Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, ar. 485

Images: Sinai Digital Library; Library of Congress

Physical description: paper, 170 × 134 mm, 216 fols., 1 col.; fol. 63v blank.

Language(s): Arabic

Date: 13th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew (fols. 1r28v)

1 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John (fols. 40v52v)

Epistles of Christ and Abgar (fols. 53v69r)

Additional Contents: miracles of Elijah, debates between Saints Basil and Gregory, between John and a priest, and between Athanasius and Antiochus the abbot, anonymous treatise on the Unity and Trinity of God, Gregory of Nazianzus on the Nature of Animals

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 (p. 95).

Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of All Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970 (p. 44).

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 21 February 2021.