Images: John Rylands Library (Copt. 46)
Other shelf number(s): none
Physical description: parchment, 280 × 190 mm., 1 col.
Language: Coptic (Bohairic)
Date: ca. 9th/10th cent.
Provenance: Monastery of St. Macarius
Reconstructed Contents:
All pages contain Homily on the Dormition of the Virgin by Pseudo-Theodosius of Alexandria
pp. [1]–2, [39]–40, [43]–44, [45]–46, [49]–50: Cairo, Coptic Museum, Abu Maqar 9, 9Add i–iii
pp. [51]–52, [57]–58: Manchester, John Rylands Library, Copt. 46 (JRL)
p. [71]–72: Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1088 (Tischendorf XXVI), fol. 1
pp. [9]–10: Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1089 (Tischendorf XXVII), fol. 9
Additional contents: none
Catalogs/Editions:
Crum, Walter E. “Hagiographica from Leipzig Manuscripts.” Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 29 (1907): 289–96, 301–307 (description of the Leipzig fragments, pp. 304–305).
Evelyn White, Hugh G. The Monasteries of the Wadi ‘n Natrûn. Part 1: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926 (partial text and collation, with translation, of the Cairo fragments from MACA.EJ, pp. 60–62).
Leipoldt, Johannes. Katalog der Islamischen, Christlich-Orientalischen, Jüdischen und Samaritanischen Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig. Katalog der Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig 2. Leipzig: Vollers, 1906 (pp. vii–viii, 383–429).
Robinson, Forbes. Coptic Apocryphal Gospels. Translations Together with the Texts of Some of Them. TS 4.2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896 (description of Rylands Copt. 46, p. xxvi; readings from Rylands Copt. 46, p. 219).
Other online databases: PAThs entry
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 19 November 2024.