| Archive name: | London Hay Collection |
Trismegistos Archive ID: 
Page on the database Trismegistos Collections for the archive. |
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| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
701 – 900 |
| Provenance: | Thebes, Egypt (?) |
| Trismegistos Place ID:
Page on the database Trismegistos Places for the place of provenance. |
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| Manuscripts: | KYP M286 287 288 289 302 1167 1168 |
| Classification: | These manuscripts may comprise an “archive”, meaning that they were brought together and deposited by an ancient person or persons. |
| Description: | Seven Coptic magical formularies, written on leather, purchased by the British Museum in 1868. |
| Acquisition: | Purchased from Robert James Hay in 1868, who perhaps acquired them in Thebes (Crum 1934: p. 51). |
| Dating: | Crum (1934: p. 51) proposed a date of sixth to seventh century for the texts. Here we adopt the eighth to ninth century date to be proposed by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer in a forthcoming re-publication of the manuscripts based on radio-carbon dating (cf. Zellman-Rohrer 2022: p. 1051). |
| Language/dialect: | All of the texts are written in Sahidic Coptic, with some non-standard features. |
| Materiality/composition: | All of the manuscripts are written on leather; two (BM EA 10376 = M286 and BM EA 10414,a = M287) are rotuli; the others are sheets. |
| Content: | The texts contain a wide range of magical texts for various purposes. |
| Discussion: | |
| Bibliography: |
Crum, Walter Ewing. “Magical Texts in Coptic I.”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 1/2 (1934): 51-53. |
| Edit History: | KD (29/9/2020); EL (29/9/2020); KD (26/4/2022) |