Physical description: paper, 18 × 14.5 cm, 142 fol., 1 col.; several pages missing: at least two at the start, and several between the first and second texts; opening and closing pages damaged.
Language: Syriac
Date: 1495 (fol. 142r)
Provenance: Diyarbakir region
Contents: West Syriac Life of Mary (fols. 1r–137v) featuring:
Protevangelium of James (as book 1, fols. 2r–5v; beginning and ending missing; and book 2, fols. 13v–19v)
Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, fols. 19v–56v)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, fols. 56v–63v)
Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, fols. 63v–111v, and book 6, fols. 128v–137v)
Additional Contents: Miracle of the Theotokos in the city of Apamea (fols. 137v–142v), and Ps.-Ephrem, On the Malice of the Jews Against Mary and Joseph (fols. 5br–13v, beginning missing).
Catalogs:
Bingelli, Andre, François Briquel-Chatonnet, Muriel Debié, Alain Desreumaux, and Gibrail Dib. Catalogue des manuscrits syriaques et garshuni de Charfet, t. 1, Fonds Rahmani 1 à 125. Charfet, Presses patriarcales de Charfet, forthcoming.
Other online databases: e-corpus
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 22 July 2016.