Beirut, Bibliothèque Orientale de l’Université Saint Joseph, 624

Images: HMML

Physical description: paper, 20.5 × 13.5 cm, 155 fols. 1 col.; pages missing beginning, ending, and elsewhere

Language(s): Arabic

Date: 1657

Provenance: unknown; colophon fol. 66^v, 140^v

Contents: 

Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin (fols. 1^r–26^v) perhaps also incorporating the Martyrdom of Thomas

Passion of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Pseudo-Marcellus) (fols. 67^r–80^v)

Tiburtine Sybil (fols. 152^v–155^v)

Additional Contents: hagiographies; homilies by Ephrem, Isaac of Antioch, Jacob of Sarug, and others; Finding of the True Cross by Helen.

Catalogs:

Cheiko, Louis. “Catalogue raisonné des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Orientale de l’Université St-Joseph V.” Mélanges de l’Université Saint Joseph 10 (1925): 191–306 (pp. 278–79).

Other online databases: none.

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 17 March 2024.