Decoration:

Black, red, and green ink. Some binding repairs with reused Arabic texts. Final half of book suffers from water staining. Coptic numeration = pp. 12-130 + p. 153. ff. 1-5 = Liturgical text, including prayers and praises of bishops. Use of Abba NIM ("Father so-and-so") as a stock phrase that can be filled in by any episcopal leader. Mentions Jerusalem as the metropolis; mentions the Book of Life. Potential title = the chiliographon (thousand-writer?). ff. 6-103 = Revelation (titled: The Unveiling of What He Saw, namely, of John the Evangelist). Rubrication and decorative headpieces to mark off John's seven "letters" to the churches of Asia. Missing pages (via Coptic numeration) = 20, 60, 74-75, 77, 81, 90-100, 121-152. Corresponds to lacking Rev 1:8-11, 7:11-14, 10:1-7, 10-11:1, 11-13, 13:1-14:15, 19:12- 22:21. Some letter headings contain marginalia saying "Answer: ..." = Call-and-response? Coptic marginalia in pencil (f. 58). 104r = "He said this, which testifies to these things, namely, that they will occur and that they are coming soon. Come, Lord Jesus Christ, upon all the saints from age to age. Amen." MS concludes with seven pages (4 ff.) of Arabic text.

Binding: Modern cloth binding (20th century).

In Bohairic Coptic; Arabic

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Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.