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TM 115189 / LDAB 115189 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/115189

previously also TM 115161 (joined), TM 129933 (double)

Metadata

Date: AD 700 - 820

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

Language/script: Syriac (paleography: estrangela)

Material: parchment

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (213 fol.); columns per page: 2; number of lines per page: 29-36

Content (beta!): anthology: + vita of Nilus anchorites + discourse of philosopher about the soul + Theano + Mar Johannes, commentary on Ecclesiasticus + Johannes Chrysostomus, commentary on Mattheus + Sententiae

Authors / works: Palladius, Historia Lausiaca (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Aristides christianus, Apology (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Plutarchus, Opus incertum (Syriac): 4, 5, 6, 7 (direct attestation)
Nilus monachus, Instituta (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Lucianus, Calumniae non temere credendum (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Iohannes Chrysostomus, Homiliae (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Iacobus of Edessa, Opus incertum: in paradisum (direct attestation)
Ephraem Syrus, Sermones (prose) (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature, science — anthology, prose, wisdom, philosophy, theology, hagiography (religion: christian (melkite), classical)

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. 53-55 descr. (Géhin, Paul - 2017) [default]

∙Oriens christianus N.S. 91 (2007), p. 16-18 no. 49 (Géhin, Paul - 2007)

∙Pouderon e.a., Aristide, Apologie, Sources Chrétiennes 470 p. 137-140, 181-251 (Pouderon, Bernard / Pierre, Marie-Joseph / Outtier, Bernard / Guiorgadze, Marina - 2003)

∙Strothmann, Kohelet Kommentar des Johannes von Apamea (Gött. Or., Syriaca 30) p. xx ms. A descr. (Strothmann, Werner - 1988)

∙Le Muséon 96 (1983), p. 97-132 (Bundy, D. - 1983; de Chananaea)

∙Symposium Syriacum 1976 (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 205) p. 163-177 (Zeegers-Van der Vorst, N. - 1978)

∙Draguet, Les formes syriaques de la matière de l'Histoire lausiaque (CSCO 389. Scriptores Syri 169) p. 33*-34* ms. H [Palladius] (Draguet, René - 1978)

∙Kamil, Catalogue of all manuscripts in the monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai p. 53 no. 71 (Kamil, Murad - 1970)

∙Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts 641 (p. 86) (Mingana, Alphonse - 1939)

∙Le Muséon 49 (1936), p. 48-49 no. 49 (Chabot, Jean-Baptiste - 1936)

∙Smith Lewis, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in St. Catharine p. 18-38 no. 16 (Smith Lewis, Agnes - 1894)

∙Nestle, A tract of Plutarch. On the advantage to be derived from one's enemies (Studia Sinaitica 4) (Nestle, Eberhard - 1894)

Photo: Harris, The Apology of Aristides, Cambridge 1891, frontispiece; Draguet, Bibl. and Patristic Studies in Memory of R.P. Casey, 1963, pl. 5; Smith Lewis, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in St. Catharine

Content studies: P. Bettiolo, in: M.S. Funghi (ed.), Aspetti di letteratura gnomica nel mondo antico, II, Firenze 2003, p. 292-298

Script & book studies: scribe Jonas; M. Lattke, Aristides Apologie, Komm. zu frühchristlichen Apologeten 2 (2018), p. 17-19; Y. Arzhanov, CSCO 669, subsidia 138 (2019), p. 37-41 sayings of philosophers)

Collections

→ Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library Mingana Syr. 641
+→ Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana A 296 inf. (fol. 174-180)
+→ Sinai, Monastery of St Catharina Syr. 16

formerly Sinai, St. Catharina (monastery)

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