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TM 59994 / LDAB 1106 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/59994

also known as Codex visionum; Codex Bodmer des Visions; KV19; KV30; Bodmer Codex of Visions

TM Gallery info The Bodmer Codex of Visions (TM 59994) is a Greek papyrus codex acquired from a Cypriot dealer in 1956 by Martin Bodmer. It is still kept in his foundation in Cologny (Switzerland) today. Dated to the 5th century and probably from Akhmim in Egypt, it contains about 10 early christian poems, and the now apocryph composition The Shepherd of Hermas. But it is most famous for the Vision of Dorotheus, a poetic composition in Homeric style in which a certain Dorotheus describes his ascent to the Kingdom of Heaven, portrayed in highly imperial fashion.

Metadata

Date: first half 5th century AD: AD 400 - 450

Provenance: Panopolis (Akhmim) ? - Egypt (9th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Egypt - Egypt (N/AThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek (paleography: biblical majuscule (A-D), mixed style (E, F) (cf. P. Orsini))

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Book form: codex (22 fol. = 11 bifol.); columns per page: 1; number of lines per page: 37-45

Content (beta!): vision of Dorotheos; poem ad Abraham; speech to the righteous; eulogy to lord Jesus; Cain's words; the lord to those who suffer; Abel's words; hexametric poem on last judgment; hymn; 3 poems are acrostic

Authors / works: Hermas, Pastor: Visiones 1-3 (direct attestation)
Dorotheus, Visio: with initial and end title (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — anthology, poetry, lyric, hymns + prose (religion: christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

P. Bodmer 30 - 37 (Bibl. Bodm. 5, p. 1939-2174) (Hurst, André / Rudhardt, Jean - 1999)
&P. Bodmer 38 (Bibl. Bodm. 5, p. 2175-2302) (Carlini, Antonio / Giaccone, L. - 1991) [default]

∙Analecta Papyrologica 25 (2013), p. 83-173 (Berolli, Christiano - 2013; Vision of Dorotheus)

∙Wayment, The text of the New Testament apocrypha (100-400 CE) p. 85-104 (Wayment, Thomas A. - 2013)

∙Analecta Papyrologica 18 - 20 (2006-2008), p. 27-43 (Livrea, Enrico - 2006-2008; vision of Dorotheos)

∙ZPE 100 (1994), p. 175-187 (Livrea, Enrico - 1994) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Vigiliae Christianae 41 (1987), p. 313-359 (Kessels, A. H. M. / van der Horst, P. W. - 1987)

∙P. Bodmer 29 (Bibl. Bodm. 5, p. 1811-1937) (Hurst, André / Reverdin, O. / Rudhardt, Jean - 1984)

∙Aland, Repertorium II. Kirchenväter 19 (Aland, Kurt - 1995) (= catalogue only)

∙Aland, Repertorium II. Kirchenväter 19 a (Aland, Kurt - 1995) (= catalogue only)

∙Aland, Repertorium II. Kirchenväter 30 (Aland, Kurt - 1995) (= catalogue only)

∙Horak, Illuminierte Papyri Catalogue ViP 27 a (p. 230) descr. (Horak, Ulrike - 1992) (= catalogue only)

Photo: P. Bodmer facsimile edition; Segno e testo 2 (2004), p.45 ff. pl. I-IV; Segno e Testo 8 (2-10), Agosti pl. 1; Anal. Pap. 25 (2013), p. 172-173; C. Méla - F. Möri, Alexandrie la divine II (2014), p. 838; Wayment, The text of the New Testament apocrypha, p. 289- 312; P. Orsini, Adamantius 21 (2015), p. 74-75: AfP 62 (2016), p. 379-383; Il codice miscellaneo, Atti del Convegno Intrern. Cassino 2003, p.144 Taf. 1-4

Content studies: A. Hurst - J. Rudhardet, Le codex des visions. Recherches et rencontres 18, Genève 2002; E. Livrea, ZPE 147 (2004), p. 39-43; J. Verheyden in : W. Ameming, Topographie des Jenseits, Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium 21, Stuttgart 2011, p. 123-141 [vision of Dorotheus]; K. Kalish, Pap. Congr. XXVI (Geneva 2010), 2012, p. 391-398; G.Agosti, Wiss. Unters. zum Neuen Testament 388 (Tübingen 2017), pp. 233-250; Cavero, Poems in context, 2008, p. 61-63 no. 40

Script & book studies: R. Kasser - G. Cavallo - J. Van Haelst, P. Bodmer 38, p. 103-128; G. Agosti, Anal. Pap. 8-9 (1996-1997), p. 47-60; R. Kasser, Nouvelle description du codex des visions, 1991; E. Crisci, Segno e testo 2 (2004), p. 115-122; P. Orsini, Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica, Rome 2005, p. 61-63; P. Orsini, Adamantius 21 (2015), p. 66-67; P. Cecconi, AfP 62 (2016), p. 361-383

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