Fragmentary prayers
Binding measured with book closed.
Manuscript fragments from prayers for the Service of the Evening and Morning Incense; written in Egypt in the 14th? or 15th? century.
Text: Coptic; headings in Arabic (mostly in red).
Extract from present fragments in Depuydt.
Written area ca. 81 x 56 mm. Divisions: Arabic title in red and major initial setting off major textual units; ekthesis and reddened slightly enlarged initial setting off paragraphs.
Script: Upright. 10 lines = ca. 78 mm
Superlineation: New-style jinkim system. Punctuation: A red obelus. No tremas.
Collation: Uncertain, but hypothetically leaves 3 to 6 and 8 to 10 of the first quire and leaf 7 of the second quire of the codex (assuming regular quire structure in tens, which can be expected in Bohairic lectionaries; inferred from the ancient foliation). Catchwords on versos. No remains of quire ornaments, signatures, or monograms. No headlines.
Decoration: Headpiece, folio numbers. Color: Red (faded or chemically altered).