Author Harris James Rendel

sed 47 rolls and codices written in Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian and Ethiopic. He said that these texts, which discussed biblical and linguistic topics and some of which were as old as the 13th century, were "all acquired by the lawful, though sometimes tedious, processes of Oriental commerce". Upon his return, he donated them to Haverford. They are held by the college library's Quaker Collection.[1] He taught theology at Leiden University (1903–04). After this, he was appointed director of studies at the Society of Friends' Woodbrooke College, near Birmingham. Harris represented two prestigious libraries during his lifetime: Johns Hopkins, and John Rylands Library, Manchester, where he became the curator of manuscripts. Most of his publications dealt with biblical and patristic history; he was an extremely prolific writer.[2] Included among the topics on which he wrote are: Apology of Aristides (1891), Didache, Philo, Diatessaron, the Christian Apologists, Acts of Perpetua, The Odes and Psalms of Solomon (1906), Gospel of Peter, and other Western and Syriac texts, and numerous works on biblical manuscripts.