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ARTEFACT IDENTIFIERS

Artefact ID	15
TM ID	TM 108111
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	51 (Madīnat Māḍī)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Coptic
Description	Papyrus codex with Manichaean Kephalaia (Vol. I) in Coptic (L), mainly in Berlin (and, due to post-war circumstances, in Warsaw) as well as the remains of pp. 311-330 in Vienna (purchased by Grohmann, but once restored in Berlin by Ibscher).
Selection criteria	Coptic language
Date from	380
Date to	435
Dating criteria	Palaeography, book binding (quires), Manichaean content, radiocarbon dating (BeDuhn, Hodgins 2017).
Absolute/relative date	Absolute date
Archaeological context	Supposedly found at Madīnat Māḍī, see Robinson 2013: 58-59.
Accession number	Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung P. 15996 (some parts now Warsaw due to post-war circumstances, University of Warsaw, Department of Papyrology, P. 447-454 and 499-500) + Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 11010a-h.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Polotsky, Hans Jakob and Alexander Böhlig. 1940. Kephalaia 1. Hälfte (Lieferung 1–10), Manichäische Handschriften der Staatlichen Museen Berlin 1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

• Böhlig, Alexander. 1966. Kephalaia 2. Hälfte (Lieferung 11–12), Manichäische Handschriften der Staatlichen Museen Berlin 1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

• Funk, Wolf-Peter. 1999. Kephalaia 2. Hälfte (Lieferung 13–14), Manichäische Handschriften der Staatlichen Museen Berlin 1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

• Funk, Wolf-Peter. 2000. Kephalaia 2. Hälfte (Lieferung 15–16), Manichäische Handschriften der Staatlichen Museen Berlin 1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Facsimile edition

• Giversen, Søren. 1986. The Manichean Coptic Papyri in the Chester Beatty Library 1: Kephalaia, Cahiers d’Orientalisme 14. Geneva: Cramer.

Additional bibliography

• BeDuhn, Jason and Greg Hodgins. 2017. "The Date of the Manichaean Codices from Medinet Madi, and Its Significance." In Manichaeism East and West, edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu, Erica Hunter, Enrico Morano and Nils Arne Pedersen, Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum, Analecta Manichaica 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 10-28.

• Gardner, Iain. 1988. Coptic Theological Papyri II. Edition, Commentary, Translation, with an Appendix: The Docetic Jesus. 2 vols, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer). NS XXI. Vienna: Brüder Hollinek, 53-55.

• Gardner, Iain. 1995. The Kephalaia of the Teacher. The Edited Coptic Manichean Texts in Translation with Commentary, Nag Hammadi and Manchaean Studies 37. Leiden & Boston: Brill (translation of the edited text up to 1995).

• Gardner, Iain. 2018. The Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani. Part III: Pages 343–442 (Chapters 321–347), Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 92. Leiden & Boston: Brill (translation of Funk 1999 & 2000).

• Robinson, James M. 2013. The Manichean Codices of Medinet Madi. Eugene/OR: Cascade Books, 198-224.

Authors

Matthias Müller, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2024

Suggested citation

Matthias Müller, Victor Ghica, 2021, 2024, "Artefact ID 15", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/15

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External links

TM 108111 / LDAB 108111 DCLP (PN) ÖNB Warsaw – Department of Papyrology PAThs Ms 176

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