New Testament amulet

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A New Testament amulet (also called a talisman) is an ancient hand-written portion of the New Testament, commonly worn as a charm. The Lord's Prayer is the most common text found on amulets. Also commonly found are the opening verses of each of the four New Testament gospels.

The numbering system begun by Ernst von Dobschütz for New Testament Greek Amulets assigned each recovered Amulet a Blackletter character 𝔗 (indicating Talisman) followed by a superscript number. Von Dobschütz continued the list through 𝔗9. The additional numbers assigned below continue this numbering in the order suggested by Brice C. Jones.{{cite web|url=https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/979831/1/Jones_PhD_S2015|title=New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism|website=Concordia University, Canada|publisher=Brice C. Jones|accessdate=2019-08-05}}

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List of New Testament Amulets

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𝔗1 = 0152

| 4th

| Matthew 6:11–13

| ΑΩ

| Ostrakon

|

| National Archaeological Museum, Inv. 12227

| Athens

| Greece

|

𝔗2

| 6th–7th

| Matthew 4:23–24

| ΑΩ

| Parchment

| The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. VIII 1077{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/oxyrhynchuspapyr08grenuoft#page/10/mode/2up| title=Amulet: St. Matthew's Gospel|website=The Oxyrhynchus Papyri| year=1898|publisher=The Oxyrhynchus Papyri|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

| Trexler Library, Muhlenberg College, T 888.01 O98; P.oxy.1077

| Allentown, PA

| USA

| bgcolor="sandybrown"| MC,{{cite web|url=https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730556_7730556_9255811;prevRouteTS=1562002596230| title=P. Oxy. 1077: Amulet: St. Matthew's Gospel, iv.|website=Artstor|publisher=Muhlenberg College|accessdate=2019-07-01}} BJ{{cite web|url=https://www.bricecjones.com/blog/parchment-manuscripts-discovered-at-oxyrhynchus| title=P.Oxy. 8.1077 (LDAB 2959)|website=Concordia University, Canada|publisher=Brice Jones|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

𝔗3

| 6th

| Matthew 1:1; 6:9–13; John 1:1

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Heidnisches und Christliches aus ÄgyptenUlrich Wilken, “Heidnisches und Christliches aus Ägypten,” APF 1 (1901): 396–436, at 431–436.

|

|

|

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𝔗4

| 6th

| Matthew 1:1; 6:9; Mark 1:1–2; Luke 1:1; John 1:1

| ΑΩ/αω

| Papyrus

| Papiri greci e latiniG. Vitelli, Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto: Papiri greci e latini, vol. 6 (Florence: Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana, 1920), no. 719 (=151–152).

| Laurentian Library, PSI VI 719

| Florence

| Italy

| bgcolor="sandybrown"| BML{{cite web|url=http://www.psi-online.it/documents/psi;6;719| title=PSI VI 719|website=PSIonline|publisher=Laurentian Library|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

𝔗5

| 8th

| Matthew 6:9–13

| ΑΩ

| Wood tablet

|

| University of Heidelberg, Egyptian Collection, Inv. 761; P.Bad. 4.60

| Heidelberg

| Germany

|bgcolor="lightgray"|[https://vdocuments.mx/thomas-j-kraus-tobias-nicklas-new-testament-manuscripts-their-texts-and-their.html p.249]

𝔗6

| 5th–6th

| Matthew 6:9–13; Luke 9:37; 11:1b-2

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Papyri IandanaeErnest Schäfer, Papyri Iandanae, Vol. 1: Voluminum codicumque fragmenta graeca cum amulet christiano (Leipzig: Teubner, 1912), no. 6 (=18–32).

| University of Giessen, P.Iand. 1.6

| Gießen, Hesse

| Germany

| bgcolor="sandybrown"|UoG{{cite web|url=http://bibd.uni-giessen.de/papyri/images/piand-inv014recto.jpg| title=Inv. 14|website=University of Giessen|publisher=University of Giessen|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

rowspan=2| 𝔗7

|rowspan=2| 14th

|rowspan=2| Matthew 6:9–13; Mark 1:1–8, Luke 1:1–7; John 1:1–17

|rowspan=2| αω

|rowspan=2| Parchment

|rowspan=2| A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament...Kenneth W. Clark, A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937), pp. 226–227.

|The University of Chicago Library, Ms. 125 (Goodspeed)

|Chicago, IL

|USA

|bgcolor="sandybrown"| TUOCL{{cite web|url=http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/ms/index.php?doc=0125| title=Ms. 125, Talismanic Scroll (D'Hendecourt Scroll). Greg. T7.|website=Goodspeed Library, University of Chicago|publisher=The University of Chicago Library|accessdate=2019-08-06}}

Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. M. 499

|New York, NY

|USA

|bgcolor="sandybrown"| PML{{cite web|url=https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/85705| title=Miscellany|website=The Morgan Library| date=13 July 2017|publisher=The Morgan Library and Museum|accessdate=2019-08-06}}

𝔗8

| 5th–6th

| John 2:1a-2; Romans 12:1–2

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen Heinrici, Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen (Beiträge zur Geschichte und Erklärung des Neuen Testaments 4; Leipzig, 1903), 31–32.

| Austrian National Library, G 3212

| Vienna

| Austria

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|ANL{{cite web|url=http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00001822|title= Inventarnummer: G 02312 Pap|website=Austrian National Library|publisher=Austrian National Library|accessdate=2019-08-05}}

𝔗9

| 5th

| John 1:1, 3

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. VIIIA.S. Hunt (ed.), Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. VIII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1911), §1151 (251–253).

| University of Glasgow, P. Oxy. 1151

| Glasgow

| UK

| bgcolor="sandybrown"| OP{{cite web|url=http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/images/papyrus/0012rwf.jpg| title=P.Oxy. VIII 1151|website=University of Glasgow|publisher=University of Glasgow|accessdate=2019-08-04}}

𝔗10

| 5th–6th

| Matthew 1:1; 4:23; Mark 1:1; Luke 1:1; John 1:1–2

| ΑΩ

| Parchment

| Altchristliche Texte im Berliner MuseumF. Krebs, Altchristliche Texte im Berliner Museum, Nachr. Gesell. Göttingen, 1892, 118–120, Nr. IV; C. Schmidt – W. Schubart, BKT VI 7.1; C. Wessely, Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II, Patrologia orientalis 18, 1924, 412–413.

| Berlin State Museums, P. 6096

| Berlin

| Germany

| bgcolor="sandybrown"| BerlPap{{cite web|url=https://berlpap.smb.museum/01656/| title=P. 6096: Christliches Amulett|website=BerlPap|publisher=Berliner Papyrusdatenbank|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

𝔗11

| 5th–6th

| Matthew 4:23/9:35; Matthew 8:15/Mark 1:31

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Vier Berliner ZaubertexteWilliam Brashear, “Vier Berliner Zaubertexte,” ZPE 17 (1975): 25–33, at 31–33.

| Berlin State Museums, P. 21230

| Berlin

| Germany

| bgcolor="sandybrown"| BerlPap{{cite web|url=http://ww2.smb.museum/berlpap/index.php/04427/| title=P. 21230: Christliches Amulett|website=BerlPap|publisher=Berliner Papyrusdatenbank|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

𝔗12

| 5th–6th

| Matthew 6:9, 11

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Papyri in the Princeton University CollectionsEdmund Harris Kase, Jr., ed., Papyri in the Princeton University Collections (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1936), no. 107 (102–103).

| Princeton University Library, P.Princ. 2.107

| Princeton, NJ

| USA

| bgcolor="sandybrown"|PUL{{cite web|url=https://dpul.princeton.edu/papyri/catalog/rx913t395| title=Amulet. Gnostic fever amulet (both pagan and Christian)|website=Princeton University|publisher=Princeton University Libraries|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

𝔗13

| 6th–7th

| Matthew 6:9–13

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| A Greek Papyrus Amulet…Csaba A. La’da and Amphilochios Papathomas, “A Greek Papyrus Amulet from the Duke Collection with Biblical Excerpts,” BASP 41 (2004): 93–113.

| Duke University, P.Duke inv. 778

| Durham, NC

| USA

| bgcolor="sandybrown"|DU{{cite web|url=https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/records/778.html| title=Amulet (P.Duk.inv. 778)|website=Duke University Library|publisher=Duke University|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

𝔗14 = 0324

| 5th

| Matthew 6:4–6, 8–12

| ΑΩ

| Parchment

| Columbia Papyri XITimothy M. Teeter, Columbia Papyri XI (ASP 38; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), no. 293 (=1–7).

| Columbia University, P.Col. 11.293

| New York, NY

| USA

|bgcolor="sandybrown"| CU{{cite web|url=http://papyri.info/apis/columbia.apis.p1812| title=Biblical Text [V AD]|website=papyri.info|publisher=Columbia University|accessdate=2017-08-12}}

𝔗15

| 6th–8th

| Matthew 6:9–13

| ΑΩ/αω

| Papyrus

| The Lord’s Prayer and ΧΜΓBrent Nongbri, “The Lord’s Prayer and ΧΜΓ: Two Christian Papyrus Amulets,” HTR 104 (2011): 59–68.

| Yale University, P.CtYBR inv. 4600

| New Haven, CT

| USA

| bgcolor="sandybrown"|YU{{cite web|url=http://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:2767735| title=Amulet with Lord's Prayer|website=Yale University Library|publisher=Yale University|accessdate=2019-07-01}}

rowspan=2| 𝔗16

| rowspan=2| 4th–5th

| rowspan=2|Matthew 6:9–13; 2 Corinthians 13:13?

