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TM 117918 / LDAB 117918 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/117918

previously also TM 703074 (double), TM 764728 (double)

Metadata

Date: mid 5th - mid 6th century AD: AD 450 - 550

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

Book form: codex (4 fol.)

Content (beta!): literary text, Jacobus: protevangelium Jacobi; transitus Mariae

Authors / works: Pseudo-Iacobus apostulus (II), Protevangelium Jacobi (Syriac) (direct attestation)
Anonymus of the Transitus Mariae, Transitus Mariae (Syriac) (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, apocryphon (religion: christian)

Reuse type: palimpsest old, effaced by: see notes

Reuse note: palimpsest new: Johannes Chrysostomus and other church fathers in Arabic (AD09 - AD10), see now CRAIBL (2011), p. 378 n. 8

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

Publications

Oriens Christianus 8 (XIV), p. 120-135 (transitus Mariae) (Brock, Sebastian P. - 2017)
&Smith Lewis, Apocrypha Syriaca (Studia Sinaitica 11) (Smith Lewis, Agnes - 1902) [default]

∙Burkitt, Evangelion da-Mepharreshe. The Curetonian version of the four gospels 2 p. 21 no. 4 (Burkitt, Francis Crawford - 1904)

Photo: Smith Lewis, Apocrypha Sinaitica, pl. 5-6

Content studies: A. Desreumaux, Apocrypha 20 (2009), p. 120-121; S. Shoemaker, Ancient traditions of the virgin Mary's dormition and assumption (2002), p. 370-374 (translation)

Script & book studies: L. Tuerlinckx in V. Somers (ed.), Palimpsestes et éditions de textes, Publ. Inst. Orient. Louvain 56 (2009), p. 196-197; C. Naffah, Apocrypha 20 (2009), p. 148-150

Collections

→ Cambridge, University Library Ms. Or. 1287 (fol. 1-9, 21-52, 61-76, 87-94, 110-115, 124-133, 138-139) [palimpsest old]
+→ Sinai, Monastery of St Catharina Syr. 30 (fol. XVI.1, 5, 6, 10)

formerly Sinai, St. Catharina (monastery)

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