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TM 108136 / LDAB 108136 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/108136

also known as Bruce Codex

previously also TM 92856 (double), TM 107928 (double)

Metadata

Date: AD 350 - 449

Provenance: Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west), Medinet Habu, bought - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Upper Egypt ? - Egypt (UThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Coptic (Sahidic dialect) , drawing (paleography: uncial hand)

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (31 fol.); columns per page: 1

Content (beta!): magical: spell for ascending of the soul through the heavens, with voces magicae

Culture & genre: literature — prose, apocryphon + poetry, hymns - magic, liturgy (religion: christian, gnostic)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

Reuse type: in the codex joined with: TM 107927

Reuse note: also bound with Arabic and Ethiopian texts

Note: with drawings

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM, PAThs (CLM)Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature => 437 links in TM

Publications

Schmidt / MacDermot, The Books of Jeu and the untitled text in the Bruce codex (Nag Hammadi Studies 13) p. 213-317 (Schmidt, Carl / Macdermot, Violet - 1978) [default]

∙Meyer / Smith, Ancient Christian magic. Coptic texts of ritual power 39 (Smith, Richard - 1994)

∙Baynes, A Coptic gnostic treatise contained in the codex Brucianus Bruce Ms. 96 Bod. Lib. Oxford (Baynes, C. A. A. - 1933)

∙Schmidt, Gnostische Schriften in koptischer Sprache aus dem Codex Brucianus (Texte und Untersuchungen 8) p. 226-277 (Schmidt, Carl - 1892)

∙Amélineau, Notice sur le papyrus gnostique Bruce p. 65-305 [untitled text] (Amélineau, Émile - 1891)

Photo: Baynes, A Coptic gnostic treatise, Cambridgd 1933

Script & book studies: joined in one codex with TM 107927

Collections

→ Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Bruce 96 (Bruce codex) [untitled text]

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    TM 108136

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