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Ancient World 967 (Coptic). Gabra, Gawdat. Coptic Monasteries: Egypt's Monastic Art and Architecture. With historical overview by Tim Vivian. Cairo/New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002, xv, 142p, bib, illus (b&w and colored), plans, index. Very good in like dust jacket. Signature of collector on title page. No other marks. Gabra was the former director of the Coptic Museum in Cairo. $15.00

Ancient world 978 (Copts) Thompson, Deborah. Coptic Textiles in the Brooklyn Museum. (Wilbour Monographs-II). Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum, 1971, xxiii, 102p, bib, index, illus. 39 plates, some colored, some black and white. Very good copy. $15.00

Art 1160 (Coptic).Kybalova, Ludmila. Coptic Textiles. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967, 157 pages, illustrations, some in full color. Squarish colorful volume, in very good condition. The jacket is here but has some tears and curling. This was translated from the Russian. $26.50

Ancient world 396 Beckwith, John, 1918-1991. Coptic sculpture, 300-1300. [Chapters in art series, v. 37]. London, Alec Tiranti, 1963, vii, 56 p, bib, notes, 147 photographic illustrations of book. Squarish book, 6 ½" x 7 ½". Good, clean tight copy in dust jacket. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper. $25.00

Coptic113 Amélineau, E. (Emile), 1850-1915. Histoire des monastères de la Basse-Egypte: vies des saints Paul, Antoine, Macaire, Maxime et Domèce, Jean le Nain, etc: texte copte et traduction française. (Series: Monuments pour servir à l'histoire de l'Égypte chrétienne). Paris: Ernst Leroux, 1894, lxiii, 429 pages. Paperback, photographic reprint. This not the original imprint but a photographic reprint. An on-demand reprint by Hachette in association with the Bibliotheque Nationale. The introduction is in French and the bulk of the book is in Coptic with French translations. Very good condition. Don't have any idea as to the date of the reprint, maybe in the early 21st century. $35.00 Box A 113

Coptic kkcn Kuratorium des Villa Hugel. Koptische Kunst; Christentum am Nil. 3, Mai bis 15, August 1963. In Villa Hugel, Essen. Essen: Villa Hugel, 1963, 628 pages: illus., map, plates (part. col.). Paperbound. Good copy. This is a complicated bibliographical issue. Virtually all the entries on OCLC and Amazon refer to a catalogue published in 1964 which was based on this exhibition held at the Gemeinnütziger Verein Villa Hügel, Essen, in 1963). The 1964 catalogue had about 250 pages. $30.00

RL 1145 Brightman, Frank Edward and Charles Edward Hammond. Liturgies eastern and western. Vol.1 Eastern liturgies: being the texts original or translated of the principal liturgies of the Church. Edited with introductions and appendices by F.E. Brightman on the basis of the former work by C.E. Hammond. Published by Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896, civ, 603p, glossary, index. Original gilt-blocked cloth, fraying to corners and at head and heel of spine, some along spine edge. Some bottom corners of pages at back folded over. At some point in the past, the front inner hinge has been neatly repaired. All in all, a decent copy of a wonderful work. Sadly, no more published, Brightman died before the volume on Western liturgies was written. A great loss to scholarship. The Syrian rite -- A. The apostolic constitutions -- i. Structure and sources -- ii. The compiler -- iii. The liturgical forms -- 1. The Clementine liturgy -- 2. The order of the liturgy in the second book -- B. The Greek liturgies -- C. The… Read More

Ancient world 1191Shenute, Saint, approximately 360-450. Sinuthii archimandritae. Vita et opera omnia. III. Interpretatus est H. Wiesmann. (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium ; v. 96: Scriptores Coptici ; t. 8.). Louvain: Secretariat du CorpusSCO, 1965, 162p, indexes. Paperback, very good copy, very minor waterstaining on spine. Pages still uncut. Photographic reprint of Paris, 1931 edition. $35.00
Shenute, also spelled Shenoute, Shenoud, Shenoudi, or Schenoudi (born c. 360—died c. 450), was a monastic reformer, abbot of the White Monastery, near Atripe in Upper Egypt, who is regarded as a saint in the Coptic Church.

Ancient World 1050Mena, of Nikiou. The life of Isaac of Alexandria; & the martyrdom of Saint Macrobius. Introduced, translated, and annotated by David N. Bell. (Series Title: Cistercian studies series, 107). Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1988, vii, 147p, notes, bib, maps. Paperback. Signature of previous owner of flyleaf. Fine copy. This is a translation of Phbios mpiništi mpipatriaches ethouab ouah piarcheepiskopos nte tinisti mpolis Rakoti abba Isaak, edited by E. Porcher, Patrologia Orientalis, 913 (Paris, 1915). $15.00
The Egypt of Mena, bishop of Nikiou, was a country under relatively tolerant Muslim administration, with a long history of conquest and reconquest, and a deep antipathy to the Byzantine Empire and Melkite ('imperial') ecclesiastics. Staunchly monophysite, deeply devoted to the patriarchs of Alexandria, and determinedly opposed to the Council of Chalcedon (451) and all that it represented, the Christians of Egypt continued their witness and their worship all but hidden from… Read More

Middle Ages 107cjk Capgrave, John, 1393-1464.The life of Saint Katherine. Edited by Karen A. Winstead.Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999, x, 320 pages, notes, glossary. Paperbound. Fine copy. Friendly presentation copy from the editor on the front free endpaper to another medievalist thanking her for herhelp. $20.00 Box A 107
Catherine of Alexandria, or Katherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲕⲁⲧⲧⲣⲓⲛ; Greek: ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς "Holy Catherine the Great Martyr"; Arabic: سانت كاترين; Latin: Catharina Alexandrina), is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christian around the age of 14, converted hundreds of… Read More