Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Egypt, Oct. 9, 844
MS M.586 fol. 1v

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Interlace cross with stepped bars at ends of arms, and hanging lamps suspended from chains between stem and tops of the horizontal arms and from the horizontal arms; inscriptions "Cross of Jesus Christ" (Coptic), and Upsilon Theta (whose numerical value of 99 is read as cryptogram for "Amen") Zacharias (signature of artist).