Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | British Library MS Or 6796 (4) + MS Or 6796 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-64: Spell to cast out every unclean spirit (exorcism, parallels wth Mary in Bartos) |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic |
Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes; cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 383) |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 551 – 650 |
Date notes: | Crum dates to ca. 600 CE (Kropp 1931: p. xi); 476-525 (TM 21/3/2019); 501-700 (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 383) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A15 |
Archive name: | British Museum Portfolio |
State of edition: | Published. New edition desirable. |
Image: |
Form: | Rotulus (?) |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 69 | Width: 24 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Kropp (1931: p. 47). 6794 (4): 34.5 x 24 cm; 6796: 34.5 x 23 cm. |
Folding pattern: | 5 vertical and 9 (?) horizontal creases (KD from autopsy on 5/4/2019) |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 64 lines. 6796 (4) is a sheet made from gluing three pieces of papyrus together, where the breaks are after ll. 14 and 33. |
Hand: | British Museum Scribe |
Findspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
Present Location: | London, British Library |
Collection History: | Acquired in 1907 with Or 6794, 6795, 6796 (1-3) (List of Oriental Manuscripts: p. 301) |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 192 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | It is unclear if this 6796 (4) and 6796 were a single rotulus, or two loose sheets grouped together. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 47-49, no. J. |
Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 57-62, no. 15. |
General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième journée dàétudes (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 197-199. |
Trismegistos ID: | 100020 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 132 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 48 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | 1.J, 2.15 |
CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | ||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (24/1/2019); EL (21/3/2019); KD (5/4/2019); MPS (2/9/2019); KD (30/9/2019); EL (2/9/2020); KD (16/3/2021); KD (4/5/2021); KD (15/6/2023) |