Parchment fragment. Verso. Book of JeremiahWhite Monastery, Sohag (Egypt), tenth century
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Tenth century
Description
Parchment fragment. Verso. Book of Jeremiah. Sahidic Dialect. White Monastery, Sohag (Egypt). Tenth century. Fragments of the same manuscript are kept in London, Manchester, Paris, and Vienna. The images of birds and fish are fairly common in these Coptic manuscripts as exemplified in the decoration accompanying the initial "T" on the left margin of this page