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Physical description: vellum, 235/255 x 150/160 mm, 179 fols., 1 col.; formerly contained 190 fols.; palimpsest written over fragments of the Septuagint from 5th–8th cent.
Language: Syriac
Date: 8th cent.
Provenance: Zuqnin Monastery (near Diyarbakir, Turkey)
Contents:
Revelation of the Magi (fols. 17r–25r)
Additional contents: Rev. Magi is embedded within the Chronicle of Zuqnin.
Catalogs:
Assemani, Stefano Evodio. Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae Codicum Manuscriptorum catalogus, vol. 3: Reliquos Codices Chaldaicos sive Syriacos. Paris: Maisonneuve, 1926 (pp. 328–29).
Tisserant, Eugène. Codex Zuqninensis rescriptus Veteris Testamenti. Texte grec des manuscritsVatican syriaque 162 et Mus. Brit. Additionnel 14.665. StT. Rome: TipografiaPoliglotta Vaticana, 1911. (codicological analysis pp. x–xv.)
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 5 November 2016.