101 THE MOST ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT WITNESS TO THE PARADISE OF THE FATHERS (CPB 464, OLIM MOSUL 810 AND MOSUL SCHER 94): A NEW DESCRIPTION AND SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS 1 GIOVANNI GOMIERO FWO-PHD FELLOW, UNIVERSITEIT GENT 1 I want to thank Grigory Kessel for his help and his patience with all my questions and emails. The form of this article is built upon the example of his series of articles published in Hugoye as Fields Notes on Syriac Manu- scripts. I want also to thank Peter Van Nuffelen, David Phillips and Vittorio Berti for their corrections, and all the colleagues with whom I shared this ongoing research (Adrian Pirtea, David Phillips, David Michelson, Matteo Poiani, Marco Pavan, Michael D. Ethington). This article is dedicated to André Binggeli and Flavia Ruani, who showed me how and why working directly on the manuscripts is decisive and fascinating for a young histo- rian. The research was supported by FWO with a PhD Fundamental Re- search Fellowship (Grant n. 1196025N, Project Title: “Thomas of Marga and the Book of Superiors: texts, formation and socio-cultural context of an East-Syrian bishop in the mid-ninth century”, supervised by Peter Van Nuffelen and Vittorio Berti). I want to thank also the anonymous peer re- viewer and the editors for the corrections and suggestions.