The Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.02.2015
Verlag
Boydell & Brewer LtdSeitenzahl
344
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.8 cm
Gewicht
462 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-227-17504-0
The meticulously researched story of the discovery, acquisition and conservation of the 4th-century Manichaean Codices of Medinet Madi. 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.
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