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• AuthorsAnonyme
• TitlePB P
• Varying form of TitleP.Bodmer 20+9; 2113 (P.Bodmer 9)
• CopyistsTwo hands were responsible for the copying of these leaves. Hand A, a specimen of the Alexandrian stylistic class according to Orsini, copied the Apology of Phileas (P.Bodmer 20), while Hand B, using a less practiced informal capital with cursive tendencies, copied Psalms 33 and 34 (P.Bodmer 9).
• Event Date Place4th cent. (Turner, Typology, by contents and palaeography)
• Language(s)grc

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Edition

Description material

• TypeManuscript
• Volume
  The page width is 13.5 cm. The height of the page is 14.9 cm. The ratio of page (width/height) is 0.916. For Hand A, the width of written area is 10.0 cm, the height of the written area is 11.5 cm, and there are 17 lines per page. For Hand B, the width of written area is 12.2 cm, the height of the written area is 13.8 cm, and there are 16 lines per page.
  Quires: The booklet containing P.Bodmer 20+9 consists of two quires and an orphan folio. The Apology of Phileas (P.Bodmer 20) occupies all of one quaternion and the recto of the first folio of the next quire, a binion. The remainder of the second quire contains Psalms 33-34 (P.Bodmer 9), and the end of Psalm 34 extends on to an orphan folio. Fibers of facing pages in these quires are not aligned. In the first quire, horizontal fibers (→) precede vertical fibers (↓) in the first half of the quire, and vertical precede horizontal in the second half of the quire. In the second quire that pattern is reversed. In the orphan leaf, vertical precedes horizontal.
  Cover: No cover is preserved.
  
• Binding
  Binding: Damage to the inner margins of these leaves prevents any confident statement about their binding.
• Physical MediumPapyrus, soot-based black ink

Remarques

• General NotesParatextual features: The apostrophe is employed throughout P.Bodmer 20, and corrections are made by placing dots above letters to be deleted. P.Bodmer 9 is corrected throughout by overwriting and inserting text between the lines. Folio 3r carries the page number 133 in the upper margin written in a hand distinct from that of the copyist. Folio 1r, the first page of the Apology of Phileas, would have carried the number 129, but the upper margin of the folio is not extant. Folio 7 and folio 8 do preserve the upper margin, but no page number is present.
  
  Decorations: A small ankh (☥) symbol is found under the end title of the Apology of Phileas (P.Bodmer 20). The copyist of the Psalms (P.Bodmer 9) occasionally employs decorative lines to fill up space.
  
  Other holding institutions: Chester Beatty Library, Ac. 2555 (P.Bodmer 20)
  
• AbstractPapyrus codex containing the Apology of Phileas (P.Bodmer 20); Psalms 33-34 (P.Bodmer 9).
  Description: P.Bodmer 20+9 contains the text of the Apology of Phileas followed by Psalms 33 and 34, copied in a different hand. P.Bodmer 9 ends in the middle of a verse (34:17), but the stop is natural, and a blank space is left, suggesting that the ending here was intentional and that no further text followed. Testuz argued that P.Bodmer 20+9 was a part of the codex consisting of P.Bodmer 5+10+11+7+13+12+8. The leaves are roughly the same size, but there is no clear codicological connection linking P.Bodmer 20+9 to the codex, although all these leaves seem to have been acquired at roughly the same time.
  
• Bibliography
  LDAB number 220465
  TM number: 220465
  Digital text: DCLP
  
  Editio princeps:
  P.Bodmer 20: Martin, Victor. Papyrus Bodmer XX: Apologie de Philéas évêque de Thmouis. Cologny-Geneva: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 1964.
  P.Bodmer 9: Testuz, Michel. Papyrus Bodmer VII-IX: VII: L’Epître de Jude, VIII: Les deux Epîtres de Pierre, IX: Les Psaumes 33 et 34. Cologny-Geneva: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 1959.
  
  Additional bibliography:
  Nongbri, Brent. “Recent Progress in Understanding the Construction of the Bodmer ‘Miscellaneous’ or ‘Composite’ Codex.” Adamantius 21 (2015): 171-172.
  Orsini, Pasquale. “I papiri Bodmer: scritture e libri.” Adamantius 21 (2015): 60-78.
  Pietersma, Albert. The Acts of Phileas Bishop of Thmuis (Including Fragments of the Greek Psalter): P.Chester Beatty XV (With a New Edition of P.Bodmer XX, and Halkin’s Latin Acta). Geneva: Cramer, 1984.
  Turner, Eric G. The Typology of the Early Codex. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977.

Identification

• ConstellationPapyri
• PID3776
• Shelf MarkPB 20+9