Medinet Madi library

The Medinet Madi library is a collection of Manichaean texts discovered at Medinet Madi in the Faiyum region of Egypt in 1929. There is a total of seven codices, some of which have been split up and held in different collections across Europe. The texts, many of which remain unpublished and untranslated today, were composed in the Lycopolis dialect of Coptic during the 5th century A.D.

Manuscripts

In 1930 and 1931, Alfred Chester Beatty and Carl Schmidt purchased the codices from antiquities dealers in Faiyum. The manuscripts were subsequently conserved by and his son in Berlin.

Berlin holdings

collected the following texts for the Berlin Papyrus Collection of the Staatliche Museen of Berlin in Germany. The collection is currently held at the Neues Museum in Berlin.

P¹⁵⁹⁹⁵ Synaxeis
P¹⁵⁹⁹⁶ Kephalaia
P¹⁵⁹⁹⁷ Acts
P¹⁵⁹⁹⁸ Letters
P¹⁵⁹⁹⁹ ''Homilies''
Dublin holdings

collected the following codices for his library in London, now the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland.

Codex A: Psalms
Codex B: Synaxeis
Codex C: Kephalaia
Codex D: ''Homilies''