Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, ar. 405

Images: Sinai Digital Library; Library of Congress

Physical description: paper, 330 × 237 mm, 237 fols., 1 col.

Language(s): Arabic

Date: 1334 (Gibson: 1335)

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Preaching of Bartholomew (fols. 140v148r)

Preaching of Judas Thaddaeus (fols. 180r185r)

Passion of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Pseudo-Marcellus) (fols. 213r–223r)

Preaching of Peter (Arabic) (fols. 223r–227r)

Epistle of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite to Timothy (fols. 227r–231v)

Additional Contents: hagiographies, lives of prophets (Elisha and Job), homilies by John Chrysostom and James of Sarugh.

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. 71–72).

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. 97–101)

Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of All Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970 (p. 19).

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 22 October 2020.