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KYPRIANOS M1691

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

P. Amst. I 24
P. Amsterdam Inv. Nr. 198
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 26216

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

Liturgical (hymns)

Contents:

1. p. 1 ll. 1-12: Romanus Melodus, Second Kontakion on the Nativity (Canticle 2), strophes 6 and 8.
2. p. 2. ll. 13-23: Unidentified Greek text.

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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:

TM (30/09/2022), following Mihálykó 2019: p. 317, who dates palaeographically to the sixth or seventh century.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/209767

Form:

Codex

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.5 Width: 9.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Mihálykó 2019: p. 317.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary; one surviving fragmentary sheet of a codex. right and lower margin of recto preserved, other margins lost; contains many holes (Brunner 1993: p. 185)

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):

On p. 1 there is a right margin 3.5 cm and a bottom margin of more than 3 cm (Salomons/Sijpesteijn/Worp 1980: p. 48).

Hand:

Aland compares the writing style (sloping majuscule) to Cavallo-Maehler, nos. 39 and 42 and Schubart, Griechische Paläographie, figs. 100 and 101; he notes several characteristica of this writing style (Aland 1995: p. 564).

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Collection History:

Formerly belonged to the Amsterdam University Library (collection website 21/12/2022).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00001932

Notes/Discussion:

Misidentified in Trismegistos as parchment (21/12/2022).

The scribe wrote the text continuously, not colometrically (i.e., with one text unit on each line; Brunner 1993: p. 185)

Bibiliography
Editions:

Brunner, Theodore F. “P. Amst. I 24: A Romanus Melodus Papyrus”. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 96 (1993): 185-189.

Salomons, Robert P., Pieter J. Sijpesteijn, and Klaas A. Worp. Die Amsterdamer Papyri Vol. 1. Studia Amstelodamensia ad epigraphicam, ius antiquum et papyrologicam pertinentia XIV. Zutphen: Terra, 1980, p. 48, no. 24 [image Tafel XI].

Schefzyk, Jürgen. Alles echt. Älteste Belege zur Bibel aus Ägypten. Mainz am Rhein: Zabern, 2006, p. 130, no. 69.


Translations:
General:

Aland, Kurt (ed.). Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri II, 1: Kirchenväter-Papyri. Berlin – New York: De Gruyter, 1995, p. 563-567, no. 86.

Mihálykó, Ágnes T. The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 186, 267, 317, no. 128.

Noret, Jacques and Maurice Geerard. Clavis Patrum Graecorum. A Cyrillo Alexandrino ad Iohannem Damascenum Vol. 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003, p. 415, no. 7570.


Trismegistos ID:

62685

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

1120

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

Imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019): JS (10/1/2022); JS (25/3/2022); JS (30/9/2022); KD (21/12/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1691," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1691. Accessed on 28/03/2024

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