Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. Inv. 601 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-31: 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| State of edition: | Unpublished.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-3662/601r.tif |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 30.2 | Width: 36.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Michigan APIS (26/9/2018) |
| Folding pattern: | Rolled up in antiquity. 5 horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage at the top of the papyrus. Damage along the folds. Kollesis above the centre of the sheet. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column on recto, 31 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=601 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Contains text B (Worrell’s classification) in conjunction with P. Mich. 600 and 602. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Mirecki, Paul. “The Coptic Wizard’s Hoard.” The Harvard Theological Review 87 no. 4 (1994): 435–460. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874176 |
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” |
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: | MPS (26/9/2018); EL (21/11/2018); KD (4/9/2019); team (3/7/2020); MPS (26/1/2021); MPS (12/1/2022); JS (26/2/22) |