Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Add. 2001

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Physical description: paper, 13.5 × 9 cm, 173 fols., 1 col. Folios missing after fols. 3, 11, 19, and 169. Fols. 2–3 are replacement pages in East Syriac script.

Language(s): Syriac

Date: 1481

Provenance: Deir al-Surian (Egypt); copyist identified as Habbībh of Tūr-‘Abdīn (fol. 172^v); a second colophon (fol. 173^v) in Garshûni from 1697 reveals that a certain ‘Abd al-Ahad bought the book from Isaac, a Nestorian of Mardin, at Alqoš.

Contents: West Syriac Life of Mary (fols. 1^r–142^r) featuring:

Protevangelium of James (as book 1, fols. 1^r–6^v, beginning missing; and book 2, fols. 6^v–13^v)

Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, fols. 13^v–56^v)

Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, fols. 57^r–65^r)

Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, fols. 65^r–122^v, and book 6, fols. 122^v–142^r)

Additional Contents: Jacob of Serug, On the Death and Burial of the Virgin (fols. 152^r–159^v), Miracle of the Theotokos in the city of Apamea (fols. 160^r–163^v), and Ps.-Ephrem, On the Malice of the Jews Against Mary and Joseph (fols. 163^v–172^r).

Catalogs:

Wright, William and Stanley A. Cook. A Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901 (vol. 1, 487–491).

Other online databases: none.

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 22 July 2016.