Accession number
MS M.910
Object title
Acts of the Apostles.
Display Date
undated.
Created
Egypt, undated.
Binding
Codex is in its ancient binding: wooden boards, with a small ivory stick, perhaps used to fasten wrapping bands around the book.
Credit line
Purchased in 1962.
Description
102 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound
Provenance
Acquired in Egypt by the Dutch dealer Joh. Möger of Soestdijk, The Netherlands, in the spring of 1962, and purchased by the Library in that year.
Notes
Manuscript Acts of the Apostles written in Egypt in iron gall ink.
According to Petersen, "the text ... is substantially that of the standard Sahidic version found in the Beatty codex and also ... [M.664B.8] ... The present new text differs from the published texts only in a few individual spellings ... The recension of the text is the 'Alexandrian' one, which eventually supplanted a variety of different readings which were current in Egypt before the time of Origen."--Cf. PML files.
According to Petersen, "the text ... is substantially that of the standard Sahidic version found in the Beatty codex and also ... [M.664B.8] ... The present new text differs from the published texts only in a few individual spellings ... The recension of the text is the 'Alexandrian' one, which eventually supplanted a variety of different readings which were current in Egypt before the time of Origen."--Cf. PML files.
Language
Coptic, the Sahidic dialect
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