Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Michigan Ms. 136 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. p. 2 ll. 1-9 (ll. 1-9): Instructions for creation oil for anointing and a metal leaf – purpose unclear, presence of chi-rho (in Coptic) |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Parchment (vellum) |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 12.4 | Width: 10.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Zellmann-Rohrer & Love (from autopsy, see fc.); 4 1/8″ x 4 7/8″ (Worrell 1935: p. 17). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete, only cover and first page is missing. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 16 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 8 leaves = 16 pages, of which the sheet constituting the cover and first page is missing: p. 2, 19 lines; p. 3, 21 lines; p. 4, 19 lines; p. 5, 20 lines; p. 6, 20 lines; p. 7, 20 lines; p. 8, 13 lines; p. 9, 17 lines; p. 10, 19 lines; p. 11, 15 lines; p. 11, 20 lines; p. 12, 20 lines; p. 13, 18 lines; p. 14, 20 lines (Zellmann-Rohrer & Love 2022) |
Hand: | Hand 1 (§§1-14 + 15-16 ?); Hand 2 (§§17-30); Hand 3 (§§31-32) |
Findspot: | Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 327) |
Place of purchase: | Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 327) |
Writingspot: | Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayuwm), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 327) |
Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
Collection History: | Bought by Dr. David Askren in Medinat al-Fayyum between 1921 and 1927 (Worrell 1935: p. 1) |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 12 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael and Love, Edward O. D. Traditions in Transmission: The Medical and Magical Texts of a Fourth-Century Greek and Coptic Codex (Michigan Ms. 136) in Context. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 83-90, no. 43. |
General: | Love, Edward O.D. “Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts”, in Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt, edited by Lajos Berkes. Ann Arbor: American Society of Papyrologists, 2002, p. 181. |
Trismegistos ID: | 92874 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 43 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 164 |
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 (13/9/2018) (merged with content previously created by KD); EL (20/9/2018); KD (1/4/2019); KD (14/20/2019); KD (17/2/2020); EL (1/9/2020); KD (17/10/2020); KD (21/3/2022); KD (6/4/2022) |