Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library Oriental Series 2 (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts) - Softcover

Depuydt, L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 906831498X ISBN 13: 9789068314984

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 1993

Synopsis

This album of photographic plates is a companion volume to the descriptive Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. It presents a visual record of the Morgan Coptic collection. The Morgan Coptic collection is unrivaled in wealth of Coptic manuscript illumination dating to before AD 1000, including a near monopoly on early Coptic frontispieces. desert location near the town of al-Hamuli, where the bulk of the Library's Coptic manuscripts were unearthed in 1910, the body of the album presents the collection for codicologists, art historians, and paleographers under the two categories of Decoration and Script. comprehensive record of frontispieces, headpieces, tailpieces (including what may be the oldest Christian illumination), a sampling of marginal ornaments and ornamental initials, specimens of the scripts of most literary manuscripts, and selected documentary texts and bindings. Full concordances between call numbers, plate numbers, and catalogue numbers are also provided

About this edition

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 906831498X
• ISBN 13: 9789068314984
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 832