Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Laur. IV 141 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | Original use (?): 1. Ro ll. 1-11: Psalm LXX 90.1-6; perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection. Re-use 1 (?): 2. Ro ll. 1-8: Contract between Aurelios Iohannes and Aurelios Philoxenos; final line written at 180 degrees to the rest; perhaps separate text (writing exercise) Re-use 2 (?): 3. Vo l. 1: Documentary text, preserving consular date |
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. | 484 – 486 |
Date notes: | Pintaudi, based on consular date of text 3 (1979: p. 51); Rupprecht & Hengstl (1985: p. 239). 5th century CE: Pintaudi (1979: p. 51); Rupprecht & Hengstl (1985: p. 239); de Bruyn & Dijsktra (2011: p. 210). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | http://www.psi-online.it/images/orig/P.%20Laur.%20IV%20141%20r.jpg?1401531065 |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 26.7 | Width: 14.3 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Pintaudi (1979: p. 50); Cavallo & Maehler (1987: p. 46); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p 211); Chapa (2011: p. 88). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Incomplete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 columns recto (↓), 11 and 8 lines, and 1 column verso (→), 4 lines. Recto column 2 is written at 90 degrees to recto; last line of recto column 2 is written at 180 degrees to the rest of the text. |
Hand: | Small, upright, angular, laboured |
Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 128 |
Collection website: | http://www.psi-online.it/documents/plaur;4;141 |
Notes/Discussion: | Cavallo & Maehler (1987: p. 46) state that all of the three texts were from the same scribe. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Pintaudi, Rosario. Dai Papiri della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Vol. 4. Florence: Libreria Gonnelli, 1983, p. 33-34, no. 141. |
Translations: | |
General: | Cavallo, G., and H. Maehler. Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period A.D. 300-800. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1987, p. 46-47, no. 19b. |
Trismegistos ID: | 62075 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | ||||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 169 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (25/10/2019); ST (28/6/2021); KD (3/8/2021); KD (29/9/2021) |