English: “An angel announces the resurrection of Christ to Mary and Mary Magdalene as they arrive at the tomb with fragrant oil with which to anoint the dead Jesus. These women are the first people to hear of the resurrection, even before the disciples. From a thirteenth-century Nestorian Peshitta Gospel, written in Estrangela. (State Library of Berlin, Prussian cultural collection. Sachau 304, parchment manuscript 195 Bl., Folio 106 v.)” – The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity by Christoph Baumer, p. 168.
Presentation of the Sachau 304 manuscript