Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library
- ISBN-10
- 1953421040
- ISBN-13
- 9781953421043
- Category
- Bookbinding
- Pages
- 532
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-08-06
- Author
- Theodore C. Petersen
Description
The collection consists of ninth- and tenth-century bindings of over fifty manuscripts discovered in 1910 in the Fayum Oasis in Egypt. The collection of Coptic manuscripts was purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr., in 1911.
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