| rowspan=2|ΑΩ

| rowspan=2|Papyrus

| rowspan=2| Christian Papyri from the Oslo CollectionLeiv Amundsen, “Christian Papyri from the Oslo Collection,” Symbolae Osloenses 24 (1945): 121–147, at 141–147

| University of Oslo, P.Oslo inv. 1644

| Oslo

| Norway

|

Schøyen Collection, MS 244/4

| Oslo

| Norway

|

𝔗17

| 3rd–4th

| Matthew 6:10–12

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

|The Antinoopolis Papyri, pt. 2J.W.B. Barns, H. Zilliacus, and C.H. Roberts (eds.), The Antinoopolis Papyri, pt. 2 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1960), no. 54 (6–7)

| Sackler Library, P.Ant. 2.54

| Oxford

| UK

|bgcolor="lightgray"|[https://vdocuments.mx/thomas-j-kraus-tobias-nicklas-new-testament-manuscripts-their-texts-and-their.html p.233]

𝔗18

| 6th

| Matthew 6:11–13

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Kölner PapyriMichael Gronewald, “Vaterunser,” in Kölner Papyri (P. Köln), vol. 8 (eds. Michael Gronewald, Klaus Maresch, and Cornelia Römer; Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1997), 48–49

| University of Cologne, P.Köln 8.336

| Cologne

| Germany

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|UOC{{cite web|url=https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm65041|title=Inv. 03583, Köln, Papyrussammlung|website=University of Cologne|publisher=University of Cologne|accessdate=2019-08-01}}

𝔗19

| 5th

| Matthew 6:11–13

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Kölner PapyriCornelia Römer, “171. Christliches Amulett,” in Kölner Papyri (P. Köln), vol. 4 (eds. Bärbel Kramer, Cornelia Römer, and Dieter Hagedorn; Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1982), 31–34

| University of Cologne, P.Köln 4.171

| Cologne

| Germany

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|UOC{{cite web|url=https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm64737|title=Inv. 03302, Köln, Papyrussammlung|website=University of Cologne|publisher=University of Cologne|accessdate=2019-08-01}}

𝔗20 = {{Papyrus link|105}}

| 5th–6th

| Matthew 27:62–64; 28:2–5

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXIVJ. David Thomas, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXIV (eds. E.W. Handley et al.; London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1997), §4406.

| Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, P. Oxy. 4406

| Oxford

| UK

| bgcolor="sandybrown"| OP,{{cite web|url=http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0Date--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.64&d=HASHee739572e1a59f1fe1e50a| title=P.Oxy.LXIV 4406|website=Oxyrhynchus Online|publisher=Oxyrhynchus Online|accessdate=2017-08-28}} [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_P105 CSNTM], [http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/manuscript-workspace?docID=10105 INTF]

𝔗21

| 3rd–4th

| Mark 1:1–2

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXXVIGeoffrey S. Smith and Andrew E. Bernhard, “5073,” in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXXVI (eds. D. Colomo and Juan Chapa; London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2011), 19–23.

| Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, P. Oxy. 5073

| Oxford

| UK

| bgcolor="sandybrown"| OP{{cite web|url=http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.61&d=HASHd90506c1f0a5701ac3f188|title=P.Oxy.LXXVI 5073|website=Oxyrhynchus Online|publisher=Oxyrhynchus Online|accessdate=2019-08-04}}

𝔗22

| 5th–6th

| John 1:1–12

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Kölner PapyriFranco Maltomini, “340. Amuleto con NT Ev. Jo. 1, 1–11,” in Kölner Papyri (P. Köln), ed. Michael Gronewald, Klaus Maresch, and Cornelia Römer (vol. 8; Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1997), 82–95.

| University of Cologne, P.Köln 8.340

| Cologne

| Germany

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|UOC{{cite web|url=http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/NRWakademie/papyrologie/PKoeln/PK689r.jpg|title=P.Köln 8.340|website=University of Cologne|publisher=University of Cologne|accessdate=2019-08-05}}

𝔗23

| 6th–7th

| John 1:5–6

| ΑΩ

| Parchment

| Griechische literarische Papyri christlichen Inhaltes II, vol. 1Kurt Treu and Johannes Diethart, Griechische literarische Papyri christlichen Inhaltes II, vol. 1 (MPER N.S. XVII; Vienna: Hollinek, 1993), no. 10 (23).

| Austrian National Library, G 29831

| Vienna

| Austria

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|ANL{{cite web|url=http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00000868|title=Amulett mit Joh. 1, 5–6. Inventarnummer: G 29831 Pap|website=Austrian National Library|publisher=Austrian National Library|accessdate=2019-08-05}}

𝔗24

| 6th–7th

| John 1:29, 49

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Ein apokryphes EvangelienfragmentH. Lietzmann, “Ein apokryphes Evangelienfragment,” ZNW 22 (1923): 153–154

| Berlin State Museums, Inv. 11710

| Berlin

| Germany

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|BerlPap{{cite web|url=http://berlpap.smb.museum/record/?result=0&Alle=11710&lang=en|title=P. 11710: Christliches Amulett (?) in Kodexform|website=BerlPap|publisher=Berlin State Museums|accessdate=2019-08-05}}

𝔗25

| 6th

| 2 Corinthians 10:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:8/Ephesians 6:16

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen Heinrici, Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen (Beiträge zur Geschichte und Erklärung des Neuen Testaments 4; Leipzig, 1903), 31–32.

| Austrian National Library, G 26034 + 30453

| Vienna

| Austria

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|ANL{{cite web|url=http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00003765|title=Neues Testament : G 30453 Phylakterion (?) mit Epistola ad Corinthios II 10, 4 und Epistola ad Thessalonicenses I 5, 8.. Inventarnummer: G 26034 Pap|website=Austrian National Library|publisher=Austrian National Library|accessdate=2019-08-05}}

𝔗26 = 0262

| 7th

| 1 Timothy 1:15–16

| ΑΩ/αω

| Parchment

| Neue neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner PapyrussammlungKurt Treu, “Neue neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung,” APF 18 (1966): 23–38, at 36–37.

| Berlin State Museums, P. 13977

| Berlin

| Germany

| bgcolor="sandybrown"|BerlPap,{{cite web|url=http://berlpap.smb.museum/03978/| title=P. 13977: Amulett mit Textstellen aus Paulus, 1. Brief an Timotheus|website=BerlPap|publisher=Berliner Papyrusdatenbank|accessdate=2017-08-09}} [http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/manuscript-workspace?docID=20262 INTF], [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_0262 CSNTM]

𝔗27 = {{Papyrus link|78}}

| 3rd–4th

| Jude 4–5, 7–8

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. XXIVP.J. Parsons, Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. XXXIV (eds. L. Ingrams, et al.; London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1968), §2684.

| Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, P. Oxy. 2684

| Oxford

| UK

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|OP{{cite web|url=http://163.1.169.40/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0POxy--00-0-0Date--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=POxy&cl=CL5.1.34&d=HASHb5764a95b1f951f8c4000d| title=P.Oxy.XXXIV 2684|website=Oxyrhynchus Online|publisher=Oxyrhynchus Online|accessdate=2017-08-28}} [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_P78 CSNTM], [http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/manuscript-workspace?docID=10078 INTF]

𝔗28

| 4th–5th

| Colossians 3:9–10

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| A Christian Amulet Containing Colossians 3:9–10Thomas A. Wayment, A Christian Amulet Containing Colossians 3:9–10, Vigiliae Christianae Volume 69: Issue 5 (2015)

| Petrie Egyptian Museum, UC 32070

| London

| UK

|bgcolor="sandybrown"|PEM{{cite web|url=http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-christian-amulet-containing.html#comments|title=A Christian Amulet Containing Colossians 3:9–10 (Wayment)|website=Evangelical Textual Criticism|date=3 December 2015|publisher=Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology|accessdate=2019-08-06}}

𝔗29

| 3rd–4th

| Acts 9:1

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| An Amulet Containing Acts 9:1Lincoln H Blumell, An Amulet Containing Acts 9:1, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Volume 54: (2017) pp. 31–43.

| Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham{{cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/itsee/news/2015/nt-papyrus-discovery.aspx|title=New Testament Papyrus Discovered in Birmingham!|website=University of Birmingham|publisher=University of Birmingham|accessdate=2019-08-06}}

| Birmingham

| UK

|

𝔗30

| 5th–6th

| Matthew 1:20

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

| A Greek Papyrus Fragment with a Citation of Matthew 1:20Brice C. Jones, A Greek Papyrus Fragment with a Citation of Matthew 1:20, Journal of Biblical Literature, Volume 137, Number 1: (2018) pp. 169–174.

| University of Michigan, P.Mich. inv. 4944b

| Ann Arbor, MI

| USA

| bgcolor="sandybrown"|BJ{{cite web|url=https://www.bricecjones.com/blog/new-greek-papyrus-with-a-citation-of-matthew-120| title=New Greek Papyrus with a Citation of Matthew 1:20|website=Brice C. Jones|publisher=Brice Jones|accessdate=2019-08-01}}

𝔗31

| 5th–6th

| Mt 1:1; Mk 1:1; Jn 1:1

| ΑΩ

| Papyrus

|

| Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum, BAAM 0505

| Alexandria

| USA

|

See also

= Other lists of New Testament manuscripts =

= Other articles =

References

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