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Former shelfmark: SMH 47, access no. 3985
Physical description: paper, 23 × 16 cm, 240 fol., 1 col.
Language(s): Syriac
Date: 1856 (fols. 238r–238v)
Provenance: the deacon Simeon bar Ablhad at the monastery of Mar Abel and Mar Abraham near Midyat (in the province of Mardin) (fols. 238r–238v). Purchased by Rendel Harris in Mardin.
Contents:
Apocalypse of Paul (fols. 117r–159r)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4 of West Syriac Life of Mary, fols. 86r–94r)
Additional Contents: Cave of Treasures (fols. 159v–203v); Ps.-Ephrem, On the Malice of the Jews against Mary and Joseph (fols. 94v–105r); and additional memre and miracle stories.
Catalogs:
Mosche H. Goshen-Gottstein, Syriac Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library: A Catalogue (Harvard Semitic Studies 23; Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979 (pp. 61–62).
Lewis H. Titterton, The Syriac Manuscripts in the Semitic Museum of Harvard University (unpublished thesis, 1925), 104–105.
James T. Clemons, “A Checklist of Syriac Manuscripts in the United States and Canada,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 32 (1966): 224–51, 478–522 (p. 240, MS no. 92).
Other online databases: HOLLIS
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 19 October 2016.