Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, ar. 539

Images: Library of Congress

Physical description: paper, 20 × 13 cm, 277 fols., 1 col. (also contains Syriac page-numbering one page off from Gibson’s renumbering)

Language(s): Arabic

Date: 12th cent. (Attiya), 1579 (Gibson)

Provenance: unknown

Contents:

Preaching of Peter to Faustus (fols. 1^v–13^v)

Story of Peter, John, and Paul in Antioch (fols. 13^v–30^r)

Preaching of Paul in the City of Ignorance (=History of the Contending of Paul 13; fols. 30^r–42^r)

Passion of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Pseudo-Marcellus) (fols. 42^r–57^r)

Epistle of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite to Timothy (fols. 57^v–63^r)

Acts of Andrew and Philemon (fols. 63^v–72^v)

Acts of Andrew and Bartholomew (fols. 72^v–88^r)

Martyrdom of Andrew (fols. 88^r–90^v)

Preaching of James, Son of Zebedee (fols. 90^v–94^v)

Martyrdom of James, Son of Zebedee (fols. 94^v–96^v)

History of John (fols. 96^v–106^v)

Dormition of John (fols. 106^v–109^r)

Encomium on John the Theologian by Pseudo-John Chrysostom (fols. 109^r–111^v)

History of Philip (fols. 111^v–118^v)

Martyrdom of Philip (fols. 118^v–120^v)

Preaching of Bartholomew (fols. 120^v–126^v)

Martyrdom of Bartholomew (fols. 126^v–129^r)

Acts of Thomas (Preaching [=Acts of Thomas and His Wonderworking Skin], fols. 129^v–154^r; Martyrdom, fols. 154^v–158^v)

Acts of Matthew in the City of the Priests (fols. 158^v–166^v)

Acts of Andrew and Matthias (fols. 167^r–181^r)

Martyrdom of Matthew (fols. 181^r–184^r)

Martyrdom of James, Son of Alphaeus (fols. 184^r–184^v)

Preaching of Simon the Canaanite (fols. 185^r–186^v)

Martyrdom of Simon the Canaanite (fols. 186^v–187^v)

Preaching of Judas Thaddaeus (fols. 187^v–194^r)

Martyrdom of Matthias (fols. 194^r–196^v)

Preaching of James, Brother of the Lord (fols. 196^v–197^r)

Martyrdom of James, Brother of the Lord (fols. 197^r–200^v)

Martyrdom of Mark (fols. 200^v–204^v)

Martyrdom of Luke (fols. 204^v–208^r)

Acts of Cornelius (fols. 208^v–218^v)

Additional Contents: On Melchizedek by Athanasius of Alexandria, lives of prophets.

Catalogs:

Attiya, Aziz Suryal. The Arabic Manuscripts of Mount Sinai. Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1955 (p. 21).

Bausi, Alessandro. “Alcune osservazioni sul Gadla ḥawāryāt.” Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli 60–61 (2001–2002): 77–114 (discussion, p. 99).

Graf, Georg. Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur. 5 vols. Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944 (discussion, vol. 1, p. 261).

Gibson, Margaret Dunlop. Catalogue of the Arabic mss in the Convent of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1894 (pp. 111–13).

Kamil, Murad. Catalogue of All Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1970.

Other online databases: none

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 8 September 2017.