Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Carlsberg 52 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Inv. 31 p.1 l. 1-p. 3 l. 21: Coptic invocation of Petbe, perhaps a curse. |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15.5 | Width: 12.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Inv. 31 (bifolio): 25 (2 times 12.5) x 15.5 cm. Inv. 35 15.7 (12.7) x 15 cm (Brashear 1991: p. 16); 15 x 12.5 cm (Lange 1932: p. 161) |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete, but difficult to read due to transparency of parchment. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 6 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | Inv. 31 is a 4-page bifolio made of 6 fragments, each page written recto and verso. p.1 and 2 have 22 lines each, p. 3 has 21 lines, and p. 4 has 28 lines. Inv. 35 is the remains of a single sheet inscribed on the hair-side. |
Hand: | Small majuscule (Lange 1925: p. 161). |
Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Present Location: | Copenhagen, Carlsberg Papyrus Collection |
Collection History: | Acquired in Egypt by H. O. Lange prior to 1925. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 106 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Brashear, William M. “A Magical Formulary. P. Carlsberg 52. Greek Text.” In Magica Varia, edited by William M. Brashear, Papyrologica Bruxellensia 25. Bruxelles: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1991, p. 16–62 [Greek Text]. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 237-239, no. 118. |
General: | Blumell, Lincoln and Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Isis, and the Dark-Eyed Beauty: A Series of Magical Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Archiv für Papyrusforchung 64 (2018): 249-250, 258. |
Trismegistos ID: | 65321 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 118 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 233 |
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: | MPS (7/11/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (12/9/2019); EL (8/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (15/9/2021); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (21/3/2022) |