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Physical description: parchment, 26.5 × 21.5 cm, 37 fols., 2 col.
Language: Syriac
Date: ca. 6th cent.
Provenance: St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai.
Contents:
Protevangelium of James (M26N + Sp. 78 + Syr. 10 fol. 1r–1v)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (fols. 1v–4v)
Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (fols. 4v–37v)
Additional Contents: none.
Catalogs and Studies:
Assfalg, Julius. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland / im Einvernehmen mit der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft herausgegeben von Wolfgang Voigt, bd. 5: Syrische Handschriften. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1963 (pp. 215–18).
Baars, Wilhelm and Jan Helderman. “Neue Materielen zum Text und zur Interpretation des Kindheitsevangeliums des Pseudo-Thomas.” Oriens Christianus 77 (1993): 191–226 at 192–94.
Brock, Sebastian P. and Lucas van Rompay. Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments in the Library of Deir al-Surian, Wadi al-Natrun (Egypt). Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 227. Leuven: Peeters, 2014 (Sinai Sp. 78, pp. 73–74).
Philothée du Sinaï. Nouveaux manuscrits syriaques du Sinaï (Monastère Sainte Catharine, Archevêché du Sinaï, Pharan et Raitho). Athens: Fondation du Sinaï, 2008 (Sinai M26N, pp. 362–65).
Other online databases: none.
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 22 July 2016.