Mislabelled manuscript?
Posted: September 28th, 2016, 10:53 am
I posted the following on the New Testament Textual Criticism facebook page, and thought I would post it here in case someone here can help:
I am having trouble tracking down what appears to be a mislabeled manuscript that could be from as early as 300 AD and may be a possible candidate to receive a GA number. It is LDAB 2926 http://www.trismegistos.org/ldab/text.php?tm=61774 , Trismegistos #61774, Van Haelst 0390. These databases as well as the original publication list the manuscript as containing Mark 6:11-12, but the Greek portion clearly contains Luke 11:27, 30-31. The reason why I suspect the manuscript might need a GA number is that the Greek portion on the recto seems to be continuous text. I don’t know what the Coptic portion contains, but from what I can tell it does not contain either Mark 6 or Luke 11, although perhaps it contains a reference to one of those passages. Does anyone here know Coptic? I emailed Brice Jones but never got a response from him. I am assuming that Van Haelst simply recorded the text as it was mislabeled in the original publication and then the error was repeated in LDAB and Trismegistos. I searched the INTF database and could not find any manuscript that matched these verses.
The original publication is from “Memoires publiés par les membres de la Mission archéologique française au Caire” 1889 (MMAF) with an article written by Urbain Bouriant called “Rapport Au Ministre De L’Instruction Publique Sur Une Mission Dans La Haute-Egypte (1884-1885)”. On page 406 he describes fragment 9 which I have included.
My best guess is that the manuscript is currently being held somewhere in the archives of Institut français d’archéologie orientale (http://www.ifao.egnet.net/). I emailed them twice about it but never got a response back. Can anyone here shed more light on this manuscript?
I am having trouble tracking down what appears to be a mislabeled manuscript that could be from as early as 300 AD and may be a possible candidate to receive a GA number. It is LDAB 2926 http://www.trismegistos.org/ldab/text.php?tm=61774 , Trismegistos #61774, Van Haelst 0390. These databases as well as the original publication list the manuscript as containing Mark 6:11-12, but the Greek portion clearly contains Luke 11:27, 30-31. The reason why I suspect the manuscript might need a GA number is that the Greek portion on the recto seems to be continuous text. I don’t know what the Coptic portion contains, but from what I can tell it does not contain either Mark 6 or Luke 11, although perhaps it contains a reference to one of those passages. Does anyone here know Coptic? I emailed Brice Jones but never got a response from him. I am assuming that Van Haelst simply recorded the text as it was mislabeled in the original publication and then the error was repeated in LDAB and Trismegistos. I searched the INTF database and could not find any manuscript that matched these verses.
The original publication is from “Memoires publiés par les membres de la Mission archéologique française au Caire” 1889 (MMAF) with an article written by Urbain Bouriant called “Rapport Au Ministre De L’Instruction Publique Sur Une Mission Dans La Haute-Egypte (1884-1885)”. On page 406 he describes fragment 9 which I have included.
My best guess is that the manuscript is currently being held somewhere in the archives of Institut français d’archéologie orientale (http://www.ifao.egnet.net/). I emailed them twice about it but never got a response back. Can anyone here shed more light on this manuscript?