Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original Use: Lectionary containing Pauline letters. Re-use (palimpsest): 1. p. 2 l.1-p. 9 l.12: “Prayer of Mary in Bartos” for healing, protection, exorcism. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic features |
| Language/dialect notes: | TM (7/9/2020) |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
951 – 1000 |
| Date notes: | Written in same hand as P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 (M291), dated by its colophon to 967 CE. 901-1000 (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 311); 801-900 (TM 129732 25/9/2018); 951-1000 (TM 102074 25/9/2018). Palimspest written on older lectionary (801-900 CE (?)). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A8 |
| Archive name: | Heidelberg Library |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Papyri/K0685_Meyer/ |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 173 | Width: 117 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | 22.2-23.4 (W) x 17.2-17.3 (H) (Quecke 1972: p. 5-6); 12 (H) x 21.5 cm (W) (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 311). Based on measurements from photographs, Quecke’s dimensions seem correct, although he is giving the size of the whole sheet and reversing the dimensions, since he is interested in the original use (KD 28/5/2020). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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20 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 5 bifolios, written on pages 2-18; 17 inscribed pages. |
| Hand: | Deacon Iohannes |
| Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740) |
| Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
| Collection History: | Purchased from Maurice Nahman in Cairo in 1933 (Gardner and Johnston 2019: p. 32). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
156 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Meyer, Marvin W. The Magical Book of Mary and the angels : (P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685): Text, Translation and Commentary. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1996. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Oratio Mariae ad Bartos: Ein koptischer Gebetstext aus den Giessener Papyrus-Sammlungen. Giessen: Universitätsbibliothek, 1965, p. 20-21, no. d. |
| General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième journée dàétudes (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 188-190. 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, 153-254. Gardner, Iain, and Jay Johnston. “‘I, Deacon Iohannes, Servant Of Michael’: A New Look at P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 and a Possible Context for the Heidelberg Magical Archive.” Journal of Coptic Studies 21 (2019): p. 31-32. Johnston, Jay, and Gardner, Iain. "Relations of Image, Text and Design Elements in Selected Amulets and Spells of the Heidelberg Papyri Collection." In Bild und Schrift auf 'magischen' Artefakten, edited by edited by Sarah Kiyanrad, Christoffer Theis and Laura Willer. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, 139-148. Love, Edward O. D. "“Crum’s Chicken”: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts", in Magikon Zōon: Animal and Magic, edited by Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). Meyer, Martin. "The Persistence of Ritual in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels: P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685". In Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson, edited by April D. DeConick, Gregory Shaw, and John D. Turner. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 359-376. Meyer, Martin. "The Prayer of Mary in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels". In Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World, edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003, 57-67. Mößner, Tamara and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 311; p. 338-348. Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Sethians and Their Texts in Christian Egypt in the 4th and 5th Centuries.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 86 (2020): p. 110-112. Quecke, Hans. “Palimpsestfragmente eines Koptischen Lektionars.” Le Muséon 85 (1972): 5-24. Untermann, Matthias (editor). Ägyptische Magie im Wandel der Zeiten: eine Ausstellung des Instituts für Papyrologie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Ägyptologie der Universität Heidelberg. Heidelberg: Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, 2011, p. 44-47. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 102074 |
PAThs: | 1488 |
| 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” |
235 |
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: | EL (25/9/2018); MPS (27/9/2019); KD (13/9/2019); KD (2/10/2019); MPS (7/9//2020); KD (17/11/2020); KD (17/12/2021); JS (15/05/22); MPS (3/11/2022) |