Images: not available online
Other shelfmark(s): Dorn 3; Pigulevskaja 48
Physical description: parchment, 26 × 17 cm, 142 fols., 2 col.
Language: Syriac
Date: 6th cent.
Provenance: Deir al-Surian (Egypt)
Contents:
Doctrine of Addai (fols. 1v–33r)
Preaching of Simon Cephas in the City of Rome (fols. 33r–38v)
History of John (Syriac) (fols. 38v–74v)
Additional contents: Finding of the True Cross, Martyrdom of Judas (who becomes Cyriacus), Eight Youths of Ephesus, History of Gregory Thaumaturgus, Life of Basil by Amphilochius of Iconium.
Catalogs:
Dorn, Bernhard. “Ueber vier von der Kaiserlichen öffentlichen Bibliothek zu St. Petersburg im J. 1852 erworbene syrische Handschriften.” Mélange Asiatiques tirés du Bulletin Historico-philologique de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersboug 2 (1856): 195–210 (pp. 201–204).
Pigulevskaya, N.V. “Katalog Siriyskikh Rukopisey Leningrada.” Palestinskiy Sbornik 6 (69) (1960): 3–196 (pp. 140–43).
Wright, William. Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Syriac. Vol. 1: The Syriac Texts. London: Williams and Norgate, 1871 (pp. vii–ix).
Wright, William. “Syriac Manuscripts at St. Petersburg, etc.” Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record N.S. 10.20 (1867): 461–62.
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 1 May 2021.