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Former shelfmark(s): SMH 27, access 3965; identified as Cod. Harris 73 by Agnes Smith Lewis in her edition of Prot. Jas. and 6 Bks. Dorm. from Sinaitic Palimpsest No. 30 (Apocrypha Syriaca. The Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae with Texts from the Septuagint, the Corân, the Peshitta, and from a Syriac Hymn in a Syro-Arabic Palimpsest of the fifth and other centuries, Studia Sinaitica 11 [London: C. J. Clay, 1902])
Physical description: paper, 16 × 11 cm, 237+ii fol., 1 col.
Language(s): Syriac
Date: 1857 (fol. 237r)
Provenance: Unknown. Scribes identified as Belna‘al (fol. 237r) and Qshy (fol. 95v). Purchased by Rendel Harris in Tûr Abdîn.
Contents:
West Syriac Life of Mary featuring:
Protevangelium of James (as book 1, fols. 96r–107v; and book 2, fols. 107v–115v)
Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, fols. 115v–154v)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, fols. 155v–162v)
Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, fols. 162v–208r; and book 6, fols. 208r–237r)
Additional Contents: Cave of Treasures (fols. 2v–95r).
Catalogs:
Goshen-Gottstein, Mosche H. Syriac Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library: A Catalogue. Harvard Semitic Studies 23. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979 (p. 52).
Titterton, Lewis H. The Syriac Manuscripts in the Semitic Museum of Harvard University (unpublished thesis, 1925), 51–52.
Clemons, James T. “A Checklist of Syriac Manuscripts in the United States and Canada.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 32 (1966): 224–51, 478–522 (p. 238, MS no. 72).
Other online databases: HOLLIS
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 19 October 2016.