Images: Sinai Digital Library; Library of Congress
Physical description: paper, 31 × 21 cm, 619 fols., 1 col.
Language(s): Arabic
Date: 1626
Provenance: unknown
Contents (abbreviated version of the Menologion of Antioch):
Acts of John by Prochorus (fols. 57r–66v)
Martyrdom of Ananias (fols. 74v–76v)
Martyrdom of James, Son of Alphaeus (fols. 106r–107r)
Martyrdom of Luke (fols. 112v–117r)
Acts of Paul and Thecla (fols. 144r–151v)
Martyrdom of James, Brother of the Lord (fols. 152r–158r)
Martyrdom of Philip (fols. 194r–196r) identification uncertain
Acts of Matthew in the City of the Priests (fols. 196r–200r)
Martyrdom of Andrew (fols. 230r–233v) identification uncertain
Discovery of the Head of John the Baptist (fols. 482v–485r; 616r–619r)
Martyrdom of Mark (fols. 522r–526r)
Additional Contents: hagiographies, lives of prophets, homilies by John Chrysostom and others.
Catalogs and Studies:
Attiya, Aziz Suryal. The Arabic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1955 (p. 12).
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. 79–80).
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. 20).
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 29 February 2024.