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Fragmentary Psalm Lectionary for the Hours of Night and Day of Holy Week.

Accession number
MS M.670.1
Object title
Fragmentary Psalm Lectionary for the Hours of Night and Day of Holy Week.
Created
Egypt.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1920.
Description
3 leaves (1 column, ca. 14-16 lines) : paper, ill. ; 201 x 155 mm
Provenance
Part of a lot purchased ca. 1920 by Francis Willey Kelsey (1858-1927) in the Fayyūm, partly from Dr. David L. Askren, an American missionary and physician residing in the Fayyūm, and partly from two local Egyptian dealers.
Notes
Manuscript fragment of a Psalm Lectionary for the Hours of Night and Day of Holy Week; written in Egypt.
Text: Coptic text with Arabic headings. Arabic titles in red indicate hour, day, and Psalm number (numbers partly in Coptic and partly in Copto-Arabic).
Written area ca. 164 x 115 mm. Divisions: Arabic titles in red and (fol. 1) reddened enlarged initial or (fols. 2, 3) divider of alternating red dotted diples and black curled strokes, setting off paragraphs.
Script: Upright. 10 lines = ca. 108 mm
Superlineation: New-style jinkim system. Punctuation: Vertical curved stroke between two dots, all red. No tremas.
Collation: ? ?Catchword on fol. 3v (?end of quire). No remains of signatures, quire ornaments, or monograms. No headlines.
Color: Strong reddish brown (Centroid 40).
Contents
fols. 1r-2r: Monday: Lections for the eleventh hour of the night, and the first, third, sixth, ninth, and eleventh hours of the day. -- fols. 2r-2v: Tuesday: Lections for the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours of the night. -- fols. 3r-3v: Thursday: Lections for the first (beginning wanting), third, sixth, and ninth hours of the day. -- fol. 3v: Friday: Lection for the first hour of the night (end wanting).
Language
Coptic, the Bohairic dialect, and Arabic
Classification