC TEXT EDITED WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

BY

E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, LITT. D. (CANTAB), FṢ.A.

KEEPER OF THE EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES

IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

London

LUZAC AND CO.

[1897]

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, October 2009, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.