Coptic Manuscripts Brought from the Fayyum : Together with a Papyrus in the Bodleian Libray

By Petrie, W.M., Flinders

Book Id: WPLBN0002827863
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Reproduction Date: 1893

Title:	Coptic Manuscripts Brought from the Fayyum : Together with a Papyrus in the Bodleian Libray
Author:	Petrie, W.M., Flinders
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Drama and Literature, Manuscripts
Collections:	Art, Authors Community, Finance, Literature, Language, Government, Law, Political Science
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Publisher:	David Nutt

Member Page:	Historical Manuscripts Preservation
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Description
The main collection is a result of Mr. Flinders Petrie's excavations in 1889, and was brought from Deir El-Hammam, three miles N. of Illahun. To it are added a few fragments (Nos. XX, XXVI, XLIX, and LIII), acquired at Hawara. The subjects represented are (I) Biblical texts :—To the one example previously described, a second is now added. (II) Patristic texts:—I have placed among these some curious fragments which give, inter alia, the account of a dream, because I was at a loss more appropriately to class them. (HI) Liturgical texts : A small group, put together since I wrote my former description. (IV) Letters : This section embraces (as in the other collections) a large proportion of the whole. (V) Lists and accounts: Some very small scraps are included here. Of the so-called Legal documents, numerous in Vienna,' there are but three mutilated specimens (Nos. XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII). These I have held it allowable to class with the letters.