| Artefact ID | 12 |
| TM ID | TM 108112 (Dublin) / TM 108140 (Berlin) |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 51 (Madīnat Māḍī) | Class | Textual |
| Material | Papyrus |
| Writing medium | Codex |
| Text content | Literary |
| Language | Coptic |
| Description | Chester Beatty Mani Codex D + Berlin P. 15999 Papyrus codex with Manichean Homilies in Coptic (L) containing four texts (PAThsWorks 864, 868-870, see internal links in PAThs link); the part formerly in Berlin has never been published and is currently lost. |
| Selection criteria | Literary genre (Theological), Coptic language |
| Date from | 380 |
| Date to | 435 |
| Dating criteria | Palaeography, book binding (quires), contents (Manichean writings). Initial dating oscillated between the 4th (Schmidt 1933: 7; Schmidt, Polotsky 1933: 35) and 5th (Polotsky 1934: X, n. 1) centuries. Recent radiocarbon dating settled the matter (BeDuhn, Hodgins 2017). |
| Absolute/relative date | Absolute date |
| Archaeological context | Supposedly found at Madīnat Māḍī, see Robinson 2013: 58–59. |
| Accession number | Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, Codex D + Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 15999 (probably in Moscow, not present in Berlin in 1978) |
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