New York, Morgan Library and Museum, M577

Images: Morgan Library (color fols. 1v, 2r, 12v, 25v, 26r, 35r, and 35v); Archive.org (black and white)

Other shelfmark(s): none

Physical description: vellum, 337 × 259 mm., 49 fols., 2 cols.

Language(s): Coptic (Sahidic)

Date: ante 895

Provenance: Touton scriptorium, Fayyūm

Contents:

Acts of Stephen (Coptic) (fols. 2r–12r) ~ fol. 1v decorated with image of Stephen with two angels

Additional Contents: Testament of Isaac; John Chrysostom, Discourse on Luke VIII; Athanasius, Discourse on Luke XI.

Catalogs/studies:

Achi, Andrea Mari Myers. “Illuminating the Scriptorium: The St. Michael Collection and Monastic Book Production in the Fayyūm Oasis, Egypt during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.” Ph. D. thesis, New York University, 2018 (p. 218, passim).

Depuydt, Leo. Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. 2 vols. Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts 4–5. Leuven: Peeters, 1993 (vol. 1, no. 172; vol. 2, pls. 17, 176–80, 285–87).

de Hamel, Christopher. The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club. London: Allen Lane, 2022 (pp. 482–83, 503, 581–82).

Hyvernat, Henri. Bybliothecae Pierpont Morgan Codices Coptici Photographi Expressi. 57 vols. Rome: Vatican City, 1922 (facsimile of the codex in vol. 11).

Other online databases: PAThs entry

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 26 April 2024.