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Former shelfmark(s): SMH 23, access no. 3961
Physical description: paper, 18 × 13 cm, 148 fols., 1 col.; large portions missing, pages damaged, and texts out-of-sequence.
Language(s): Syriac
Date: 16th/17th cent.
Provenance: Purchased by Rendel Harris in Mardin
Contents: West Syriac Life of Mary featuring:
Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, fols. 2v–40v)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, fols. 40v–48v)
Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, fols. 48v–109v; and book 6, fols. 109v–136v, 142r–148v)
Additional Contents: Ps.-Ephrem, On the Malice of the Jews against Mary and Joseph, placed between books 1 and 2 (fols. 136v–141v, re-bound out-of-sequence).
Catalogs:
Clemons, James. “A Checklist of Syriac Manuscripts in the United States and Canada.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 32 (1966): 224–51, 478–522 (p. 238, MS no. 68).
Goshen-Gottstein, Mosche H. Syriac Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library: A Catalogue. Harvard Semitic Studies 23. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979 (p. 50).
Titterton, Lewis H. The Syriac Manuscripts in the Semitic Museum of Harvard University. Unpublished Thesis, 1925 (pp. 45–46).
Other online databases: HOLLIS
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 19 October 2016.