Category Archives: Memorabilia

Seymour de Ricci on Jean Dujardin

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Alin Suciu

A few days ago, I pointed out that some of the White Monastery parchment fragments  kept in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, were collected in 1838 by a certain Jean Dujardin, during his short stay in Egypt. Dujardin died of … Continue reading →

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Memorabilia: Georg Zoega on Reconstructing Coptic Manuscripts from Scattered Leaves

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Alin Suciu

As the readers of my blog probably know well, the main challenge of Coptic literature is the fragmentary state in which most of the manuscripts in this language are preserved. Of course, I am not referring to the late Bohairic … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Ivan Miroshnikov – An Unpublished Coptic-Latin Dictionary from the Nineteenth Century

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Alin Suciu

I am happy to host again here Ivan Miroshnikov, this time with an article concerning a very interesting discovery which he made in a Russian library. After the Allies won the World War II, many so-called ‘items of cultural value’ … Continue reading →

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