Full Description
A catalogue of the Coptic and Arabic collections at Dayr al-Suryan in
Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, to be published in multiple volumes, covering the
following genre categories: Biblical Texts, along with Coptic Grammars
and Lexica; Commentaries and Canons; Theology; Ascetic Discourses;
Saints' Lives and Sermons; and Liturgical Texts. In addition to
introducing readers to the history and contents of the monastic library,
this series collects data on approximately 1000 manuscripts, recording
information on manuscript number and genre, works and contents, date,
language, script, and material, scribes, patrons, and restorers,
colophons and endowments, pages and numbering systems, dimensions, area
of writing, and lines per page, cover and condition, and other details
related to scribal practice and readers' insertions. The result will
serve as a foundation for further research on Coptic and Christian
Arabic literature and on the monastery and its important library.
