Catherine, Monastery of St.
author: Sebastian P. Brock
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Catherine, Monastery of St.

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Catherine-Monastery-of-St http://syriaca.org/bibl/129 120 Monastery of St Catherine http://syriaca.org/place/368 [place] [The Monastery of St. Catherine on Sinai was founded in the 6th cent. It had a multicultural community prior to the Ottoman period when it became entirely Greek.]

The Monastery of St. Catherine on Sinai was founded in the 6th cent. It had a multicultural community prior to the Ottoman period when it became entirely Greek. Alongside its Greek, Georgian, and Arabic mss., the monastery preserves the most important collection of early Syriac mss., after that of Dayr al-Suryān . The most famous of its manuscripts is Syr. 30, the palimpsest Old Syriac Gospels (unlike many of the monastery’s mss., which are now in western libraries, this ms. remains in Sinai). After a fire in 1975 a blocked up room with further fragmentary mss. in different languages, including Syriac, was discovered. Whereas Dayr al-Suryān has transmitted Syr. Orth. mss., those of St Catherine’s Monastery are almost all Melkite.

See Fig. 32c.

Sources

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S. P. Brock, ‘Syriac on Sinai: the main connections’, in Eukosmia: Studi miscellanei per il 75o di Vincenzo Poggi S.J., ed. V. Ruggieri and L. Pieralli (2003), 103–17.
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A. S. Lewis, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the Convent of St Catherine on Mount Sinai (1894).
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Sebastian P. Brock