Text 1391

Provenance
unknown
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Museum no.
MS Or. Quart 1020
Medium
manuscript: codex
Technique
painted
Type of text
literary
Language
Old Nubian
Content
Stauros-Text
Date
probably 900–1099
Notes
 
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
H: ca. 12; W: ca. 9
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
cream & brown
Text colour
black with red elements (title, words 'cross' and 'Petrosi', some phrases, punctuation)
Lines
9–13
Height of letters
 
Description
4 continuous quires (36 pages); 1st quire consists of 3 double leaves; 2nd of 2 double leaves with single leaf inserted, 3rd of 3 double leaves, and 4th of 2 double leaves; pagination in upper margin
Decorative elements
on top of p. 1 guilloche ornament painted red, yellow, green, and brown; on inside of covering leaf painting of richly robed figure painted in red, green, black, and yellow; on lower margin of pp. 21 and 25 chalice painted black and red; red ink used for title, some words and phrases, punctuation, and filling of loops of letter phi
State of preservation
incomplete; margins generally in good state, some pages with numerous lacunae
Date
probably 900–1099
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
choiakishshil ([ⲭ]ⲟⲓⲁⲕⲉⲕ̄ϣⲓ): p. 34, l. 1; (ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ[ⲉ]ⲕ̄ϣⲓ) p. 35, l. 11–p. 36, l. 1
eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): p. 34, l. 2
ngeshsh of Atwa (ⲁ̇ⲧⲟⲩⲁⲛ ⳟⲉϣϣ): p. 34, ll. 3–4
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Atwa (ⲁ̇ⲧⲟⲩⲁ): p. 34, l. 3
(Church of) Jesus at Serra-East (ⲥⲉⲣⲣⲉⲛ ⲙⲁⲧⲧⲟⲛ ⲓ̈ⲏ̇ⲥⲟⲩⲥⲥⲓ): p. 34, l. 11 – p. 35, l. 1
Serra-East (ⲥⲉⲣⲣⲉⲛ ⲙⲁⲧⲧⲟⲛ): p. 34, ll. 11–12
Source
Griffith 1913, pl. 2
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Browne 2004b, pp. 14–20
Other editions
Griffith 1913, pp. 4–6, 41–53, pl. 2; Zyhlarz 1928, pp. 155–169; Browne 1983e, pp. 75–119, pls. after pp. 88, 98; Browne 1989a, pp. 22–29, 85–87
Other publications
Schäfer – Schmidt 1906, pp. 774–785; Junker 1906, passim; Schäfer – Schmidt 1907, pp. 606–612; Kraus 1930, pp. 33–36; Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, pp. 176, 204; Vantini 1970, pp. 119–121; Müller 1975, pp. 95–100; Dinkler 1975, pp. 29–30; Rostkowska 1982, p. 210 (transcription and translation of colophon); Browne 1989c, pp. 72–73; Łajtar 1992a, p. 123 (no. 3); Browne 1992b, p. 32; Browne 1994b, p. 82; Browne 1994e, p. 258; Browne 1995a, pp. 455, 456; Browne 1998c, pp. 5–7; Browne 1999, p. 267; Browne 2000a, pp. 35–36; Emmel 2003, pp. 23–28; Emmel 2005, pp. 86–87; Brakmann 2006, p. 291; Vantini 2009, p. 150; Piovanelli 2012, passim; Van Gerven Oei 2014, passim; Weber-Thum – Weschenfelder 2015, p. 303; Van Gerven Oei 2015b, passim; Tsakos 2016, p. 641 photos at http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN724274057&PHYSID=PHYS_0001
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