Some Coptic Fragments From the Martyrdom of St. Pantoleon

Abstract

Among the Coptic manuscripts, bought January the 7th 1956 at Berlin by Professor Quispel on behalf of the Utrecht University Library from the inheritance of the late Professor Carl Schmidt, are two papyrus fragments containing parts of the martyrdom of St. Pantoleon. These fragments form the lower part of two sheets. Thus there is nothing visible from the pagination. The sheets are written on both sides in two columns. Therefore the remains of 8 columns have been preserved altogether. The last column can be left out of consideration because there is hardly anything readable of this one. Columns 1 and 2 are on the verso of the