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KYPRIANOS M1564

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BKT VI 6 2
Berlin, Staatliche Museen P. 13269
LDAB 6642

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Liturgical (hymns)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Unidentified Arabic text.

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-13: Hymn on the Nativity, paraphrase of Luke 2.4-14.

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Language(s):

Greek
Arabic

Script(s):

Greek
Arabic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 851 – 1000
Date notes:

Arabic verso second half of IX or beginning of X, CM 53 style. 7th-8th century, Grassien 2011: p. 95; DCLP dates it between 601-799.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_13269_R_001.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 25 Width: 10 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Schmidt/Schubart 1910: p. 118.

Folding pattern:

2 vertical (?) and 8 horizontal creases (?).

State of preservation:

Upper, left, and right margins preserved, bottom margin lost.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column verso (→), 13 lines (liturgical re-use). 1 column recto (↓), original use.

Hand:

Findspot:

Hermopolis (el-Ashmunein)

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Collection History:

Found in the excavations of Otto Rubensohn in Ashhmunein 1905-1906 (Mihálykó 2019: p. 107).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/03655/

Notes/Discussion:

Greek parallel edited by Bickell (G. Bickell, Das älteste liturgische Schriftstück in Mitteilungen aus der Sammlung der Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer II. und III. Band, Wien 1886, p. 83-87), dated to the beginning of the 4th century (Wessely, Oesterreichische Monatsschrift für den Orient 1884, p. 152). Coptic paralell: P.Ryl.Copt. 26 (BerlPap).

Mihálykó follows MacCoull in attributing BKT VI 6 2 to one scriptorium where Arabic documents were reused to copy Greek hymns most likely located in Hermopolis (Mihálykó 2019: p. 91).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Del Grande, Carolus. Liturgiae preces hymni Christianorum e papyris collecti. Vol. 3. Naples: Biblioteca filologia Loffredo, 1934, p. 6.

Grassien, Céline. Préliminaires à l’édition du corpus papyrologique des hymnes chrétiennes liturgiques de langue grecque. Vol. 2. PhD diss., Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2011, p. 95, no. 44.

Leclercq, Henri. “Papyrus.” In Dictionnaire d’Archéologie chrétienne et de Liturgie 13,1, edited by Ferdinand Cabrol and Henri LeClercq. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané, 1936, col. 1399.

Gregory, Caspar René. Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 3. Leipzig: Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1909, p. 1376.

Schmidt, Karl, and Wilhelm Schubart. Altchristliche Texte Berliner Klassiker Texte 6 (BKT 6). Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1910, p. 118, no. 6.2.

Scheermann, Theodor. Ägyptische Abendmahlsliturigen des ersten Jahrtausends. Vol. 1 and 2. Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums 6. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1912, p. 216-217.

Seider, Richard. Paleographie der griechischen Papyri. Vol. 2.2, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1970, p. 179-180, no. 71 (only lines 2–12).

Wessely, Carl. Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme 2. Patrologia Orientalis 4, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 1924, p. 437-438.


Translations:

Leclercq, Henri, “Papyrus.” In Dictionnaire d’Archéologie chrétienne et de Liturgie 13,1, edited by Ferdinand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq. Paris: Leouzey & Ané, 1936, col. 1399.

Wessely, Carl. Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme 2. Patrologia Orientalis 4, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 1924, p. 438.


General:

Mihálykó, Ágnes. The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 82, 91-92, 107, 163, 217, 289, no. 4.


Trismegistos ID:

65395

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires

723

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

Imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019); MPS & JS training (20/10/2021); JS (27/10/2021); JS (28/10/2021); JS (29/10/2021); JS (03/11/21); KD (9/11/2021); KD (10/11/2021); JS (29/09/2022); KD (21/12/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1564," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1564. Accessed on 18/04/2024

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