MONB.GQ

Images: Gallica (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 88 ); see additional links below

Other shelf number(s): none

Physical description: not provided

Language: Coptic (Sahidic)

Date: ca. 920–940

Provenance: copied in Toutōn; transferred to White Monastery

Reconstructed Contents:

pp. 3–16: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Borg. copt. 109, cass. xxvi, fasc. 128, fols. 1–7 (Zoega 128) (Martyrdom of Peter) ~ DigiVatLib

pp. 35–36: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, IB. 13/450 (Zoega 274), fol. 61 (pp. 35–36 Martyrdom of Simon the Canaanite; p. 36 beginning of Dormition of John)

pp. 45–46: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, IB. 13/450 (Zoega 274), fol. 62 (Dormition of John)

pp. [49]–[50]: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, K 9472 (p. 49 end of Dormition of John; p. 49 beginning of Martyrdom of Thomas) ~ ONB

pp. ?–?: Moscow, Puškin Museum, I. 1. b. 666 (Martyrdom of Thomas)

pp. 65–66: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 88 (Martyrdom of Andrew) ~ Gallica

pp. ?–?: Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et Universitaire, Copte 34 (Martyrdom of James, Son of Zebedee)

pp. ?–?: London, British Library, Or. 6954 (55) (Martyrdom of Bartholomew; Martyrdom of Matthew)

pp. 137–138, 155–156: Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, IB. 13/450 (Zoega 274) (Encomium on Mark)

Possible additional fragments:

pp. ?–?: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Copt. C65

Additional contents: none

Catalogs/Editions:

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. 666, pp. 134–40, 256, pl. 36).

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. 666, pp. 60–67).

Guidi, Ignazio. “Frammenti copti. Nota IIa.” Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei ser. 4, 3.2 (1888): 19–35 (edition of Vat. Borg. copt. 109, pp. 23–32).

Guidi, Ignazio. “Di alcune Pergamene Saidiche della Collezione Borgiana.” Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei ser. 5, 2 (1893): 513–30 (edition of Naples IB. 13/450 with Italian translation).

Layton, Bentley. Catalogue of Coptic Literary Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired Since the Year 1906. London: British Library, 1987 (description of British Library, Or. 6954 (55), p. 185).

Lucchesi, Enzo. “Contribution codicologique au corpus copte des actes apocryphes des apôtres.” Pages 7–24 in Paul-Hubert Poirier, La version copte de la Prédication et du Martyre de Thomas. Subsidia Hagiographica 67. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1984 (reconstruction of codex [=Codex D], pp. 15–16; edition of the Martyrdom of Thomas material, text p. 63, trans., p. 99).

Miroshnikov, Ivan. “The Coptic Martyrdom of Andrew.” Apocrypha 29 (2018): 9–28 (edition and translation of the Coptic fragments of Mart. Andr., 20–21, 24–25).

Zoega, Georgio. Catalogus codicum Copticorum manu scriptorum. Rome: Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1810. Rep. Hildesheim: Olms, 1973 (description of the Naples fragments and Vat. Borg. copt. 109, pp. 229, 621).

Other online databases: PAThs entry

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 13 May 2020.