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TM 61921 / LDAB 3078 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/61921

also known as Rahlfs L; L; Vienna Genesis

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Metadata

Date: first half 6th century AD: AD 500 - 550

Provenance: Antiocheia (Antakya) ? - Turkey (SyriaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - SyriaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]
or Palestina (1568) (?)

Language/script: Greek, drawing (paleography: biblical majuscule)

Material: parchment (purpureus)

Completely preserved

Book form: codex purpureus (24 fol.); columns per page: 1; number of lines per page: 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

Authors / works: Testamentum vetus (Septuaginta), Genesis (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, bible (religion: christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

Note: illustrated with drawings (painted)

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM, other

Publications

Zimmermann e.a., Die Wiener Genesis. Bildgewaltiges Erbe der frühen Christenheid (Zimmermann, Barbara / Gastgeber, Christian / Hofmann, Christa - 2019; facsimile edition with Kommentarband) [default]

∙Mazal, Die älteste Purpurhandschrift der Welt. Kommentar zur Wiener Genesis. Faksimile-Ausgabe des codex theol. gr. 31 (Mazal, Otto - 1980)

∙Gerstinger, Die Wiener Genesis (Gerstinger, Hans - 1931)

∙Rahlfs / Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments L (p. 442-443) descr. (Rahlfs, Alfred / Fraenkel, Detlef - 2004) (= catalogue only)

Photo: Palaeogr. Society I (1873-1893), pl.178; G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (1967), pl.86-87; G. Cavallo - H.Maehler, Greek Bookhands, pl.29; B. Zimmermann, Die Wiener Genesis im Rahmen der antiken Buchmalerei, (72 plates, of which 8 in colour); K. Weitzmann, Late antique and early christian book illumination, London 1977, pl. 23-28 (colour); Die Wiener Genesis. Bildgewaltiges Erbe der frühen Christenheid (facsimile edition)

Script & book studies: B. Zimmermann, Die Wiener Genesis im Rahmen der antiken Buchmalerei, Wiesbaden 2003 (on the illustrations)

Collections

→ Vienna, Nationalbibliothek Cod. theol. Gr. 31

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