The Miscellaneous Codex: the School in the Christian era
In 1955 Ramón Roca-Puig bought in Cairo several fragments belonging to a miscellaneous Codex, some of whose pages also ended up in the Bodmer Foundation (Switzeland) and the Duke University (NC).
The provenance of the Codex has been extensively discussed.Modern research places this document in a Christian scholar environment located in the Theban area, either a school or a Monastic Library. It is not at all clear who was responsible of its copy nor its addressee. Based on the information provided by two colophons in the codex, the book might have been dedicated to a certain Dorotheus. The extant part of the Codex consists of 52 folia containing works in both Greek and Latin languages, some of which are of particular interest as they attest the importance of classical languages and their literary traditions in Christian schools in Egypt. A further post will be devoted to them. Please click on the images to learn more!
Hadrianus