Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Mich. Inv. 600 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. x+1-x+14: Text B |
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: | Michigan APIS (26/9/2018) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A10 |
Archive name: | Coptic Wizard’s Hoard |
State of edition: | Unpublished. Forthcoming publication by R. Bélanger Sarrazin. |
Image: | http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3661/600r.tif |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 30.2 | Width: 30.9 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Michigan APIS (26/9/2018) |
Folding pattern: | As many as 16 (?) vertical creases, perhaps result of rolling? |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary. Upper part lost, bottom, left and right margins preserved. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (↓ ?), 14 surviving lines. Kollesis in the center. |
Hand: | Hand 4. |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
Collection History: | Brought from Egypt to the British Museum in Feburary 1921 by Wallis Budge and soon after acquired by the University of Michigan. (Worrell 1930: p. 239). Numbers 593-603 were part of a single find, and 594-603 seem to have been rolled together (Acquisition reports online 26/1/2021). |
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?type=boolean&view=reslist&rgn1=apis_inv&select1=regex&from=index&q1=600 |
Notes/Discussion: | Contains text B (Worrell’s classification) in conjunction with P. Mich. 601 and 602 and copied in part by P. Mich. 597 and 598. |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | |
Translations: | |
General: | Worrell, W. H. “A Coptic Wizard’s Hoard.” The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 46 no. 4 (1930): p. 239-241. |
Trismegistos ID: | 874175 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 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 (26/9/2018); EL (21/11/2018); KD (4/9/2019); team (8/6/2020); MPS (26/1/2021); MPS (12/1/2022) |