St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Siriyskaya novaya seria 4

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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.