Images: University of Birmingham (Christ. Arab. 94); Bryn Mawr College
Physical description: vellum, 1 col.; 21 × 18 cm, 176 fols. (originally approx. 400); two folios from another manuscript (with excerpts from the mimars of Jacob of Sarug) added upside down at the start of Bryn Mawr 69 and another eight after fol. 38 are inserted eight fols. from another manuscript featuring Martyrdoms of Anba Quris and Yuhanna, and of the Three Virgins (Thawuqtisti, Thawuzuta, and Udhaqsiyah) and their mother Arthanasiyah
Language(s): Arabic
Date: ca. 950
Provenance: Mount Sinai, St. Catherine’s Monastery; scribe Thomas (fol. 2v of Bryn Mawr BV 69)
Reconstruction:
B=Bryn Mawr; M=Mingana; L=Leiden
Quire 1: B fols. 3r–4v (list of contents); M 130 fol. 1 (beginning of Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin); B fols. 4v–10r (6 Bks. Dorm.)
Quires 2–5: B fols. 10v–40v (ending of 6 Bks. Dorm.)
Quires 6–10: missing; once contained Story of Peter, John, and Paul in Antioch
Quire 11: B fol. 49r half page with ending of Preaching of Peter to Faustus; B fol. 50v–53v beginning of the Invention of the Cross
Quire 12: 2 missing folios; M 94 fol. 1; M 149 fol. 1; M 94 fols. 2–3; one missing folio (all from Invention of the Cross)
Quire 13: M 94, fol. 4 (end Invention of the Cross; excerpt of Epiphanius on the Virgin; beginning of History of Philip; M 149 fol. 2–4; M 94 fol. 5–11; M 148 (Acts of Thomas begins M 94 fol. 8v)
Quires 14–28: L fols. 1–120 (Acts Thom. concludes at ch. 65 on fol. 22v; then follow martyrdoms up to the Life of Saint Euthymios; remaining texts lost)
Additional Contents: see above
Catalogs:
Mingana, Alphonse. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts Now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham. 3 vols. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 1936 (Arab. 94, vol. 2, pp. 121–22).
Mingana, Alphonse. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts Now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham. 3 vols. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 1936 (vol. 3, pp. 20–21 [Arab. Add. 130], 9–10 [148], 45 [149].
Esbroeck, Michel van. “Remembrement d’un manuscrit sinaitique arabe de 950.” Pages 136–47 in Actes du premier Congrès international d’études arabes chrétiennes (Goslar, september 1980). Edited by Samir Kh. Samir. OCA 218. Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1982.
Witkam, Jan J. Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts in Leiden University Library. 28 vols. Leiden: Ter Lugt Press, 2006–2007 (vol. 15, pp. 95–96).
__________. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and other Collections in the Netherlands. 5 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1982–1989 (vol. 1, pp. 329–36).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 18 September 2017; updated 6 June 2019.