I communicated with Robert Kraft yesterday and found out that Mr. Ernest Muro was the main person who was keeping track of the "Geneva wares" that Ferrini was offering for sale on EBAY. He thought that he had identified a piece of Philippians from the Coptic Paul codex and possibly other pages. So he purchased several of the Coptic pieces.PHOTO: Piece identified by Muro as Coptic Philippians. Photo from Robert Kraft's article.
Unexpectedly Muro died and someone disposed his collections, including the papyri. Kraft has worked to put up all the images from the EBAY sales. These can be accessed via the article link he wrote, "Pursuing Papyri" and posted.
I am thinking that it would be a good idea to get all the information about the distribution of the El-Minya horde up on a web page(all four books: Tchacos Codex; Paul's Coptic Codex; Exodus' Greek Codex; and the Mathematical Treatise). So I'm going to start working on that project.
I'll share information as I get it.
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One sale still on from Australia.
What do you mean?
Now I don't find it. I searched on Ebay for Coptic and found what I thought was a fragment but either I was wrong or it is no longer for sale.
Sorry about that.
And having looked again it is a textile fragment and not a text fragment. Again, sorry for my mistake.
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