Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Amst. I 24 |
Category: 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. |
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 – 700 |
Date notes: | TM (30/09/2022), following Mihálykó 2019: p. 317, who dates palaeographically to the sixth or seventh century. |
Archive/collection: 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: 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: 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. |
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. |
Trismegistos ID: | 62685 |
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 | 1120 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: 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) |