Images: not available online; photographs of fol. 75 provided in Alin Suciu, “A British Library Fragment from a Homily on the Lament of Mary and the So-Called Gospel of Gamaliel,” Aethiopica 15 (2012): 53–71; additional folios in in E. A. W. Budge, Coptic Martyrdoms etc. in the Dialect of Upper Egypt (London: British Museum, 1914), pl. xx–xxvi.
Other shelfmark(s): none
Physical description: fols. 1–73 are paper, 304 × 210 mm, 1 col.; fols. 74 and 75 were taken from the original binding; fol. 74 is parchment, 169 × 158 mm, 1 col.; fol. 75 is parchment, 192 × 175 mm, 1 col. (originally numbered 29–30)
Language(s): Coptic (Sahidic)
Date: 1004 (fols. 74–75 prior to 1004)
Provenance: fols. 1–73 copied by Victor the scribe in Esna for the Monastery of St. Mercurius, Edfu (Upper Egypt)
Contents:
Lament of Mary (fol. 75)
Additional Contents: Life of Onnophrius the Anchorite by Paphnoute Cephalas; Oration on the Nativity by Demetrius of Antioch; fragment of Epistle of James (fol. 74)
Catalogs:
Layton, Bentley. Catalogue of Coptic Literary Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired Since the Year 1906. London: British Library, 1987 (fols. 1–73, pp. 192–94; fol. 74, pp. 56–57; fol. 75, pp. 111–12).
Budge, E. A. W. Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. London: British Museum, 1915 (description, pp. xxxvi–xxxix).
Budge, Ernest A. W. Coptic Martyrdoms etc. in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. London: British Museum, 1914 (description, pp. xxi–xxii).
Other online databases: PAThs
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 30 November 2019.