The memra on ascetism

After looking around for John bar Penkaye's five-to-seven volume On Asceticism, I find that various MSS collections own a Memra ascribed to this man - in a compilation for “ascetica”. These copies cluster in the Library of Congress, #26 made AD 1550. #40 is an AD 1531 copy and a #24 also exists. All are compiled with John of Mosul so, the autograph for this collection postdates AD 1270. syri.ac knows of no non-Syrian who has touched this Memra in modern times.

These MSS are on the Library of Congress which has posted this on the Internet. That's great! . . . in black-and-white. Which isn't so great, for titles often in red. I think this is where our memra starts in #40 but even the consonants for "Yohnn br Pnkaye'" are hard to read, let alone the dots. Oh: and #40 is used parchment, so palimpsest. If so: 17-20 images, of maybe 280. This text corresponds to #26 here; #26 is at least paper so not palimpsest.

This memra is, as you can see, a minor work; not seven volumes nor even two. These things get tacked at the end of codices, to fill up the last (costly) pages; as witnessed by the Copts when they ended their codices with that "letter of Peter to Philip".

Fair Warning: this memra may belong rather to one of those later monastic Johanans. Ebedjesu himself may witness only to the same late-mediaeval confusion which Baumstark has decried. But ... does that matter? John of Dalyata and John Daylamaya are early eighth-century, also in scope for Seeing Islam.

UPDATE 1/26: this poast is what happens when I speed-translate something without checking the footnotes. Baumstark already warned us.