This volume contains a bilingual Coptic-Arabic version of the Gospel of John (from John 1:23b to end), according to the Alexandrian Vulgate tradition. Contents : John, fols. 1r-138r. (Fol. 138v blank). Notes on liturgical readings etc, fols. 139r-146r. The manuscript does not contain a colophon, but is estimated to have been completed in the 13th century CE.
Gospel of John
This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
- Reference
- GB 59 Or 426
- Dates of Creation
- 13th century
- Language of Material
- Arabic Coptic
- Physical Description
- Codex 146 ff Material: Oriental paper. Dimensions: 245 x 165 mm leaf [190 x 120 mm written; Arabic 30 mm]. Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Coptic numerals in the upper left corner of the verso. Lines per page: ca 17 lines/page. Script: Naskh.Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings in red.Binding: British Museum binding. Condition: Good, though margins often cut. Marginalia: A few notes (margins often cut). Quire marks: Normally quinions; an ending and beginning quire spread is marked with geometrical figures usually uncoloured but sometimes in red ink in the middle of the upper margins.
Scope and Content
Access Information
Not Public Record(s)
Unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Purchased by the British Museum at Dean H. Tattam's sale on 16 June 1868.
Other Finding Aids
Crum, Walter Erwing, Catalogue of the Coptic Mss in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1905), item 752, p. 327.