Egypt
A Christian codex written in 411 a.d. has had its missing last page found in a monasteries ancient olive oil storeroom.
In the 11th century a monk worried that the last page of the codex would become lost so he recorded the inscription on the last page into the middle of the document.
The codex was collected in 1839 for the British museum minus its last page.
Recent reconstruction work on the tower which contained the storeroom has revealed hundreds of fragments of documents and when a number of pieces were flattened out the missing last page of the 411 codex was found and restored.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7562
Article with picture of fragments:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/found-at-last-the-worlds-oldest-missing-page-783378.html
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Egypt
Oldest Christian Manuscript
A Christian codex written in 411 a.d. has had its missing last page found in a monasteries ancient olive oil storeroom.
In the 11th century a monk worried that the last page of the codex would become lost so he recorded the inscription on the last page into the middle of the document.
The codex was collected in 1839 for the British museum minus its last page.
Recent reconstruction work on the tower which contained the storeroom has revealed hundreds of fragments of documents and when a number of pieces were flattened out the missing last page of the 411 codex was found and restored.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7562
Article with picture of fragments:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/found-at-last-the-worlds-oldest-missing-page-783378.html
- Forthcoming: Early Christian Books In Egypt Roger S. Bagnall
What's New in Papyrology For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt. Scholars have cited these papyrus manuscripts--containing the Bible and other...
- Recognising The Contribution Of The Ees To Nubian History
The Egypt Exploration Society On Wednesday 13 May the Society hosted a fascinating lecture by Joost Hagen, a doctoral student at Leiden University in The Netherlands, on ‘A dossier of one Arabic and four Coptic letters found at Qasr Ibrim (AD 758-60)’....
- 4th Century Bible Online
Egypt Daily Star News Thanks to Mark Morgan for pointing out that the above link was pointing to the wrong place entirely! I have now corrected it and it goes straight to the article. One of the world's oldest Bibles, the Codex Sinaiticus, discovered...
- More Re Earliest Page Found At Deir Al-surian
The Art Newspaper Fragments of the earliest dated Christian literary manuscript have been found at Deir al-Surian, an ancient monastery in the Egyptian desert. Dating from 411 AD, these were discovered under a collapsed floor of a ninth-century tower....
- Found At Last: The World's Oldest Missing Page
The Independent, UK (Alan Johnson) A year after the Romans packed up their shields in AD410 and left Britain to the mercy of the Anglo-Saxons, a scribe in Edessa, in what is modern day Turkey, was preparing a list of martyrs who had perished in defence...