Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than a full column and a half in the British Who's Who, is at present preparing a brief, definitive me morial biography of Cat Mike, soon to appear in limited edition from a London publishing house. Other books by Savant Sir Ernest Budge include: The Coptic History of Elijah the Tishbite; The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus ; An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary; The Book of the Dead; The Book of the Bee; and The Mummy (Enlarged Edition...
...such organization. It is the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. And we are not a "sect" as you state in completing your sentence. We are a denomination or branch of the Church of Jesus Christ; as are also the Armenian Church, the Coptic Church and other branches of the Church of Jesus Christ...
...which will form the happy hunt-ing-ground of bibliophiles living and bibliophiles yet to be born, are some of the choicest books in existence, ranging from the rare incunabula (books printed before 1500) to autograph copies of books by famous authors and statesmen. Mr. Morgan's collection of Coptic manuscripts is said to be the finest in existence. To do justice to the wonders of this book paradise would take more than a volume; to attempt to catalog them is impossible. But one document, a letter from General Cornwallis to George Washington must be given, if for no other...
...Kebir, near Asyút, excavations of the British School of Archeology disclosed relics covering every period of Egyptian history and prehistory. The chief find was a papyrus manuscript of St. John's Gospel in early Coptic, midway between the Vatican and Sinaitic codices (earliest Greek Biblical manuscripts). It was wrapped in linen rags in an earthen pot, much of it in perfect condition, and is now on exhibition at University College, London. It dates from the Fourth Century and differs in several ways from the orthodox text. An iron dagger, considered the oldest iron implement known (about...