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Artefact ID	10
TM ID	TM 107976
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	51 (Madīnat Māḍī)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Coptic
Description	Codex with different Manichaean psalm collections in Coptic (L), only second part with Bema psalms, Psalms to Jesus (?), Psalms of Herakleides, Miscellaneous psalms, and Psalms of Thomas have been edited (note that they are all subsumed under a single work in PAThs 861).
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Non-canonical), Coptic language
Date from	380
Date to	435
Dating criteria	Palaeography, contents, book binding (already quires), radiocarbon Schmidt (1st half 4th c.), Polotsky (later than Schmidt), Allberry (around 340), BeDuhn-Hodgins (380-435).
Absolute/relative date	Absolute date
Archaeological context	Supposedly found at Madīnat Māḍī, see Robinson 2013: 58–59.
Accession number	Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, Codex A

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Allberry, Charles Robert Cecil. 1938. A Manichean Psalm-Book. Part II, with a contribution by Hugo Ibscher, Manichean Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Collection 2. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (only second part of the codex).

Facsimile edition

• Giversen, Søren. 1988. The Manichean Coptic Papyri in the Chester Beatty Library 3 & 4: Psalm book, Cahiers d’Orientalisme 16 & 17. Geneva: Cramer.

Re-editions

• Richter, Siegfried. 1998. Die Herakleides Psalmen, Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum. Series Coptica 1. Psalm Book 2/2. Turnhout: Brepols.

• Wurst, Gregor. 1996. Die Bema-Psalmen, Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum. Series Coptica 1. Psalm Book 2/1. Turnhout: Brepols.

Additional bibliography

• BeDuhn, Jason and Greg Hodgins. 2017. "The Date of the Manichaean Codices from Medinet Madi, and Its Significance." In Manichaeism East and West, edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu, Erica Hunter, Enrico Morano and Nils Arne Pedersen, Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum, Analecta Manichaica 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 10-28.

• Nagel, Peter. 2014. Codex apocryphus gnosticus Novi Testamenti 1: Evangelien und Apostelgeschichten aus den Schriften von Nag Hammadi und verwandten Kodizes. Koptisch und Deutsch, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 326. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 311-319 & 371-385.

• Richter, Siegfried. 1997. Die Aufstiegspsalmen des Herakleides: Untersuchungen zum Seelenaufstieg und zur Seelenmesse bei den Manichäern, Sprachen und Kulturen des christlichen Orients 1. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

• Robinson, James M. 2013. The Manichean Codices of Medinet Madi. Eugene/OR: Cascade Books, 282-287.

• Säve-Söderbergh, Torgny. 1949. Studies in the Coptic Manichean Psalm-Book. Prosody and Mandean Parallels. Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksells Boktryckerei AB.

• Schenke, Hans-Martin. 2012. "Review of Wurst, Bema-Psalmen." In Der Same Seths. Hans-Martin Schenkes Kleine Schriften zu Gnosis, Koptologie und Neuem Testament, edited by Gesine Schenke Robinson, Gesa Schenke and Uwe-Karsten Plisch. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 1257-1263. (Original edition, Enchoria 24 (1997–98), 186-193).

• Schenke, Hans-Martin. 2012. "Review of Richter, Herakleides-Psalmen." In Der Same Seths. Hans-Martin Schenkes Kleine Schriften zu Gnosis, Koptologie und Neuem Testament, edited by Gesine Schenke Robinson, Gesa Schenke and Uwe-Karsten Plisch. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 1304-1314. (Original edition, Enchoria 27 (2001), 243-254).

• Wurst, Gregor. 1995. Das Bêmafest der ägyptischen Manichäer, Arbeiten zum spätantiken und koptischen Ägypten 8. Altenberge: Oros Verlag.

On texts in yet unedited first part:

• Pedersen, Nils Arne. 2002. "Über einen manichäisch-koptischen Hymnus von der Erlösung der Seele (Das manichäische Psalmenbuch, Teil 1: Faksimileausgabe Band 3, Tafel 127-128)." In The Nag Hammadi Texts in the History of Religions. Proceedings of the International Conference at the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen, September 19-24, 1995. On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Nag Hammadi Discovery, edited by Søren Giversen and et al., 199-210. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab.

• Richter, Siegfried G. 2000. "Ein manichäischer Sonnenhymnus." In Studia Manichaica. IV. Internationaler Kongreß zum Manichäismus, Berlin, 14.–18. Juli 1997, edited by Ronald E. Emmerick, Werner Sundermann and Peter Zieme, 482-493. Berlin: De Gruyter.

• Wurst, Gregor. 1996. "A Dialogue between the Saviour and the Soul. Manichaean Psalm Book, Part I, No. 136." Bulletin de la Société de l'Archéologie Copte 35: 149-160.

• Wurst, Gregor. 1999. "Die Bedeutung der manichäischen Sonntagsfeier (manichäisches Psalmenbuch I, 127)." In Ägypten und Nubien in spätantiker und christlicher Zeit II. Akten des 6. Internationalen Koptologenkongresses, Münster, 20.-26. Juli 1996, edited by Stephen Emmel, Martin Krause, Siegfried G. Richter and Sofia Schaten, 563-580. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Authors

Matthias Müller, Victor Ghica, 2021

Suggested citation

Matthias Müller, Victor Ghica, 2021, "Artefact ID 10", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/10

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TM 107976 / LDAB 107976 DCLP (PN) PAThs MS 172 AS Manichäismusforschung

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