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Update: AELAC Meeting, Dole, June 28-30 2012. Schedule and Paper Abstract
On June 29, I will be presenting a paper at the Association pour l’étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne (AELAC) meeting, which shall take place in Dole, France. You can find below the complete program of the conference and the … Continue reading
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Tagged AELAC, Alin Suciu, apocrypha, Codex Tchacos, conferences, Coptic Manuscripts, Dole, Sotheby's, Visio Pauli
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Two Other Scraps from a Parchment Leaf Containing the Apocryphal Acts of John in Coptic
Recently, I reported that one of the Coptic fragments which were auctioned by Sotheby’s in July 2009 contains a portion from Metastasis Iohannis. This apocryphal writing, originally written in Greek, is actually an extract from the Acts of John (chapters … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts of John, Alin Suciu, apocrypha, Bolaffi, codicology, Louvre, paleography, Sahidic, Sotheby's, White Monastery
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A Further Fragment from the Apocryphal Acts of John in Coptic: Once Again Concerning the Sotheby-Bolaffi Fragments
I have already discussed several times the ten Coptic fragments which were sold by Sotheby’s in July 2009. I was in Vienna when the auction took place and, as Cornelia Römer was at that time the director of the papyrus … Continue reading
Coptic Fragments from Cyril of Alexandria’s Scholia on the Incarnation of Monogenes
In July 2009, during a research visit at the Papyrussammlung of the National Library in Vienna, Cornelia Römer drew my attention to ten Coptic parchment fragments that were on offer by Sotheby’s at that time. As Dr. Römer was the … Continue reading
An Apocryphal Fragment Sold at Sotheby’s (The Pseudo-Gospel of the Twelve Apostles)
I have already discussed here and here the ten Coptic fragments auctioned in July 2009 at Sotheby’s in London. They are all datable to the 10th century and belonged once to the library of the White Monastery, situated in Upper … Continue reading
The “Sotheby’s Coptic Fragments.” Supplementary Identifications
I just found out that in December 2009, Federico Bottigliengo presented in the bulletin Il collezionista ten fragments of Coptic manuscripts. Now, among the pictures published therein, someone can recognize the same White Monastery parchment folio which was sold in … Continue reading
The Identification of the Coptic Fragments Auctioned at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s auctioned recently ten Coptic parchment fragments which were purchased for 28,750 GBP. Surprisingly, in the only picture available thus far can be recognized a portion from Cyril of Alexandria’s Scholia on the Incarnation of Monogenes, an important dogmatic work … Continue reading

























