Catalogue of the Arabic MSS. in the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai

An inventory by Margaret Gibson of Arabic documents at the Mount Sinai Monastery of St Catherine, first published in 1894.

Margaret Dunlop Gibson (Edited by)

9781108043502, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 February 2012

162 pages, 4 b/w illus.
24.4 x 17 x 0.9 cm, 0.27 kg

The twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843–1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843–1920) were pioneering biblical scholars who became experts in a number of ancient languages. Travelling widely in the Middle East, they made several significant discoveries, including one of the earliest manuscripts of the Four Gospels in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, the language probably spoken by Jesus himself. Their chief discoveries were made in the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. This work is a list of the monastery's manuscripts in Arabic compiled by Margaret Gibson in 1893 and first published in 1894. Written in Greek for use by scholars and for the monks themselves, this fascicule provides a careful document of the monastery's Arabic pages, their physical state and content. Illustrated with photographs of the catalogued works, this text will be of interest to scholars in Arabic Christianity and Middle East monastic history.

Introduction
Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts
Index.

Subject Areas: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]