Harvard University, MS Syriac 38

Metadata

DS ID:

DS11326

Shelfmark:

MS Syriac 38

Title:

Stories of saints

Date:

1760 [1448 or 1449].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Syriac and Arabic

Syriac WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 154 leaves, bound : 18 cm.

Note:

Date from f. 111v, which also names the scribe as the deacon Addai son of the priest Malke.
Page size 18 x 13 cm.; text area 14 x 9 cm.
Written in a clear bold serto hand, 12-15 lines per page; rubricated.
There are colored geometric designs on ff. 111v, 121v, 174r, 175r.
There are marginal notes by later hands, some in Arabic, on ff. 107v, 108r, 110v, 111r, 153v, 154r, etc.
In quires of 8 leaves, signed. Only quires 5-23 and one other pair of leaves are preserved. Leaves are wanting after ff. 130, 137, 234, 236. Ff. 131, 138 are blanks supplied by the binder.
Bound with: Religious stories, [14--?].
The Acts of Thomas is a shorter recension than the texts published by Wright and Bedjan.
Bookplate of former owner J. Rendel Harris with his number (26). Purchased by the Harvard Semitic Museum in 1905 (accession no. 3963).
Deposited by the Harvard Semitic Museum, ca. 1959.

Keyword:

Philoxenus, Bishop of Hierapolis, approximately 440-523

Eulogios, Disciple of Awgen

Thomas, Apostle, Saint, active 1st century

John, of Daylam

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990055534810203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University