The Manichaean Codices of Medinet MadiThe seven Manichaean papyrus codices of the fourth or fifth century were discovered in illicit excavation in 1929 in the Egyptian desert. They were acquired in about equal halves by A. Chester Beatty for his library and by Carl Schmidt for the papyrus collection of the Staatliche Museen of Berlin. Having had access to the inventories, correspondence, and files in Berlin, Robinson provides translations of the German and French documents to increase access to information previously unavailable to the scholarly community. He narrates the slow and problem-ridden path of the acquisition, conservation, and editing of these important works, including their movements between dealers, collectors, scholars, and the military in Egypt, London, Dublin, Berlin, Schondorf, Gottingen, Warsaw, Leningrad, Los Angeles, Claremont, and Copenhagen. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The Acquisition and Initial | 49 |
The Acquisitions of Chester Beatty | 61 |
The Conservation by Hugo Ibscher | 80 |
Beatty Ibscher and Polotsky | 92 |
The Effects of World War II | 113 |
The Conservation by Rolf Ibscher | 145 |
The Conservation of the Material in SchondorfGöttingen | 163 |
P15997 Acts | 225 |
P15998 Letters | 248 |
P15999 Homilies Berlin Part | 268 |
Psalms | 282 |
Synaxeis 288 | 288 |
Kephalaia Volume Two | 303 |
Homilies Dublin Part | 309 |
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The Conservation of the Material in LondonDublin | 182 |
Inventories of Individual Codices | 189 |
P15995 Synaxeis | 193 |
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