Metadata
Provenance: Mesopotamia - Iraq (MesopotamiaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - MesopotamiaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]
Language/script: Syriac, drawing (paleography: estrangela)
Material: parchment
Completely preserved
Book form: codex (246 fol.); columns per page: 3; number of lines per page: 58-60
Content (beta!): literary text, pandect (Peshitta): illustrated manuscript; Exodus; Leviticus; Numeri; Deuteronomium; Iob; Joshua; Judges; Ruth; Samuel; Kings; Proverbia; canticum; Isaias; Jeremias; Baruch; Ezechiel; Small prophets; Susanna; Daniel; psalms; Esther; Iudith; Esra; Ecclesiasticus (Jezus Sirach); Maccabaei ; Jacobus (letter)
Authors / works: Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Exodus (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Leviticus (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Numeri (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Deuteronomium (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Iob (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Iosue (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Iudices (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Ruth (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Proverbia (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Canticum canticorum (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Isaias (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Ieremias (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Baruch (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Ezechiel (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Hosea (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Ioel (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Amos (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Abdia (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Ionas (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Micheas (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Nahum (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Habacuc (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Sophonias (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Aggeus (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Zacharias (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Malachias (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Daniel (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Psalmi (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Esther (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Iudith (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Esdras (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus, Ben Sira (Peshitta), Ecclesiasticus (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Iacobus (Peshitta), Epistula Iacobi (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), 1 Samuel (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), 2 Samuel (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), 1 Regum (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), 2 Regum (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Peshitta), Susanna (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Marcus (Peshitta), Evangelium secundum Marcum: (fragment) (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Lucas (Peshitta), Evangelium secundum Lucam: (end) (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Iohannes (Peshitta), Evangelium secundum Iohannem: (beginning) (direct attestation)
Culture & genre: literature + art — prose, bible, gospel + painting (religion: christian, nestorian?)
Note: illustrated
More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM, other
Publications
Sörries, Die syrische Bibel von Paris (Sörries, Reiner - 1991) [default]
∙Miran, Le décor de la bible syrienne de Paris (Cahiers d'études syriennes 7) (MIran, François P. - 2020)
∙Leroy, Les manuscrits syriaques à peinture p. 208-219 no. 4 (Leroy, Jules - 1964)
∙Omont, Peintures de l'Ancien Testament dans un manuscrit syriaque (Monuments Piot 17) p. 85-98 (Omont, Henri - 1909)
Photo: H. Omont, Peintures de l'Ancient Testament; R. Sörries, Die syrische Bibel von Paris, p. 81-92 (colour); Leroy, Les manuscrits syriaques à peinture, pl. 4348 K. Weitzmann, Late antique and early christian book illumination, London 1977, pl. 39-40 (colour); P. Hoffmann, Recherches de codicologie comparée (1998), p. 156; Miran, Le décor de la bible syrienne, 25 colour plates
Collections
→ Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale syr. 341
formerly Siirt, Mar Yakub (Saint James) (monastery)