Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 4

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Physical description: paper, 312 × 227 mm, 142 fols., 2 col.

Language(s): Syriac

Date: 1895 (fol. 141^v)

Provenance: copied in Mosul by Mattai bar Pawlos; copied from a “very old” manuscript from Tur ‘Abdin; purchased from Mattai by Alphonse Mingana in 1924–1925

Contents:

Epistle of James to Quadratus (fols. 51^v–52^r)

Epistles of Pilate and Herod (with the Epistles of Pilate and Theodore; fols. 52^r–53^v)

Acts of Pilate (fols. 53^v–57^r)

Preaching of Simon Cephas in the City of Rome (fols. 57^r–58^v)

Epistle of Ps-Dionysius the Areopagite to Timothy (fols. 58^v–61^r)

Sayings of Greek Philosophers (with the Epistles of Longinus, Augustus, Ursinus, and Patrophilus; fols. 81^v–85^v)

Additional Contents: Didascalia apostolorum (fols. 1^r–43^r), 1 Clement (fols. 43^r–51^r), works by Severus, Philoxenus, Jacob of Edessa, Ephrem, Cyril of Jerusalem, and various tracts and stories.

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., 1933 (vol. 1, cols. 6–19).

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Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 16 March 2019.