A parchment page written in a single column of black Coptic capitals without spaces between words, with a decorated initial at the upper left and small ornaments across the top
The opening of Paul's Letter to the Romans in Sahidic Coptic (ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ ⲡϩⲙϩⲁⲗ ⲙⲡⲉⲭⲥ, 'Paul, the servant of Christ'), from a codex of the Pauline letters and the Gospel of John, about AD 600, attributed to the Monastery of Apa Jeremias at Saqqara. The text runs without word spaces, and sacred names such as ⲡⲉⲭⲥ carry a stroke above. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Cpt 813, folio 3 recto.Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, about 600 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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