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Egerton Papyrus 5
- Record Id:
- 040-001982507
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001982502
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000116.0x00010c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142973864.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton Papyrus 5
- Title:
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Liturgical Book? (TM 64581, LDAB 5811)
- Scope & Content:
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One leaf of papyrus codex containing prayers on healing, forgiveness, and acceptance of prayers, with numbering at the top of the page. The codex might have served as a liturgical book; whether it is Christian or Jewish is debated. On the side written along the fibres some Coptic text was added in the upper and lower margins, containing a list of sprigs, perhaps from a magical recipe.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Papyri Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001982502
040-001982507 - Is part of:
- Egerton Papyrus 1-37 : Egerton Papyri
Egerton Papyrus 5 : Liturgical Book? (TM 64581, LDAB 5811) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001982502[0005]/040-001982507
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Egerton Papyrus 1-37
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Leaf of a papyrus codex, slightly damage throughout, with holes and strips of fibres missing in places. Writing is on both sides; the side written across the fibres comes first, as indicated by the number A (=1) at the top of the page; the other side, with writing along the fibres, is numbered as B (=2). Each side contains a column of 17 lines. In the upper and lower margin of the side written along the fibres, Coptic text was added at a later stage in different ink. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100142973864.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Coptic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Coptic
Greek - Start Date:
- 0350
- End Date:
- 0450
- Date Range:
- 4th century-5th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 190 x 168 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 230 x 220 mm.
Script: Greek text: Sloping and thin book hand, with some enlarged letters and a tendency for some verticals to descend below the writing line. Diaeresis occurs.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Bought with a lot comprising Egerton Papyri 2-31 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) by the British Museum on 28 July 1934, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829)).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Christ. 4
- Publications:
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H. I. Bell, T. C. Skeat, Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and Other Early Christian Papyri (London: The Trustees of the British Museum 1935), pp. 58-60, no. 4.
J. Wahrhaftig, ‘A Jewish Prayer in a Greek Papyrus’, Journal of Theological Studies 40 (1939), pp. 376-381.
H. Leclercq, ‘Papyrus’, in Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie. Tome XIII (Paris: Letouzey et Ané 1937), pp. 1370-1520 (p. 1474).
A. Marmorstein, ‘The Oldest Form of the Eighteen Benedictions’, Jewish Quarterly Review 34 (1943/1944), pp. 137-159.
E. J. Bickerman, ‘The Civic Prayer for Jerusalem’, The Harvard Theological Review 55 (1962), pp. 163-185 (p. 169 n. 28).
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), p. 300, no. 921 descr.
E. G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), p. 142 and passim.
C. H. Roberts, Manuscript, Society and Belief in Early Christian Egypt (London: Oxford University Press 1979), p. 78.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period A.D. 300 – 800, Bulletin Supplement (University of London. Institute of Classical Studies) 47 (1987), pp. 36-37, no. 14b.
M. Lattke, Hymnus. Materialien zu einer Geschichte der antiken Hymnologie (Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1991), p. 265.
P. W. van der Horst, ‘Neglected Greek Evidence for Early Jewish Liturgical Prayer’, Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period 29 (1998), pp. 278-296.
P. W. van der Horst, ‘Papyrus Egerton 5: Christian or Jewish?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 121 (1998), pp. 173-182.
P. W. van der Horst, Japheth in the tents of Shem: studies on Jewish Hellenism in antiquity (Leuven; Sterling, VA: Peeters 2002), pp. 39-54.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)