Unregistered user (3.12.84.150). Log in
I want to subscribe!

Have you remembered to use your institution's proxy or VPN?

Please log in or subscribe below:

I have a login

I want to subscribe

Please note that since 1 January 2020, full functionality of this page is reserved for registered users only.

X

TM 107927 / LDAB 107927 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/107927

also known as Codex Brucianus; Bruce Codex

previously also TM 92854 (double)

Metadata

Date: AD 350 - 449

Provenance: Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west), Medinet Habu, bought - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Upper Egypt ? - Egypt (UThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Coptic (Sahidic dialect) , drawing

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: codex (71 fol.); columns per page: 1; number of lines per page: 25-34

Content (beta!): magical: the books of Jeu, with title + hymns - fire baptism ritual with voces magicae

Authors / works: Testamentum novum, Matthaeus (Coptic), Evangelium secundum Matthaeum (quoted)
Testamentum novum, Lucas (Coptic), Evangelium secundum Lucam (quoted)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, apocryphon + poetry, hymns - magic, liturgy (religion: christian, gnostic)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

Reuse type: in the codex joined with: TM 108136

Reuse note: also bound with Arabic and Ethiopian texts

Note: illustration on the frontispiece: Coptic cross - with drawings

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, KyprianosKyprianos Magical Text Database => 1447 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Schmidt / MacDermot, The Books of Jeu and the untitled text in the Bruce codex (Nag Hammadi Studies 13) p. 1-211 (Schmidt, Carl / Macdermot, Violet - 1978) [default]

∙Crégheur, Les 'deux livres de Iéou' (Bibl. copte de Nag Hammadi 38) p. 145-343 (Crégheur, Eric - 2019)

∙Kosack, Collectanea Coptica p. 5-106 (Kosack, Wolfgang - 2015)

∙Meyer / Smith, Ancient Christian magic. Coptic texts of ritual power 38 (Smith, Richard - 1994)

∙Schmidt, Gnostische Schriften in koptischer Sprache aus dem Codex Brucianus (Texte und Untersuchungen 8) p. 38-141 (Schmidt, Carl - 1892)

∙Amélineau, Notice sur le papyrus gnostique Bruce p. 65-305 [Jeu] (Amélineau, Émile - 1891)

∙Horak, Illuminierte Papyri Catalogue ViP 38 (p. 231) descr. (Horak, Ulrike - 1992) (= catalogue only)

∙Geerard, Clavis apocryphorum Novi Testamenti p. 14 no. 29 (Geerard, M. - 1992) (= catalogue only)

Photo: M.Cramer, Koptische Buchmalerei, Recklinghausen 1964, Abb. 31; M.P. Brown, In the beginning. Bibles before the year 1000, 2006, p. 137 [colour]

Content studies: A. Van den Kerchove in : M. de Haro Sanchez, Ecrire la magie dans l'antiquité, p. 109-120

Script & book studies: joined in one codex with TM 108136; M.P. Brown, In the beginning. Bibles before the year 1000, 2006, p. 262-263 no. 22; E. Crégheur, CdE 92 (2017), p. 397-407; E. Crégheur, CdE 92 (2017), p. 397-407

Collections

→ Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Bruce 96 (codex Brucianus) [Jeu]

Information mentioned in this text

    TM 107927

    We currently do not have a full-text version of this source. Perhaps one of our partner projects (listed above under 'More info' when available) has what you are looking for!

    We currently do not have any people attestations for this text.

Select a person from the left

Select a place name from the left

Select a date from the left

Select a text irregularity from the left

Select an abbreviation from the left