Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Macq. I 1 |
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. 11 l. 14: Invocation of the Baktiotha and other deities |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 13 | Width: 11.3 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Height varies from 12.5-13cm, width from 10.7-11.3 (Choat & Gardner 2013: p. 2.) |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fine quality parchments, complete and well preserved. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 20 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 20 pages, of which 16 are written. 10 leaves, 20 pages, 1 column, 24-29 lines per page. Single quire of 4 bifolia, with an extra bifolium before the last leaf. Last three pages blank, as well as the front page (Choat, Gardner 2013: p. 1). |
Hand: | The scribes achieves bilinearity, with tails of letters rarely going below the bottom of other letters. Script is comparable to no. 295, no. 24 and no. 353 in this database (see Choat, Gardner 2013: p. 2). |
Findspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
Present Location: | Sydney, Macquarie University |
Collection History: | Acquired in Vienna in 1981, from antiquities dealer Michael Fackelmann, along with P. Macq. inv. 374 (Choat & Gardner 2013: p. 1). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 210 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Choat, Malcolm, and Iain Gardner. A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (p. Macq. I 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. |
Translations: | |
General: | Burns, Dylan M. “Magical, Coptic, Christian: The Great Angel Eleleth and the ‘Four Luminaries’ in Egyptian Literature of the First Millenium CE”. In The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt, edited by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, p. 154-155. |
Trismegistos ID: | 113926 |
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” | 211 |
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 (10/10/2018); EL (21/6/2019); KD (14/10/2019); MPS (7/9/2020); KD (13/10/2020); EL (3/8/2021); MPS (12/1/2022) |