PREFACE, KV Geirge might show favour to him before the king Christ, ¢nd save him in this wicked world, and give to him a lot cand an inheritance with all the saints in the world which j6 to come.”
| The fragment of the Sahidie version of the Martyrdom of Saint George, FE, is preserved in the library of the Earl if Crawtord and Balearres. ‘The leaves, paged ME—z, are Aight in number and measure 12'/2 in. by 8'/. There are ‘avo columns of writing to each page, and each column contains twenty-six lines, The manuseript is written im a fine bold handwriting and belongs probably to the viiith or ixth century. A few of the leaves have been damaged by water, and, in places, the writing is erased. I suspect that this fragment belonged to the manuscript of which D once formed a part. At the foot of page MF, beneath the second column of writing are the words mueg & Now “the fourth time of reading”, which show that the martyr- dom was read through in four or five readings in the church ‘to which this manuscript originally belonged. The first (two or three words of the passage allotted for the fourth time of reading are in capital letters painted red.
7 The Coptic version of the martyrdom of Saint George |
factories and jewel cutting. See Strabo, xvii, 41 (Didot’s edition 'P. 690); Champollion, L’ Egypte sous les Pharaons, i, 257. The accuracy of Strabo’s description is supported by the large numbers of pieces of beautifully worked linen lately found at Ahmim which are now preserved in the British and South Kensington Museums. For a description of the monastcries at Ahmim see Quatremére, Afémorres, dp: 448.
