Zone d'identification
Cote
Wilson MSS
Titre
Date(s)
- Late 1950s-1980s (Production)
Niveau de description
Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
1 box (3 folders)
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
British New Testament and Gnostics scholar. Born, Gourock 1916. Died, Dundee 2010. Educated, Greenock Academy and Royal High School, Edinburgh. Awarded MA in Classics at Edinburgh University, followed by a degree in divinity with distinction in New Testament. Specialized in the origins of Gnosticism at Cambridge, PhD, 1945. Appointed minister at Strathaven, Lanarkshire, 1946. Lecturer in New Testament Language and Literature, University of St Andrews, 1954. Awarded personal chair, and then the University Chair of Biblical Criticism, 1978. President then secretary of the Society for New Testament Studies. Edited New Testament Studies.
Histoire archivistique
In the possession of Professor R. McL. Wilson.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Presented by Professor Wilson's son, Mr Andrew Wilson, in July 2010.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Copies, notes, transcripts, photographs, and correspondence relating to the surviving fragments of the New Testament in the Faiyumic dialect of Coptic. Continuing the work of P. E. Kahle, see Kahle MSS 2/13 New Testament Faiyumic Texts.
Includes correspondence from:
- Paul Eric Kahle, 1959
- Elinor Husselman (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan), 1959-1961
- Walter Till (Department of Coptic Studies, University of Manchester), 1958-1959
- Theodore Petersen (St Paul’s College, Washington), 1965
- R. Kasser (Professor of Coptic Language and Literature, University of Geneva), 1987
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Kept as received.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Langue des documents
- copte
- anglais
- français
Écriture des documents
Notes sur la langue et l'écriture
English and Coptic. Some correspondence in French.
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
None.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
These are originals.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
None.
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
Not published.