MONB.BY

Images: DigiVatLib (Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Borg. copt. 109, cass. xxvi, fasc. 136); see additional links below

Other shelf number(s): none

Physical description: parchment, 27.3 × 22.2 cm., 2 cols.

Language: Coptic (Sahidic)

Date: ca. 10th cent.

Provenance: White Monastery

Reconstructed Contents:

pp. [19]–[20]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 112 (Martyrdom of Paul, ends p. 20; Dormition of John) ~ Gallica

pp. 25–32: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Borg. copt. 109, cass. xxvi, fasc. 136, fols. 1–4 (Dormition of John) ~ DigiVatLib

pp. 47–48: Moscow, Puškin Museum, I. 1. b. 696 (Martyrdom of Mark)

pp. [53]–[54]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12914, fol. 104 (Martyrdom of Mark) ~ Gallica

pp. [55]–[56]: London, British Library, Or. 3581 B(13) (Martyrdom of Mark)

pp. 83–84: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917, fol. 71 (Martyrdom of Peter) ~ Gallica

pp. [101]–[102]: London, British Library, Or. 3581 B(27) (Martyrdom of Simon the Canaanite)

pp. ?–?: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 113 (Martyrdom of Matthew; Martyrdom of Philip) ~ Gallica

Additional contents: none

Catalogs/Editions:

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1905 (text of BL Or. 3581 B(13), pp. 131–32; variants given for Or. 3581 B(27), p. 139).

Elanskaya, Alla I. The Literary Texts of the Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow. Studia Aegyptica 13. Budapest, 1991 (Puškin Museum, I. 1.b . 696, pp. 126–33, 260–61, pl. 35)

Elanskaya, Alla I. The Literary Coptic Manuscripts of the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow. VC Sup 18. Leiden: Brill, 1991 (description and text of Puškin Museum, I. 1.b . 696, pp. 68–72).

Guidi, Ignazio. “Frammenti copti. Nota III.” Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei ser. 4, 3.2 (1887): 65–86, at 72–76 (edition of Vat. Borg. copt. 109).

Hubai, Paul.  “The Legend of Mark: Coptic Fragments.” Pages 165–234 in Studia in honorem L. Fóti. Studa Aegyptica 12. Budapest: Chaire d’Egyptologie de l’Université Eötvös Loránd, 1989 (discussion of Morgan Library and Museum, M52 ~ 190).

Morard, Françoise. “Notes sur le recueil copte des Acts Apocryphes des Apôtres.” RTP 113 (1981): 403–13 (reconstruction of codex).

Other online databases: PAThs entry

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 12 May 2020.