Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Jand. Inv. Nr. 9 A.B |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. p. 1.1-p. 8.13: Exorcistic text calling for divine aid, likely the Prayer of Mary ‘in Bartos’; initial and final sections missing. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 395). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
751 – 800 |
| Date notes: | Ágnes T. Mihálykó proposes late VIII to early IX, comparing the writing to that of P. Pierpont Morgan inv. M636 (dating to 795-797 CE) (personal communication with KD 11/11/2019). Kropp suggests a fifth or sixth century date (1965: p. 5); TM (25/3/19). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published; English translation desirable. |
| Image: | https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/GiePapyri_schrift_00006200 |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 13 | Width: 11.6 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | A 13,0 (H) x 23,0 (W) cm; B (H) 13,0 x B 23,2 (W) cm. (Kropp 1965, p. 5; col. website (19/10/2020)) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Incomplete – represents middle 8 pages of larger codex. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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8 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 8 surviving pages. Page 1: 17 lines, page 2: 14, page 3: 16, page 4: 17 lines, page 5: 17 lines, page 6: 15 lines, page 7: 15 lines, page 8: 13 lines. The manuscript as it survives is made of two single-bifolio quires, pages 1-4 on quire 1 (=”fragment A”), pages 5-8 on quire 2 (=”fragment B”). |
| Hand: | P. Jand. Inv. Nr. 9 hand |
| Findspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Place of purchase: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Writingspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
| Present Location: | Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Collection History: | Purchased in 1905 or 1906 in Ashmunein (collection website, 4/3/2019; Kropp 1965: p. 5). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
140 |
| Collection website: | https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/GiePapyri_schrift_00006200 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Kropp, Angelicus. Oratio Mariae ad Bartos. Ein koptischer Gebetstext aus den Gießener Papyrussammlungen. Giessen: Universitätsbibliothek, 1965. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Gundel, Hans Georg. Vorbemerkungen zum Inventar der P. Jand., Kurzbericht aus den Papyrussammlungen Giesen, 5, 1957, p. 1. [http://bibd.uni-giessen.de/pub/papyruspublikationen.html] |
| Trismegistos ID: | 102075 |
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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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
160 |
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: | KD (5/3/2019); KD (6/3/2019); EL (25/3/2019); MPS (9/7/2019); KD (4/10/2019); KD (11/11/2019); MPS (8/9/2020) |