Montserrat, Biblioteca de Montserrat, Or. 31

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Physical description: paper, 198 × 125 mm, 197 fols., 1 col.

Language(s): Syriac

Date: 1915 (fol. 186r–187r)

Provenance: copied by Isaac Armalah from a  manuscript in Mardin dated 1333 that came from Dayr al-Za‘faran; brought to Montserrat in 1924

Contents:

Preaching of Simon Cephas in the City of Rome (CANT 199; fols. 93v96v)

Epistle of Ps-Dionysius the Areopagite to Timothy (CANT 197; fols. 97r–101r)

Sayings of Greek Philosophers (with the Epistles of Longinus, Augustus, Ursinus, and Patrophilus [=CANT 309]; fols. 105r–112r)

Additional Contents: Didascalia apostolorum (fols. 5v–77v), 1 Clement (fols. 78r–93v), works by Severus, Philoxenus, Jacob of Edessa, Ephrem, Cyril of Jerusalem, and various tracts and stories.

Catalogs:

Del Río Sánchez, Francisco and Amalia Zomeño Rodríguez. Catálogo de los manuscritos Siríacos, Árabes Karshuni y Copto-Árabes de Montserrat. Orientalia Montserratensia 6. Barcelona: Publications de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2012 (pp. 51–53)

Other online databases: none

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 7 May 2019.