The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This fragment from the Book of Exodus is a bifolium presenting the text of Exodus 21:16-35a on fol. 1 and 23:5b-21a on fol. 2. The missing text in between these two folios would have constituted another bifolium. Written in Sahidic Coptic script, the biblical manuscript to which the bifolium once belonged was produced in Egypt in the eighth century, probably by a monastic scribe and perhaps in the Fayum or Wadi al-Natrun, where monasteries continued to thrive during the early Islamic conquest. It is difficult to determine the full extent of the manuscript, but a combined volume of Genesis and Exodus as part of a multivolume set of the Bible is certainly possible, if not likely, on the evidence of the Coptic numerals inscribed at the top of each folio side.
Sahidic Coptic script
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Evers, Jennifer
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Bellet, Paulinus. "Analecta Coptica." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 40 (1978): pp. 37-52.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Egypt
8th century CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Coptic.
Produced in the eighth century, most likely by a Coptic monk at an Egyptian monastery
Frank Tano of Cairo sold the bifolium to Joseph Brummer on September 14, 1945
Joseph Brummer sold the bifolium through Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York
Museum purchase, 1949
Egypt
8th century CE
leaves
The primary language in this manuscript is Coptic.
Produced in the eighth century, most likely by a Coptic monk at an Egyptian monastery
Frank Tano of Cairo sold the bifolium to Joseph Brummer on September 14, 1945
Joseph Brummer sold the bifolium through Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York
Museum purchase, 1949
This fragment from the Book of Exodus is a bifolium presenting the text of Exodus 21:16-35a on fol. 1 and 23:5b-21a on fol. 2. The missing text in between these two folios would have constituted another bifolium. Written in Sahidic Coptic script, the biblical manuscript to which the bifolium once belonged was produced in Egypt in the eighth century, probably by a monastic scribe and perhaps in the Fayum or Wadi al-Natrun, where monasteries continued to thrive during the early Islamic conquest. It is difficult to determine the full extent of the manuscript, but a combined volume of Genesis and Exodus as part of a multivolume set of the Bible is certainly possible, if not likely, on the evidence of the Coptic numerals inscribed at the top of each folio side.
Sahidic Coptic script
Cataloger: Dennis, Nathan S
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Conservator: Evers, Jennifer
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Bellet, Paulinus. "Analecta Coptica." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 40 (1978): pp. 37-52.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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