List of Coptic New Testament manuscripts

Coptic-language manuscripts of the New Testament include some of the earliest and most important witnesses for textual criticism of the New Testament.^{[citation needed]} Almost 1000 Coptic manuscripts of the New Testament have survived into the 21st century.^{[citation needed]} The majority of them represent Sahidic and Bohairic dialects; only very few manuscripts represent the dialects of Middle Egypt.^{[citation needed]}

Sahidic manuscripts

• The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, Book of Jonah and 1 Peter; the 3rd or 4th centuries; University of Mississippi
• British Library MS. Oriental 7594, Deuteronomy, Jonah, and Acts; the 3rd/4th century
• Michigan MS. Inv 3992, 1 Corinthians, Titus, and the Book of Psalms; 4th century
• Berlin MS. Or. 408, Book of Revelation, 1 John, and Philemon; 4th century
• British Library MS. Oriental 3518 4th century
• Papyrus Bodmer III
• Papyrus Bodmer XIX — Matthew 14:28-28:20; Romans 1:1-2:3; 4th or 5th century.
• Freer Fragment no. 2 — Matthew 1:21ff; 5th century.
• Codex Copticus Tischendorfianus I – fragments of the four Gospels; 9th or 10th century

Bohairic manuscripts

• Papyrus Bodmer III is the oldest manuscript of the Bohairic version
• Huntington MS 17, A, Bohairic-Arabic, dated to 1174, the oldest manuscript with complete text of the four Gospels in Bohairic
• Huntington MS 20, Bohairic-Greek, with complete text of the four Gospels
• Oriental MS 424, Bohairic-Arabic, dated to 1308, with complete text of the Pauline epistles, Catholic epistles, and the Acts
• Oriental MS 425, H₂, Bohairic-Arabic
• Oriental MS 426, Bohairic-Arabic
• Oriental MS 1001, E², Bohairic-Greek, 12th century, British Library
• Oriental MS 1315, E¹, Bohairic-Arabic, 1208, British Library
• Oriental MS 1316, H₃, Bohairic-Arabic, 1663, British Library
• Oriental MS 1317, Bohairic-Arabic, 1814, British Library
• Oriental MS 3381, 13th century, British Library
• Add MS 5995, D₄, Bohairic-Arabic, 14th century, British Library
• Add MS 14470, Bohairic-Arabic, 15th century, British Library
• Codex Marshall Or. 5 - Bohairic-Greek, 14th century, Bodleian Library
• Codex Marshall Or. 6 - Bohairic-Greek, 1320, Bodleian Library
• Codex Marshall Or. 99 - 16th century, Bodleian Library

Other dialects

• Papyrus Michigan 3520 and (6868a), 4-5 century, dialect fayyumic, 1 John, 2 Petrus
• Papyrus Bodmer XLII — 2 Corinthians 10:15-11:12; Sahidic^[1]
• Codex Glazier

See also

• Bible translations into Coptic
• Biblical manuscript
• List of Syriac New Testament manuscripts

Further reading

• William Aldis Wright, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum
• Erwin Nestle, Syrische Übersetzungen
• Caspar René Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, (Leipzig 1902), Vol. 2, pp. 507–528.
• Franz-Jürgen Schmitz, Gerd Mink, Liste der koptischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (Walter de Gruyter: 1986), Parts 1-2

References

1. Sharp, Daniel B. (2018). Sharp, Daniel B. (ed.). "PB XLII: 2 Corinthians 10:15-11:12 in Sahidic". Journal of Coptic Studies. 20: 177–188. doi:10.2143/JCS.20.0.3284659.

External links

• List of the Coptic manuscripts biblical Old and New Testament(2021) PDF
• Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the British Museum. By W.E. Crum (1905)
• The Coptic (Sahidic) version of certain Books of the Old Testament: from a papyrus in the British Museum (1908)
• Franz-Jürgen Schmitz, Gerd Mink, Liste der koptischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, 1991, vol. 1, part 2, (pp. 1279) ISBN 3-11-013015-7, ISBN 978-3-11-013015-7
• Assorted Images of Coptic Manuscripts
• SMR-Datenbank koptischer neutestamentlicher Handschriften des Projektes Novum Testamentum Graecum - Editio Critica Maior der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste