Images: not online; images in Piwowarczyk, “Preliminary Remarks,” 191–94; and Thommée, “Gurna Manuscripts,” 205–206.
Other shelf number(s): Inv. No. Coptic MS. 3 (by Thommée)
Physical description: parchment, 14 × 11 cm (14 × 9 cm fol. 52), 52 fols., 2 cols.
Language: Coptic (Sahidic)
Date: ca. 7th/8th cent.
Provenance: excavated at the hill of Sheikh Abd el-Gurna, Thebes
Contents:
Martyrdom of Peter (fols. 51r–52v)
Additional contents: Isaiah 47–66.
Studies:
Carlig, Nathan. “Dealing with the Stratigraphy of Coptic Codices: the Cases of MSS Pierpont Morgan Library M578 and Coptic Museum, inv. 13446.” Comparative Oriental Manuscripts Studies Bulletin 4.1 (2018): 69–78, esp. 74–76.
Kordowska, Daria. “Conservation Work on three Coptic Manuscripts from Sheikh abd el-Gurna.” Polish Archeology in the Mediterranean 18 (2008): 311–15.
Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Preliminary Remarks on the Recently Identified Leaves with Martyrium Petri from Shekh Abd el-Gurna.” Adamantius 24 (2018): 184–94 (manuscript description and images).
Suciu, Alin. “The Sahidic Tripartite Isaiah: Origins and Transmission within the Coptic Manuscript Culture.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 66 (2020): 377–406 (pp. 380–88).
Thommée, Anna. “The Gurna Manuscripts (hermitage in MMA 1152), conservation report, 2010.” Polish Archeology in the Mediterranean 22 (2013): 199–208.
Other online databases: PAThs entries (6293; 3469); Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament Project (ID: 622028)
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 12 July 2021.