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Papyrus 120 (3)
- Record Id:
- 040-003936364
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00031c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147464504.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 120 (3)
- Title:
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Hymn to the Nile, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and Psalm (P.Lond.Lit. 239, TM 62209, LDAB 3369, MP3 2479.010)
- Scope & Content:
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Miniature parchment codex containing a hymn to the Nile with a prayer for the flood, followed by the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed and Psalm 132 (133). Possibly used as an amulet or portable prayer book.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003936364 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 120 (3) : Hymn to the Nile, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and Psalm (P.Lond.Lit. 239, TM 62209, LDAB 3369, MP3 2479.010) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0038]/040-003936364
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Nine leaves from a miniature parchment codex, darkened in places, otherwise overall well preserved; with writing on both sides except for the first and last leaves, which are written on one side only. Housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147464504.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0699
- Date Range:
- 6th century-7th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: Leaf: 68 x 45 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 230 x 225 mm.
Script: Rough and irregular hand, non-ligatured, with cursive traits.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 120(1-4) from the Reverend Greville John Chester (b. 1830, d. 1892) on 18 June 1887.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 239
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1882-1887 (London: British Museum, 1889), p. 328.
Frederic G. Kenyon, Greek Papyri in the British Museum, I (London: British Museum, 1893), p. xix, no. 120(3) descr.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1927), pp. 200-04, no. 239.
Danielle Bonneau, La crue du Nil, divinité égyptienne, à travers mille ans d'histoire (332 av.- 641 ap. J.-C.), d'après les auteurs grecs et latins et les documents des époques ptolémaïque, romaine et byzantine (Paris: Klincksieck, 1964), pp. 410-13, with plate IXb.
Napthali Lewis, ‘Notationes Legentis’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 19 (1982), 71-82 (p. 76).
Joseph van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976), no. 938 descr.
Danielle Bonneau, ‘Les courants d'eau d'Isis (P. Lond. Lit. 239)’, in Miscellània papirològica Ramon Roca-Puig en el seu vuitantè aniversari (Barcelona: Fundació Salvador Vives Casajuana, 1987), pp. 89-96.
Alfred Rahlfs, Detlef Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2004), p. 215, no. 2171 descr.
Theodore S. De Bruyn, Jitse H. F. Dijkstra, ‘Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements: A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets’, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 48 (2011), 163-216 (pp. 210-11 no. 170 descr.).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)