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KYPRIANOS M1099

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

P. Beatty XIV
P. Chester Beatty XIV
Dublin, Chester Beatty Library P. Bibl. 14

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Biblical (Old Testament, Psalms)
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
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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. 301 – 400
Date notes:

de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 208); Pietersma (1978: p. 5).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

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: question mark icon 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: question mark icon 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.

Pietersma, Albert. Two Manuscripts of the Greek Psalter in the Chester Beatty Library Dublin. Rome: Bibliblical Institute Press, 1978, pp. 1-2, 5-6, 36-39.
Translations:
General:

Nongbri, Brent. God’s Library. The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018, p. 176.

Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 105-106, no. 2150.

Robinson, James M. The Story of the Bodmer Papyri: From the First Monaster’s Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin. Cambridge: James Clark & Co., 2013, p. 71.

Trismegistos ID:

62000

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

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Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); ST (6/6/2021); ST (9/6/2021); KD (19/7/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1099," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1099. Accessed on 25/04/2024

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