Tehran, Chaldean Church of St. Joseph, 8

Images: HMML

Other shelfmark(s): Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese, Fonds Issayi 18

Physical description: paper, 17 × 22.5 cm, 234 fols., 1 col. (page numbering differs by 1 leaf in HMML listing; some pages missing and bound out-of-sequence)

Language: Syriac

Date: 1741/1742

Provenance: copied in part by Jeremy, son of Thomas, from a manuscript dated 1243/1244 (fol. 44^v)

Contents:

East Syriac History of the Virgin (fols. 1^v–44^v)

History of Philip (fols. 79^r–93^r)

Acts of Andrew and Matthias (fols. 109^v–122^v)

Story of the Talking Skull (fols. 132^r–136^r)

Apocalypse of Paul (fols. 136^r–172^r)

Additional contents: History of the Rechabites (CAVT 166; 57^r–78^v), the Dialogue of Moses with God (123^r–131^r), the History of Joseph (182^v–214^r), and other tales.

Major studies:

Desreumaux, Alain. “Un manuscrit syriaque de Téhéran contenant des apocryphes.” Apocrypha 5 (1994) : 137–64.

Other online databases: none

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 17 October 2017.