Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. sir. 596

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Physical description: paper, 268 × 210 mm, 130 fols., 1 col.; several hands: serta (fols. 1–113^r), modern estrangela (113^v–115^r), east Syriac (121^r–130^r), Arabic (117^r–120^v)

Language(s): Syriac, Arabic

Date: 1917 (fol. 111^r)

Provenance: Mosul; prepared (in part) by Mattai bar Pawlos (fols. 1^r–113^r; see fol. 111^r)

Contents:

Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (fols. 79^v–81^v; 83^v–84^r)

Doctrine of Addai (fols. 81^v–83^v)

Acts of Pilate (fols. 85^v–90^r)

Sayings of Greek Philosophers (with the Epistles of Longinus, Augustus, Ursinus, and Patrophilus; fols. 105^r–111^r)

Additional Contents:  Commentary on the Old Testament, Explanation of difficult Old Testament passages (Ephrem, Jacob, and others), works by Jacob of Edessa, Theodore bar Wahburn, and others.

Catalogs:

Lantschoot, Arnold van. Inventaire des manuscrits syriaques des fonds Vatican (490-631): Barberini oriental e Neofiti. Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana, 1965 (p. 126–28).

Other online databases: none

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 16 April 2019.