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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) Written in Nauvoo, 13 leaves comprising Abraham 1:1–2:18. Willard Richards: February 1842: Explanation of ...
Two main Arabic manuscript traditions of the Nights are known: the Syrian and the Egyptian. The Syrian tradition is primarily represented by the earliest extensive manuscript of the Nights, a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Syrian manuscript now known as the Galland Manuscript. It and surviving copies of it are much shorter and include fewer ...
Manuscript specialist for Christie's, Eugenio Donadoni describes the text as the "earliest witnesses to development in cultural and textual transmission" that "would not be rivalled in significance until Gutenberg's printing press" and that the "earliest monks in Upper Egypt, in the earliest Christian monastery were using this very book to ...
A few manuscripts that belong to multiple genres, or genres that are inconsistently treated in the volumes of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, are also included. For example, the quotation from Psalm 90 (P. Oxy. XVI 1928) associated with an amulet, is classified according to its primary genre as a magic text in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri; however, it is ...
The ancient Egyptian Night hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed nos. N3 is a portrayal of the sky with the 'was' scepter hanging from it; it is in the Gardiner subset for "sky, earth, and water". In the Egyptian language , the night hieroglyph is used as a determinative for words relating to 'obscurity'.
The manuscript is considered to be a witness to the Alexandrian text-type, following the text of Codex Alexandrinus (A) and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (C). [5] In a comparison of the textual readings of this manuscript, Parker notes it is "usually right" when it agrees with A as opposed to C, incorrect when it disagrees with both, and only right less than half the time when it disagrees with A ...
The Egyptian National Library and Archives are a non-profit government organization. [1] The National Library houses several million volumes on a wide range of topics. [1] It is one of the largest in the world with thousands of ancient collections. It contains a vast variety of Arabic-language and other Eastern manuscripts, the oldest in the ...
The earliest surviving manuscript of the four Gospels is dated AD 889. It is not complete. Papyrus Bodmer III is the oldest manuscript of the Bohairic version. [22] It was discovered by John M. Bodmer of Geneva in Upper Egypt. It contains the Gospel of John, dated palaeographically to the 4th century. It contains 239 pages, but the first 22 are ...