Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard Houghton Library, Syr. 129

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Former shelfmarks: SMH 128, access no. 4063

Physical description: paper, 21 × 15 cm, 83 fol., 2 col. Incomplete and in some disorder. It once had 10 or more quires but now many leaves are missing and others have been re-bound out of sequence.

Language(s): Syriac

Date: ca. 17th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents: West Syriac Life of Mary featuring:

Protevangelium of James (as book 1 but missing in this MS; book 2, fols. 67r–70r)

Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, fols. 70r–74v, 1r–20r, incomplete)

Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, fols. 20r–25r)

Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, fols. 27r–63r; and book 6, fols. 63r–66v, 76r–83v, 75, lacking the end)

Additional Contents: Psalms 25–28 appear between books 4 and 5.

Catalogs:

Goshen-Gottstein, Mosche H. Syriac Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library: A Catalogue. Harvard Semitic Studies 23. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979 (p. 89).

Titterton, Lewis H. The Syriac Manuscripts in the Semitic Museum of Harvard University. Unpublished thesis, 1925 (p. 270).

Clemons, James T. “A Checklist of Syriac Manuscripts in the United States and Canada.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 32 (1966): 224–51, 478–522 (p. 249, MS no. 164).

Other online databases: HOLLIS

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 5 July 2016.