Homily (P.Duk.inv. 239)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Homily, [not before 900]
Subject: Sins.
	Coptic Church --Sermons --640-1250.
	Literary papyri --Egypt --640-1250.
Material: 1 item : parchment codex leaf, mounted in plexiglass,
	incomplete ; 16 x 27 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 16.0 x 26.7 cm.
	71 lines.
	Written in two columns in brown, red and metallic ink.
	Lower margin of 4.5 cm.; left margin of 2.5 cm. on
	the recto; right margin of 2.5 cm. on the verso.
	P.Duk.inv. 239 was formerly Duke Coptic MS. 12.
	Parchment codex leaf from Egypt with a homily. Homily
	is about sins and quotes another text that is possibly
	apochryphal. Homily is addressed to a sinner. Has
	a picture of a bird drawn in the lower margin on the recto.
	In Coptic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.

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