Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard Houghton Library, Syr. 99

Images: HOLLIS (partial)

Other shelfmark(s): SMH 91, access no. 4027

Physical description: paper, measurements not provided, 201 fol., 1 col.

Language(s): Syriac

Date: 1899 (fol. 201r)

Provenance: Midyat

Contents:

Epistle of James to Quadratus (fols. 92v–93v)

Epistles of Pilate and Herod (with the Epistles of Pilate and Theodore; fols. 93v–96v)

Acts of Pilate (fols. 96v–103v)

Preaching of Simon Cephas in the City of Rome (fols. 103v106v )

Epistle of Ps-Dionysius the Areopagite to Timothy (fols. 107r–111v)

Sayings of Greek Philosophers (with the Epistles of Longinus, Augustus, Ursinus, and Patrophilus; fols. 138v–146v)

Additional Contents: Didaskalia apostolorum (fols. 1v–76v), 1 Clement (fols. 76v–92v), works by Severus, Philoxenus, Jacob of Edessa, Ephrem, Cyril of Jerusalem, and various tracts and stories.

Catalogs:

Clemons, James. “A Checklist of Syriac Manuscripts in the United States and Canada.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 32 (1966): 224–51, 478–522 (p. 244, MS no. 130).

Goshen-Gottstein, Mosche H. Syriac Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library: A Catalogue. Harvard Semitic Studies 23. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979 (p. 78).

Titterton, Lewis H. The Syriac Manuscripts in the Semitic Museum of Harvard University. Unpublished Thesis, 1925 (pp. 182–95).

Brock, Sebastian P. Review of Mosche H. Goshen-Gottsetein, Syriac Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library: A Catalogue. In Journal of Semitic Studies 26 (1981): 317–21 (esp. 320–21).

Other online databases: none

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 2 March 2019.