Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Beatty XIV |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | 1. p. 1 col. 1 ll. 1-11 + col. 2 ll. 12-29 + p. 2 col. 1 ll. 1-16 + col. 2 ll. 17-30: Psalm LXX 31.8-11; Psalm LXX 26.1-6, 8-14; Psalm LXX 2.1-8; perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection |
Form: | Codex (?) |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 12.5 | Width: 4.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Fr. 1; fr. 2: 4 x 2,5 de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 209). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary. 2 fragments, each broken on all sides. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 pages, two columns each. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Dublin, Chester Beatty Library |
Collection History: | Found in a box of miscellaneous fragments of papyri, summer 1957. Mounted in the British Museum and returned to the Chester Beatty Library in August 1958 (Pietersma 1978: p. 1). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 112 |
Collection website: | https://manuscripts.csntm.org/manuscript/View/Rahlfs_2150 |
Notes/Discussion: | Robinson (2013: p. 71) proposes that this papyrus belongs to the archive known as the “Dishna Papers” or “Bodmer Papyri”, but, as Nongbri (2018: p. 176) points out, nothing in its collection history clearly connects it to this group. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Pietersma, Albert. “Greek and Coptic Inedita of the Chester Beatty Library.” Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies 7 (1974): 12. |
Translations: | |
General: | Nongbri, Brent. God’s Library. The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018, p. 176. |
Trismegistos ID: | 62000 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | ||||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 159 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (25/10/2019); ST (6/6/2021); ST (9/6/2021); KD (19/7/2021) |