Brent reports that three Coptic parchment folios with material from the Book of Psalms are being advertised for sale on a rare book dealer's website. The sale site dates them all to the first half of the fifth century. Two look like they are from the same codex. The third less so, but it's hard to be sure.
Follow the link for more from Brent, including on the question of provenance.
As usual with these things, if these manuscripts must be sold, I encourage the buyer to donate them to a museum. Or, failing that, at least to make them available freely for scholars to study.
For more on the sale of the Crosby-Schøyen codex, mentioned in the post, see here links. For the sale and fate of the Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus, sold at the same auction, see here and links.
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