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. 44v)
Contents:
East Syriac History of the Virgin (fols. 1v–44v)
History of Philip (fols. 79r–93r)
Acts of Andrew and Matthias (fols. 109v–122v)
Story of the Talking Skull (fols. 132r–136r)
Apocalypse of Paul (fols. 136r–172r)
Additional contents: History of the Rechabites (CAVT 166; 57r–78v), the Dialogue of Moses with God (123r–131r), the History of Joseph (182v–214r), 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.