El coleccionismo de tejidos coptos en Cataluña y la formación de la colección del Museo de Montserrat

Every day new Coptic textile collections cometo the light in Catalonia and all over Spain.Most of them come from private collectionsand they get into both public and privatemuseums. The Coptic textile collection of theMuseu de Montserrat is not an exception.This collection has its beginnings with therelationship between Ramon Soler Vilabella,a textile engineer and fabrics collector, andAlbert Gayet, a French archaeologist whoconducted the first archaeological expeditionsto Antinoë, Egypt. This article explains theconstitution of this collection, how it came tothe Museu de Montserrat, which are its mostrelevant pieces, which cover a wide chronologicalrange, from the 4th to the 12th c. A.D.