Text 712

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
cathedral (church 293), nave, in dust above pavement
Excavation no.
 
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
EA71305
Medium
manuscript: leaf
Technique
painted
Type of text
literary: apocryphal
Language
Old Nubian
Content
fragment of Liber Institutionis Michaelis Archangeli
Date
1000–1199
Notes
Browne 1990a is in fact editio princeps prepared for the first time in 1984, but published only 6 years later
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
H: 18.8; W: 13.3
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black; red (i, ll. 1, 15, 19, 20; ii, ll. 4, 12, 18, 19, 22)
Lines
i: 22; ii: 22
Height of letters
 
Description
fragment of leaf; pagination preserved in upper margin; name of Archangel Michael written in red ink
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
two pieces of one leaf; fragmentarily preserved; complete upper margin and portion of one side margin preserved; lower part almost entirely lacking
Date
1000–1199
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
· ⲁⲑ︤ⲩ︦ⲣ︥ · ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲉⲓⲗⲁ ⲅⲛ̄ⲕⲉⲣⲟⲩⲧⲛ̄ ⲇⲓⲡⲁ
ⲁⲑ︤ⲩ︦ⲣ︥ ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲉⲛ̄ ⲇⲓⲙⲉⲇ ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲧⲓⲛⲛ̄ ·
Transcription
"on the evening of the eleventh of the month of Athyr" (i, ll. 8–9)
"dawn of the twelfth of the month of Athyr" (ii, l. 7)
Months
ⲁⲑ︤ⲩ︦ⲣ︥ (x2)
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
© The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA71305
Image
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Source
© The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA71305
Image
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Latest edition
Browne 2004, pp. 43–44
Other editions
P. QI 1 11, pl. XI; Browne 1988a; Browne 1989a, pp. 60–61, 91; Browne 1990a
Other publications
Browne 1992c, p. 382; Browne 1995a, pp. 453–454; Browne 1998c, p. 19; CSCN, pp. 335–336; Tsakos 2014b, pp. 52–53, 58–59; Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI36 (cf. p. 187)
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