Document

• AuthorsAnonyme
• TitlePB 16
• CopyistsKasser describes the single copyist as rather regular, a professional scribe writing in an almost cursive style (Kasser, Papyrus Bodmer XVI, 9). Orsini describes the script as a unimodular Alexandrian Majuscule (Orsini, “I papiri Bodmer,” 77).
• Event Date Place4th cent. (Kasser, Papyrus Bodmer XVI, by palaeography); 5th cent. (Kasser, “Paleography,” by palaeography)
• Language(s)cop

Publication, distribution

Edition

Description material

• TypeManuscript
• Volume
  Dimensions: The width of the page is 13.5 cm. The height of the page is 16.0 cm. The ratio of the page (width/height) is 0.844. The writing is in a single column. The width of the written area is about 10.3 cm. The height of the written area is about 11.8 cm. There are 21 lines per page There are 42 extant folia.
  Quires: P.Bodmer 16 has six quires in total. Five quires are made up of four sheets, and one quire is composed of three sheets. This sequence of leaves followed the classic method of flesh-hair, hair-flesh, flesh-hair, etc., thus the exterior and the middle of each quaternion show the flesh side. The first and last leaf of the codex are pasted under the turn-ins of the covers, and the second and next-to-last leaf of the codex serve as blank fly-leaves. The codex is reinforced in several places by strips of parchment
  Cover: A dark leather cover stiffened with pasted papyrus leaves survives intact with the book block. The cover is broken away at the spine, which provides an excellent view of the sewing of the quires. The first and last leaves of the codex serve as pastedowns underneath the turn-ins of the front and back covers.
  
• Binding
  Binding: The quires were bound using a link-stitch at two independent pairs of sewing stations. The thread is 1mm in diameter. On the folds of the third and fourth quires, there is a knot at the upper stitch. The lower stitch of the fourth quire has another knot.
• Physical MediumParchment, brown ink

Remarques

• General Notes
  The codex ends with the title, “The First part of the Law.” The scribe uses single and double dots, a sort of comma and other small marks as punctuation in the manuscript. The text is also divided by paragraphoi placed at the left margin and marking important logical divisions.
  
  Decorations: None.
  
  Other holding institutions: None.
  
• AbstractParchment codex containing Exodus 1:1-15:21 in Coptic (Sahidic).
  Description: P.Bodmer 16 is a well preserved parchment codex of Exodus in Sahidic with an intact leather cover and binding.
  
• Bibliography
  LDAB number 108535
  TM number: 108535
  Digital text: DCLP
  
  Editio princeps:
  Kasser, Rodolphe. Papyrus Bodmer XVI: Exode I-XV, 21 en sahidique. Cologny-Geneva: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 1961.
  
  Additional bibliography:
  Kasser, Rodolphe. “Paleography.” Pages 8.175-8.184 in Aziz Suryal Atiya (ed.), The Coptic Encyclopedia, 8 vols. New York: MacMillan, 1991.
  Orsini, Pasquale. “I papiri Bodmer: scritture e libri.” Adamantius 21 (2015): 60-78.
  

Identification

• ConstellationPapyri
• PID3773
• Shelf MarkPB 16