The Book of Susanna is the shortest of the four women who have named books as part of the Syriac Peshitta manuscripts that contain the sections called “Books of Illustrious Women.” One of the manuscripts is famous because it contains what I call the HB/OT + . That is, the books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Plus, plus the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books, at least many of them, plus some extras, like the Apocalypse of Baruch (2 Baruch) and the Sixth Book of Josephus’s Jewish War.
These are the three images of the complete Peshitta text of Susanna, in the seventh century manuscript from the Ambrosian Library of Milan. In the first image, reading from right to left, Susanna starts in the leftmost (third) column.
Peshitta Susanna7a1 - Starts with leftmost column
In the second image of Susanna, below, all three columns belong to the book.
Columns 2, 3, and 4 of the Syriac Peshitta OT + Book of Susanna
In the third image of Susanna, below, the book concludes.
The final columns of Susanna, according to the Syriac Peshitta ms.
