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Research atlas for early Christianity. Claims are tagged attested, traditional, or disputed. Copyrighted full texts, including CCEL editions, are not included.

Texts

surviving

Kephalaia (Kephalaia of the Teacher; Kephalaia of the Wisdom of my Lord Mani)

Coptic copies c. 400; contents 3rd–4th c. · Coptic (Lycopolitan)

Groups: Manichaeans

Large but damaged codices from the Medinet Madi find.

Where the manuscripts are now

  • Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Kephalaia of the Teacher (P. 15996)

  • Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland

    Kephalaia of the Wisdom of my Lord Mani

Sources

No open translation is linked. The status note says how the text is known.

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