The book is about 1,300 years old, and is written in Coptic, an Egyptian language. It is made of bound pages of parchment — a type of book that researchers call a codex. You may like Mysterious ...

The incredible loss & recovery of the most authoritative Tanach manuscript, the Aleppo Codex (Keter Aram Tzova).

Written in the Coptic language on papyrus, a material reserved for important documents, the codex was produced in one of the first established Christian monasteries in Upper Egypt. This origin ...

The codex, currently owned by Norwegian collector Martin Schøyen, contains 104 pages and was found in Egypt in 1952 among some other manuscripts buried in a jar in the sand. The book is made of ...

This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex was discovered alongside more than 20 other ...

The codex features Coptic script, an Egyptian language written in the Greek alphabet primarily used by Christians. It has survived the centuries in fragments: Pages are preserved in individual ...

Academics from Britain, America, Egypt and Russia collaborated to put the entire Codex online this year but new fragments of the book are occasionally rediscovered. Mr Sarris, 30, chanced upon the ...

The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, which was written in Coptic on papyrus in Egypt, is the earliest Christian liturgical book, according to the international auction house Christie’s, which will be ...

The codex has a documented provenance and was a legal export out of Egypt, although the story of its original discovery is “open for debate,” said Nongbri. Yet Donadoni says there is ...