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This album of photographic plates is a companion volume to the descriptiveCatalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. It presents avisual record of the Morgan Coptic collection. The Morgan Coptic collection isunrivaled in wealth of Coptic manuscript illumination dating to before AD 1000including a near monopoly on early Coptic frontispieces. desert location nearthe town of alHamuli where the bulk of the Librarys Coptic manuscripts wereunearthed in 1910 the body of the album presents the collection forcodicologists art historians and paleographers under the two categories ofDecoration and Script. comprehensive record of frontispieces headpiecestailpieces including what may be the oldest Christian illumination asampling of marginal ornaments and ornamental initials specimens of thescripts of most literary manuscripts and selected documentary texts andbindings. Full concordances between call numbers plate numbers and cataloguenumbers are also provided Peeters 1993 «
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