[3][1] Excavated in 1929 as part of the Medinet Madi library, the Psalm Book is believed to contain remnants of some of the earliest extant Manichaean literature.
[4] The Psalm Book was discovered at Medinet Madi in Egypt.
[5] Like other works discovered at this site, it was written in a Coptic dialect typical of the Lycopolis region.
[6] After its discovery, it was edited and published by Charles Allberry in 1938–9 from manuscripts in the Chester Beatty collection[7] and in the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
[9] One of the psalms draws a line of tradition from Adam through Seth and Enoch to Mani.