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TM 116068 / LDAB 116068 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/116068

Metadata

Date: AD 700 - 799
cf. Brock, JSS 40 (1995), p. 41

Provenance: Catharina Monastery - Egypt (SinaiThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Syria - Syria (SyriaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - SyriaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Syriac (paleography: estrangela)

Material: parchment

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (65 fol.); columns per page: 2; number of lines per page: 28, 29, 30, 31

Content (beta!): literary text, Gregorius of Nyssa: commentary on the Canticus canticorum (015)

Authors / works: Testamentum vetus (Vetus Syra), Canticum canticorum (direct attestation)
Gregorius of Nysa, Commentarius in Canticum canticorum (Syriac) (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — poetry, lyric + prose, oratory, homily (religion: christian)

Note: revision of the Peshitta on the basis of the Septuagint

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, other

Publications

Géhin, Les manuscrits syriaques de parchemin du Sinaï (CSCO 665. Subsidia 136) p. 58-60 descr. (Géhin, Paul - 2017)
&Journal of Semitic Studies 40 (1995), p. 39-56 (Brock, Sebastian P. - 1995) [default]

∙Oriens christianus N.S. 94 (2010), p. 34-35 descr. (Géhin, Paul - 2010)

∙Philothée, Nouveaux manuscrits syriaques du Sinaï p. 521-525 [M53N partie B] (Philothée du Sinaï - 2008)

∙Oriens christianus N.S. 91 (2007), p. 8-9 no. 39 descr. (Géhin, Paul - 2007)

∙Le Muséon 49 (1936), p. 45 no. 39 descr. (Chabot, Jean-Baptiste - 1936)

∙Katalog Hiersemann 500. Orientalische Manuskripte p. 13 no. 18 (Baumstark, Anton - 1922)

∙Smith Lewis, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in St. Catharine p. 39 no. 19 (Smith Lewis, Agnes - 1894)

∙Mingana, Catalogue of the Mingana collection of manuscripts 3 628 (p. 74) (Mingana, Alphonse - 1939)

Photo: Katalog Hiersemann, pl. 9; Philothée, Nouveaux manuscrits, p. 523

Collections

→ Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library Mingana Syr. 628
+→ Leipzig, Universität Or. 1078 II
+→ London, British Library Or 628
+→ Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana A 296 inf. (fol. 191-194)
+→ Sinai, Monastery of St Catharina Syr. M53N [partie B] + Syr. 19

∙Zürich, Zentralbibliothek Syr. 76 (fol. 1-2) (previous)

formerly Sinai, St. Catharina (monastery)

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