MONB.BU

Images: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1311 fol. 41
(Gallica)

Other shelf number(s): none

Physical description: parchment, 310 × 245 mm., 2 cols.

Language: Coptic (Sahidic)

Date: ca. 10th/11th cent.

Provenance: White Monastery (Monastery of Saint Shenoute)

Reconstructed Contents:

pp. [453–458]: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. copt. 109 cass. xxvii fasc. 145 fols. 1–3 (Martyrdom of James the Mutilated) ~ DigiVatLib

pp. [459–460]: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. copt. 109 cass. xxvii fasc. 145 fol. 4 (end of the Martyrdom of James the Mutilated, title of the Martyrdom of Theonoe)

pp. [461–480]: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. copt. 109 cass. xxvii fasc. 145 fols. 5–7, 11–13, 8–10, 14 (Martyrdom of Theonoe)

pp. [483–484]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1321 fol. 23 (Martyrdom of Theonoe) ~ Gallica

pp. [517–518]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1311 fol. 41 (end of an unidentified homiletic work; title of On the Honor of the Archangel Michael by Ps.-John Chrysostom) ~ Gallica

pp. [519–524]: Paris, Bibliathèque nationale de France, Copte 1311 fols. 42–44 (On the Honor of the Archangel Michael by Ps.-John Chrysostom) ~ Gallica

pp. [525–526]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1321 fol. 24 (On the Honor of the Archangel Michael by Ps.-John Chrysostom) ~ Gallica

pp. [529–530]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917 fol. 1 (On the Honor of the Archangel Michael by Ps.-John Chrysostom) ~ Gallica

pp. [531–532]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1311 fol. 45 (On the Honor of the Archangel Michael by Ps.-John Chrysostom) ~ Gallica

pp. [541–542]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1311 fol. 46 (On the Honor of the Archangel Michael by Ps.-John Chrysostom) ~ Gallica

pp. [543–544]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1315 fol. 56 (On the Honor of the Archangel Michael by Ps.-John Chrysostom) ~ Gallica

Unplaced fragment:

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1312 fol. 165 (Unidentified Homily on Isaiah, cf. Graz, “Ps.-Chrysostomos,” p. 130 n. 79) ~ Gallica

Additional contents: none

Catalogs/Editions:

Devos, Paul. “La passion copte de Sainte Théonoé d’Alexandrie.” AB 71 (1953): 415–49 (edition of the Martyrdom of Theonoe, pp. 430–41, reconstruction of MONB.BU pp. 417–20).

Giron, Noël. Légendes coptes, fragments inédits, publiés, traduits, annotés. Paris: 1907 (edition of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917 fol. 1, but without identification, pp. 23–25).

Graz, Florian. “Ps.-Chrysostomos, In Michaelem C. Eine Predigt zum Fall des Teufels und zur Ehre des Erzengels Michael.” JCoptS 24 (2022): 101–80 (edition of the Homily on the Honor of the Archangel Michael by Ps.-John Chrysostomos, pp. 140–57, reconstruction of MONB.BU pp. 125–33).

Other online databases: PAThs entry (with different allocation of fragments); see also MONB.EE (PAThs), a very similar manuscript with some pages that allocated here to MONB.BU.

Entry created by Florian Graz, University of Oslo, 4 December 2024.