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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    of sentences apparently not biblical, though in biblical phraseo- logy. The script is but semi-literary: perhaps of the 7th century. Verso is blank. P NE200YE CI@m[N | mxoIc EK[E]al | COY NAK:/s NL | MKA2 NHT [| ecooy 2En[ | CIA NETIXCI[ | ] PHA NOIAH(M 17. Homiletic Work. (Coptic.) A’ tattered leaf of fine, thin parchment, 12 « 10°5 (?) cm. when complete, written in 1 column of 18 lines, in a beautiful, somewhat sloping hand, with features recalling the “2nd scribe” of the Pistis (1), Brit. Mus. 509, the Achmimic Jude (2) and espe- cially certain Greek hands of the 3rd—g4th cent. (3). V. Pl. I. The text is presumably homiletic, its subject being the first Passover and the Exodus (4). The occurrence of the words puaotyproy and cppayicety perhaps points to a pre-Nicene writer; the form mppo to an early stage of the language. The leaf is paged (on verso) GA. M@YCHC’ EIC 2HHTE FAP ME XAG EKEXI NOYECOOY EGdoyox EM’MN TXBIN (5) NZHT4 Near ATd MANOY Npoyze€ MNNGH Pé MNIHA’ NrETNOYOmG N TEYQH 2NOYcENH: NNETN OY@G)4 NOYKAC EBOA: NRHT4: GKEAC, NEXAK NTEEL..] NOY’ OYYH NOYwT: ETETNEOyYOMG KATA NETMOATPIA MNNETN AHMOC EpeneTn-fne [ EPENETN[TOO]YE NpAT[THY] TN’ Epe[NET] NoEpoos 2n[NeE] Fherx: mail[r] apne MMACXA (1) V. Crum, Coptic MSS. p. 3n. and HyvernatT, Album Il. (2), GRUM, ‘op: cit., ple (3) PP. Onyrn 347, Por Ryl. (Gk) 63: (4). Cf. Ex. XH. (5) Tv presumably the result of following x.