More Coptic on St Coluthius

A few days ago I wrote about locating the 18th century publication of an early Coptic fragments of the acts of St Coluthius. This was important, not for the content, but for the preface explaining how Cardinal Stefano Borgia came to own some parchment pages from the White Monastery at Sohag in Egypt; the first in Europe to do so. I’ve not had time to read this preface as yet. But by coincidence I learned today that those parchment pages have just been digitised and indeed uploaded to the Vatican website. The Vatican collection is being thoroughly turned into digital copies, and of course this includes the Vatican Borgia collection. After Cardinal Borgia’s death his collection of Coptic manuscripts was divided into two halves. The first, containing mainly biblical texts, ended up in the Vatican. The rest went to Naples. Here’s the BlueSky post by Aaron M., who maintains the Wiglaf website which indexes what has been uploaded. It’s a far, far better way to locate Vatican manuscripts…