Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, syr. 26 + Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 643 + Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, A 296 inf., fol. 20

Images: Sinai Digital Library; Library of Congress

Physical description: vellum, 237 × 152 mm, 163 fols., 1 col.

Language(s): Syriac

Date: 9th cent.

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

John and the Robber (Sinai fols. 155r–156v)

Dormition of John (Sinai fol. 156v + Milan fols. 18r–20v)

Additional Contents: works of Mar Isaiah, extract of John Chrysostom, History of Pachomius, apophthegms.

Catalogs:

Chabot, Jean-Baptiste. “Inventaire des fragments de mss. syriaques conservés à la Bibliothèque Ambrosienne à Milan.” Mus 49 (1936): 37–54 (pp. 48–49).

Géhin, Paul. “Manuscrits sinaitiques dispersés II: Les fragments théologiques syriaques de Milan.” OrChr 91 (2007): 1–24 (pp. 18–19).

Lewis, Agnes Smith. Catalogue of the Syriac MSS in the Convent of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai. Studia Sinaitica 1. London: C. J. Clay & Sons, 1894 (p. 41).

Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of all Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1970.

Mingana, Alphonse. Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts Now in the Possession of the Trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham. 3 vols. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 1933–1939 (vol. 3, p. 87).

Other online databases: Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 11 May 2021.