Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. Inv. 1294 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-20, Vo ll. 1-11: Love spell invoking the sun and moon. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | Dialectal features suggest the influence of a southern Egyptian dialect resembling Akhmimic (KD 23/7/2026). |
| 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: | Published through Kyprianos. |
| Image: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis?type=boolean&view=reslist&rgn1=apis_inv&select1=regex&from=index&q1=1294 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 27.5 | Width: 14.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Michigan APIS (26/9/2018) |
| Folding pattern: | 6 horizontal creases, 1 vertical crease. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, considerable damage. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto (→) and verso (↓). 21 lines recto, 12 lines verso. |
| Hand: | Slanted right, bilinear, bimodular. |
| 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: | Purchased from Maurice Nahman as part of a consignment that reached the University of Michigan in 1923 (Michigan APIS 26/9/2018). |
| 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=1294 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Worrell and Crum were aware of only 11 papyri in the Coptic Wizard’s Hoard. Paul A. Mirecki discovered in the Michigan collection 27 fragments of what he suggests is another papyrus belonging to this collection (Meyer, Smith 1999: p. 294). Usually understood as applied text, but contains generic name marker on verso l. 9. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: | “A Wizard’s Hoard” online description at Michigan APIS (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3648/1) |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874178 |
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 (19/11/2018); KD (17/6/2019); Team (3/7/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (23/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M20," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m20. Accessed on 24/07/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.