New York, Morgan Library and Museum, M595

Images: Archive.org; Pierpont Morgan Library (with color images of illuminated pages)

Other shelfmark(s): MICH.BR

Physical description: vellum, 342 × 277 mm., i+148+i fols., 2 col.

Language(s): Coptic (Sahidic)

Date: 855

Provenance: Monastery of the Archangel Michael at Phantoou in the Fayum

Contents:

Homily on the Resurrection and the Passion, by Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem (fols. 1r–27v)

Homily on the Passion and the Resurrection, by Evodius of Rome (fols. 28r–51r)

Homily on the Passion and the Resurrection, by Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem (fols. 68r–79r)

Additional Contents: Homily on New Sunday, by Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem (fols. 73r–93v); Homily on the Resurrection, by Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem (fols. 93v–100r); Homily on the Resurrection and on the Apostles, by Pseudo-John Chrysostom (fols. 51v–67v); Homily on the Passion and the Judgment, by Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria (fols. 100v–108r); Homily on the Resurrection of Lazarus, by Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria (fols. 108r–118r); Homily on Pentecost, by Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria (fols. 118v–140v); Homily on the Cross and the Good Thief, by Pseudo-Theophilus of Alexandria. (fols. 141r–148r).

Catalogs:

Depuydt, Leo. Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. 2 vols. Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts 4–5. Leuven: Peeters, 1993 (vol. 1, pp. 345–50; no. 170; vol. 2, pls. 165–73, 276–82, 305, 319e, 320c, 323e, 326a).

Hyvernat, Henri. Bybliothecae Pierpont Morgan Codices Coptici Photographi Expressi. 57 vols. Rome: Vatican City, 1992 (facsimile of the codex in vol. 43).

A Checklist of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York: Privately published, 1919 (p. 15–16).

Other online databases: Pierpont Morgan Library; PAThs entry

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