The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-227-17504-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 462 g

Reihe: James Clarke

The meticulously researched story of the discovery, acquisition and conservation of the 4th-century Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi.

The 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, Göttingen, Warsaw, Leningrad, Los Angeles, Claremont, and Copenhagen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, James M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Preface
Abstract

Introduction: The Fate of the Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi, 1929-1989

Part 1: The Acquisition and Initial Conservation and Editing
1. The Acquisitions of Carl Schmidt
2. The Acquisitions of Chester Beatty
3. The Conservation by Hugo Ibscher
4. Beatty, Ibscher, and Polotsky
5. The Effects of World War II

Part 2: The Conservation by Rolf Ibscher
6. The Conservation of the Material in the State Museums of the Former East Berlin
7. The Conservation of the Material in Schondorf/Göttingen/West Berlin
8. The Conservation of the Material in London/Dublin

Inventories of Individual Codices

Part 3: The Berlin Holdings
9. P15995 Synaxeis
10. P15996 Kephalaia, Volume One
11. P15997 Acts
12. P15998 Letters
13. P15999 Homilies (Berlin Part)

Part 4: The Dublin Holdings
14. The Wooden Covers
15. Codex A: Psalms
16. Codex B: Synaxeis
17. Codex C: Kephalaia, Volume Two
18. Codex D: Homilies (Dublin Part)

Collectors, Dealers, and Scholars
Bibliography
Index of Names