The Sahidic Tripartite Isaiah: origins and transmission within the Coptic manuscript culture

• Suciu, Alin ^[1]
  1. [1] Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

     Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

     Landkreis Göttingen, Alemania

     
• Localización: Archiv für papyrus-forschung und verwandte gebiete, ISSN 0066-6459, Band 66, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 377-406
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study shows that the book of Isaiah was sometimes divided by Coptic scribes into three parts, each of them being copied individually into a separate manuscript. By surveying the available evidence, the author argues that this practice originated in the 4th century CE and was in use until the 8th century CE. The origins and eventual disappearance of tripartite Isaiah must be connected with the transformations that affected Coptic codices and scribal traditions from late antiquity to the medieval period.