Folio from the Manichaean Homilies
Object Information
Object Information
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- Object no.:
- Pma 2.25-26
- Object name:
- Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
- Title:
- Folio from the Manichaean Homilies
- Scribe and production place:
- Unknown
Medinet Madi
- Object category:
- Manuscript
- Collection:
- Manichaean Papyri collection
- Production date:
- c. 400 AD
- Dimensions:
- 280 mm x 180 mm (height x width)
- Material:
- Papyrus (material) Ink (material)
- Language:
- Subachmimic (Coptic dialect)
- Description:
- Papyrus folio from the Manichaean Homilies, written in Coptic c. 400 AD in Egypt. The Manichaean Homilies are beautifully expressed lamentations and include information on historical events connected to Mani’s death and the beginnings of the ecclesiastical history of the Manichaean faith. Beatty acquired this portion of the Homilies (also known as Codex D) from Maurice Nahman in 1931. The Homilies is one of seven Manichaean manuscripts uncovered at Medinet Madi and acquired by Chester Beatty and Carl Smith (for the Berlin Museums) between 1930 and 1931. Chester Beatty’s acquisition includes the second volume of the Kephalaia, the larger portion of the Synaxeis, a smaller portion of the Homilies, and the Psalms in two parts. The Manichaean faith was so successfully suppressed that until the discovery of these books, it was only known through the writings of its oppressors. This collection (divided between Dublin and Berlin) is one of the earliest and most important of this now extinct religion, and its discovery has been likened to the cultural and historical significance of the Nag Hammadi codices and Dead Sea scrolls. Many of the folios were painstakingly and expertly conserved and glazed by the foremost papyrus conservator of his day, Hugo Ibscher.
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