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. 140v–148r)
Preaching of Judas Thaddaeus (fols. 180r–185r)
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.