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KYPRIANOS M1097

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

P. Amh. Gr. 1 3 a
P. Amh. Gr. 1 3 b
P. Amh. Gr. 1 3 c
Gregory-Aland P12
Gregory-Aland 12
SB 6 9557
SB VI 9557
Pierpont Morgan Library Pap. G. 3
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library S. L. 4687.1
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library Amherst Gr. 3 Ro [2] & Vo (previous)
Norfolk, Private collection Amherst number unknown (previous)

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Documentary (letter)
Biblical (New Testament, gospel)
Biblical (New Testament, epistles)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-11 + col. 2 ll. 12-36 + col. 3 ll. 37-62: Letter

Re-use:

2. Ro above col. 2, ll. 1-3: Letter to the Hebrews 1.1. Perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection (?)
3. Vo ll. 1-16: Genesis 1.1-5; perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection (?)
See all texts in this manuscript.

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. 301 – 400
Date notes:

301-400 CE according to de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 208) and Clark (1937: p. 170). 250-285 in Grenfell & Hunt (1900: p. 28); letter to Hebrews: 251-350 CE (Grenfell & Hunt 1900: p. 30). 264-282 CE: Ghedini (1923: p. 65); Wilcken (1912: p. 153). 250-300 CE: Clarysse & Orsini (2012: p. 469). 285-300 CE: Jaroš (2014: p. 761).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://www.themorgan.org/sites/default/files/manuscripts/350198v_0003.jpg

Form:

Roll
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 20.9 Width: 23.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Grenfell & Hunt (1900: p. 28); Jaroš (2014: p. 761).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete and damaged. Sheet cut from a roll.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

4 columns recto (→) and 1 column verso (↓).
Hand:

Hand 1: Round, upright, semi-uncial
Hand 2: Small uncial
Hand 3: More cursive

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt

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

Rome

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library
Collection History:

Found 1897 in the Fayum, purchased for William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (Jaroš 2014: p. 761). Sold to J. Pierpont Morgan in 1912 (coll. website 14/7/2021, Musurillo 1956: p. 124).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 250
Collection website: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/350198

Notes/Discussion:

Grenfell & Hunt (1900: p. 30) consider 2 to be from a later hand than 3 and separated the contents of P. Amh. 3 into 3 parts. Musurillo (1956: p. 125) and Aland (1976: p. 111) agree. von Harnack (1900: p. 993) thinks that 3b might be a contemporary hand to 3a.
Musurillo (1956: p. 126) suggests the manuscript to be an amulet due to cutting, but this is doubted by Clivaz (2011: p. 51).

Wikipedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papyrus_12_-_Papyrus_Amherst_3b_-_Morgan_Library,_Pap._Gr._3_-_Epistle_to_the_Hebrews_1,1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_Amherst_3a

Bibiliography
Editions:

Comfort, Philip W., and David P. Barret. The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts. Michigan: Baker Publishing Group, 1999, p. 72.

Deissmann, Adolf. Licht vom Osten. Das Neue Testament und die neuentdeckten Texte der hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1923, p. 141.

Ghedini, Giuseppe. Lettere Cristiane dai Papiri Greci del III e IV secolo. Milano: Presso l’Amministrazione di Aegyptus, 1923, p. 65-77, no. 4.

Grenfell, Bernard P., and Arthur S. Hunt. The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Greek Papyri in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A. at Didlington Hall, Norfolk. The Ascension of Isaiah and other Theological Fragments. Vol. 1. London: Oxford University Press, 1900, p. 28-31, no. 3.

Jaroš, Karl. Das Neue Testament nach den ältesten griechischen Handschriften. Die handschriftliche griechische Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments vor Codex Sinaiticus und Codex Vaticanus. Ruhpolding-Mainz: Franz Philipp Rutzen, 2006, p. 4389-4391, no. 2.50.

Jaroš, Karl. Die ältesten griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments: Bearbeitete Edition und Übersetzung. Köln/Weimar/Wien: Böhlau, 2014, p. 761, no. 2.50.

Kiessling, Emil. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 6 (SB VI). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1963, p. 373-374, no. 9557.

Naldini, Mario. Il Christianesimo in Egitto. Florence: Le Monnier, 1968, no. 6.

