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Physical description: paper, 27 × 21 cm, 140 fols., 1 col.
Language(s): Syriac
Date: 1917–1918
Provenance: several copyists, writing at different times; colophon following Hist. Vir. provides the date of 1917 and the copyist’s name as Paul, son of Hōrmīzd, son of Mattā; Paul copied the text in Alqoš based on a MS from Hūr Dafne (Harbiye) dated 1680 (perhaps Baghdad, Library of the Chaldean Monastery, 588)
Contents:
History of the Virgin (East Syriac) (fols. 42v–84v)
Additional Contents: prayers, letters, and extracts.
Catalogs:
Lantschoot, Arnold van. Inventaire des manuscrits syriaques des fonds Vatican (490-631): Barberini oriental e Neofiti. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana, 1965 (pp. 113–14).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 8 February 2020.