Homily (P.Duk.inv. 244)

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150 dpi image of fol. 97, col. i

72 dpi image of fol. 97, col. i
72 dpi image of fol. 97, col. ii
72 dpi image of fol. 98, col. i
72 dpi image of fol. 98, col. ii
72 dpi image of fol. 101, col. i
72 dpi image of fol. 101, col. ii
72 dpi image of fol. 102, col. i
72 dpi image of fol. 102, col. ii

Catalogue Record

Title: Homily, [not before 800] Author: Shenute, ca. 348-466. Subject: Dreams --Sermons.
	Visions --Sermons.
	Coptic Church --Liturgy --Texts --Manuscripts --640-1250.
	Coptic Church --Sermons --640-1250.
	Literary papyri --Egypt --640-1250.
Other titles: Bible. O.T. Joel. Coptic (Sahidic). Selections.
Material: 1 item : parchment codex bifolium, mounted in glass, damaged ; 32 x 48 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 31.2 x 48.0 cm.
	Eight columns of 29 lines.
	Written in two columns per page in brown and red ink.
	Upper margin of 3.5 cm.; page numbers 97-98 and 101-102
	written in the upper margin; lower margin of 6 cm.;
	left margin of 5 cm.; right margin of 5 cm.
	P.Duk.inv. 244 was formerly Duke Coptic MS. 25.
	Homily from Egypt, written on parchment. Homily on
	dreams and visions quoting Joel, chapter 2, verse
	28 and other passages. Possibly by Shenute.
	In Coptic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.
Publications: MacCoull, L. S. B. "Duke University MS.
        C25: Dreams, Visions, and Incubation in Coptic Egypt."
        Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 22(1991): 123-128
        (plates pp. 129-132). The plates in this publication
	were made in 1981, when the manuscript was more complete
	(fol.97, fol.98, fol.101 and fol.102).

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