Get Social With Us

4CARE-ARTEFACTS

ARTEFACT IDENTIFIERS

Artefact ID1212
TM IDTM 108861
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassTextual
MaterialParchment
Writing mediumCodex
Text contentLiterary
LanguageCoptic
Description

Two conjoined parchment leaves from a miniature codex (single column) preserving a variant of the Acts of Andrew in Coptic (S), different from the later recension (Prieur 1989: 21–25 & 155)

Selection criteriaLiterary genre (Hagiographic), Coptic language
Date from301
Date to400
Dating criteria

Palaeography

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

PAThs ascribed it to Dayr al-Balāiza but Barns only mentions that the object was given to the Bodleian library by F. LL. Griffiths in 1910

Accession number

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Copt f. 103 (P)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Barns, John Wintour B. 1960. "A Coptic Apocryphal Fragment in the Bodleian Library." Journal of Theological Studies NS 11: 70-76.

Additional bibliography

• Prieur, Jean-Marc. 1989. Acta Andreae: Praefation — Commentarius, Corpus Christianorum. Series Apocryphum 5, Turnhout: Brepols, 21-25, 59, 95, 151-152, 155.

Authors
Matthias Müller, 2021
Suggested citation
Matthias Müller, 2021, "Artefact ID 1212", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1212
Gallery