Images: Gallica (BnF, Copte 12918)
Other shelf number(s): none
Physical description: not provided
Language: Coptic (Sahidic)
Date: ca. 10th cent.
Provenance: White Monastery
Reconstructed Contents:
pp. [?]–[?]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 116 ~ Encomium on John the Baptist, portions of 6–8
pp. 11–14: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fols. 117–119 (118v is numbered 119) ~ Encomium on John the Baptist, 13–17
pp. 65–66: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 12918, fol. 120 ~ text uncertain; features a story of John the Baptist
Contained in the same manuscript (according to PAThs):
Historia Gesii et Isidori, by Athanasius of Alexandria
Historia monachorum; Vita Onophrii, by Papnoute of Scetis
Miracula Gesii et Isidori
De divitiis; In Michaelem, by Peter of Alexandria
Perhaps from the same manuscript (according to Winstedt):
Acts of Stephen: Cairo 8109; Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1317, fol. 20; Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, Zoega 123
A sermon of Peter of Alexandria: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1313, fols. 81–85
Unnamed text: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1315, fol. 43
Additional contents: none
Catalogs/Editions:
Winstedt, Eric O. “A Coptic Fragment Attributed to James the Brother of the Lord.” JTS 8.30 (1907): 240–48 (edition and translation of the Paris fragment).
Other online databases: PAThs entry
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 2 April 2020.