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II. Chester Beatty Library Codex B, the Synaxeis. This codex was acquired by Beatty from a Fayyumic dealer in 1930 (except for 31 rtsidual leaves that Schmidt acquired in 1931 — P 15995), and turned over to Ibscher to conserve. By 1939 only 13 leaves of Beatty's part had been conserved and returned to London. They were moved with the library to Dublin in 1953, and to Copenhagen in 1984. A facsimile edition was published by Giversen in 1986. The rest of Beatty's part of the codex was kept in Ibscher's home in Kleinmachnow for conservation, from 1934 on, but was put after Ibscher's death in 1943 by his son Rolf Ibscher in safe keeping in a reinforced concrete bunker at the Zoo Train station of Berlin. After the bombing of that bunker in 1944 Rolf Ibscher had his assistant P. Seidel remove it so that Ibscher could take it to the home of his father-in-law, Wolf Henry Doering, in Schondorf on the Ammersee in Bavaria. From time to time Rolf Ibscher worked at conserving the leaves there, The West German authorities took control of the codex and engaged Garsten Colpe to edit it in 1956-57, for which purpose it was taken to Göttingen. Only some half of this material had been conserved by Rolf Ibscher before his death in 1967. Upon the creation of the Egyptian Museum in West Berlin in 1967, the material was deposited there,
in 1985 the Curator of the Papyrus Collection in that museum, Dr. William Brashear, asked me to investigate this material. There are 125 extant unpublished leaves plus the unconserved remainder of the book block. I reported to the Fachkommission Byzantinistik of the Historiker-Gesellschaft of the German Democratic Republic in Halle in 1986, Both museums authorized me to organize an edition of all the Manichaean material in Berlin. The transcription of the scarcely legible conserved leaves was begun in 1985, with Gesine Robinson Working on the 31 leaves on the Museen-Insel of East Berlin, and others, especially Wolf-Peter Funk and Paul Mirecki, on those in West Berlin. The Photographing is currently taking place in Berlin in preparation for a facsimile edition of all the Manichaean material in Berlin, Vienna and Warsaw, to be published by the Akademie-Verlag of Berlin.James ROBINSON: The Manichaean Codices of Medinat Madi (Terenouthis).