Excerpt from Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum The first instalment to reach here was that brought in 1886 by Mr. H. Wallis (or. A far larger quantity was obtained in 1888 through Dr. Budge (or. 3579 to whom indeed, more than to any other, the British Museum owes its large acquisitions of Coptic mss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.