New York, Morgan Library and Museum, M597

Images: Morgan Library (fols. 1v, 2r, 46r); Archive.org (black and white)

Other shelfmark(s): MICH.BH

Physical description: vellum, 351 × 268 mm., ii +75 + i fols., 2 col.

Language(s): Coptic

Date: 913/914

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

Contents:

Homily on the Virgin Mary and Her Birth by Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem (fols. 46r–74v)

Additional Contents: Homily on the Incarnation attributed to Demetrius of Antioch

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. 205–207; no. 107; vol. 2, plates 10, 81, 82, 216, 217, 402, 414, 454).

Hyvernat, Henri. Bybliothecae Pierpont Morgan Codices Coptici Photographi Expressi. 57 vols. Rome: Vatican City, 1992 (facsimile of the codex in vol. 33, pp. 93–150).

Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda. “Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America. Part IV.1: The Morgan Library and Museum.” Manuscripta 52.1 (2008): 65–174 (see pp. 67, 68, 144–46, 170–72.

Other online databases: Pierpont Morgan Library; PAThs

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 13 September 2021.