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Miscellaneous Identifications IV: A Missing Quire of the Arabic Apocrypha Codex among the New Finds

1. This is the fourth post in a series in which I document identifications associated with the work of early Christian Arabic scribes. You can find the first three posts here (I), here (II), and here (III). This post is about a further membrum disjectum of a Christian Arabic parchment manuscript produced in the Sinai Monastery… Continue reading Miscellaneous Identifications IV: A Missing Quire of the Arabic Apocrypha Codex among the New Finds

A Blog Dedicated to the Dispersed Manuscript Heritage of Saint Catherine’s Monastery

  1. “The history of the Sinai library till the second half of the nineteenth century is mostly a history of its despoiling”.1 The Byzantinist Vladimir Beneshevich (1874-1938) made this statement as early as 1911. At that point, scholars were only just beginning to get an idea of the extent of this “despoiling”. Moreover, the… Continue reading A Blog Dedicated to the Dispersed Manuscript Heritage of Saint Catherine’s Monastery