Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Oslo University Library P. 1661 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) (?) |
Contents: | 1. p. 2-11 ll. 1-62: Gospel of Matthew 11.25-30 (Greek) |
Language(s): | Greek |
Script(s): | Greek |
Dialect: | Akhmimic |
Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 408). See related texts for further notes. |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 301 – 400 |
Date notes: | TM (10/10/2018) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_P62 |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.6 | Width: 5.6 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions; dimensions of the surviving fragments vary. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary, 26 pages surviving of perhaps 52 pages in total. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 25 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 26 surviving pages, 25 pages with 1 column. Perhaps 52 pages in total (Amundsen 1945: p. 126). |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Oslo, University Library |
Collection History: | Acquired by Prof. Jens Lieblein (1827-1911) on one of his visits to Egypt (between 1869 and 1903). Then belonged to Dr. A Fonahn, transferred to Oslo University Library after his death in 1940 (Amundsen 1945: p. 125). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 262 |
Collection website: | http://ub-fmserver.uio.no/home.php |
Notes/Discussion: | As a miniature codex it may have been used as an amulet, or as a lectionary (Amundsen 1945: p. 136). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Amundsen, Leiv. “Christian Papyri from the Oslo Collection.” Symbolae Osloenses 24 (1945): 121-140. |
Translations: | |
General: | Aland, Kurt. Das Johannesevangelium auf Papyrus: zum neu veröffentlichten Papyrus Bodmer II. Forschungen Und Fortschritte 31 (1957): 50-55. |
Trismegistos ID: | 61839 |
PAThs: | 939 |
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” | 302 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | |||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 359 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 182 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (10/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (1/10/2019); KD (5/2/2020); MPS (20/8/2020); EL (8/9/2020); KD (29/9/2021) |