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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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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    oe TEXTS: variants are: — 7 eTepeic. 8 2mnxol, 2aAnTBT. rr ae for cE. 15 om. Not ic and G20YENAIl 17 KCOOYN. 20 TEqMECT2ZHT. 22 On1. NTOK (2°), 23 om. 6€, 24 nTod nenTaAd-, 26 after it a dividing line; then ney[arreaion etc. The verso of the last leaf is blank. 8. Acts. (Coptic.) The scribe of the last MS. undoubtedly wrote also a copy of Acts, whereof we have the last leaf, with XXVIII 26 to the end. But the dimensions of the two MSS. differ so undeniably _ (width here 9°5 cm., there rr cm., with consequent divergence in the relative situation of the columns), that it is doubtful whether the two fragments can be from the same volume. The leaf is palimpsest, the legible older text being John I 31 to 33. The following are the variants from Bupce’s print(1): — 26 Nr]xXOOC NNA@pMNEIAAOC xKE-. 31 MAPPHCIA Nim, Subscr. nenp. . NNENEIOTE NNAM. g. I Corinthians. (Greek.) Brit. Mus. Pap. 2240. Of this vellum MS. only a few frag- ments remain, all of them for the most part discoloured and shrivelled, so that only comparatively few letters retain their original size and clearness. Fortunately most of the fragments can be identified as coming from two leaves, which contain, the first, part of chap. 12 (with, probably, the end of 11), the second, part of chap. 14. Leaf 1 in its present state is made up of five fragments, leaf 2 of two. Each page contains two columns, so that there are four to each leaf. The vellum being so much shrivelled, it is impossible to state the exact original dimensions of the leaves, neither of which, moreover, is quite complete; but they may be stated roughly as probably about 15X15 cm. The average width of the column seems to have been about 4 cm. or a little more. The hand is a good regular upright uncial of medium size, with distinction of light and heavy strokes; the individual letters, when not distorted by the shrivelling of the vellum, are well (1). Coptic Bibl. Texts p: 269: