Images: ONB (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, K 9424); see additional links below
Other shelf number(s): none
Physical description: parchment, 34.4 × 26 cm., 2 cols.
Language: Coptic (Sahidic)
Date: ca. 10th cent.
Provenance: White Monastery
Reconstructed Contents:
All identified fragments comprise portions of the Book of Bartholomew.
pp. [27]–[28]: Ithaca, Cornell University, Misc. Bd. Ms. 683
pp. [2]9–[30]: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917, fol. 61 ~ Gallica
pp. 35–36: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917, fol. 51 ~ Gallica
pp. 39–40: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1321, fol. 40 ~ Gallica
pp. 43–46: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, K 9424 and K 9425 ~ ONB
pp. 53–54: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917, fol. 63 ~ Gallica
pp. 57–66: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917, fols. 31, 33–36 ~ Gallica
pp. 79–80: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Orient. fol. 1608, fol. 3
pp. 87–88: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 1321, fol. 37 ~ Gallica
pp. 89–90: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copte 12917, fol. 66 ~ Gallica
Note: London, British Library, Or. 6954 (44) (45), once believed to contain Bk. Bart. have been identified as a different text.
Additional contents: none
Catalogs/Editions:
Buzi, Paolo. Coptic Manuscripts 7. The Manuscripts of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin—Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Part 4. Homiletic and Liturgical Manuscripts from the White Monastery. With Two Documents from Thebes and Two Old-Nubian Manuscripts. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2014 (description of Berlin Ms. Or. 1608, fol. 3, pp. 131–32).
Gardner, Iain, and Jay Johnston. “The Passover Litany of the Liber Bartholomaei: Edition of Bibliothèque Nationale Copte 1321 f. 40.” JCoptS 11 (2009): 61–70.
__________. “The Liber Bartholomaei on the Ascension: Edition of Bibliothèque Nationale 1321 f. 37.” VC 64 (2010): 74–86.
Harnack, Adolf, and Carl Schmidt. “Ein koptisches Fragment einer Moses-Adam Apokalypse.” Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Phil.-hist. Classe 28.2 (1891): 1045–49 (translation of Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, orient. fol. 1608, fol. 3).
Lacau, Pierre. Fragments d’apocryphes coptes. Mémoires publiés par les membres de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 9. Cairo: Imprimerie de l’IFAO, Paris : Firmin Didot, 1904 (editions and translations of Paris, Copte 12917, fols. 31–36, 63, pp. 39–66).
Lemm, Oscar von. “Kleine koptische Studien XLVI–L: L. Zum Berliner Fragment einer Bartholomäus-Apokalypse.” Bulletin de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 25/5 (1906):185–93. Reprinted as pages pages 457–65 in idem, Kleine koptische Studien I–LVIII. Subsidia Byzantina 10. Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat, 1972 (edition and translation of Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, orient. fol. 1608, fol. 3).
__________. “Kleine koptische Studien XXVI–XLV: XLIV. Eine neue Bartholomäus-Apokalypse.” Bulletin de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg 21/3 (1904): 151–67. Reprinted as pages 333–349 in idem, Kleine koptische Studien I–LVIII. Subsidia Byzantina 10. Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat, 1972 (German translation of BNF Copte 12917 fols. 63, 31, 33–36, 32 with textual notes.)
Revillout, Eugène. Les apocryphes coptes. Première partie: Les Évangiles des douze apôtres et de saint Barthélemy. PO 2/2. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1904 (edition and translation of BNF Copte 12917 fol. 63 on pp. 185–96).
Suciu, Alin. “The Recovery of the Lost Fragment Preserving the Title of the Coptic Book of Bartholomew. Edition and Translation of Cornell University Library, Misc. Bd. Ms. 682.” Apocrypha 25 (2015): 239–59.
Wessely, Carl. Griechische und koptische texte theologischen Inhalts. 4 vols. Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde 15. Leipzig: Avenarius, 1914 (edition and translation of Vienna K 9424 and K 9425, vol. 4:139–42).
Other online databases: PAThs entry
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 25 May 2020.