Images: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Borg. copt. 109, cass. xxv, fasc. 123, fol. 1 (DigiVatLib)
Other shelf number(s): formerly MONB.NO
Physical description: parchment, 29 × 25.5 cm., 2 cols.
Language: Coptic (Sahidic)
Date: 989/990
Provenance: White Monastery
Reconstructed Contents:
pp. ?–? [title page]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1317, fol. 20 + Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Orient. fol. 1614bis, frag. 3 ~ Hom. Steph.; Gallica
pp. 55–58: Cairo, Coptic Museum, 8018, fols. 1–2 (now 9234, fols. 2–3) ~ Hom. Steph.
pp. 61–62: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Borg. copt. 109, cass. xxv, fasc. 123, fol. 1 ~ Hom. Steph.; DigiVatLib
pp. [63]–[64]: Cairo, Coptic Museum, 9234, fol. 1 ~ Hom. Steph.
pp. 65–66: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Borg. copt. 109, cass. xxv, fasc. 123, fol. 2 ~ Hom. Steph.; DigiVatLib
pp. 95–96: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, K9492 ~ Hom. Steph.
pp. ?–?: Cairo, Coptic Museum, 9234, fol. 4 ~ Hom. Steph.
pp. ?–?: London, British Library, Or. 6954 (51) ~ Hom. Steph.
pp. 99–100: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1315, fol. 43 ~ Peter of Alexandria, Homily on the Archangel Michael; Gallica
pp. 101–110: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1313, fols. 81–85 ~ Peter of Alexandria, Homily on the Archangel Michael; Gallica
pp. 129–144: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat copt. 111, fols. 1–8 ~ Vita Onophrii
pp. ?–?: London, British Library, Or. 3581B, fol. 85 ~ Vita Onophrii
Unconfirmed:
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 120 ~ Gallica
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fols. 116–118 ~ Gallica
Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III, IB 11.061
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, K9493
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Borg. copt. 109 cass. xxviii, fasc. 157, fol. 1–6 ~ DigiVatLib
Additional contents (not assigned to particular folios): Papnoute of Scetis, Historia monachorum; John Chrysostom, In quattuor Animalia; John Chrysostom, In Iohannem Baptistam; Athanasius, Historia Gesti et Isidori.
Catalogs/Editions:
Buzi, Paolo. Coptic Manuscripts 7. The Manuscripts of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Part 4. Homiletic and Liturgical Manuscripts from the White Monastery. With Two Documents from Thebes and Two Old-Nubian Manuscripts. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2014 (Berlin fragment, pp. 178–79 and pl. 4/3).
Crum, Walter E. Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, nos. 8001-8741: Coptic Monuments. Cairo: Otto Zeller, 1902, pp. 8-9 (discussion of Cairo 8018.1-2 and early identification of additional folios).
Guidi, Ignazio. “Frammenti copti. Nota I.” Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei ser. 4, 3.1 (1887): 47–63 (edition of Vat. Borg. copt. 109, on pp. 50–52).
Horn, Jürgen. “Der erste Märtyrer: Zu einem Topos der koptischen Märtyrerliteratur (mit zwei Anhängen).” Pages 31–55 in Studen zur spätantiken und frühchristlichen Kunst und Kultur des Orients. Edited by Guntram Koch. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1982 (partial reconstruction of manuscript, pp. 52–55).
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 (51), pp. 183–84).
Lucchesi, Enzo. “A propos d’un enkomion copte sur Étienne, le protomartyr (BHO 1093).” AnBoll 101 (1983): 421–22.
Munier, Henri. Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire, nos. 9201–9304. Manuscrits Coptes. Cairo: IFAO, 1916 (text of Cairo 9234, fols .1 and 4, pp. 30–36).
Suciu, Alin. “The Question of the Authoship of the Historia Stephani Protomartyris (BHO 1093; CANT 302; Clavis Coptica 0491): Theodosius of Jerusalem, Abba Isaiah, the Monk Romanus and Peter the Iberian.” AnBoll 134 (2016): 279–92.
Uljas, Sami. “Lost Coptic Texts from Herbert Thompson Papers I: The ‘Acts of Stephen.’” JCoptS 17 (2015): 165–213 (transcription of British Library Or. 6954 fol. 51, p. 209).
Other online databases: PAThs entry
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 28 April 2024..