Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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F1908.41 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary ?) |
| Contents: | 1. p. 1 l. 1-p. 2 l. 15: Invocation to God for protection. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Fayumic (F4) |
| Language/dialect notes: | F4 (Personal Communication with Ivan Mirishnikov 17/1/2019); Mesokemic (Worrell 1923: p. 116); See related texts for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
801 – 900 |
| Date notes: | TM: 801-900 (26/9/2018); “no manuscript in the Fayûmic dialect is probably older than the ninth century” (Worrell 1923: p. 127). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.freersackler.si.edu/object/F1908.41/ |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 20 | Width: 15.1 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection Website (24/7/2019) |
| Folding pattern: | “folded in the middle, as if for binding, so as to form two opposite pages, the reverse side remaining blank” (Worrell 1923: p. 127), i.e. only the inner two pages of the single bifolium are written on. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, although numerous holes across the entire sheet. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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4 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 4 pages, written on inner pages 1-2. p. 1, 20 lines. p. 2, 19 lines. 16 further lines either side and below a tableau. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Esna (?)/ Edfu (?), Egypt (TM places ID: 1227) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Esna, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1127) |
| Present Location: | Washington, Smithsonian, Freer Gallery of Art |
| Collection History: | Gift of Charles Lang Freer. Acquired by Freer from Maurice Nahman. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
1071 |
| Collection website: | https://www.freersackler.si.edu/object/F1908.41/ |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Worrell, William H. The Coptic Manuscripts in the Freer Collection. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923, p. ix; 115-116; 126-128; 323-325; 381-383; pl. XII. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 118-119, no. 35. |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 98053 |
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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60 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
234 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.35 |
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 (26/9/2018); MPS (24/7/2019); EL (8/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (25/6/2021); MPS (12/1/2022) |