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Or 3581 A, ff 103-104
- Record Id:
- 033-004541165
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-004478823
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100182966625.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 3581 A, ff 103-104
- Title:
- Apophthegmata Patrum. Systematic Collection
- Scope & Content:
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These fragments contain a selection of ascetic and moral sayings attributed to the Egyptian Fathers and Mothers of the Desert.
The codex to which the fragments originally belonged was a Paterikon containing exclusively the Systematic Collection of the Sayings of the Egyptian Desert Fathers and Mothers. Originally composed in Greek, probably in the Egyptian monastic colonies living in Palestine during the 5th century, the Apophthegmata had been translated into Latin and all the languages of the Christian East. The Sahidic translation preserved in the London fragments is early, attesting to a model of the text lost in Greek.
The fragments do not contain a colophon, but are presumed to have been copied in the 10th century CE.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-004478823
033-004541165 - Is part of:
- Or 3581 A : Homilies in Coptic
Or 3581 A, ff 103-104 : Apophthegmata Patrum. Systematic Collection - Hierarchy:
- 032-004478823[0001]/033-004541165
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 3581 A
- Record Type (Level):
- SubFonds
- Extent:
- 1 text, 2 ff
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Coptic
- Scripts:
- Coptic
- Start Date:
- 0900
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 10th century
- Calendar:
- Gregorian
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Two folios of a codex, one of them slightly damaged in the upper outer corner, the other one complete.
Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 410.00 x 305.00 mm; written area: 355.00 x 255.00 mm.
Pagination and Foliation: Inlaid in modern paper; ancient pagination: Or. 3581A, f. 103 (79-80), Or. 3581A, f. 104 (109-110); modern foliation in pencil on the upper outer corner of the recto pages (103-104); “Cat. 216” written in pencil on the bottom margin of f. 103r.
Page layout and number of lines: 2 col.; 42 lines/column.
Script: bimodular style.
Ink: black.
Decoration: Enlarged letters; diple; paragraphoi.
Binding: None.
Condition: Ink stains on both folios.
Quire marks: Or. 3581A, f. 103 bears on the verso the signature of the 5th quire.
- Custodial History:
- Also referred to as Or. 3581A(44).
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased by Budge.
- Finding Aids:
- See: Crum, W. E., Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum., pp. 95-97. (No. 216)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Related Material:
-
The codex from which the fragment was taken can be found at: MONB.EG (https://atlas.paths-erc.eu/manuscripts/360).
Related fragments: Naples IB 17.19 (pp. 15-16); Naples 17.20 (pp. 31-32); Toronto F. 2065-1-0a-b (pp. 45-48); Moscow I.1.b.713 (pp. 65-66); Vienna K 321A (pp. 67-68); Moscow I.1.b.649a (pp. 69-70); Vienna K 321B (pp. 73-74); Moscow I.1.b.649b (pp. 75-76); London Or. 3581A, f. 103 (pp. 79-80); Vienna K 9561 (pp. 87-88); Moscow I.1.b.711a (pp. 101-102); Moscow I.1.b.711b (pp. 107-108); London Or. 3581A, f. 104 (pp. 109-110); Vienna K 9562 (pp. 115-116); Paris Copte 129(13), f. 32 (pp. 145-146); Paris Copte 129(13), ff. 33+34 (pp. 149-150); Paris Copte 129(13), ff. 35+72 (pp. 155-156); Vienna K 9563 (pp. 161-162); Naples IB 17.62 (pp. 177-178); Naples IB 17.21 (pp. 183-184); Naples IB 17.22 (pp. 197-198); Naples IB 17.23-27 (pp. 201-210); Naples IB 17.28 (pp. 213-214); Naples IB 17.29-60 (pp. 229-292); Venice 192, f. 103 (pp. 295-296); Naples IB 17.61 (pp. 313-314).
For more information, see: Marius Chaîne, Le manuscrit de la version copte en dialecte sahidique des “Apophthegmata Patrum” (Cairo 1960) 8-9, 11-13, 91-92, 94-95;
Stefan Colceriu, Apoftegmele Părinților Deșertului. Versiunea coptă sahidică sau Patericul Copt (Bucharest 2021) 78-81, 94-97.