Accession number
MS M.601, fol. 1
Object title
Unidentified Literary Fragment.
Created
Egypt.
Credit line
Purchased by J. P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1916.
Description
2 fragments from 1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; Item A, 28 x 25 mm; Item B, 249 x 51 mm
Provenance
Part of a lot purchased in 1916 by Francis Willey Kelsey (1858-1927) on behalf of J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) through the agency of Dr. David L. Askren, an American missionary and physician residing in the Fayyūm.
Notes
Fragments from an unidentified manuscript, written in Egypt.
Formerly reused as part of the upper pastedown of MS M.601. Other fragments from various mss reused formerly as pastedowns in MS M.601are: MS M.601, fol. 2, 12 (catalogued together), 3, and 11.
Text: The remains of a text at the margins of the columns. Too brief and illegible to allow description. Possibly in Sahidic, since the other parts of the pastedowns of MS M.601 contain Sahidic texts.
Script: Upright. 10 lines = ca. 72 mm
Superlineation: ? Punctuation: ? Tremas?
Collation: ? No remains of signatures, quire ornaments, monograms, headlines, or catchwords.
Formerly reused as part of the upper pastedown of MS M.601. Other fragments from various mss reused formerly as pastedowns in MS M.601are: MS M.601, fol. 2, 12 (catalogued together), 3, and 11.
Text: The remains of a text at the margins of the columns. Too brief and illegible to allow description. Possibly in Sahidic, since the other parts of the pastedowns of MS M.601 contain Sahidic texts.
Script: Upright. 10 lines = ca. 72 mm
Superlineation: ? Punctuation: ? Tremas?
Collation: ? No remains of signatures, quire ornaments, monograms, headlines, or catchwords.
Language
Coptic, possibly the Sahidic dialect
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