Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 560

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Physical description: paper, 18 × 13 cm, 152 fol., 1 col.; first ten leaves missing

Language: Syriac

Date: 1491 (see fol. 152^r)

Provenance: written in the monastery of St. George and St. Abel (Mardin?) by an anonymous monk (see fol. 152^r)

Contents: West Syriac Life of Mary featuring:

Protevangelium of James (as book 1, truncated at start, fols. 2^r–3^r; book 2, 12^v–20^v)

Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, fols. 21^r–60^r)

Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, fols. 60^v–67^r)

Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, fols. 67^r–119^r; and book 6, fols. 119^v–142^v).

Additional Contents: Jacob of Serug, On the Death and Burial of the Virgin (fols 143^r–149^r), Miracle of the Theotokos in the city of Apamea (fols. 149^v–151^v), and Ps.-Ephrem, On the Malice of the Jews Against Mary and Joseph (fols. 3^r–12^v).

Catalogs: 

Mingana, Alphonse. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts Now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham. 3 vols. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 1933 (vol. 1, cols. 1039–41).

Other online databases: University of Birmingham, Mingana Collection

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