Papyrus Rahlfs 866
Papyrus Rahlfs 866 (No. 866 after Rahlfs ) is a name for six sheets of a papyrus codex from the first half of the 4th century. It contains parts from Exodus 4 : 16–7, 21; 33.11-35.4 in Greek . The sheets are 26 × 16 cm in size and are single-columned with 32 or 33 lines each in uncials .
The papyrus is the oldest surviving manuscript of this text passages in Greek and represents an older text version of the Septuagint before the Hexapla of Origen .
The sheets came into the possession of the François Antonovich Gallery in Paris in 1981 . In 1988 five sheets were sold to the art dealer Bruce Ferrini in Akron . This gave them to the Schøyen Collection in Oslo , where they are with the signature MS 187. One sheet was bought by the gallery owner Frieda Nussberger-Chacos in Zurich and sold in 1996 to the Kniecke Library at Yale University in New Haven , signature P. CtYBL 4475. Another sheet is in an unknown location.
Editions
- Diletta Minutoli, Rosario Pintaudi: Esodo (IV 16 – VII 21) in un codice di papiro della collezione Martin Schøyen (MS 187), in: Analecta Papyrologica 23–24, 2011–2012, pp. 17–55.
- Diletta Minutoli, Rosario Pintaudi: Un codice biblico su papiro della collezione Schoyen MS 187 (Esodo IV 16- VII 21) . in: Guido Bastianini, Angelo Casanova (eds.): I papiri letterari cristiani (= Studi e testi di papirologia. NS 13). Florence 2011, pp. 193-205.
literature
- Kristin De Troyer: The Textual Character of the Exodus Codex of the Schoyen Collection (MS 187; Ra 866), in: Analecta Papyrologica 23–24, 2011–2012, pp. 57–79.
- Alfred Rahlfs , Detlef Fraenkel: Directory of the Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament. Volume I, 1: The tradition up to the 8th century (= Septuagint. Vetus Testamentum Graecum. Supplementum ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, pp. 271f., 323, 447f.
Web links
- Rahlfs 866 on trismegistos.com
- MS 187 Schøyen Collection
- P. CtYBL 4475 Kniecke Library