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title: Book of Exodus
author: Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/6065/book-of-exodus/
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updated: 1970-01-01
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# Book of Exodus
_Authored by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts_
## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/6065.jpg)
## Image Caption
Fragment of the book of Exodus, Text page, Walters Manuscript W.739, fol. 1r This fragment from the Book of Exodus is a bifolium presenting the text of Exodus 21:16-35a on fol. 1 and 23:5b-21a on fol. 2. The missing text in between these two folios would have comprised another bifolium. Written in Sahidic Coptic [script](https://www.worldhistory.org/script/), the biblical manuscript to which the bifolium once belonged was produced in [Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/egypt/) in the eighth century CE, probably by a monastic scribe and perhaps in the [Fayum](https://www.worldhistory.org/Fayum/) or Wadi al-Natrun, where monasteries continued to thrive in the early Islamic [conquest](https://www.worldhistory.org/warfare/). It is difficult to determine the full extent of the manuscript, but a combined volume of Genesis and Exodus as part of a multi-volume set of the [Bible](https://www.worldhistory.org/bible/) is certainly possible, if not likely, based on the Coptic numerals written at the top of each folio side.
## Cite This Work
### APA
Manuscripts, W. A. M. I. (2016, November 21). Book of Exodus. *World History Encyclopedia*.
### Chicago
Manuscripts, Walters Art Museum Illuminated. "Book of Exodus." *World History Encyclopedia*, November 21, 2016. .
### MLA
Manuscripts, Walters Art Museum Illuminated. "Book of Exodus." *World History Encyclopedia*, 21 Nov 2016, .
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