Images: Sinai Digital Library; Library of Congress
Physical description: paper, 31.5 × 21 cm, 203 fols., 1 col.
Language(s): Arabic
Date: 13th cent.
Provenance: copied by Eusebius
Contents:
Acts of Andrew and Matthias (fols. 69r–79v)
Homily on the Dormition of the Virgin, by Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria (fols. 81v–93v)
Dormition of the Virgin by the Apostle John (fols. 93v–100v)
Homilies on the Dormition of the Virgin, by John of Damascus (fols. 100v–116v)
Epistles of Christ and Abgar (fols. 135v–140v)
Discovery of John the Baptist’s Head (fols. 191v–194v)
Additional Contents: menologion for August including texts related to Stephen, works by John of Damascus, John Chrysostom, Ephrem, and others.
Catalogs and Studies:
Atiya, Aziz Suryal. The Arabic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1955 (p. 11)
Gibson, Margaret Dunlop. Catalogue of the Arabic mss in the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1894 (pp. 75–76).
Ibrahim, Habib. “Liste des vies de saints et des homélies conservées dans les ms Sinaï arabe 395–403, 405–407, 409 et 423.” Chronos: Revue d’histoire de l’Université de Balamand 38 (2018): 47–114 (esp. 107–14)
Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of All Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970 (p. 19).
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 29 July 2026.
