Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Ryl. 3 461 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) (?) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro fr. a ll. 1-7 + fr. b ll. 1-7 + fr. c ll. 1-9 + fr. d ll. 1-5: Psalms LXX 3. 4-9, 62. 2, 4-5; applied amulet for protection Re-use: 2. Vo fr. a ll. 1-3 + fr. b ll. 1-4 + fr. c ll. 1-2 + fr. d ll. 1-3: Remains of Psalm LXX 44.3 |
| Language(s): | Greek |
| Script(s): | Greek |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 600 |
| Date notes: | Roberts (1938: p. 13). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size4/ManchesterDev-3-NA/1023/jrl030615tr.jpg |
| Form: | Rotulus (?) |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 8.5 | Width: 7.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Dimensions of fragment c only; Roberts (1938: p. 13). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary. 4 fragments. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto (flesh) and verso (hair). 28 lines recto. Roberts (1938: p. 13) suggests that the parchment in its initial entirety would have had a second column on the right of the recto, but this rather seems to be a rotulus based on the remains. |
| Hand: | 2 different hands; recto: good sloping uncial, regular, neat |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Manchester, John Rylands Library |
| Collection History: | Acquired in 1917 (Roberts 1938: p. 13). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
218 |
| Collection website: | https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s/r0x14s |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Roberts, Colin H. Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester. Vol. 3. Manchester: University Press, 1938, p. 13-15, no. 461. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 244-245, no. 2057. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 62162 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| 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 |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
94 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
125 |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | ST (7/4/2021); KD (19/5/2021) |