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Artefact ID1023
TM IDTM 107759
Findspot (DEChriM ID)24   (Dišnā)
ClassTextual
MaterialParchment
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Archive/DossierArchive
Description

P.Bodmer XIX [P.Bodmer 19]

Parchment codex with second part of Gospel of Matthew (Mt 14:28–28:20) and Epistles to the Romans (Rm 1:1–II:3) in Coptic (S), that is in its present condition the result of some re-working and re-binding in antiquity, the beginning of the Epistle to the Romans was only kept since it covered the last pages of a quire.

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Biblical), Coptic language
Date from301
Date to500
Dating criteria

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Part of the Bodmer papyri

Accession number

Geneva, Fondation Bodmer 19

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Kasser, Rodolphe. 1962. Papyrus Bodmer XIX. Evangile de Matthieu XIV, 28 - XXVII, 20, Epître aux Romains I, 1 - II, 3 en sahidique. Cologny: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana.

Additional bibliography

• Fournet, Jean-Luc. 2015. "Anatomie d'une bibliothèque de l'Antiquité tardive: l'inventaire, le faciès et la provenance de la 'Bibliothèque Bodmer‘." Adamantius 21: 8-40.

• Orsini, Pasquale. 2019. Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books, Studies in Manuscript Culture 15. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 56.

• Schüssler, Karlheinz. 2001. Das sahidische Alte und Neue Testament sa 500–520, Biblia Coptica: Die koptischen Bibeltexte III/1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 15-16 sa 501.

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 1023", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1023
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