Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Naqlun N. 78/93 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-36: Jesus-Mary charm against fever (healing) |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic features |
Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 901 – 1100 |
Date notes: | van der Vliet (28/11/2019) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A58 |
Archive name: | Naqloun Monastery |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: |
Form: | Sheet (?) |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 25 | Width: 17.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions (van der Vliet 28/11/2019). |
Folding pattern: | No discernible creases. |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary, one large and one small fragment which do not join, with the majority of the bottom third of the sheet lost. |
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, 36 lines. Verso blank. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Naqlun, Egypt (TM places ID: 1418) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Naqlun, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1418) |
Present Location: | Storehouse of the Excavation |
Collection History: | Excavated at the Naqlun Hermitage (Jacques van der Vliet 28/11/2019) |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Kalchenko, Evgenia, and Jacques van der Vliet. “’The Burning Months of the Year’. A Coptic Charm against Fever in Double Transmission”. Journal of Coptic Studies 24 (2022): 203–241. |
Translations: | van der Vliet, Jacques. “Christian Spells and Manuals from Egypt.” In Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic, edited by David Frankfurter. Leiden : Brill, 2019, p. 345. |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 874281 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | 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 (2/4/2019); EL (14/6/2019; 28/11/2019); MPS (25/2/2020); EL (12/8/2020) |