The Earliest Manuscript of the Coptic Life of Aaron (British Library, Or. 7558 [89] [93] [150])
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 co...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2015
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Dans: |
Vigiliae Christianae
Année: 2015, Volume: 69, Numéro: 4, Pages: 368-392 |
Classifications IxTheo: | KAC Moyen Âge KBL Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord KCD Hagiographie |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
British Library, Or. 7558 (89) (93) (150)
Life of Aaron
transmission of Coptic literature
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Volltext (Verlag) |
Résumé: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 1570-0720 |
Contient: | In: Vigiliae Christianae
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700720-12341209 |