Varia Manichaica, the third volume of the Analecta Manichaica – a sub-series of the Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum – is finally published. This volume brings together the works of some of the best known and most established scholars in Gnostic and Manichaean studies, Iranologists and art historians. It contains two important and indispensable catalogues of Turfan texts and also studies covering topics such as cosmogony, hymnology and manuscript illumination. A number of Turfan texts in Sogdian and Uygur are published here for the first time.

Editors: Samuel N.C. Lieu and Enrico Morano

Publisher: Brepols

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Editors and contributors

Sergio Basso, Manichaean fragments related to the ‘Barlaam and Ioasaph saga’

Adam Benkato, A Fragment of an Iranian Manichaean ‘Oral Tradition’

Fernando Bermejo-Rubio, Mani as a paradigm of the Manichaean Church in the Cologne Mani Codex

Şehnaz Biçer and Betül ÖZBAY, The Lotus illustration in a Manichaean manuscript

Iris Colditz, Strategies for success. Manichaeism under the early Sasanians

Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, An update of Boyce’s Catalogue of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian

Eduard Iricinschi, How Do Wisdom, Law, and Revelation a Religion Make? Appropriation and Displacement in the ‘Chapters of the Wisdom of My Lord Mani’

Samuel N.C. Lieu, A catalogue of the Uygur Manichaean texts

Enrico Morano, Uygur in the Manichaean Sogdian texts in Manichaean script from the Berlin Turfan Collection

Nicholas Sims-Williams, The “seven adversities” in a Manichaean Sogdian hymn

Michel Tardieu, La métaphore de l’auberge

Peter Zieme, “Worte für die Seele”. Altuigurische manichäische Fragmente with an appendix by Yutaka Yoshida