Medinet Madi library
The Medinet Madi library is a collection of Manichaean texts discovered at Medinet Madi in the Faiyum region of Egypt in 1929. There is a total of seven codices, some of which have been split up and held in different collections across Europe. The texts, many of which remain unpublished and untranslated today, were composed in the Lycopolis dialect of Coptic during the 5th century A.D.[1][2]
Manuscripts
[edit]In 1930 and 1931, Alfred Chester Beatty and Carl Schmidt purchased the codices from antiquities dealers in Faiyum. The manuscripts were subsequently conserved by Hugo Ibscher and his son Rolf Ibscher in Berlin.[1]
Berlin holdings
[edit]Carl Schmidt collected the following texts for the Papyrussammlung (papyrus collection) of the Staatliche Museen of Berlin in Germany.[1] The collection is currently held at the Neues Museum in Berlin.
- P15995 Synaxeis
- P15996 Kephalaia (volume 1)
- P15997 Acts
- P15998 Letters
- P15999 Homilies (Berlin part)
Dublin holdings
[edit]A. Chester Beatty collected the following codices for his library in London, now the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland.[1]
See also
[edit]- Manichaean scripture
- Cologne Mani-Codex
- Psalms of Thomas
- Nag Hammadi library
- List of Gnostic texts
- Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Robinson, James M. (2015). The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi. Cambridge: James Clarke & Company. ISBN 978-0-227-90389-6.
- ^ BeDuhn, Jason D.; Dilley, Paul; Gardner, Iain (2023). The Medinet Madi Library of Manichaean Codices at 90: Papers from the Symposium at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, 18-19 October 2019. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. Vol. 104. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-53982-2.
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