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Title

Facsimile of LJS 185, Psalter leaves and Matthew leaf

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

7-20-2015

Files

Comments

4 leaves from a Coptic psalter written for the monastery of Saint Anthony on the Red Sea in Egypt, in 14-15 long lines on paper, with 2 headings in Arabic and rubrication and simple ornamentation added in red ink on 2 leaves and green ink used on an initial on 1 leaf. 1 leaf from a different manuscript (on different paper and in a different hand, perhaps more recent), containing the text of Matthew 25.14-24 in Coptic, in 23 long lines, with a narrow column in Arabic to the right of the Coptic text, and simple ornamentation added in red ink.

Keywords

Coptic monasteries--Egypt, Coptic monasticism and religious orders, Psalters--Specimens Fragments, Coptic manuscripts, Manuscripts Digital

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5833885

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs185.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 185, Psalter leaves and Matthew leaf" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 215.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/215