Shelfmark
MS 248
Main entry--uniform title
Bible. Numbers, IV, 33-V
Title
Fragment from a Coptic Bible [manuscript]
Publication, distribution, etc.
Egypt, 1000-1100.
Physical description
[2] leaves ; 328 x 270 mm
Language
Written in Sahidic Coptic.
Note
Material: membrane. Kahle suggested that the second leaf was mended with small parchment strips from a 6th-7th-century manuscript, but provides no explanation for this statement.
Note
Format: fragment from codex.
Note
Written space: 242 x 190 mm.
Note
Page preparation: No pricking or ruling visible.
Note
Mise-en-page: Double columns (30 lines) in a set script. ?Chapter references on top right corner of leaves.
Note
Decoration: red strokes added to small initials
Note
Handwriting: sloping majuscule script.
Note
Marginalia and later additions: none.
Formatted contents note
Contents: The two leaves cover Numbers IV, 33 to V, 1 and VII, 12-37.
Citation/references note
J. Schleifer, 'Bruchstücke der Sahidischen Bibelübersetzung III", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, 170:1 (1912)
Citation/references note
W.E. Crum, Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the British Museum, no. 10
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 248
Provenance
Origin: Paul E. Kahle suggested that the codex from which these leaves come from was copied at the White Monastery (Dayr al-Abyaḍ) near Akhnûm in Upper Egypt.
Provenance
Provenance: bequeathed to Eton with his Egyptian collection by Major W. J. Myers in 1896; the remainder of his Coptic manuscripts were given to the British Museum. This catalogue record is based on a note from Paul E. Kahle, dated 4 November 1952 at Worcester College Oxford, inserted in the interleaved, annotated copy of M.R. James's Descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895) held at ECL (MS 932).
Subject
Subject
Bible. Numbers Manuscripts.
Subject
Coptic manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Egypt.
Language code
cop
Identifier
B50898