MS in Greek on papyrus, Egypt, 2nd c., part of a scroll, 17x8 cm, 1 column remaining, (12x6 cm) 21+23 lines in Greek half uncial.

Provenance: 1. G.A. Michaïlidis, Cairo (ca. 1955); 2. Private collector, Frankfurt; 3. Bruce Ferrini, Akron, Ohio.

Commentary: The action of the story, which is to a certain extent historical, takes place during the end of the Peloponnesian War. Opinions differ as to the merits of the romance, which is an imitation of Xenophon of Ephesus and Hesiodorus.

Published: D.S. Crawford, ed.: Papyri Michaelidae, being a catalogue of the Greek and Latin papyri, tablets and ostraca in the library of Mr. G.A. Michaïlidis of Cairo. The Egypt Exploration Society. Aberdeen University press, 1955, no 1.

See also MS 2648, Bible: Joshua, Egypt, ca. 200

See also MS 2649, Bible: Leviticus, Egypt, ca. 200

See also MS 187, Bible: Exodus, Egypt, mid 4th c.

See also MS 1359, Isokrates: Ad Demonicum, Egypt, 4th c.

See also MS 608, Acknowledgement of a loan, Egypt, ca. 600

MS in Sahidic on papyrus, Coptos, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 550-650, 2 partial ff., 17x13 cm and 18x9 cm, single column, 16+18 lines in a large Coptic uncial.

Context: Another partial f. from the same codex in British Library, published by E.O. Winstedt in: Coptic texts on St. Theodore the Oriental.

Provenance: 1. Coptic Monastery, Coptos, Thebes (ca. 550-650); 2. Guiglelmo Libri, London; 3. Sir Thomas Phillipps, Cheltenham, Ph ?, (-1872); 4. Katharine, John, Thomas & Alan Fenwick, Cheltenham, (1872-1946); 5. Robinson Bros., London (1946-1965); 6. Sotheby's 1965?; 7. Charles Ede, London (1965); 8. Private collector, England (1965-1998).

Commentary: The text contains a saying by Jesus that never entered the Gospels, neither is known from any of the Gnostic MSS nor elsewhere.

MS in Syriac on papyrus, Syria, 9th c., 1 papyrus, 11x7 cm, single column (9x4 cm remaining), 23+23 lines in a small, neat Syriac Sertâ book script with some estrangela features, a cross-like sign in margin.

Context: Another Peshitta New Testament, is MS 2080, also from 9th c., but on vellum.

Provenance: 1. Monastery of the Syrians in the Nitrian Desert (ca. 10th c-); 2. Maggs Bros., London.

Commentary: There are no variants from the text of the British and Foreign Bible Society's edition of the Peshitta New Testament. From a codex. Syriac papyri are extremely rare. In the 10th c. Moses of Nisibis, abbot at the Monastery of the Syrians, built up an extraordinary fine collection of Syriac MSS, which today forms the basis of the Vatican and British Library collections of Syriac MSS.

Published: Sebastian P. Brock: Two Syriac Papyrus Fragments from the Schøyen Collection; in: Oriens Christianus, Band 79, 1995, pp. 9-22.

MS in Syriac on papyrus, Syria, 9th-10th c., 1 partial f., 9x10 cm, single column (9x9 cm remaining), 19 +16 lines in Syriac Sertâ book script.

Context: The present f. belongs to the same MS as Firenze PSI Inv. 3020, published by J-M. Sauget: Le fragment de papyrus syriaque conservé à Florence, Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 45(1985), pp. 1-16. The Florence folio is immediately preceeding the present MS.

Provenance: 1. Monastery of the Syrians in the Nitrian Desert (ca. 10th c-); 2. Maggs Bros., London.

Commentary: Syriac papyri are extremely rare. In the 10th c. Moses of Nisibis, abbot at the Monastery of the Syrians, built up an extraordinary fine collection of Syriac MSS, which today forms the basis of the Vatican and British Library collections of Syriac MSS.

Published: Sebastian P. Brock: Two Syriac Papyrus Fragments from the Schøyen Collection; in: Oriens Christianus, Band 79, 1995, pp. 9-22.