Only forty manuscripts were added to the repositories this week, and all of them on Monday. Following the recent pattern, Pal.gr was the most popular, contributing 26 volumes. Everything else came in small sets, Reg.gr added three, and Vat.lat., Vat.copt, P.I.O and Reg.gr.Pio.II each added two. Rounding out the week, one manuscript each came from Vat.gr, Ott.lat and Barb.lat.

The image on the right comes from f. 2r from Vat.copt.34. This is an 18th C lectionary written in the Boharic dialect, which became the dominant version of Coptic after the Arab conquests. Although Boharic is the official liturgical language of the Egyptian church, Arabic was the main spoken language of the population, reflected by the Arabic rubrics and titles.

At the bottom is a line of text from p.175 out of Vat.gr.235, a glossed copy of Plato's Phaedra. This line of text starts the colophon, where the scribe, Iohannes Honorius, signs and dates the manuscript. Honorius was the official Vatican Greek scribe from 1535 until 1563, and as such there are hundreds of manuscripts signed or attributed to him.