Accession number
MS M.579
Object title
Hagiographic Miscellany.
Created
Egypt, before Aug. 30, 823.
Binding
Current binding: Rebound by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1954; current binding includes two parchment flyleaves conjugate with the current pastedowns and the leaf from the ancient binding pastedown.
Credit line
Purchased for J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description
149 leaves (2 columns, 31-38 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 368 x 285 mm
Provenance
According to the colophon given to the Monastery of Saint Michael (Dayr al-Malāk Mīkhāʼil) on Aug. 30, 822 or Aug. 30, 823; found in 1910 near the village of Hamuli, Fayyūm Province, Egypt, at the site of the Monastery of Saint Michael; purchased in Paris in 1911 for J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Arthur Sambon, a dealer acting in behalf of a consortium of owners including a certain J. Kalebdian; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Manuscript hagiographic miscellany; written and illuminated in Egypt, before Aug. 30, 823.
Colophons: 1) on fol. 149v: Donation, date and memorial in Coptic: By the archimandrite Papa Damianos (alias Damianē) to the Monastery of St. Michael Archangel near present-day Hamuli; AM 539, 1st indication (August 29 AD 822-August 29, AD 823); memorial for Damianos's coadministrator Apa Apaioule son of the late Papa Basilios, and all the clerics of the same monastery. 2) on fol. 149v: Memorial in Coptic: For Gabriel (?), monk of the same monastery. 3) fol. 105r: Memorial in Coptic: Gabri son, i.e., monk, (of the monastery of St.) Michael. 4) Memorial (?) on fol. 149v. --Ed. van Lantschoot, no. 1.
Written area ca. 279 x 225 mm. Divisions: Red leather tabs fastened to fore-edge of fols. 16, 73, 88, 124, 131 at major divisions of the codex; major initial setting off major textual units; ekthesis, enlarged or greatly enlarged initial and paragraphus sign setting off paragraphs; passages (fols. 35r, 56r) marked by a small diple in margin of each line..
Script: Upright (titles and colophons at fol. 149v right-sloping). 10 lines = ca. 72 mm
Superlineation: Non-standard (very short strokes or dots) Punctuation: Raised dot in conjunction with a space. Tremas rare.
Collation: Signed on first and last page of the quire, top inner margin. Quire ornaments. No monograms, headlines or catchwords.
Decoration: frontispiece, headpieces, tailpieces, marginal ornaments, initials, paragraphus signs, signatures and page numbers, extended letters. Colors: strong reddish orange (Centroid 35), moderate yellowish green (136).
In the current binding, fol. 1 is a leaf from a parchment codex formerly used as the upper pastedown of the present manuscript, and is known as Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.579, fol. 1. It is a homiletic fragment of a moralizing character.
St. Archellites (Saint Archellides) is fictitious according to the Coptic encyclopedia (1991).
Colophons: 1) on fol. 149v: Donation, date and memorial in Coptic: By the archimandrite Papa Damianos (alias Damianē) to the Monastery of St. Michael Archangel near present-day Hamuli; AM 539, 1st indication (August 29 AD 822-August 29, AD 823); memorial for Damianos's coadministrator Apa Apaioule son of the late Papa Basilios, and all the clerics of the same monastery. 2) on fol. 149v: Memorial in Coptic: For Gabriel (?), monk of the same monastery. 3) fol. 105r: Memorial in Coptic: Gabri son, i.e., monk, (of the monastery of St.) Michael. 4) Memorial (?) on fol. 149v. --Ed. van Lantschoot, no. 1.
Written area ca. 279 x 225 mm. Divisions: Red leather tabs fastened to fore-edge of fols. 16, 73, 88, 124, 131 at major divisions of the codex; major initial setting off major textual units; ekthesis, enlarged or greatly enlarged initial and paragraphus sign setting off paragraphs; passages (fols. 35r, 56r) marked by a small diple in margin of each line..
Script: Upright (titles and colophons at fol. 149v right-sloping). 10 lines = ca. 72 mm
Superlineation: Non-standard (very short strokes or dots) Punctuation: Raised dot in conjunction with a space. Tremas rare.
Collation: Signed on first and last page of the quire, top inner margin. Quire ornaments. No monograms, headlines or catchwords.
Decoration: frontispiece, headpieces, tailpieces, marginal ornaments, initials, paragraphus signs, signatures and page numbers, extended letters. Colors: strong reddish orange (Centroid 35), moderate yellowish green (136).
In the current binding, fol. 1 is a leaf from a parchment codex formerly used as the upper pastedown of the present manuscript, and is known as Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.579, fol. 1. It is a homiletic fragment of a moralizing character.
St. Archellites (Saint Archellides) is fictitious according to the Coptic encyclopedia (1991).
Contents
fols. 3r-16r: Life of St. Archellites, attributed to Eusebius of Caesaarea -- fols. 16v-73r: Life of St. Anthony, attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria -- fols. 73r-88r: Encomium on St. Anthony, attributed to John of Shmun -- fols. 88v-106r: Life of SS. Longinus and Lucius the Ascetics -- fols. 106v-113v: Homily on the Virtues of St. Longinus the Hegoumenos, attributed to Basil of Pemje -- fols. 114r-123v: First Encomium on St. Athanasius of Alexandria, attributed to Constantine of Assiut -- fols. 124r-131r: Second Encomium on St. Athanasius of Alexandria, attributed to Constantine of Assiut -- fols. 131v-149r: Encomium on St. Apa Apollo, Archimandrite of the Monastery of St. Isaac, attributed to Stephen of Hnes (Stephen, Bishop of Heracleopolis Magna) -- fol. 149v: Colophon.
Language
Coptic, the Sahidic dialect
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