CPART

In the 1980s Professor S. Kent Brown (BYU) coordinated an ambitious and successful project to microfilm important Eastern Christian manuscripts. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project resulted in microfilmed copies of some 1700 manuscripts from collections in Egypt and Israel. Though the focus of the project was the manuscript heritage of Coptic Christianity, the microfilm collection includes manuscripts written in Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Italian, Latin and Syriac. The manuscripts were expertly catalogued by Professor Brown and Dr. William Macomber. In 2001 the center began a long-term initiative to improve awareness of and accessibility to this important collection. The first phase of this initiative includes making the catalogues of the collections available online. A portion of the collection will also appear in the Resources section of this site.