List of Coptic New Testament manuscripts
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Coptic-language manuscripts of the New Testament include some of the earliest and most important witnesses for textual criticism of the New Testament.[citation needed] Almost 1000 Coptic manuscripts of the New Testament have survived into the 21st century.[citation needed] The majority of them represent Sahidic and Bohairic dialects; only very few manuscripts represent the dialects of the Middle Egypt.[citation needed]
Sahidic manuscripts[edit]
- The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, Book of Jonah and 1 Peter; the 3rd or 4th centuries; University of Mississippi
- British Library MS. Oriental 7594, Deuteronomy, Jonah, and Acts; the 3rd/4th century
- Michigan MS. Inv 3992, 1 Corinthians, Titus, and the Book of Psalms; 4th century
- Berlin MS. Or. 408, Book of Revelation, 1 John, and Philemon; 4th century
- British Library MS. Oriental 3518 4th century
- Papyrus Bodmer III
- Papyrus Bodmer XIX — Matthew 14:28-28:20; Romans 1:1-2:3; 4th or 5th century.
- Codex Copticus Tischendorfianus I – fragments of the four Gospels; 9th or 10th century
Bohairic manuscripts[edit]
- Papyrus Bodmer III is the oldest manuscript of the Bohairic version
- Huntington MS 17, A, Bohairic-Arabic, dated to 1174, the oldest manuscript with complete text of the four Gospels in Bohairic
- Huntington MS 20, Bohairic-Greek, with complete text of the four Gospels
- Oriental MS 424, Bohairic-Arabic, dated to 1308, with complete text of the Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, and the Acts
- Oriental MS 425, H2, Bohairic-Arabic
- Oriental MS 426, Bohairic-Arabic
- Oriental MS 1001, E2, Bohairic-Greek, 12th century, British Library
- Oriental MS 1315, E1, Bohairic-Arabic, 1208, British Library
- Oriental MS 1316, H3, Bohairic-Arabic, 1663, British Library
- Oriental MS 1317, Bohairic-Arabic, 1814, British Library
- Oriental MS 3381, 13th century, British Library
- Add MS 5995, D4, Bohairic-Arabic, 14th century, British Library
- Add MS 14470, Bohairic-Arabic, 15th century, British Library
- Codex Marshall Or. 5 - Bohairic-Greek, 14th century, Bodleian Library
- Codex Marshall Or. 6 - Bohairic-Greek, 1320, Bodleian Library
- Codex Marshall Or. 99 - 16th century, Bodleian Library
Other dialects[edit]
- Papyrus Michigan 3520 and (6868a), 4-5 century, dialect fayyumic, 1 John, 2 Petrus
- Papyrus Bodmer XLII — 2 Corinthians 10:15-11:12; Sahidic[1]
- Codex Glazier
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- William Aldis Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum
- Erwin Nestle, Syrische Übersetzungen
- Caspar René Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, (Leipzig 1902), Vol. 2, pp. 507–528.
- Franz-Jürgen Schmitz, Gerd Mink, Liste der koptischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (Walter de Gruyter: 1986), Parts 1-2
References[edit]
- ^ Sharp, Daniel B. (2018). Sharp, Daniel B. (ed.). "PB XLII: 2 Corinthians 10:15-11:12 in Sahidic". Journal of Coptic Studies. 20: 177–188. doi:10.2143/JCS.20.0.3284659.
External links[edit]
- List of the Coptic manuscripts biblical Old and New Testament(2021) PDF
- Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the British Museum. By W.E. Crum (1905)
- The Coptic (Sahidic) version of certain Books of the Old Testament: from a papyrus in the British Museum (1908)
- Franz-Jürgen Schmitz, Gerd Mink, Liste der koptischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, 1991, vol. 1, part 2, (pp. 1279) ISBN 3-11-013015-7, ISBN 978-3-11-013015-7
- Assorted Images of Coptic Manuscripts
- SMR-Datenbank koptischer neutestamentlicher Handschriften des Projektes Novum Testamentum Graecum - Editio Critica Maior der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste [1]