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TM 107748 / LDAB 107748 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/107748

previously also TM 92873 (double)

Metadata

Date: 4th century AD: AD 300 - 399

Provenance: Nag' Hammadi - Egypt (7th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Coptic (Sahidic dialect) (paleography: Alexandrian stylistic class (cf. P. Orsini, Oltre la scrittura, Dossiers byzantins 8 (2008), p. 103))

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: codex (70 fol.); columns per page: 1; highest page number: 133; number of lines per page: 30-33

Content (beta!): magical: initiation ritual with prayers, hynms, invocations (from the narrative "Zostrianus)

Authors / works: Zostrianus, Oracles of Truth (Coptic): with end title (direct attestation)
Petrus, Epistula ad Philippum (Coptic): with initial title (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature, religion — prose, theology, apocalyptic, magic, letter (religion: christian, gnostic)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

More info: 4CARE/DEChriM4th century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt / Deconstructing Early Christian Metanarratives => 1338 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, PAThs (CLM)Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature => 437 links in TM, other

Publications

Nagel, Codex apocryphus gnosticus Novi Testamenti 2 p. 39-65 (Nagel, Peter - 2023)
&The facsimile edition of the Nag Hammadi codices. Codex 8 (Farid, Shafik / e.a. - 1976) [default]

∙Bethge, Der Brief des Petrus an Philippus (Texte und Untersuchungen 141) (Bethge, Hans-Gebhard - 1997)

∙Meyer / Smith, Ancient Christian magic. Coptic texts of ritual power 42 (Smith, Richard - 1994; NHC 8, p. 1, l. 1-p. 132, l. 9 in short extraxts)

∙Sieber, Nag Hammadi Codex 8 (Nag Hammadi Studies 31) (Layton, Bentley / Meyer, Marvin M. / Sieber, John H. / Wisse, Frederik - 1991)

Photo: Facsimile edition

Collections

→ Cairo, Coptic Museum 10550

∙Cairo, Coptic Museum Nag Hamm. codex 8 (parallel)

Archive

Nag Hammadi Library

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