Text 713

Stable url
TrismegistosTM text 141744
Provenance
Edfu
Region
Egypt
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
BM Or. MS 6805
Medium
manuscript: codex
Technique
painted
Type of text
literary: hagiographic
Language
Old Nubian
Content
Miracle of St Menas
Date
probably 900–1199
Notes
 
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
H: 15.5; W: 10.0
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
red and black ink
Lines
17 pages (1: 13, 2–16: 16–18; 17: 6)
Height of letters
 
Description
codex of 18 leaves in three quires, containing also DBMNT 714, but written in different hand; pagination in centre of upper margin; covers of brownish leather
Decorative elements
first page decorated with plaitwork motive; on fol. 10a drawing of mounted St Menas and a bearded man beneath
State of preservation
complete, with very few lacunae; large part of last page cut away; folio 12 torn but mended anciently with thread
Date
probably 900–1199
Chronological systems
day of the week
Dating formulae
· ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁ̄ⲕⲉⲛ ⲟⲩⲕⲟⲩⲣ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ⲛⲟⲛ ·
Transcription
"and since it was Sunday" (p. 9, l. 16/p. 10, l. 17)
Months
 
Weakdays
ⲕⲩⲣⲓⲁ̄ⲕⲉⲛ
Feasts
 
Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
el-Guzuuli – van Gerven Oei 2012
Other editions
Griffith 1913, pp. 6–15 (no. 1); Zyhlarz 1928, pp. 132–144; Browne 1983b, pp. 23–37; Browne 1994a; Browne 1989a, pp. 6–11; Browne 2004b, pp. 1–4
Other publications
de Rustafjaell 1909, pp. 141–148, pls. 49–50; Griffith 1909, pp. 547–549; Budge 1909, pp. 13–21, pls. 3–21; Kraus 1930, pp. 32–33; Müller 1975, pp. 93–95; Browne 1992c, pp. 384–385; Browne 1994b, p. 90; Zaborski 1996, pp. 155–157; Browne 1998c, p. 1; Browne 2000b, 159–160; Browne 2000c, pp. 166–167; Brakmann 2006, pp. 291–292; Santos 2009, pp. 113–116; Van Gerven Oei 2014, passim; Weber – Weschenfelder 2014, passim; Weber-Thum – Weschenfelder 2015, pp. 304–305, 309–310; Van Gerven Oei 2015b, passim