Images: British Library
Other shelfmark(s): MERC.AM; olim 6808B
Physical description: paper, 307 × 185 mm., i+78+i fols., 1 col.; pages missing
Language(s): Coptic (Sahidic)
Date: 992
Provenance: Monastery of St. Mercurius, Edfu (Upper Egypt); scribe: Zokrator, son of Joseph
Contents:
Encomium on the Archangel Michael by Pseudo-Timothy Aelurus (fols. 67v–75v)
Additional Contents: Stories of the Monks of the Desert by Paphnoute Cephalas; Lessons for the Feast of Apa Haron; Prayer of St. Athanasius When Dying by Athanasius of Alexandria.
Catalogs:
Budge, E. A. W. Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. London: British Museum, 1915 (description, pp. lvi–lix, pls. XXXII–XXXVIII).
Layton, Bentley. Catalogue of Coptic Literary Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired Since the Year 1906. London: British Library, 1987 (pp. 196–99).
Other online databases: PAThs; British Library
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 2 June 2019.