Images: Hollis
Former shelfmarks: SMH 518, access no. 2184
Physical description: vellum, 24 × 17 cm, 22 fols., 2 and 3 cols.
Language(s): Syriac
Date: 8th–19th cent.
Provenance: fragments purchased from Tur Abdin.
Contents:
Epistles of Christ and Abgar (letter of Abgar to Jesus and beginning of the reply; 24 × 17 cm.; 8th/9th cent.)
Additional Contents: various other collected individual leaves. Leaf with Ep. Chr. Abg. includes the ending of a memra on the the love of poverty. Other leaves include three leaves of canon law, an acrostic hymn, a lectionary, a quale for festivals, a homiliary, an anaphora, hymns, and a service book.
Catalogs:
Goshen-Gottstein, Mosche H. Syriac Manuscripts in the Harvard College Library: A Catalogue. Harvard Semitic Studies 23. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979 (p. 100).
Titterton, Lewis H. The Syriac Manuscripts in the Semitic Museum of Harvard University. Unpublished thesis, 1925.
Clemons, James T. “A Checklist of Syriac Manuscripts in the United States and Canada.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 32 (1966): 224–51, 478–522 (p. 236, MS no. 41).
Other online databases: HOLLIS; Fragmentarium
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 24 May 2026.
