Artefact ID | 72 |
TM ID | TM 61795 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 31 (Dayr al-Balāyza) | Class | Textual |
Material | Parchment |
Writing medium | Codex |
Text content | Literary, Subliterary |
Language | Greek, Coptic |
Description | P.Bal. I 25 Fragment of a folio from a bilingual parchment codex containing a Greek-Coptic (Sahidic) lectionary with the Gospel of Matthew 5:17-19 in Coptic, and 7:28 and 8:3-4, 7-9 in Greek. The oldest lectionary on parchment according to Van Haelst 1974: 130 (no. 351). The text is written in sloping uncials of the 4th c., by the same scribe as P.Bal. I 22 according to ed.pr. |
Selection criteria | Literary genre (Biblical), Subliterary genre (Liturgical), Coptic language |
Date from | 300 |
Date to | 399 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | All of the material published by Kahle in 1954 was excavated in early 1907 at a monastery of Saint Apollo under the direction of Flinders Petrie (Kahle 1954, 2-3). There were no records indicating precise find-spots of the manuscripts, Crum states that they were scattered. |
Accession number | Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms. Copt. f. 5 |