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KYPRIANOS M1059

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P. Got. 21
Göteborg, Universitetsbibliotek 23

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (applied) (?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-7: Letter of Jesus to Abgar (applied amulet for healing/protection)
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Frisk (1929: p. 41).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 8.5 Width: 16.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Frisk (1929: p. 41).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete; left, right, and bottom margins broken.
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 recto, 7 surviving lines; 47-49 letters per line (Youtie 1930: p. 299).
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Göteborg, Universitetsbibliotek
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 145
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Frisk, Hjalmar. Papyrus grecs de la Bibliothèque municipale de Gothembourg. Milano: Cisalpino-Goliardica, 1929, p. 41-42, no. 21.

Illert, Martin. Doctrina Addaei de imagine Edessena. Die Abgarlegende: Das Christusbild von Edessa. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007, p. 59-60 and 230-231.

Youtie, Herbert C. “A Gothenburg Papyrus and the Letter to Abgar.” Harvard Theological Review 23 (1930): 299-301.

Youtie, Herbert C. Scriptiuncula. Vol. 1. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1973, p. 455-459.
Translations:
General:

Aland, Kurt (ed.). Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri: 1. Biblische Papyri: Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1976, no. 27.

Geerard, Maurice. Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti. Turnhout: Brepols, 1992, p. 65-66, no. 88.2.

Trismegistos ID:

58907

 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

614

 Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

115

 TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (30/9/2019); ST (27/3/2021); ST (29/3/2021); KD (17/5/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1059," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1059. Accessed on 19/05/2024

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