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KYPRIANOS M1168

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

BM EA 10414,b
London Hay 10414b
BM Registration number 1868,1102.461
Hay 7

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro: Magical Drawings with kharaktēres

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 391). See related texts for further notes.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 701 – 900
Date notes:

Dated to the eight to ninth century by radio-carbon dating (Zellman-Rohrer 2022: p. 1051). 501-700 (Crum 1934: p. 51) followed by TM (7/1/2019)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A19
Archive name: London Hay Collection
State of edition:

Unpublished. Edition forthcoming by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer.

Image: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1613270789&objectId=110250&partId=1#more-views

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Leather

Dimensions (cm): Height: 15 Width: 11 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Zellmann-Rohrer (fc.)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):
Hand:

London Hay Scribe Copyist ?

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase:

Luxor, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 576)
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

London, British Museum

Collection History:

Purchased from Robert James Hay in 1868 (Collection Website 4/9/2020), who perhaps acquired them in Thebes (Crum 1934: p. 51).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Zellman-Rohrer, Michael. “Hay 7.” In The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather. A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of the Magical Practice, edited by Elisabeth R. O`Connell. British Museum Research Publications 233. London: British Museum Press, 2022, 175–178.


Translations:
General:

Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic I.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 1/2 (1934): 51–53.

Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic II.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 3/4 (1934): 195–200.

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “An Assemblage of Coptic Magical Texts on Leather and Their Traditional Context (P.Brit.Mus. inv. no. EA 10122, 10376, 10391, 10434, 10414).” In Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Papyrology. Lecce, 28 July-3 August 2019, ed. Edited by Mario Capasso, Paola Davoli, Natascia Pellé. Lecce: Centro di Studi Papirologici dell’Università del Salento, 2022, 1049-1064.

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “The Text and Traditional Context of the ‘Hay Cookbook’ and Associated Magical Texts on Leather”. In BEC 4: Proceedings of the 4th British Egyptology Congress, 7-9 September 2018, University of Manchester (2018), ed. Carl Graves. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2020, 169-179.


Trismegistos ID:

99562

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

79

Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

129

AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (7/1/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (31/7/2019); MPS (17/8/2020); EL (7/9/2020); KD (26/4/2022); JS (28/02/2023); MPS (1/3/2023)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1168," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1168. Accessed on 17/05/2024

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