Accession number
MS M.667
Object title
Palimpsest of an Unidentified Literary Fragment and a Fragment from a Colophon of an Unidentified Manuscript (Containing Pauline Epistles?).
Created
Egypt
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1920.
Description
1 fragmentary leaf (Earlier text: 2 columns; Palimpsest: 1 column, more than 27 lines): vellum, ill. ; 262 x 210 mm
Provenance
Part of a lot purchased ca. 1920 from the Cairo dealer Maurice Nahman by Francis Willey Kelsey (1858-1927); brought to Rome by Kelsey in the beginning of 1920 and purchased by Henri Hyvernat on behalf of J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Earlier text: fragment from an unidentified manuscript, written in Egypt; Palimpsest: manuscript fragmentary leaf from the colophon of an unidentified manuscript, written in Egypt.
Palimpsest: Contains only the colophon on the recto, the verso is blank. Perhaps the last leaf of a copy of Pauline Epistles since the colophon refers to an Apostolikon.
Colophons: Palimpsest: 1) Recto in Coptic: Repair and rebinding of manuscript; memorial. By Markos, son of the late Makari, who "renovated the manuscript and covered it with leather"; to the Monastery (? or Church) of Our Lady the Virgin [---] of "Red" Pilcisōk in the Faiyum; memorial for the donor's wife and children.
Extract from the earlier text and full text of the palimpsest in Depuydt.
Divisions: Palimpsest: Small reddened dotted diple in margin of most lines.
Script: Earlier text: Upright; Palimpsest: Right-sloping.
Earlier text: Superlineation: ? Punctuation: ? Tremas? Palimpsest: Superlineation: ? Punctuation: ? Tremas.
Collation: Earlier text: ? No remains of signature, quire ornament, monogram, headline, or catchword. Palimpsest: Uncertain, but hypothetically the lower flyleaf or pastedown of the codex (inferred from presence of colophon on recto). No remains of signature, quire ornament, monogram, headline, or catchword.
Palimpsest: British Library Or.12689 was donated in AH 715 (August 29, SD 998-August 29, AD 999) by a woman from Pilcisōk to a monastery at the same locality according to its colophon. The formulation, the script, the two extended letters, and the marginal decoration of the present manuscript strongly resemble those found in the colophon of British Library Or.12689, but the present manuscript faiyumicizes.
Decoration: Palimpsest: Initials. Color: Palimpsest: Red (chemically altered).
Palimpsest: Contains only the colophon on the recto, the verso is blank. Perhaps the last leaf of a copy of Pauline Epistles since the colophon refers to an Apostolikon.
Colophons: Palimpsest: 1) Recto in Coptic: Repair and rebinding of manuscript; memorial. By Markos, son of the late Makari, who "renovated the manuscript and covered it with leather"; to the Monastery (? or Church) of Our Lady the Virgin [---] of "Red" Pilcisōk in the Faiyum; memorial for the donor's wife and children.
Extract from the earlier text and full text of the palimpsest in Depuydt.
Divisions: Palimpsest: Small reddened dotted diple in margin of most lines.
Script: Earlier text: Upright; Palimpsest: Right-sloping.
Earlier text: Superlineation: ? Punctuation: ? Tremas? Palimpsest: Superlineation: ? Punctuation: ? Tremas.
Collation: Earlier text: ? No remains of signature, quire ornament, monogram, headline, or catchword. Palimpsest: Uncertain, but hypothetically the lower flyleaf or pastedown of the codex (inferred from presence of colophon on recto). No remains of signature, quire ornament, monogram, headline, or catchword.
Palimpsest: British Library Or.12689 was donated in AH 715 (August 29, SD 998-August 29, AD 999) by a woman from Pilcisōk to a monastery at the same locality according to its colophon. The formulation, the script, the two extended letters, and the marginal decoration of the present manuscript strongly resemble those found in the colophon of British Library Or.12689, but the present manuscript faiyumicizes.
Decoration: Palimpsest: Initials. Color: Palimpsest: Red (chemically altered).
Language
Coptic, the Sahidic dialect
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