Vatican Manuscripts from the Papiri Vaticani Copti/Coptic Fond

This collection contains 11 signatures and was formed in 1904 when the Library and the Vatican Museum decided on a more rational division of collections. At that time there were four volumes in the collection. Pap.vat.copt.1 was transferred over from the Vat.copt collection where it was the second volume to bear the shelfmark Vat.copt.51, the first volume disappearing around 1800. Volumes 5-7 were added in 1984, being part of a large lot of ink tablets bought from L. Gonnelli also the source for Pap.vat.copt.10. In 1977 a fragment of papyrus was extracted from Vat.gr.23 and placed under glass as Pap.vat.copt.8. Pap.vat.copt.9 is a collection of fragments from a Bohairic codex of the Minor Prophets originally acquired in 1981, with further pieces augmenting it in 1986.

The Pap. Vat. copt. 9 consists of a number of folios and fragments of a valuable 4th C Bohairic codex of the Minor Prophets, acquired by the Holy See in 1981 and completed in 1986 with two more folios. It is the subject of several articles by Rodolphe Kasser, Hans Quecke and Nathalie Bosson2.

Sources

  1. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. (2011). Guida ai fondi manoscritti, numismatici, a stampa della Biblioteca vaticana. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. p. 472
  2. Kasser, Rodolphe – Hans Quecke – Nathalie Bosson 1992. "Le second chaiptre d’Aggée en bohaïrique B74". Orientalia 61. 169-204.