Images: Schøyen Collection (single page, pictured here); Library of Congress; Sinai Palimpsests Project (requires login to access)
Other shelfmarks/identifiers: Codex Arabicus; Schøyen Collection MS 597 (erroneously?)
Physical description: palimpsest on vellum; 6th-century Syriac underwriting originally 30 × 23 cm, 2 cols.; Arabic overwriting 23 × 15 cm, 1 col.; 175 fols. total
Language(s): Syriac, Arabic, Greek
Date: 6th and 7th/8th cent. (Syriac underwriting), 7th cent. (Greek underwriting), 9th/10th cent. (Arabic underwriting and overwriting)
Provenance: Syria or Egypt
Contents:
Protevangelium of James (fols. 15, 22, 49)
Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (fols. 169–175)
Additional Contents: additional Syriac underwriting features the Peshitta gospels, and other NT and OT texts, sermons by Jacob of Serugh, extracts from church fathers, hymns, and treatises; Greek underwriting features a funeral service; Arabic underwriting is unidentified; Arabic overwriting features martyrologies.
Catalogs:
Attiya, Aziz Suryal. The Arabic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1955 (pp. xxvi–xxviii, 19).
Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of All Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970 (p. 42, no. 507).
Other online databases: Schøyen Collection; LDAB
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 8 September 2017.