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Papyrus 1189

Record Id:

040-002105280

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000a5

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143122704.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 1189

Title:

Possible Amulet with Christian Prayer (P.Lond.Lit. 230 descr., P.Oxy. III 407, TM 64310, LDAB 5531, Van Haelst 0952)

Scope & Content:

Recto: Christian prayer for protection and forgiveness of transgressions using Ps 145, 6a-b and Ps 50, 3b+11b, probably for personal use. Mid-3^rd to 4^th century.

Verso: Title of the text on the recto ('prayer') and a brief memorandum of some amounts in a separate cursive hand. Barker (2010) cautions against the classification of the text as an amulet.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105280

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1189 : Possible Amulet with Christian Prayer (P.Lond.Lit. 230 descr., P.Oxy. III 407, TM 64310, LDAB 5531, Van Haelst 0952)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0804]/040-002105280

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Papyrus sheet, complete, but damaged at the top and in the middle, with little text loss. There is writing on both sides along the fibres on the recto and against them on the verso. Text is well-preserved, but with white precipitations on the inner side of the glazings; original margins with deep lower margin (90 mm); recto: six and a half lines, verso: three lines; mounted in glass.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0200

End Date:

0399

Date Range:

3rd century-4th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: 157 x 45 mm.

Script: Elongated and ornate, although irregular, uncial hand; see P.Oxy. III 407, cf. too Don Barker (2010), p. 139. Verso: Cursive hand.

Custodial History:

Origin: Oxyrhynchus?, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.

Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1180-1199 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1903.

Former External References:

P.Lond.Lit. 230 descr.
P.Oxy. III 407

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1900-1905 (London: British Museum 1907), p. 443.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. III (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1903), pp. 12-13 no. 407.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 195, no. 230 descr.

C. Wessely, Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme écrits sur papyrus: textes grecs édités, traduits et annotés, vol. I (Paris: Firmin-Didot 1908), p.195, no. 21.

T. Schermann, Ägyptische Abendmahlsliturgien des ersten Jahrtausends in ihrer Überlieferung (Paderborn: Schöningh 1912), p. 197.

G. Ghedini, ‘Frammenti liturgici in un papiro milanese’, Aegyptus 13 (1933), pp. 667-673 (p. 672f. on the liturgical formula).

H. Leclercq, ‘Papyrus’, Dictionnaire d’ Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie 13 (1937), p. 1439.

F. Pedretti, ‘Papiri Cristiani Liturgici I’, Aegyptus 36 (1956), pp. 247-253.

J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), no. 952 (descr.).

A. Rahlfs, D. Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2004), p. 291, no. 407 (descr.).

D. Barker, ‘The reuse of Christian Texts’, in T. J. Kraus, T. Nicklas (edd.), Early Christian Manuscripts (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2010), p. 129-143 (pp. 138-140).

T. S. de Bruyn and J. H. F. Dijkstra, ‘Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Christian Elements’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011), pp. 163-216 (pp. 212-213).

L. H. Blumell, T. A. Wayment, Christian Oxyrhynchus. Texts, Documents and Sources (Waco: Baylor University Press 2015), pp. 325-326, no. 88.

Metadata provided by the 2018 Heidelberg Research Webinar on BL Greek Papyri, funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg and taught by R. Ast and L. Berkes.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

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