1. Brit. Mus. MS. Or. 5000; a large and com- plete codex, containing the entire Psalter in the Sahidic dialect. Prob. 7th cent. Edited by E. A. W. Budge (The earliest known Coptic Psalter, London, 1898). Its text agrees markedly with that of the largest Greek papyrus Psalter (No. 6, above).
2. Brit. Mus. MS. Or. 5984; part of a very large codex, containing considerable portions of the Sapiential books (Prov., Eccles., Song, Wisdom, Sirach), with one small fragment of Job, in Sahidic. Portions of the Song, Wisdom, and Sirach are wholly new, and in the other books the text sometimes differs from that published. Prob. 7th cent. Described in the forthcoming catalogue of Coptic MSS in the British Museum, by Mr. W. E. Crum.
3. Sixteen leaves (apparently out of an original 32) of a papyrus book at Cairo, containing a nar- rative of the Resurrection and conversations be- tween our Lord and the disciples. It appears to purport to be a document issued by the Apostles to the Church in general, for its information. It is orthodox in teaching, and directed against the early Gnosties, Cerinthus (MS Képiéos) and Simon being mentioned by name. The MS may be assigned to the 4th or 5th cent., the work itself to the first half of the 2nd cent. Described by C. Schmidt (Sitzwngsb. d. Berl. Akad. 1895, p. 705 ff.), but not yet published.
4, Papyrus at Heidelberg, containing the Acta Pauli in Sahidiec, and showing that (1) the Acts of Paul and Thecla, (2) the apocryphal correspondence between Paul and the Corinthians, (3) the Mar- tyrium Pauli, all hitherto generally regarded as independent works (but cf. opinions quoted by Harnack, Altchrist. Litteratur, i. 128 ff.), are really parts of this early and popular romance, which for a time circulated with the canonical books. Prob. 7th cent. Described by C. Schmidt (Newe Heidelberger Jahrbiicher, vii. 217 ff., 1897), but not yet published.
5. Twenty-two leaves of a book, partly at Berlin and partly at Paris, in Akhmimiec dialect, con- taining (a) an anonymous vision of Heaven and Hell, imperfect at the beginning and perhaps at
* For information with regard to this section the present writer is much indebted to Mr. W. E, Crum,
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the end ; (4) prophecies of the history of the world and the coming of Antichrist and Messiah, entitled ‘ Apocalypse of Elias.’ A Sahidic papyrus at Paris contains six leaves of the latter work, coinciding with and supplementing the Akhmimic MS, to- gether with one leaf of the Apocalypse of Zeph- aniah. The Akh. MS is assigned to the 4th-5th cent., the Sah. to the 5th (the published facsimiles would perhaps rather suggest the 4th cent. for the former and the end of the 5th for the latter). Pub- aes by Steindorff (Texte wu. Unters., N. F. ii. 3a,
6. Papyrus at Strassburg, containing two muti- lated leaves of an apocryphal Gospel in Sahidic, which, however, there is no reason to identify (with the editor) with the Gospel according to the Egyptians. The narrative appears to relate to the period between the Resurrection and the Ascension. The papyrus is of the 5th—6th cent., but there seems no reason to place the composition of the Gospel earlier than the 3rd cent. Published by A. Jacoby (Hin neues EHvangelienfragment, Strassburg, 1900).
7. Papyrus at Turin, containing the Gesta Pilati or Gospel of Nicodemus in Sahidic, of which Greek and Latin texts are already extant. Published by F. Rossi (I Papiri Copti del Muséo Egizio di Torino, 1887).
8. Papyrus at Berlin, containing (a) the Lvan- gelium Marie (also called the Apokryphon Johan- nis), (6) Sopia "Inoot Xpicrod, (c) Upaés Iérpov, in Sahidic. Prob. 5th cent. The Lvangelium Marie is quoted (without title) by Ivenzeus (i. 29) as a Gnostic work, and is consequently earlier than cire. 185. This discovery is especially interesting as enabling us to test the accuracy with which Irenzeus represents his opponents’ views. De- scribed by C. Schmidt (Sitzungsb. d. Berl. Akad. 1896, p. 839 ff.) ; the IIpa@écs Ilérpov has recently been published by him (Teate w. Unters., N. F. ix. 1, 1902),
ut the other treatises have not yet appeared.
9. Bruce Gnostic Papyrus, at Oxford, contain- ing (a) the two ‘ books of Jeu,’ a work akin to the Pistis Sophia, but earlier in date, belonging prob- ably to the first half of the 3rd cent. ; (6) an un- named work, somewhat earlier still, being assigned by Schmidt to the end of the 2nd cent. Both are in Sahidic dialect. According to Schmidt, the tirst belongs to the Severian type of Gnosticism; the second to the kindred, but not identical, Sethite- Archontican type. Edited by C. Schmidt (TU, Bd. viii. 1892).
10. Papyrus at St. Petersburg, containing frag- ments of apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, viz. the Acts of Bartholomew, Philip, and Andrew and Matthew, in Akhmimic. Edited by O. von Lemm (Bull. de V Acad. Imp. des Sciences de St. Peters- burg, nouy. sér. 1, No. 4, 1890).
11. Papyrus at Leyden, containing (#) a magical prayer and exorcism attributed to St. Gregory ; (b) the correspondence of Christ and Abgar, in Sahidic. Edited by Pleyte and Boeser (Manuscrits Coptes du Musée d’Antiquités a Leide, 1897, p. 441 ff.).
12: ‘eit, Mus. MS. Or. 5001, a large and com- plete codex of 174 leaves, containing ten Patristic homilies, in Sahidic. Described in Crum’s cata- logue of Coptic MSS in the British Museum.