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Bible

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Description

ISACM E10485 is a miniature codex inscribed in Sahidic Coptic with the Book of Proverbs. The manuscript is made out of vellum, identified as sheepskin in the publication by Worrell. The manuscript is approximately 8.3 x 11.3 cm in size and currently consists of quires 11–23 (pages 158–358), with quires 1–10 missing. On the fifth page of the eleventh quire began the Book of the Proverbs of Solomon, inscribed in Sahidic Coptic with black ink. Based on the paleography and comparison with other manuscripts, Sobhy and Worrell dated it roughly to the sixth century CE, making it one of the earliest complete copies of the Book of Proverbs in Coptic currently identified.

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