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Plans announced by the
Foundation Bodmer in October 2006 to sell two of the manuscripts for millions of dollars, to capitalize the library, which opened in 2003, drew consternation from scholars around the world, fearing that the unity of the collection would be broken.
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The collection includes some non-literary material, such as a collection of letters from the abbots of the monastery of Saint
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began to be published in 1954, giving transcriptions of the texts with note and introduction in French and a French translation. The papyri, now partially conserved in the
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Vatican announced that it had acquired the Bodmer Papyrus XIV-XV (P), which is believed to contain the world's oldest known written fragment from the
653:"A comparison of all three, which had their origins in Egypt, shows that there was no uniform text of the Gospels in Egypt in the third century." (Filson 1962: 52).
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265:(P) is a partial codex containing most of Luke and John. Comparison of the two versions of John in the Bodmer Papyri with the third-century
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cache, like the Nag
Hammadi Library: they bear some pagan as well as Christian texts, parts of some thirty-five books in all, in
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