Images: not available online (image from Evelyn White, pl. XVIIB)
Other shelf number(s): none
Physical description: cotton-paper, 25.8 × 17.5 cm, 42 leaves (originally about 400), 1 col.
Language: Coptic (Bohairic)
Date: ca. 13th cent.
Provenance: Monastery of St. Macarius, Wadi Natrun
Reconstructed Contents: all pages come from Cairo, Coptic Museum, Abu Maqar 5–6 unless otherwise noted.
pp. 291–292, 297–300, 303–306, 309–312: Acts of John by Prochorus
pp. 317–318, 351–52: Acts of John by Prochorus (Hatch collection)
pp. 353–358, 371–372, 377–378: Dormition of John
pp. 391–398: Preaching of Philip
pp. 401–408, 411–412: Martyrdom of Philip
pp. 421–428: Preaching of Bartholomew
pp. 727–728: Martyrdom of Matthias
pp. 759–760, 767–770: Martyrdom of Mark
pp. 761–762: Martyrdom of Mark (Hatch collection)
pp. 781–786: Martyrdom of Luke
pp. 787–788: Martyrdom of Luke (Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Add. 1886, fol. 3)
Additional contents: none
Catalogs/Editions:
Browne, Edward Granville. Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1900 (pp. 351–52).
Evelyn White, Hugh G. The Monasteries of the Wadi ‘n Natrûn. Part 1: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926 (text and translation of Cairo copt. 5–6, pp. 27–50).
Gaselee, Stephen. “A Bohairic Fragment of the ‘Martyrdom of St. Luke.” JTS 10 (1908): 52–53 (text and translation of page from Cambridge, Add. 1886).
Hatch, William H. P. “Three Hitherto Unpublished Leaves from a Manuscript of the Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha in Bohairic Coptic.” Pages 305–17 in Coptic Studies in Honor of Walter Ewing Crum. Bulletin of the Byzantine Institute 2. Boston: Byzantine Institute, 1950 (edition and English translation of three leaves from Hatch’s collection, pp. 312–17).
Other online databases: PAThs entry
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 10 December 2020.