Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 514 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Pages 1-3: Title (?) in Arabic (p.1 ll. 1-2) followed by invocation (p.1 ll. 2-19), then figures to be copied (? pages 2-3). Perhaps healing formula for eye-problem? Re-use: 2. Page 4: Traces of Coptic text, kharaktēres written at 180 degrees to other text. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 396). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
901 – 1100 |
| Date notes: | 9th-11th century according to TM (24/9/2018), but a date before the 10th century is unlikely based on the use of paper. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. New edition desirable. |
| Image: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_514/0001 |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Paper |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 20.7 | Width: 16.15 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Dimensions from collection website (28/5/2020), with width halved to give width of single page. Bilabel, Grohmann 1934. p. 388: 21.5 x 30.7 cm. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Several fragments of a sheet (of a codex (?)) (Bilabel and Grohmann 1934: 388). Perhaps reused 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. Arabic text on p. 4 written at 180 degrees to verso. Traces of Coptic texton p. 4, kharaktēres written at 180 degrees to other text. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
| Collection History: | Acquired in 1896 by K. Reinhardt as part of a vast amount of papyri, parchments and wooden tablets, and sold 1897 to the University of Heidelberg (Seider 1964: p. 143-4. 168). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
156 |
| Collection website: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_514 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Heidelberg website erroneously describes the back (p. 1+4) as ‘Papyrus’. Codex appears to have been written to be read from right to left. |
| 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. 388-392, no. 136. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Mößner, Tamara and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 307. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 102080 |
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” |
175 |
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 |
102080 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | EL (24/9/2018); MPS (29/7/2019); KD (28/5/2020); MPS (7/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (6/10/2021); SVS (08/09/2022) |