Syriac version of the Apology of Aristides in the Monastery of Saint Catherine. Upon his return, he donated the manuscripts he had collected to Haverford. They are held by the college library's Quaker Collection. In 1903 he was appointed the first director of studies at the Society of Friends' new college at Woodbrooke near Birmingham. In accepting the post, he turned down an appointment as a professor of theology at Leiden University. However, students from Leiden attended his courses at Woodbrooke. The university later awarded him a doctorate. 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. He examined the Latin text of the Codex Sangallensis 48. Included among the topics on which he wrote are: the Apology of Aristides (1891), the Didache, Philo, the Diatessaron, the Christian Apologists, Acts of Perpetua, The Odes and Psalms of Solomon (1909), the Gospel of Peter, and other Western and Syriac texts, and numerous works on biblical manuscripts. In 1933, a Festschrift was published in his honor, called Amicitiae Corolla: a volume of essays presented to James Rendel Harris on the occasion of his 80th birthday. A new biography of Harris was published in 2018. Works New Testament autographs (1882) Notes on Scriveners' "Plain introduction to the criticism of the New Testament," 3rd edition [microform] (1885) Biblical fragments from Mount Sinai (1890) The codex Sangallensis (Δ). A Study in the Text of the Old Latin Gospels, (London, 1891). Codex Bezae : a study of the so-called Western text of the New Testament (1893) Memoranda sacra (1893) Stichometry (London 1893). Four lectures on the western text of the New Testament (1894) The four Gospels in Syriac : transcribed from the Sinaitic Palimpsest (1894) Fragments of the commentary of Ephrem Syrus upon the Diatessaron (1895) Further researches into the history of the Ferrar-group (1900) An early Christian psalter (1909) The Odes and Psalms of Solomon (1911) Boanerges (1913) The origin of the prologue to St. John's Gospel (1917) The origin of the doctrine of the Trinity, a popular exposition (1919) Archives Archives of James Rendel Harris are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. References External links Biography Odes and Psalms of Solomon, from the introduction Apology of Aristides Letters from the Scenes of