"Generative Authority" | FWF Start Award 2024The GenAut Project is focused on the network of late antique and medieval literary works – both apocryphal and hagiographic – with early Christian figures connected to apostles as main characters.
The project is funded through the FWF START 2024 Award for five years (2024-2029) by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and is hosted at the University of Vienna, in the Institute of Church History, Christian Archaeology and Ecclesiastical Art. | Grant DOI 10.55776/STA214
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“The martyrdom of the blessed bishop and martyr of Christ, Abba Polycarp, the disciple of the apostles, which he suffered on the 29th day of the month of Mechir. In the peace of God. Amen.”
This is the title of the Martyrdom of Polycarp in Coptic as found in Vat. copt. 58, a Bohairic manuscript of the tenth century, emphasising the apostolic connection of the main character. Below can be seen the first page of the work (folio 78r), with the superscript title at the top:
