Images: Sinai Digital Library; Library of Congress
Physical description: paper, 31.5 × 24 cm, 270 fols., 1 col.; fol. 40 lacking
Language(s): Arabic
Date: 1333
Provenance: Mount Sinai; copied (or commissioned) by Sim’ān ibn Yūsuf (fol. 270r); the same scribe is responsible for ar. 395, 396, 402, 405, 407 and 409.
Contents:
Preaching of Philip (fols. 2r–8r)
Acts of Matthew in the City of the Priests (fols. 27r–37v)
Pseudo-Clementines (Homily III of Peter in Tripoli, fols. 172r–181r)
Martyrdom of Andrew (fols. 257r–264r)
Acts of Andrew and Matthias (fols. 264r–270r)
Additional Contents: menologion for the month of Tishrin II (November 24–30).
Catalogs and Studies:
Attiya, Aziz Suryal. The Arabic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1955.
Gibson, Margaret Dunlop. Catalogue of the Arabic mss in the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1894 (pp. 65–66).
Ibrahim, Habib. “Liste des vies de saints et des homélies conservées dans les ms Sinaï arabe 395–403, 405–407, 409 et 423.” Chronos: Revue d’histoire de l’Université de Balamand 38 (2018): 47–114 (esp. 62–69)
Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of All Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970 (p. 18).
Treiger, Alexander. “Sinaitica (1): The Antiochian Menologion, Compiled by Hieromonk Yūḥannā Abd al-Masīḥ (First Half of the 13th Century.” Christian Orient 8 (14) (2017): 215–52 (colophon, pp. 223–24).
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 5 November 2020.