Images: DigiVatLib (Vat. Borg. Copt. 109 fasc. 111; see additional links below)
Other shelf number(s): none
Physical description:
Language: Coptic (Sahidic)
Date: ca. 10th cent.
Provenance: White Monastery
Reconstructed Contents:
All pages contain Homily on the Life of Jesus and His Love for the Apostles
pp. 21–28: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Copt. 109 fasc. 111 (Zoega 111), fols. 1–4 ~ DigiVatLib
pp. 33–34: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, K 9371
pp. 33–34: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 158 (Gallica) + Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1315, fol. 150 (Gallica) + Fragment in the Bolaffi Collection
pp. 35–46: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Copte 12917, fols. 53–58 ~ Gallica
pp. 47–48: London, British Library, Or. 3581 B (23)
pp. 53–60: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Copt. 109, fasc. 113 (Zoega 113), fols. 1–4 ~ DigiVatLib
pp. 61–62: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917, fol. 75 ~ Gallica
pp. ?–?: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 126 ~ 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 (23), pp. 136–37).
Guidi, Ignazio. “Frammenti copti. Nota VIa.” Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, ser. 4, 3.2 (1887): 368–84 (text of Borg. Copt. 109 fasc. 111, pp. 373–77).
Lacau, Pierre. Fragments d’apocryphes coptes. Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 9. Cairo: Imprimerie de l’IFAO, Paris: Firmin Didot, 1904 (editions and translations of the Paris fragments, pp. 84–108).
Revillout, Eugène. Apocryphes coptes du Nouveau Testament. Vol. 1: Textes. Études Égyptologiques 7. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1876 (editio princeps of the Vatican fragments, pp. 113–17, 124–28).
Revillout, Eugène. Les apocryphes coptes. Première partie: Les Évangiles des douze apôtres et de saint Barthélemy. PO 2/2. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1904 (text and translation of the Vatican fragments, pp. 132–37, 151–55; Paris, Copte 12918 and Copte 12917, pp. 141–49).
Zoega, Georgio. Catalogus codicum Copticorum manu scriptorum. Rome: Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1810. Repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 1973 (descriptions of the Vatican fragments, p. 222).
Suciu, Alin. “An Apocryphal Fragment Sold at Sotheby’s (The Pseudo-Gospel of the Twelve Apostles). Alin Suciu. Posted 19 April 2011. Online: https://alinsuciu.com/2011/04/19/an-apocryphal-fragment-sold-at-sothebys-the-pseudo-gospel-of-the-twelve-apostles/ (identification of the Bolaffi fragment, combined with three other fragments from the same leaf).
Other online databases: PAThs entry
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 28 June 2020.