Images: HMML
Former shelfmark(s): Deir al-Zafaran 114
Physical description: paper, 18.5 × 13.5 cm, 220 fols.; some pages have been supplied by a more recent scribe: fols. 2–23, 28–30, 130, and a portion of 171. Note also that fol. 121 is torn and fols. 1, 211, 219, and 220r are blank.
Language(s): Syriac
Date: 1474/1475 (on fol. 170r in Syriac and 183v in Arabic).
Provenance: once belonged to the Deir al-Zafaran—the monastery’s seal appears on fols. 26v and 168v and its bookplate on the inside back cover.
Contents: West Syriac Life of Mary featuring:
Protevangelium of James (as book 1, fols. 1r–10r, and book 2, fols. 10r–16r)
Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, fols. 16v–62r)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, fols. 62v–71v)
Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, fols. 71v–138r, and book 6, fols. 138r–170r)
Additional Contents: Ps.-Ephrem, On the Malice of the Jews against Mary and Joseph (fols. 170v–183v), On the Departure of Mary by Timothy of Gargar (fols. 184r–200v), and the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel (fols. 201r–218v, ending missing).
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 1, pp. 83–84).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 19 October 2016.