Accession number
MS M.590, ff. i (3 top fragmen
Object title
Unidentified literary fragments.
Created
Egypt.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
Description
3 leaves : vellum, ill.
Provenance
Monastery of Saint Michael (Dayr al-Malāk Mīkhāʼil); 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
Ms. fragmentary leaves that were used as the part of the upper (i (3 top fragments)) and lower (69, 70) pastedowns of the manuscript now known as Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.590; probably written and decorated before Aug. 29, 893.
Terminus date from Depuydt.
Sizes: i: a) 23 x 12 mm., b) 21 x 23 mm. c) 55 x 54 mm.; 69: 43 x 46 mm.; 70: 9x 10 mm
Decoration: color: red (chemically altered).
Bound with Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.590.
Terminus date from Depuydt.
Sizes: i: a) 23 x 12 mm., b) 21 x 23 mm. c) 55 x 54 mm.; 69: 43 x 46 mm.; 70: 9x 10 mm
Decoration: color: red (chemically altered).
Bound with Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.590.
Language
Coptic, the Sahidic dialect.
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