Images: Sinai Digital Library; Library of Congress
Physical description: paper, 244 × 171 mm, 142 fols., 1 col.; two sections (1–64, 65–142) by two different hands
Language(s): Syriac
Date: 1142/1143
Provenance: Jerusalem, copied by the scribe Barsaumā in 1142/1143 (fol. 21v) from (at least in part) a manuscript in Constantinople by a monk named Yōhannān
Contents:
Acts of Pilate (fols. 1r–12v) ~ two fols. missing at start now preserved as Edgbaston, University of Birmingham, Mingana Syr. 639
Report of Pontius Pilate (Anaphora Pilati) (fols. 12v–15v)
Epistles of Pilate and Herod (without the Epistles of Pilate and Theodore; fols. 15v–17r)
Acts of Andrew and Matthias (fols. 27v–42r)
Additional Contents: Story of Euphemia, Story of the Forty Martyrs, Questions and Answers.
Catalogs:
Kessel, Grigory. “Syriac Miscellany of Apocryphal and Hagiographic Texts from Crusader Jerusalem (Sinai syr. 82/I).” AnBoll 140 (2022): 141–62.
Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of all Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1970 (p. 154, no. 76).
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. 57).
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 (manuscript details and full text of the first two leaves, vol. 3, pp. 79–85).
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 20 March 2019.