| Artefact ID | 1426 |
| TM ID | TM 66871 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 35 (Qarāra) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | Schøyen MS 187; Beinecke P. CtYBR 4475; Rahlfs 866: 6 folios of an Exodus codex. The Schøyen pages contain Exodus 4:17-6:12 on two consecutive bi-folios and 7:12-21 on one single page. Dated by its ed.pr. into the first half of the 4th c., it is among the oldest surviving documents of the Exodus. Fragments of the codex are spread across university and private collections, including Yale’s Beinecke Library (Exodus 6:12-27) and the Antonovich Collection in Paris (Exodus 6:28-7:11), which each house a page missing from the Schøyen manuscript. Possibly connected to the codex fragment at the Ashland Theological Seminary (Exodus 10:3-5 & 10:8-9) and the fragments of two anonymous private owners edited in deSilva 2006 & 2007. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical) |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 350 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Unknown; claimed to have been found alongside Gospel of Judas (Coptic, “Codex Tchacos”), Letters of Paul (Coptic) and a mathematical treatise (Greek), see Nongbri 2018, 95-96. Acquired by Martin Schøyen in 1988 from Bruce Ferrini; single fragment acquired by Yale in 1996 from the Gallery Nefer (Zurich) of Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos. |
| Accession number | Oslo, Private collection Schøyen MS 187 + New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library P. CtYBR 4475 + Paris, Private Collection Antonovich [?] |
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