TM 59994
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also known as Codex visionum; Codex Bodmer des Visions; KV19; KV30; Bodmer Codex of Visions
TM Gallery info The Bodmer Codex of Visions (TM 59994) is a Greek papyrus codex acquired from a Cypriot dealer in 1956 by Martin Bodmer. It is still kept in his foundation in Cologny (Switzerland) today. Dated to the 5th century and probably from Akhmim in Egypt, it contains about 10 early christian poems, and the now apocryph composition The Shepherd of Hermas. But it is most famous for the Vision of Dorotheus, a poetic composition in Homeric style in which a certain Dorotheus describes his ascent to the Kingdom of Heaven, portrayed in highly imperial fashion.
Provenance: Panopolis (Akhmim) ? - Egypt (9th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Egypt - Egypt (N/AThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]
Language/script: Greek (paleography: biblical majuscule (A-D), mixed style (E, F) (cf. P. Orsini))
Material: papyrus
Incompletely preserved
Book form: codex (22 fol. = 11 bifol.); columns per page: 1; number of lines per page: 37-45
Content (beta!): vision of Dorotheos; poem ad Abraham; speech to the righteous; eulogy to lord Jesus; Cain's words; the lord to those who suffer; Abel's words; hexametric poem on last judgment; hymn; 3 poems are acrostic
Culture & genre: literature — anthology, poetry, lyric, hymns + prose (religion: christian)
Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo
More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM
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