Text 714

Provenance
Edfu
Region
Egypt
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
BM Or. MS 6805
Medium
manuscript: codex
Technique
painted
Type of text
literary: homiletic
Language
Old Nubian
Content
(Pseudo-)Nicene Canons
Date
probably 900–1199
Notes
 
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
H: 15.5; W: 10.0
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
16 pages (1: 19; 2: 17; 3: 16; 4: 14; 5: 13; 6–8: 14; 9: 16; 10–11: 15; 12: 17; 13: 16; 14–15: 15; 16: 2)
Height of letters
 
Description
codex of 18 leaves in three quires, containing also DBMNT 713, but written in different hand; no pagination; covers of brownish leather
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete, with very few lacunae; large part of last page cut away; folio 12 torn but mended anciently with thread
Date
probably 900–1199
Chronological systems
day of the week
Dating formulae
· ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲉⲛ ⲟⲩⲕⲟⲩⲣⲣⲟ
ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲉⲛ
Transcription
"Sunday" (p. 31, ll. 15–16)
"Sunday" (p. 33, ll. 8–9)
Months
 
Weakdays
ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕⲉⲛ (x2)
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Browne 2004b, pp. 4–8
Other editions
Griffith 1913, pp. 15–24 (no. 2); Zyhlarz 1928, pp. 144–154; Browne 1983c, pp. 97–112; Browne 1989a, pp. 10–15
Other publications
de Rustafjaell 1909, p. 149, pl. 51; Griffith 1909, pp. 549–550; Budge 1909, pp. 13–21, pls. 22–37; Kraus 1930, p. 33; Browne 1980c, pp. 129–134; Browne 1981e, pp. 65–66; Müller 1986, pp. 341–346; Browne 1989c, p. 72; Browne 1994b, pp. 85, 86; Browne 1995a, p. 456; Browne 1998c, pp. 1–4; Brakmann 2006, pp. 291–292; Ruffini 2012a, pp. 109–110; Łajtar – Ochała 2015, pp. 94–95, with n. 34 and 38; Van Gerven Oei 2015b, passim
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