Accession number
MS G.67
Object title
Acts of the Apostles (MS G.67).
Created
Middle Egypt, 5th cent.
Binding
5th century wooden boards, reddish-brown tooled goatskin backstrip, hinging strips and wrapping strips with bone pegs attached.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1984.
Description
109 leaves (1 column, 16 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 4 3/4 x 4 3/16 inches (121 x 107 mm)
Provenance
Purchased in Dec. 1961 from H.P. Kraus, New York for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. of the first half of the Acts of the Apostles (1:1-15:3); written and illuminated in Middle Egypt in the 5th century.
"Suggestions concerning the date of the manuscript, as listed by Peterson 1964, 225 n. 3, are: end of the 4th (W. Till, E.M. Husselman), very late 4th or 5th (C.H. Roberts), and 5th century AD (T.C. Skeat). Petersen himself dates it to the 4th (Kebabian 1967, 25 n. 2), Haenchen and Weigandt (1967-68, 480) to the 5th or 6th."--Cf. Catalogue of Coptic manuscripts, p. 480, n. 1.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, now removed and matted: Ansate cross flanked by birds and plant forms.
"Suggestions concerning the date of the manuscript, as listed by Peterson 1964, 225 n. 3, are: end of the 4th (W. Till, E.M. Husselman), very late 4th or 5th (C.H. Roberts), and 5th century AD (T.C. Skeat). Petersen himself dates it to the 4th (Kebabian 1967, 25 n. 2), Haenchen and Weigandt (1967-68, 480) to the 5th or 6th."--Cf. Catalogue of Coptic manuscripts, p. 480, n. 1.
Decoration: 1 full-page miniature, now removed and matted: Ansate cross flanked by birds and plant forms.
Script
Greek uncial with some Coptic characters
Language
Coptic of the Middle Egyptian (Oxyrynchite) dialect
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