Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PCM 1 28 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro pp. 1-13, ll. 1-275: Love spell attributed to Cyprian of Antioch |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic influence |
| Language/dialect notes: | Dosoo/Preininger (2023: p. 261-262, 363). Cf. Bilabel and Grohmann (1934: p. 305) who classify the text as Fayumic, followed by Bélanger-Sarrazin. See related text for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
901 – 1100 |
| Date notes: | Palaeographically dated to the tenth to eleventh century by Dosoo/Preininger (2023: p. 363). Eleventh century dating in Bilabel and Grohmann (1934: p. 305) followed by Mößner and Nauerth (2015: p. 311); 901-1000 (TM 24/9/2018). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A8 |
| Archive name: | Heidelberg Library |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Paper |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 14.3 | Width: 9 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Folios measure 14.3 x 18.5cm (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 311) |
| Folding pattern: | One horizontal, one vertical crease on codex (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 369). |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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16 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 16 pages (1 quaternion = 4 bifolios). Last 3 pages blank. Bound with thread. No pagination or cover (Bilabel and Grohmann 1934: p. 304). |
| Hand: | Heidelberg Scribe 2 |
| Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Place of purchase: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
| Collection History: | Purchased by Carl Schmidt in May 1930, perhaps in the Fayum, perhaps via Maurice Nahman (Gardner and Johnston 2019: p. 32; Seider 1964: p. 163; Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 260). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
156 |
| Collection website: | https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/papyri/view/p_kopt_684/ |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Bilabel, Friedrich, and Adolf Grohmann. Griechische, koptische und arabische Texte zur Religion und religiösen Literatur in Ägyptens Spätzeit, Heidelberg: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, 1934, p. 304-325, no. 122. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 153-158, no. 73. |
| General: | Camplani, Alberto. “‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani’. Pluralità dei linguiaggi religiosi e loro rielaborazione rituale in alcune preghiere magihche copte,” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 76.1 (2010): p. 145-146. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 98064 |
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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73 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
167 |
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: | EL (25/9/2018); MPS (9/7/2019); KD (13/9/2019); EL (31/7/2020); KD (16/3/2021); SVS (08/09/22); KD (20/11/2023); KD (17/1/2024) |