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Manchester, John Rylands Library Suppl. 50 |
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Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-11: Letter of Jesus to Abgar (applied amulet for healing and protection?) (Coptic) |
Form: | Tablet |
Material: | Wood |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 11 | Width: 44 | Depth: 1 |
Dimensions (notes): | Giversen (1959: p. 78); PAThs (18/8/2020). |
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State of preservation: | Incomplete, fragment. |
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Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto with 11 lines, 1 column verso with 1 line. |
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Findspot: | Oxyrynchites, Egypt (TM places ID: 2722) |
Place of purchase: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Writingspot: | Oxyrynchites, Egypt (TM places ID: 2722) |
Present Location: | Manchester, John Rylands Library |
Collection History: | Acquired in Egypt in 1917 by J. Rendel Harris, together with other Coptic, Demotic and Arabic manuscripts for the Manchester library (Giversen 1959: p. 71). |
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Collection website: | https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/ManchesterDev~93~3 |
Notes/Discussion: | Pierced by two holes on the bottom of the long side, Giversen suggests it was not portable but fixed, as well as the content of the text (Giversen 1959: p. 78) – see KYP T1230, l. 9. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Giversen, Søren. “Ad Abgarem: The Sahidic Version of the Letter of Abgar on a Wooden Tablet.” Acta Orientalia 24 (1959): 71-82. |
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General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième journée dàétudes (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: | 111687 |
PAThs: | 4564 |
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Edit History: | KD (13/2/2019); MPS (15/5/2019); EL (1/8/2019); MPS (18/8/2020) |