Syriac Epistles, British Library, Add. 14479

British Library, Add MS 14479, is a Syriac manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. It is dated by a colophon to the year 534. It is one of the oldest manuscripts of Peshitta and the earliest dated Peshitta Apostolos.

Description

It contains the text of the fourteen Pauline epistles, on 101 leaves, with only three lacunae. Written in one column per page, in 25-33 lines per page. The Epistle to the Hebrews is placed after Philemon.
Numerous Syriac vowels and signs of punctuations have been added by a Nestorian hand, as well as a few Greek vowels by another reader.
It was written for the monastery in Edessa, in a small, elegant Estrangela hand in the year 533–534. The first folio was supplemented by a later hand in the twelfth century, folio 28 and 39 were supplemented in the thirteenth century.
The manuscript is housed at the British Library in London.