Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PCM 1 8 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-20, Vo ll. 1-10: Love spell invoking oil. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic |
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. | 501 – 700 |
Date notes: | Dosoo/Preininger (2023: 81) suggest a 6th-7th century dating for this scribe based on palaeographical parallels (cf. 2023: p. 93 in which they mistakenly give 5th-6th century date). 5th-6th century dating in TM (12/11/2018) citing Richter (2015: p. 99). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A4 |
Archive name: | Schmidt Coptic Magical Dossier |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2349/4932fv.tif |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 14.4 | Width: 13.2 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection Website (12/11/2018) |
Folding pattern: | 5 horizontal, 1 vertical fold. |
State of preservation: | Complete, although most of the bottom panel is now lost (Collection Website 12/11/2018). |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto (hair) and verso (flesh); 20 lines recto, 10 lines verso. |
Hand: | Schmidt Scribe |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
Collection History: | Acquired by Bell and Westermann from Nahman in 1926/1927 (Collection Website 12/11/2018). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 12 |
Collection website: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2349/4932fr.tif |
Notes/Discussion: | Recto (Collection Website): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2349/4932r.tif Worrell (1935: p. 185) believes there is an erased underlying text of the verso, of which approximately 6 lines remain at the bottom, but from the photographs this seems in fact to be the text from the recto, of which about 7 lines are visible through the thin parchment. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 93-97, no. 8. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 175-176, no. 82. |
General: | Frankfurter, David. “The Laments of Horus in Coptic. Myth, Folklore, and Syncretism in Late Antique Egypt.” In Antike Mythen: Medien, Transformationen und Konstruktionen, edited by Ueli Dill and Christine Walde. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 230, n.7. |
Trismegistos ID: | 99569 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 82 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 165 |
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 (12/11/2018); EL (19/11/2018); KD (10/12/2018); EL (8/9/2020); KD (23/7/2021); SVS (09/08/2022); MPS (12/10/2022); MPS (14/2/2023); KD (20/11/2023); KD (17/1/2024) |