The Book in Many Hands

Enoch Witness Atlas

Filter fourteen dossier-derived working records and open a stable detail page for every witness, quotation, codex, papyrus, or critical edition.

The Atlas contains dossier-derived working records. It does not identify an original, generate an authenticity score, or promote the records into the canonical research corpus.

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A witness is a bounded record, not the whole tradition

A fragment preserves only what physically survives. A codex is a particular copy. A quotation is a reception witness. A translation is mediated. A critical edition is an editorial reconstruction. Every card below states which kind of record it is.

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The cards are ordered by the displayed record date. That ordering does not turn physical witness dates into composition dates.

Codex · Geʽez

MS Bodl. Or. 531

Physical witness 18th century CE

Used in the reports to show that European bibliographic expectations could reshape the physical presentation of an Ethiopian text.

Date dimension: Copying
Material / medium: Parchment codex
Extent / function: Geʽez presentation copy of 1 Enoch as a stand-alone work
Custody state: Commissioned For European Transfer

Book of the Watchers Book of Parables / Similitudes Astronomical Book / Book of Luminaries Book of Dream Visions Epistle of Enoch Noachic materials Concluding chapter 108

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Find or production context: Gondar commission context reported

Custody: Bodleian Library reported; direct catalogue verification required

Date state: Date and commission context reported in the supplied acquisition dossier

Limitations: The dossier uses forceful language about commissioning and manipulation. Those historical and ethical claims require independent verification before categorical public assertion.

Review state: dossier-derived; independent catalogue verification pending

Private dossier bindings: CCX-EMR-SRC-05, CCX-EMR-SRC-06

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Not found in the examined corpus

No identified witness in a named, bounded collection. This does not establish universal nonexistence.

Materially unattested

No surviving physical witness is currently identified for the specified form or period.

Textually inferred

A lost form or intermediate layer is proposed through translation, quotation, or comparative reconstruction.

Historical nonexistence claimed

An interpretation argues that the text had not yet been composed. This is a claim, not the default meaning of absence.

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