Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/66
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wadi Sarga - Coptic and Greek text edited by W. E. Crum and H. I. Bell with an Introduction by R. Campbell Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRAGMEN TS OF LEIP RARY -MANUSCRI TS: ‘The excavations produced, from various points in the site, a large number of remnants of papyrus and parchment manuscripts of all sorts. Unfortunately, with few exceptions, they are now but the minutest of scraps and only those in which anything of interest was to be discerned are noticed here. The total of parchment fragments was considerable and represents some 25 volumes, perhaps from the monastic library, perhaps partly from the abodes of private owners. The dates of the various hands may range from the early 5th to the early 7th cen- turies. The Coptic fragments are all now in the Oriental De- partment of the British Museum, under the inventory number Or. MS. 9035. Biblical. 1. Job. (Coptic.) : A narrow strip, cut from a double leaf and showing parts of some verses of Job (XXX 8, 9317, 18), written ina 5th cent. uncial. These few words are of considerable importance: they testify to a distinct FayyGmic version of the book and moreover to that variety of the dialect, hitherto extant in only one speci- men(1), which used the verbal prefix 2a-, 2AK- etc., instead of d-, AK-. Here is the text of the larger part: recto, XXX 8 NANAOY ETAG[EM 2xEMNEKE?!] g TENoy AE 2AIw[AAN NHOY N] OYKIOAPA [ [Ay]@ ANAK 2ay2x[a> Newt] (2) (1) Brit. Mus.$21:(cf.uAee. Z. 1898; 139,-10: 1915,°113). (2) Cf. Boh. ANOK ETOL NXHI, OpdAAqua.