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British Library MS Or 4919 (2) |
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Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-21: Letter of Jesus to Abgar incipit and incipits of Gospels. |
Form: | Rotulus |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.7 | Width: 1.6 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Sanzo 2012: p. 98. 1.6 cm margin at bottom. |
Folding pattern: | 11 horizontal creases (EL from autopsy on 19/12/2019); “Several horizontal creases and at least one vertical” (Sanzo 2012: p. 98); “Originally folded and used” (Crum 1905: p. 141) |
State of preservation: | Complete, in 4 fragments. |
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Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (hair side), 21 lines. |
Hand: | Sloping script (Sanzo 2012: p. 98) |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | London, British Library |
Collection History: | Acquired by the British Library in 1895 (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/2019) |
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Notes/Discussion: | Parallels in P. Berol. 22235; Sanzo(2012: p. 100 n. 12) suggests this may indicate a shared provenance. Catalogued together with Or 4916-4928 (4924 and 4925 being Arabic) (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/2019) Framed with 4918 (according to British Library Reference Enquiries), manuscript = Or.4919(3) and should be ordered as Or.4918, but not in frame (Or.4918 = “GSA1”) that arrives when ordering Or.4919(3), but frame “GSA1” arrived which houses 4916(2); (3); (9); (8); (4); 4918 (2); (6); 4918c; 4917 (4); 4916 (7); 4917 (1); 4916 (5); 4917 (6); 4919 (4); 4920 (10) (EL 17/12/2019) Frame “GSA1” |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Sanzo, Joseph E. “Brit. Lib. Or. 4919(2): An Unpublished Coptic Amulet in the British Library.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 183 (2012): 98-100. |
Translations: | Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Microtheologies behind the Biblical Amulets.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 49 (2019): 274-275. |
General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193. |
Trismegistos ID: | 112657 |
PAThs: | 1700 |
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Edit History: | MPS (1/2/2019); EL (14/6/2019); EL (4/12/2019); EL (19/12/2019); KD (7/1/2020); MPS (1/9/2020); EL (2/9/2020); MPS (12/1/2022), JS (6/4/2022) |