Accession number:
MS M.910
Title:
Acts of the Apostles.
Created:
Egypt.
Binding:
Ancient binding: Wooden boards, with a small ivory stick, perhaps used to fasten wrapping bands around the book. Codex is in its ancient binding.
Credit:
Purchased in 1962.
Description:
102 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound
Provenance:
Acquired in Egypt by the Dutch dealer Joh. Möger of Soestdijk, The Netherlands, in the spring of 1962, and purchased by the Library in that year.
Notes:
Manuscript Acts of the Apostles written in Egypt.
According to Petersen, "the text ... is substantially that of the standard Sahidic version found in the Beatty codex and also ... [M.664B.8] ... The present new text differs from the published texts only in a few individual spellings ... The recension of the text is the 'Alexandrian' one, which eventually supplanted a variety of different readings which were current in Egypt before the time of Origen."--Cf. PML files.
Language:
Coptic, the Sahidic dialect
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