Monthly Archives: April 2013

Guest Post: Mark Sheridan, O.S.B. – The Homilies of Rufus of Shotep

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Alin Suciu

Rufus was bishop of Shotep, known in Greek as Hypsele, a town located about seven kilomenters southeast of Assiut (Lycopolis) in Upper Egypt, in the last part of the sixth century. References to Rufus apart from the manuscripts containing his … Continue reading →

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Photographs of White Monastery Fragments on Gallica Website

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Alin Suciu

It was a nice surprise to discover a few days ago that the National Library in Paris put up on the Gallica website photographs of some of the Sahidic parchment fragments in their possession. More precisely, they have uploaded until … Continue reading →

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The Martyrdom of Macrobius in Gǝʿǝz (and Arabic)

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Alin Suciu

Originally posted on hmmlorientalia:
Yesterday Alin Suciu posted a notice of a Bohairic Coptic leaf with some lines from the martyrdom of Macrobius that was recently found in a Syriac manuscript from Saint Mark’s Monastery in Jerusalem. He also mentioned…

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A Coptic Bohairic Leaf Recovered from a Syriac Manuscript: A New Textual Witness of the Martyrdom of Macrobius

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Alin Suciu

A couple of weeks ago, Adam McCollum (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Minnesota) sent me the photograph of the recto of a paper leaf written in the Bohairic dialect of Coptic. The fragment was used as an endpaper in a … Continue reading →

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