Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, ar. 445

Images: Sinai Digital Library; Library of Congress

Physical description: paper, 17 × 12.5 cm, 461 fols., 1 col.

Language(s): Arabic

Date: 1233 (Gibson: 1175)

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Preaching of Peter (Arabic) (fols. 106^v–115^v)

Acts of Andrew and Matthias (fols. 115^v–130^r)

Epistle of Christ and Abgar (fols. 150^r–162^r)

Life of Paul (fols. 162^r–170^v)

Report of Pontius Pilate (Anaphora Pilati) (fols. 170^v–175^r)

Handing Over of Pontius Pilate (Paradosis Pilati) (fols. 175^r–179^r)

Additional Contents: mimars by John Chrysostom, Ephrem, and others; apopthegmata derived from the sayings of St. Moses of Scetis; canons; lives of saints; martyrdom of Cyprian and Justina; Synodikia.

Catalogs and Studies:

Attiya, Aziz Suryal. The Arabic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1955 (pp. 13–14).

Gibson, Margaret Dunlop. Catalogue of the Arabic mss in the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1894 (p. 85).

Lewis, Agnes Smith, and Margaret Gibson. Forty-one Facsimiles of Dated Christian Abrabic Manuscripts. Studia Sinaitica 12. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907 (text, English translation, and photograph  of fol. 77^v, pp. 20–21).

Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of All Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970 (pp. 39–40).

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 20 June 2021.