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Artefact ID	1468
TM ID	TM 62015
Findspot (DEChriM ID)	- ()
Class	Textual
Material	Parchment
Writing medium	Codex
Text content	Literary
Language	Greek
Description	Rahlfs 935, Van Haelst 24: Fragment of Genesis 37,35 and 38,1–9 This top part (3,8 x 9 cm) of a two-column codex page contained parts of Book of Genesis 37,5 and 38,1 on the recto, Genesis 38,5 and 38,9 on the verso. Column width was 4,2 cm, with 1,2 cm space between columns, and the original page measured ca. 17,5 x 13,5. Assuming the codex contained only Genesis (the ed.pr. considers the entire Octateuch to be unlikely), 90 pages preceded and 38 pages followed the present fragment. The semicircle indentation on the lower border of the fragment must have been a roughly 2 cm hole already present before the parchment was written on.
Selection criteria	Literary genre (Biblical)
Date from	300
Date to	399
Dating criteria	Palaeography; the ed.pr. states that letter shapes show similarity to the Codex Vaticanus. This section of the Genesis is not transmitted in Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, making it one of the oldest textual witnesses.
Absolute/relative date	Relative date
Archaeological context	Unknown provenance. Purchased for Munich by Hermann Thiersch in Egypt in 1900, see Wilcken 1901. Inventory no. 610 contains 7 other fragments, of which all but one (an Arabic codex) are Greek and from the 3rd to 8th c.
Accession number	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek P. gr. 610 /1

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps
• Gerhäusser, Wilhelm and Alfred Rahlfs. 1913. “Münchner Septuaginta-Fragmente.” Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Nachr. Akad. Göttingen). Phil.-Hist. Klasse aus dem Jahre 1913. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 72-87: 72-74. = Gerhäusser, Wilhelm and Alfred Rahlfs. 1913. “Münchner Septuaginta-Fragmente.” Mitteilungen des Septuaginta-Unternehmens der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 1(4). Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. 103-118: 103-105.

Additional bibliography
• Berger, Friederike. 2014. Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. Band 9. Codices graeci Monacenses 575-650. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 125-126, No. 610.1.
• Brooke, Alan England and Norman McLean. 1917. The Old Testament in Greek. According to the Text of Codex Vaticanus, Supplemented from Other Uncial Manuscripts, with a Critical Apparatus Containing the Variants of the Chief Ancient Authorities for the Text of the Septuagint. Volume I, Part IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. vi, A (2).
• Hörmann, Wolfgang. “Das Supplement der griechischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek.” In Χάλικες. Festgabe für die Teilnehmer am XI. Internationalen Byzantinistenkongress München 15.-20. September 1958, edited by Hans-Georg Beck. Freising: F. P. Datterer. 39-65: 45-46.
• Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel. 2004. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Vol. 1.1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 249-250, Sigel 935.
• Turner, Eric G. 1977. The Typology of the Early Codex. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 165, OT 17.
• van Haelst, Joseph. 1976. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 35, No. 24.
• Wilcken, Ulrich. 1901. “Zu den Griechischen Papyri der Königlich Bayerischen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek zu München.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 1. 468-491: 471.

Authors

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022

Suggested citation

Victoria G. D. Landau, 2022, "Artefact ID 1468", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1468

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TM 62015 / LDAB 3174 DCLP (PN) BSB – Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum (MDZ)

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