Research Catalog

Title

The Manichaean codices of Medinet Madi / James M. Robinson.

Author

Robinson, James M. (James McConkey), 1924-2016,

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : James Clarke & Co, 2015.
• ©2014

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Details

Description

xv, 326 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subjects

• Manuscripts > Collection and preservation
• Manuscripts, Manichaean
• Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Berlin, Germany)
• Coptic manuscripts (Papyri)
• Chester Beatty Library
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt > Narmouthis (Extinct city)

Note

• "Published by arrangement with Cascade Books"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321) and index.

Language (note)

• Includes texts in German and French with English translations.

Contents

Introduction: The Fate of the Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi, 1929-1989 -- Part 1. The Acquisition and Initial Conservation and Editing. The Acquisitions of Carl Schmidt ; The Acquisitions of Chester Beatty ; The Conservation by Hugo Ibscher ; Beatty, Ibscher, and Polotsky ; The Effects of World War II -- Part 2. The Conservation by Rolf Ibscher. The Conservation of the Material in the State Museums of the Former East Berlin ; The Conservation of the Material in Schondorf/Göttingen ; The Conservation of the Material in London/Dublin ; Inventories of Individual Codices -- Part 3. The Berlin Holdings. P15995 Synaxeis ; P15996 Kephalaia, Volume One ; P15997 Acts ; P15998 Letters ; P15999 Homilies (Berlin Part) -- Part 4. The Dublin Holdings. The Wooden Covers ; Codex A: Psalms ; Codex B: Synaxeis ; Codex C: Kephalaia, Volume Two ; Codex D: Homilies (Dublin Part) -- Collectors, Dealers, and Scholars.

ISBN

• 9780227175040
• 0227175042

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library