Additional notes in Christian Egyptian biblical manuscripts (fourth-eleventh centuries): Brief remarks

The aim of this article is to provide a brief survey of the additional notes in Christian Egyptian biblical manuscripts covering the period from the fourth to the eleventh century, by taking into consideration both Coptic and bilingual—that is Graeco-Coptic—witnesses. Although additional notes are, as we will see, a rare phenomenon in the Coptic manuscript culture and despite the fact that they represent a completely unex plored territory that certainly deserves further investi gation, we hope that the remarks that follow may be of some help in future studies of both the evolution of the bilingual Christian Egyptian cultural identity and the formation of a literary manuscript tradition, in which the role of Coptic and its relationship with Greek changed over time.