RT Article
T1 The Earliest Manuscript of the Coptic Life of Aaron (British Library, Or. 7558 [89] [93] [150])
JF Vigiliae Christianae
VO 69
IS 4
SP 368
OP 392
A1 Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. 1976-
A1 Vliet, Jacques van der 1952-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1522440364
AB In this article, we offer a first edition of three papyrus fragments in Sahidic Coptic from the British Library (Or. 7558 [89] [93] [150]). They can be dated to the sixth or seventh century on palaeographical grounds and belong to the earliest known manuscript of the Coptic Life of Aaron. Since a complete manuscript of the text survives in a tenth-century paper codex, also preserved in the British Library (Or. 7029), the fragments enable us to compare the text of a Coptic hagiographical work as it was fairly close to the date of its composition, in this case probably the sixth century, with a much later version of the same text. A detailed analysis allows conclusions about both the reliability of the medieval witness and the nature of the changes that the text underwent in the course of its transmission.
K1 British Library, Or. 7558 (89) (93) (150) : Life of Aaron : transmission of Coptic literature
DO 10.1163/15700720-12341209