Detail View: Papyri Collection: Hymn of Christ's birth

Reference number: 
Coptic P 26
Side: 
recto
Image Number: 
JRL023129tr
Image Title: 
Hymn of Christ's birth
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Music
Subject: 
Christianity
Citation reference: 
P. Ryl. Copt. 26
Description: 
Hymn on Christ's birth (cf. Luke 2.11-16). Complete (three fragments pasted together); superlinear musical notation. From the Coptic liturgy, in the Greek language.
Date created: 
10th - 11th century
Language: 
Greek
Language code: 
grc
Item height: 
210 mm
Item width: 
75 mm
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support material: 
Paper
Bibliographic Reference: 
Crum, W. E., Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester: University Press, 1909.
Notes: 
Under glass with Coptic Papyri 24 -25.
Current repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Category: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Fragments
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Image sequence number: 
cop0026r
Image technique: 
Scanned from colour transparency by Gten, September 2005
Date: issued: 
2018-04
Metadata language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Papyri