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Created in Alexandria, the codex consists of 104 pages (52 leaves), and contains the earliest surviving whole copies of the Book of Jonah and 1 Peter, as well as containing Peri Pascha, part of 2 Maccabees (5:27 to 7:41), and an Easter homily. [1] [2] It is considered an early example of the transition from scroll to codex. [1] [3] [4] [5]
Book of Abraham Manuscript-C [33] 31 cm × 19 cm (12.2 in × 7.5 in) The most complete manuscript with 5 leaves comprising Abraham 1:1–2:18. William W. Phelps and Warren Parrish: July–November 1835: 1 Book of Abraham Manuscript and Explanation of Facsimile I [34] 29 cm × 19 cm (11.4 in × 7.5 in)
The Description de l'Égypte (French pronunciation: [dɛskʁipsjɔ̃ də leʒipt], "Description of Egypt") was a series of publications, appearing first in 1809 and continuing until the final volume appeared in 1829, which aimed to comprehensively catalog all known aspects of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history.
John Payne - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (unexpurgated) (1882–84) Edward Powys Mathers based on J. C. Mardrus in 4 volumes (1923) Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons - The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights published by Penguin Books based on the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) in 10 volumes (2008)
The Coptic (Sahidic) version of certain Books of the Old Testament: from a papyrus in the British Museum (1908) Franz-Jürgen Schmitz, Gerd Mink, Liste der koptischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, 1991, vol. 1, part 2, (pp. 1279) ISBN 3-11-013015-7, ISBN 978-3-11-013015-7; Assorted Images of Coptic Manuscripts
It survives only in a fragmentary manuscript. It is probably a product of Egyptian monasticism also, but its themes are "rooted in a long Egyptian religious tradition that pits the forces of Chaos against those of Order". [35] It can be dated to between the 5th and 9th centuries. [34]
Other letters of the early Middle Kingdom have also been found to use epistolary formulas similar to the Book of Kemit. [151] The Heqanakht papyri, written by a gentleman farmer, date to the Eleventh dynasty and represent some of the lengthiest private letters known to have been written in ancient Egypt. [72]
Ancient Records of Egypt is a five-volume work by James Henry Breasted, published in 1906, in which the author has attempted to translate and publish all the ancient written records of Egyptian history which had survived to the time of his work at the start of the twentieth century.