Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. Inv. 6213 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-Vo ll. 2: Letter of Jesus to Abgar |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | Sullivan, Wilfong 2005: p. 112. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
401 – 600 |
| Date notes: | TM (21/11/18); Sullivan and Wilfong 2005: p. 112; 601-900 (Online Catalogue 21/11/18) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2702/6213r.tif & http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2702/6213v.tif |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 7.3 | Width: 13.2 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Online Catalogue (21/11/18) |
| Folding pattern: | Traces of vertical and horizontal creases (Sullivan, Wilfong 2005: p. 112). |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary. Top and right broken off. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each recto and verso, 8 lines recto, 2 verso. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
| Collection History: | Purchased in Egypt during the season 1931/1932 (Online Catalogue). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Collection website: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis?type=boolean&view=reslist&rgn1=apis_inv&select1=regex&from=index&q1=6213 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Recto: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2702/6213r.tif Sullivan and Wilfong suggests that the layout resembles a documentary letter (Sullivan and Wilfong 2005: p. 107). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Sullivan, Kevin P. and Terry G. Wilfong. “The Reply of Jesus to King Abgar: A Coptic New Testament Apocryphon Reconsidered (P.Mich. Inv. 6213).” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP) 42 (2005): p. 111-114. |
| Translations: | Haelewyck, Jean-Claude and Maurice Geerard (eds.). Claves apocryphorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, p. 68, no. 88.14. |
| General: | Abd al-Masih, Yassah. “An unedited Bohairic letter of Abgar [1].” Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 45 (1946), p. 25-26. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 108581 |
PAThs: | 4673 |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
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AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | EL (21/11/2018); MPS (24/9/2019); KD (31/1/2020); MPS (27/8/2020) |