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Acquired by the John Rylands Library in 1917 from James Rendell Harris (1852-1941).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Prayer to Mary" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "1 column, 10 lines." }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "3rd-4th century CE" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Egypt." }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "

The verso is blank.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Written in brown ink. The hand is tall, upright, and pointed, with small blobs at the top and bottom of vertical strokes.The 'a' is of a kind more common in inscriptions than in papyri which might be explained on the ground that it may have been a model for an engraver.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Description based on C. H. Roberts , Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester, Volume III, Theological and Literary Texts (Nos. 457-551).<\/i> (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1938)." }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "Sub Tuum Praesidium" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "The John Rylands Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 fragment. Fragment height: 180 mm, width: 94 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Greek P 470" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Prayer; Christianity and culture" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Carly Richardson, Elizabeth Gow" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Substantial portion of a prayer addressed to the Virgin Mary. There are no indications that it was intended for liturgical use, which suggests it may have been a private copy. The prayer became an important hymn in Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions, known in Latin as the Sub tuum praesidium. Translation of lines 4-9 courtesy of C. H. Roberts: \"Mother of God (hear) my supplications: suffer us not (to be) in adversity, but deliver us from danger. Thou alone...\".<\/p>

This fragment is believed to be not only the earliest copy (in Greek) of the prayer, but also the earliest evidence that survives of Christians addressing the Virgin Mary as \"theotokos\" (\"bearer of God\"), a title which was only officially authorized at the Council of Ephesus in 431 CE. Roberts, the first editor of the papyrus, dated it tentatively to the fourth century CE. The date was estimated palaeographically, by comparing the handwriting with other manuscripts. However, papyrologists have suggested a later date range, from the fifth to the eighth century CE.<\/p>

<\/p><\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Trismegistos: an interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources, no. 64320.<\/i><\/a><\/div>
PDFs of Published Catalogues of Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, 1911-1979.<\/a><\/div>
C.H. Roberts, Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library Manchester, Volume III, Theological and Literary Texts (Nos. 457-551). (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1938).<\/div>
Roberta Mazza, \u2018Dating Early Christian Papyri: Old and New Methods \u2013 Introduction\u2019, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 42.1 (2019), 46\u201357 https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064X19855579<\/a>.<\/div>
Joseph van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens, vol. 57 (1976).<\/div>
Otto Stegmüller, Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie, vol. 74 (1952), pp 76-82.<\/div>
Hans Förster, 'Die älteste marianische Antiphon - eine Fehldatierung? Überlegungen zum \"ältesten Beleg\" des Sub tuum praesidium', Journal of Coptic Studies 7 (2005), pp. 99-109. <\/div>
Theodore S. De Bruyn, Jitse H. F. Dijkstra, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (BASP), vol. 48 (2011), pp 212-213, no. 176 descripta.<\/div><\/div>
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This fragment is believed to be not only the earliest copy (in Greek) of the prayer, but also the earliest evidence that survives of Christians addressing the Virgin Mary as \"theotokos\" (\"bearer of God\"), a title which was only officially authorized at the Council of Ephesus in 431 CE. Roberts, the first editor of the papyrus, dated it tentatively to the fourth century CE. The date was estimated palaeographically, by comparing the handwriting with other manuscripts. However, papyrologists have suggested a later date range, from the fifth to the eighth century CE.<\/p>

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