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Acts of St. John Evangelist single leaf (MS M.706a).

Accession number
MS M.706a
Object title
Acts of St. John Evangelist single leaf (MS M.706a).
Created
Egypt.
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Description
1 leaf (28 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 290 X 240 mm
Provenance
Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl (1880-1936); purchased for the Library in 1926 by Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes
Manuscript leaf from an Acts of St. John Evangelist, attributed to Prochorus; written in Egypt.
Texts: Leaf from Acts of St. John Evangelist. For complete text of the Acts see M.576. The text of the present leaf parallels M.576, fols. 19v a 32-20r a 29, with many variants. Full text of the present leaf in Depuydt.
Written area ca. 220 x 174 mm. Divisions: Ekthesis, reddened enlarged initial, and paragraphus sign (vine-scroll coronis) setting off paragraphs; quotation (in column b of the verso) marked by a reddened dotted diple in margin of each line.
Script: Upright (title on verso in column a right-sloping). 10 lines = ca. 81 mm.
Superlineation: Non-standard. Tremas.
Collation: Signed on first and probably also on last page of the quire, top inner margin. Quire ornament. No monogram, headline or catchword.
Decoration: 1 illuminated headpiece, initial, and border.
Formerly identified as M.706(1).
Language
Coptic, the Sahidic dialect