MACA.EJ

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.