Physical description: paper, 16 × 10 cm, 160 fol., 1 col. (some sections missing and pages rearranged).
Language(s): Syriac.
Date: 16th cent.
Provenance: the village of Abu Ghalib (Wank); copyist identified as Saliba (see fol. 158v).
Contents:
Travels of Peter (fol. 1r–1v; incomplete)
West Syriac Life of Mary featuring:
Protevangelium of James (as book 1, fol. 2v–12v; and book 2, fol. 12v–21r)
Vision of Theophilus (as book 3, fol. 21v–64r)
Infancy Gospel of Thomas (as book 4, fol. 64r–71r)
Six-Books Dormition of the Virgin (as book 5, 71v–130r, and book 6, fol. 130v–158v)
Additional Contents: none.
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. 60–61).
Other online databases: none.
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 22 July 2016.