Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Coptic manuscripts—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Restrictions note

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Summary note

Complete codex of 233 folios. The hand of the Doxology section is somewhat larger and the lower margins are slightly narrower than those of the Coptic gospel (i.e., 2 cm)

Notes

• fol. 1a: upper margin - 1 cm; lower margin - 2 cm; left margin - 1.3 cm; right margin - 2.5 cm .
• Provenance unknown (the dialect of the text suggests Oxyrhynchus), IV/V A.D
• Greek.

Publications about

Hans-Martin Schenke, Das Matthäus-Evangelium im mittelägyptischen Dialekt des koptischen Codex Scheide (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1981)

Other title(s)

Scheide Coptic Codex (M144)

OCLC

1340320236

Other standard number

• Scheide Coptic Codex (M144)

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