Fragments of the Coptic Physiologus.

It was assumed from the outset that the Physiologus, the popular book beloved in all Christian literature, would also have been present in Coptic literature. The first trace of its existence was found by Hommel, who pointed out in his edition of the Ethiopian Physiologus that the Scala of Samannûdi was the "unicorn", a word that belongs to the Physiologus literature... This second story of [this] fragment already makes it probable. that there were Physiologus texts in Coptic that deviated greatly from the usual versions. How far this transformation ultimately went is shown by the strange text that I am publishing below. It is written on two sheets of paper and is. with a larger collection: Greek, Coptic and Arabic papyrus... [Author]

Language: German