Accession number:
MS M.669
Title:
Lectionary fragments.
Created:
Egypt.
Credit:
Purchased for J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description:
50 fragments : paper, ill.
Provenance:
Monastery of Saint Michael (Dayr al-Malāk Mīkhāʾīl); found in 1910 near the village of Hamuli, Fayyūm Province, Egypt, at the site of the Monastery of Saint Michael; purchased in Paris in 1911 for J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Arthur Sambon, a dealer acting in behalf of a consortium of owners including a certain J. Kalebdian; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Manuscript fragments from Biblical Lectionaries written in Egypt.
Text: Small and tiny leaf fragments from paper codices containing Biblical Lectionaries, of which many are possibly related to MS M.669.1-14. Conserved in 5 envelopes
Related fragments possibly include: (for 85) MS M.669.9; (for 58) MS M.669.1; (for 66 and 122) MS M.669.2.
Language:
Coptic, the Bohairic dialect
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