Images: Universität Heidelberg
Other shelf mark(s): P. Heid. copt. 1
Physical description: papyrus, 19 × 27 cm; highly fragmentary and lacunose, with more than 2000 fragments extant. Current reconstructions include 80 manuscript pages along with 18 fragments of pages (the remaining fragments are presumably too small to include). The initial editor, Carl Schmidt, numerated the pages unconventionally, such that the numeration runs consecutively through the manuscript without indicating recto or verso of the pages. Thus, the first fragment is named Seite 1 for the recto and Seite 2 for the verso, and so on.
Language(s): Coptic (Akhmimic)
Date: ca. 6th. cent.
Provenance: unknown
Contents: Acts of Paul
Additional Contents: none
Catalogs and Editions:
Layton, Bentley. Catalogue of Coptic Literary Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired Since the Year 1906. London: British Museum, 1987 (p. 229).
Schmidt, Carl. Acta Pauli aus der Heidelberger koptischen Papyrus-handschrift Nr. 1. 1904. 2nd enlarged ed. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1905 (description pp. 3–20).
———. “Ein Neues Fragment der Heidelberger Acta Pauli.” Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin, 1909): 216–20 (edition and translation of the leaf at the British Library).
Other online databases: none
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 2 February 2017.