MACA.DE

Other shelf number(s): Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. copt. 66, 11

Physical description: parchment, 260 × 336 mm, 19 fols., 1 col.; rider on horse illumination fol. 287^v; copy made by Raffaele Tuki cataloged as Vat. Borg. copt. 25

Language: Coptic (Bohairic)

Date: 801–1067 (reader’s note fol. 287^r dated 1067)

Provenance: Monastery of St. Macarius

Reconstructed Contents:

pp. 1–36: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. copt. 66, 11, fols. 269^r–287^r (History of Joseph the Carpenter)

Additional contents: bound together with MACA.CT (fols. 1^r–18^v), MACA.CU (fols. 19^r–95^v), MACA.CV (fols. 96^r–123^v), MACA.CZ (fols. 124^r–155^v), MACA.DA (fols. 156^r–171^v), MACA.DB (fols. 172^r–210^v), MACA.DC (fols. 211^r–232^v), MACA.DD (fols. 233^r–268^v), and MACA.DF (fols. 288^r–313^v).

Catalogs:

Hebbelynck, Adolphe, and Arnoldus van Lantschoot. Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae Codices manu scripti recensiti. Vatican City: Bibliotheca Vaticana, 1937 (pp. 487–88).

Robinson, Forbes. Coptic Apocryphal Gospels. Translations Together with the Texts of Some of Them. TS 4.2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896 (description, pp. xxvii–xxviii).

Mai, Angelo. Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio. 11 vols. Vatican City: Bibliotheca Vaticana, 1825–1871 (vol. 5, p. 162).

Other online databases: PAThs entry

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 8 October 2021.