Catalogue of Coptic and Arabic Manuscripts in Dayr al-Suryan. Volume 2: Arabic Commentaries and Canons

A catalogue of the Coptic and Arabic collections at Dayr al-Suryan in

Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, to be published in multiple volumes, covering the

following genre categories: Biblical Texts, along with Coptic Grammars

and Lexica; Commentaries and Canons; Theology; Ascetic Discourses;

Saints’ Lives and Sermons; and Liturgical Texts. In addition to

introducing readers to the history and contents of the monastic library,

this series collects data on approximately 1000 manuscripts, recording

information on manuscript number and genre, works and contents, date,

language, script, and material, scribes, patrons, and restorers,

colophons and endowments, pages and numbering systems, dimensions, area

of writing, and lines per page, cover and condition, and other details

related to scribal practice and readers’ insertions. The result will

serve as a foundation for further research on Coptic and Christian

Arabic literature and on the monastery and its important library.