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ARTEFACT IDENTIFIERS

Artefact ID	60
TM ID	TM 107763
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	30 (al-Ašmūnayn)
Class	Textual
Material	Papyrus
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Greek, Coptic
Description	P.Lond.Copt. II 1; Budge's Deuteronomy Codex Papyrus codex containing Deuteronomy, Jonah, Acts and the Apocalypse of Elijah written in Coptic (Saidic dialect). One claim is that it was found "between the feet of a chained mummy interred in a decorated coffin in a Roman Period tomb" (Layton 1987, 4) but other accounts of its discovery differ notably. From PAThs: Seventeen Greek papyri have been used for the binding (London, BL, Pap 2020-2036, of which Pap 2020 is a literary text. Pap 2021-2036 are Greek (and one Coptic) documentary texts, some of which are clearly related to the city of Hermopolis Magna (see H.I. Bell in Budge 1912, p. xiv–xvii). This leads to the hypothesis that the manuscript was bound in Hermopolis Magna and maybe even produced there.
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical), Literary genre (Non-canonical), Coptic language
Date from	320
Date to	350
Dating criteria	Context, palaeography of the documentary papyri found in the book binding (as terminus ante quem non: 320) and of the subscription in Coptic using Greek cursive (Kenyon: mid 4th c.; Orsini: first half of 4th c. to second half of 5th c.).
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	-
Accession number	London, British Library Or. 7594 [P. Lond. Copt. II 1] [Budge's Deuteronomy Codex]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio Princeps

• Budge, Ernest A. Wallis. 1912. Coptic Biblical Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt, Coptic Texts II, London: The British Library, 270-271.

Reference edition

• Nagel, Peter. 2020. Das Deuteronomium sahidisch anch Ms. BL Or. 7594 der British Library mit dem ergänzenden Text und den Textvarianten des Papyrus Bodmer XVIII und der Handschrift M 566 der Morgan Library & Museum New York, Texte und Studien zur koptischen Bibel 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (for Dtn).

Additional Bibliography

• Emmel, Stephen. 2003. "A Question of Codicological Terminology: Revisiting GB-BL Or. 7594 to Find the Meaning of 'Papyrus Fiber Pattern'." In Sprache und Geist : Peter Nagel zum 65. Geburtstag (= Hallesche Beiträge zur Orientwissenschaft 35), edited by Walter Beltz, Ute Pietruschka and Jürgen Tubach, 83-111. Halle/Saale: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

• Layton, Bentley. 1987. Catalogue of Coptic literary manuscripts in the British Library acquired since the year 1906. London: The British Library, 2-5.

• Nongbri, Brent. 2018. God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 93-95.

• Orsini, Pasquale. 2008. "La maiuscola biblica coptica." Segno e testo 6: 121-150, esp. 133-134.

• Orsini, Pasquale. 2019. Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books, Studies in Manuscript Culture 15. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 110-111.

• Schmidt, Carl. 1925. "Der Kolophon des Ms. orient. 7594 des Britischen Museum. Ein Untersuchung zur Elias-Apokalypse." In Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, 312-321.

• Schüssler, Karlheinz. 1995. Das sahidische Alte und Neue Testament sa 1–20, Biblia Coptica: Die koptischen Bibeltexte I/1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 84–88; Taf. 4 (146).

• Thompson, Herbert. 1913. The New Biblical Papyrus. A Sahidic Version of Deuteronomy, Jonah, and Acts of the Apostles from MS. Or. 7594 of the British Museum. London: Private Circulation.

Authors

Mary Jane Cuyler, Matthias Müller, 2020–21, 2021

Suggested citation

Mary Jane Cuyler, Matthias Müller, 2020–21, 2021, "Artefact ID 60", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/60

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TM 107763 / LDAB 107763 PAThs CLM ID 1371 CoptOT (LXX) Ms Sa17

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