Late Antique Historiography

Manichaean ecclesiastical history

Title(s):
  • Manichaean ecclesiastical history
Author:
Period covered:
3rd c.
Language:
Coptic
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
The Coptic text is dated to ca. 400, but is supposed to translate a third-century Syriac original. Most of the codex was lost during the Second World War.
Edition - Translation:
  • W.-P. Funk, S. Patterson (forthcoming) A Manichean church history: The surviving parts of the Coptic Codex Berlin P 15997. Berlin.
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Bibliography:
  • LDAB (= TM) 108138
  • C. Schmidt, H. Polotsky (1933) Ein Mani-Fund in Agypten: Originalschriften des Mani und seiner Schüler (Sitzungsberichten der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse 1933, 1). Berlin.