Images: Gallica (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 166); see additional links below
Other shelf number(s): Codex X (Miroshnikov)
Physical description: parchment, no measurements provided, 2 cols.
Language: Coptic (Sahidic)
Date: ca. 10th–12th cent.
Provenance: White Monastery
Reconstructed Contents:
pp. 19–20: London, British Library, Or. 6954 (56) (=P. Lond. Copt. II 115) (Acts of Andrew and Philemon)
pp. 109–110: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 127 (Preaching of Bartholomew) ~ Gallica
pp. [113]–[114]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12918, fol. 166 (Preaching of Bartholomew) ~ Gallica
pp. ?–?: Cairo, IFAO, Copte inv. no. 132 (Acts of Andrew and Matthias) ~ images in Miroshnikov 2019 (see below)
Additional contents: none
Catalogs/Editions:
Layton, Bentley. Catalogue of Coptic Literary Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired Since the Year 1906. London: British Library, 1987 (description of British Library, Or. 6954 (56), pp. 125–26).
Lemm, Oscar von. “Koptische Miszellen LXVIII–LXXII.” Bulletin de l’Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 4, ser. 6 (1910): 61–86 (edition and German translation of Paris, Copte 12918, fol. 166, pp. 81–82 and discussion, pp. 83–84).
__________. “Kleine koptische Studien XXVI–XLV: XLIV.” Bulletin de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 21/5 (1904): 151–239 (discussion of Paris, Copte 12918, p. 161).
Louis, Catherine. “Catalogue raisonné des manuscrits littéraires coptes conservés à l’IFAO du Caire: Contribution à la reconstitution de la Bibliothèque du monastère Blanc.” PhD diss., École pratique des hautes études, 2005 (pp. 193–97).
Lucchesi, Enzo. “Contribution codicologique au corpus copte des actes apocryphes des apôtres.” Pages 7–24 in Paul-Hubert Poirier, La version copte de la Prédication et du Martyre de Thomas. Subsidia Hagiographica 67. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1984 (discussion of codex, pp. 13–14 n. 14).
Miroshnikov, Ivan. “The Coptic Versions of the Acts of Andrew and Matthias (CANT 236), with an Edition of IFAO Copte Inv. 132.” Mus 132 (2019): 291–328 (description of the manuscript, pp. 293–294; edition and translation, pp. 317–19 and images, pp. 327–28).
__________. “The Acts of Andrew and Philemon in Sahidic Coptic.” Apocrypha 28 (2017): 9–83 (edition and translation of the Coptic fragments of Acts Andr. Phlm., 59–60, 66–67).
Other online databases: PAThs entry
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 19 October 2020.