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Mount Sinai, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sin. Gr. 401

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Additional Information

  • Appr. Date: 11th c. (1086 A.D.)
  • Genres: Homilies, Religious misc.
  • Illustrations: Yes

Notes

Contents:

Catecheses by Theodore the Studite and other patristic texts (please see Pinakes for a full overview).

The manuscript contains many ornamental initials throughout the text.

A colophon on fol. 205v dates the ms. to 1086.

Kamil 625 (see p. 87).

Weitzmann 31 (see p. 87-89).

Dumbarton Oaks owns a copy of Professor Kurt Weitzmann’s large collection of black-and-white images of Sinai manuscripts (the original set is at Princeton University). These images are available for viewing in the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archive (ICFA). Please consult the pdf linked in the internet resources to see which folios from this manuscript are included in the holdings.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of all manuscripts in the Monastery of S[ain]t Catherine on Mount Sinai (Open in Zotero)
  • Catalogus codicum Graecorum Sinaiticorum (Open in Zotero)
  • The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts (Open in Zotero)