Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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BM EA 10414,b |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro: Magical Drawings with kharaktēres |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 391). See related texts for further notes. Dosoo (2024) notes particularly Theban traits in the Sahidic. |
| Date:
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:
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| State of edition: | Unpublished.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:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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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:
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: | Boud’hors, “Bulletin Critique: Anne. Elisabeth R. O’Connell (éd.), The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice, Londres, The British Museum”, Antiquité Tardive 31 (2023) 419-421. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99562 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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79 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
129 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| 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: | 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); KD (23/1/2025) |