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Artefact ID19
TM IDTM 108464
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialPapyrus
Writing mediumUncertain
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

Fragment from a papyrus manuscript containing the Ascension of Isaiah in Sahidic Coptic. Destroyed in the fire of the library of Leuven University on June 17th, 1940.

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Non-canonical), Coptic language
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography (Lefort 1938, 24).

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context-
Accession number

Leuven, KU Leuven 12, 1-2. Now lost (burned).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio Princeps

• Lefort, Louis Théophile. 1938. "Coptica Lovaniensia." Le Muséon 51: 1-32 [no. 12, 24-30, Pl. IVa].

Additional Bibliography 

• Lefort, Louis Théophile. 1940. Les manuscrits coptes de l'université de Louvain. Vol. I, Louvain: Bibliotheque de l'Université [no. 12].

• Leonardi, C., Enrico Norelli, Paolo Bettiolo, Alda Giambelluca Kossava, and Lorenzo Perrone. 1995. Ascensio Isaiae. Textus, Corpus Christianorum. Series Apocryphorum 7. Turnhout: Brepols.

• Leonardi, C., Enrico Norelli, Paolo Bettiolo, Alda Giambelluca Kossava, and Lorenzo Perrone. 1995. Ascensio Isaiae. Commentarius, Corpus Christianorum. Series Apocryphorum 8. Turnhout: Brepols.

Authors
Mary Jane Cuyler, 2020
Suggested citation
Mary Jane Cuyler, 2020, "Artefact ID 19", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/19
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