Wilcken, Ulrich. Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde. Vol. 1. Historischer Teil: Zweite Hälfte. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1912, p. 153-154, no. 126.
Translations:

Guyot, Peter, and Richard Klein. Das frühe Christentum bis zum Ende der Verfolgungen: Eine Dokumentation. Vol. 2. Die Christen in der heidnischen Gesellschaft. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1994, p. 44-46. (German)

Musurillo, Herbert. “Early Christian Economy. A reconsideration of P. Amhert 3 (a) (= Wilcken, Chrest. 126).” Chronique d’Égypte 31 (1956): 124-134. (English)

Naldini, Mario. Il christianesimo in Egitto. Lettere private nei papiri dei secoli II-IV. Firenze: Nardini Editore, 1998, p. 79-85. (Italian)

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” In Patrologia orientalis 18.3, edited by René Graffin and François Nau. Paris: Librarie de Paris, 1924, p. 124-126. (French)
General:

Aland, Kurt. “Das Johannesevangelium auf Papyrus: Zum neu veröffentlichten Papyrus Bodmer II.” Forschungen Und Fortschritte 31 (1957): 50-55.

Aland, Kurt. “Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus.” In: Studien zur Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments und seines Textes. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1967, p. 91-136.

Aland, Kurt (ed.). Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri: 1. Biblische Papyri: Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1976, p. 111, no. 35.

Bludau, Aug. “Papyrusfragmente des neutestamentlichen Textes.” Biblische Zeitschrift 4 (1906): 25-38.

Clark, Kenneth W. A Descritptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1937, p. 170.

Clarysse, Willy, and Pasquale Orsini. “Early New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates. A Critique of Theological Palaeography.” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 88 (2012): 469.

Clivaz, Claire. “The New Testament at the Time of the Egyptian Papyri. Reflections Based on P12, P75 and P126 (P. Amh. 3b, P. Bod. XIV-XV and PSI 1497)” In: Reading New Testament Papyri in Context. Lire des Papyrus du Nouveau Testament dans leur Contexte, edited by Claire Clivaz and Jean Zumstein. Paris: Peeters, 2011, p. 45-51.

Cobern, Camden M. The New Archeological Discoveries. And their Bearing upon the New Testament and upon the Life and Times of the Primitive Church. New York/London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1917.

Comfort, Philip W. Early Manuscripts and Modern Translations of the New Testament. Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 1990.

Comfort, Philip W., and David P. Barret. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. New and Complete Transcriptions with Photographs. A corrected, enlarged Edition of The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts. Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2001.

Elliott, James K. A Survey of Manuscripts used in Editions of the Greek New Testament. Leiden/New York: E.J. Brill, 1987.

Jones, Brice C. New Testament Texts on Greek amulets from Late Antiquity. London: T&T Clark, 2016, p. 179-180, no. 363.5.

Krause, Gerhard, and Gerhard Müller. Theologische Realenzyklopädie. Bibel-Böhmen und Mähren. Vol. 6. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1980.

Maldfeld, G. “Die griechischen Handschriftenbruchstücke des Neuen Testamentes auf Papyrus.” Zeitschrift Für Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Und Die Kunde Der Älteren Kirche 42 (1949): 228-253.

Martinez, David G. “The Papyri and Early Christianity.” In: The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, edited by Roger S. Bagnall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 604.

Merell, Jan. Papyry: A Kritika Novozákonního Textu. Praze: Dedictvi Sv. Prokopa, 1939.

Michaelis, Johann D. Einleitung in die göttlichen Schriften des neuen Bundes. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Rupprecht, 1788.

Montevecchi, Orsolina. La papirologia. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1991, p. 319.

Rahlfs, Alfred. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 260-261, no. 912.

Rahlfs, Alfred. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen aufgetsellt. Berlin: Weidmann, 1914.

Roberts, Colin H. Manuscript, Society, and Belief in Early Christian Egypt. London: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Turner, Eric G. The Typology of the Early Codex. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977.

van Haelst, Joseph. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976, no. 3+536.

von Harnack, Adolf. Zu den Amherst-Papyri. Sitzungsberichte Der Königlich Preussischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften Zu Berlin. Berlin: Philosophisch-Historische Classe, 1900, p. 987.

Vogels, Heinrich J. Codicum Novi Testamenti Specimina. Bonnae: Hanstein, 1929.

Wachtel, Klaus, und Klaus Witte. Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus 2: Die paulinischen Briefe, Teil 2: Gal, Eph, Phil, Kol, 1 u. 2 Tim, Tit, Phlm, Hebr. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1994.

Trismegistos ID:

62312
14264

 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

536

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

155

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Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); ST (25/5/2021); ST (2/6/2021); ST (16/6/2021); KD (14/7/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1097," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1097. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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