Images: HMML
Former designation: Scher 80; Macomber 80.5
Physical description: paper, 13.5 × 9.5 cm, 137 fols., 1 col. The book has two hands: one in a block script similar to Estrangelo (fols. 1–44), the other in Serto (45–137). The manuscript lacks the first 11 fols.
Language(s): Syriac
Date: 16th cent.
Provenance: copied at the Monastery of Jacob, Sharbel, and Febronia near Kfar Šamaʿ, a village in Ṭur ʿAbdin.
Contents: West Syriac Life of Mary featuring:
Protevangelium of James (as book 1, truncated at start, fols. 1r–11v; book 2, 11v–20v)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (here as book 3, fols. 20v–29v)
Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (introduced as book 4 but numbered book 5 at end, fols. 29v–101v; and book 6, fols. 102r–136v).
Additional Contents: none
Catalogs:
Scher, Addai. “Notice sur les manuscrits syriaques et arabes conservés dans la bibliothèque de l’évêché chaldéen de Mardin.” Revue des Bibliothèques 18 (1908), 64–95, here p. 86.
Macomber, William F. “A Checklist of the Manuscripts of the Chaldean Patriarchate, ca. 1965” (unpublished manuscript, 1966).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 12 January 2017.