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TM 100023 / LDAB 100023 Record to be adopted by: you?

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also known as Leiden Anastasy codex

previously also TM 108482 (double)

Metadata

Date: AD 575 - 799

Provenance: Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west) ? - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Coptic (Sahidic dialect) / Greek

Coptic text with pseudo-Hebrew quotations

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (8 fol.); columns per page: 1; highest page number: 17; number of lines per page: 27, 28, 29

Content (beta!): magical: handbook with spells for different purposes with voces magicae - including prayer of Gregorius of Nazianze, correspondence between Christ and Abgar, list of 7 sleepers of Ephesos and 40 martyrs of Sebaste, incipit of the 4 gospels and psalm 090

Authors / works: Quadraginta martyres Sebastae (direct attestation)
Abgar, Correspondence with Jesus (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Matthaeus (Coptic), Evangelium secundum Matthaeum: 1.1 (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Marcus (Coptic), Evangelium secundum Marcum: 1.1 (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Lucas (Coptic), Evangelium secundum Lucam: 1.1 (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Iohannes (Coptic), Evangelium secundum Iohannem: 1.1 (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Coptic), Psalmi: 090 (direct attestation)
Testamentum vetus (Coptic), Psalmi: 090 (quoted)

Culture & genre: religion, literature — divination, magic, recipes, medicine, manual, prayer, amulet, curse, exorcism, prose, prayer, letter, list, gospel (religion: christian, gnostic, jewish, Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

Note: amulet - duplicate in BKU 1 19 (TM 63026); binding preserved

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

Papyri Copticae magicae (PCM) 1 11 (2023) [default]

∙Pernigotti, Testi della magia copta 37 - 38 (2000)

∙ANRW II 18.5 p. 3700-3701 no. 4 (Pernigotti, Sergio - 1995; translation of 9, 11, 6 - vo 12, 26 only)

∙ANRW II 18.5 p. 3701 no. 5 (Pernigotti, Sergio - 1995; translation of 9, 13 - vo. 13, 21 only)

∙ANRW II 18.5 p. 3702-3704 no. 7 (Pernigotti, Sergio - 1995; translation of 9, 8, 13 - 11,5 only)

∙Meyer / Smith, Ancient Christian magic. Coptic texts of ritual power 134 (Smith, Richard - 1994)

∙Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 2 27 (Kropp, Angelicus M. - 1931; vo. 13, 22-15, 21 only)

∙Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 2 45 (Kropp, Angelicus M. - 1931; 1, 1-8, 12 only (Prayer of Gregorius))

∙Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 2 63 b (Kropp, Angelicus M. - 1931; translation of vo 15, l. 1-22 only)

∙Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 2 46 (Kropp, Angelicus M. - 1931; 8, 13 ro -11, 5 vo only (Prayer of Gregorius))

∙Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 2 22 (Kropp, Angelicus M. - 1931; 11, 6-vo. 12, 26 only)

∙Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 2 23 (Kropp, Angelicus M. - 1931; 13, 1 Ro - 13, 21 Vo only)

∙Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 2 64 a (Kropp, Angelicus M. - 1931; 15, 22-27 only and graffito on the burial chapel / church of Faras)

∙Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 2 23 [list of the seven sleepers only] (Kropp, Angelicus M. - 1931; cf. for the list of the seven sleepers only)

∙Pleyte / Boeser, Manuscrits coptes du Musée d'Antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leiden p. 441-479 (Pleyte, Willem / Boeser, Pieter Adrian Art - 1897)

∙Geerard, Clavis apocryphorum Novi Testamenti p. 67 no. 88.1 (Geerard, M. - 1992) (= catalogue only)

Photo: Pleyte / Boeser, Manuscrits coptes, p. 471; Boud'hors in: From gnostics to monastics (OLA 263), 2017, p. 205

Content studies: J. Chapa, I papiri letterari cristiani, Studi e Testi di Papirologia NS 13 (2011), p. 89 no. 34; translation in M. Meyer - R. Smith, Ancient christian magic, 1994, p. 311-322

Other bibliography: Kropp, Ausgewählte Koptische Zaubertexte 3 p. 210

Collections

→ Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities P. Anastasi 9

∙Alexandria, Private collection d’Anastasi / Anastasy 9 (previous)

TM 100023 / LDAB 100023 Record to be adopted by: you?

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