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Title: The Mystery of FR-BN Copte 13 and the "Codex St.-Louis"
Subtitle: When Was a Coptic Manuscript First Brought to Europe in "Modern" Times?
Author(s): EMMEL, Stephen
Journal: Journal of Coptic Studies
Volume: 6    Date: 2004   
Pages: 5-23
DOI: 10.2143/JCS.6.0.578712

Abstract :
The article seeks to clarify statements in the secondary Coptological literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries concerning the existence of a “Codex St.-Louis”, that is to say, a Coptic manuscript supposedly brought to Paris by Louis IX at the end of the Sixth Crusade in 1254.

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