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KYPRIANOS M652

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

Oslo University Library P. 1661
Papyrus 62
Gregory-Aland P62
Gregory-Aland 62
NT62

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Biblical
Liturgical (lectionary ?) (?)

Contents:

1. p. 2-11 ll. 1-62: Gospel of Matthew 11.25-30 (Greek)
2. p. 11-18 ll. 63-111: Gospel of Matthew 11.25-30 (Coptic)
3. p. 19-26 ll. 116-171: Daniel 3.50-55 (Song of the Three Holy Children) (Greek)

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Language(s):

Greek
Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Greek
Coptic

Dialect:

Akhmimic

Language/dialect notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 408). See related texts for further notes.

Date: question mark icon 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: question mark icon 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: question mark icon 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: question mark icon 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.

Comfort, Phillip W. Early manuscripts & modern translations of the New Testament. Wheaton (Illinois): Tyndale House Publishers, 1990.

Jaroš, Karl. Die ältesten griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments: bearbeitete Edition und Übersetzung. Köln: Böhlau, 2014.


Translations:
General:

Aland, Kurt. Das Johannesevangelium auf Papyrus: zum neu veröffentlichten Papyrus Bodmer II. Forschungen Und Fortschritte 31 (1957): 50-55.

Aland, Kurt. Zur Liste der Neutestamentlichen Handschriften VI. Zeitschrift Für Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Und Die Kunde Der Älteren Kirche 41 (1957): 141-191.

Aland, Kurt. Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus. In Studien zur Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments und seines Textes. Berlin – New York, 1967, p. 91-136.

Aland, Kurt (ed.). Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri: 1. Biblische Papyri: Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Berlin – New York: W. de Gruyter, 1976.

Elliott, J. K. (1987). A Survey of Manuscripts Used in Editions of the Greek New Testament. Brill Archive.

Head, P. M. (1990). Observations on Early Papyri of the Synoptic Gospels, especially on the “Scribal Habits.” Biblica: Commentarii Periodici Pontificii Institutii Biblici, 71, 240–247.

Janzcuk, Leszek. Tekst Nowego Testamentu Rękopisy greckie, przekłady I tysiąclecia, tekst drukowany, 2009, p. 26, no. 62. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/28690682/Tekst_Nowego_Testamentu

Jaroš, Karl. (2006). Das Neue Testament nach den ältesten griechischen Handschriften. Die handschriftliche griechische Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments vor Codex Sinaiticus und Codex Vaticanus. Ruhpolding-Mainz: Franz Philipp Rutzen.

Kraus, T. J. (2007). Ad fontes: Original Manuscripts and Their Significance for Studying Early Christianity-Selected Essays. Leiden [u.a.]: Brill.

Rahlfs, Alfred., & Fraenkel, Detlef (2004). Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Bd. 1,1 (Vol. 1,1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Simon J. Gathercole. (2013). The Titles of the Gospels in the Earliest New Testament Manuscripts. Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 104(1), 33–76.


Trismegistos ID:

61839

PAThs: 939
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”

302

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

359

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

182

TheDefix: question mark icon 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)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M652," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m652. Accessed on 29/03/2024

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