Mardin, Church of the Forty Martyrs, 253

Images: HMML

Former designation: olim Dayr al-Za‘farān 121/7

Physical description: paper, 15 × 11 cm, 376 pp., 2 cols.; leaves missing at beginning and end and throughout

Language(s): Syriac

Date: 13th/14th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Story of Clement (epitome based on Ps.-Clem. Homilies) (pp. 9–18)

Epistle of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite to Timothy (pp. 163–170)

Acts of Paul and Thecla (excerpt; p. 170)

Additional Contents: various lives of saints; Finding of the Cross (pp. 1–3) some brief remarks on apostles (James, the brother of Jesus, p. 182; James, the son of Zebedee, p. 182); description of Paul and Mary (p. 181).

Catalogs:

Dolabani, Yuhanna and Gregorios Ibrahim. Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in Za’faran Monastery, Dar Mardin. Christian Arabic and Syriac Studies from the Middle East 27. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009.

Cataloged for HMML by Adam McCollum and James E. Walters.

Other online databases: none

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 5 September 2023.