Mardin, Church of the Forty Martyrs, 263

Images: HMML

Former designation: Dolabani 115

Physical description: paper, 18.5 × 13.5 cm, 240 pp., 1 col. The book has two hands: the main scribe and the scribe of recent replacement pages (59–60, 99–102, 115–18, 159–60, 177–78, 201–202, 219–20, and 235–36). Several pages are blank (1–2, 15–16, and 239–40) and pages 3-4 are missing. The final folio (pp. 237–38) is misplaced and belongs earlier in book six. The manuscript has been rebound into the covers of a modern French textbook, A First Year of French for Young Beginners by J. E. Mansion (first edition published in 1905).

Language(s): Syriac

Date: 17th/18th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents: West Syriac Life of Mary featuring:

Protevangelium of James (as book 1, truncated at start, pp. 5–18; book 2, pp. 18–30)

Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, pp. 31–97)

Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, pp. 98–110)

Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, pp. 110–97; and book 6, pp. 197–238).

Additional Contents: none

Catalogs:

Dolabani, Yuhanna and Gregorios Ibrahim. Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in Za’faran Monastery, Dar Mardin. Christian Arabic and Syriac Studies from the Middle East 27. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009 (part 2, 85).

Other online databases: none

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