1700 y/o Ancient Text Containing Complete Books of 1 Peter and Jonah Goes to Auction + Expected Price $3.8M
The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, believed to be one of the oldest texts in existence, is being auctioned off by Christie’s this Tuesday and is notable for containing the complete epistle of 1 Peter and the book of Jonah.
Eugenio Donadoni, Christie’s senior specialist for books and manuscripts, explains that the manuscript emerged “right at that period, that transitional period, when papyrus scroll starts turning into codex form. So, books as we know them today. And what we have in this book is the earliest known texts of two books of the Bible.”
Believed to have been produced at a Christian monastery in Egypt around 250-350 AD, the 104 pages were written by one scribe in Coptic on papyrus over a 40-year period. They were discovered as part of the Dead Sea in the 1950s and became part of the Bodmer Papyri.
Along with the two complete books, the assembled texts are believed to have been an Easter lectionary, with Christie’s explaining:
The texts assembled in the Crosby-Schøyen Codex are Paschal in nature, having the themes of death, martyrdom, suffering and resurrection… and academic consensus is that the manuscript served as an Easter lectionary, which would make it, as de Hamel described it, ‘the earliest intact service book in Christendom’.
The codex also contains a tractate On the Passover by Melito, the second-century bishop of Sardis, portions of 2 Maccabees, and an anonymous Pachomian homily.
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