Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, gr. 491

Images: Library of Congress

Physical description: parchment, 22.7 × 18.3 cm., 298 fols., 2 col.

Language(s): Greek

Date: 9th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Homilies on the Dormition of the Virgin, by John of Damascus (fols. 246v–251r)

Legend of Galbius and Candidus (fols. 252r–258r)

Protevangelium of James (fols. 258r–281r)

Additional contents: various homilies for feast days (primarily nativity).

Catalogs:

Ehrhard, Albert. Uberlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16. Jahhunderts. 3 vols. TU 50–52. Leipzing: Hinrichs, 1937–1952 (vol. 2, p. 195–97).

Gardthausen, Victor. Catalogus codicum graecorum sinaiticorum. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886 (p. 119).

Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of all Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1970 (p. 90, no. 714).

Other online databases: Pinakes; Biblissima

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 30 November 2020.