عنوان

The Earliest Manuscript of the Coptic Life of Aaron (British Library, Or. 7558 [89] [93] [150])

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LA129022

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Earliest Manuscript of the Coptic Life of Aaron (British Library, Or. 7558 [89] [93] [150])

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, Jacques van der Vliet, Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, et al.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

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. 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.

Date of Publication

2015

Physical description

368-392

Title

Vigiliae Christianae

Volume Number

69/4

International Standard Serial Number

1570-0720

Subject Term

British Library, Or. 7558 (89) (93) (150)

Subject Term

Life of Aaron

Subject Term

transmission of Coptic literature

Jacques van der Vliet

Jitse H.F. Dijkstra

Call Number

10.1163/15700720-12341209

Electronic name

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[Article]

275578

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