Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Bala’izah 1 58 + 1 61 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Prayer (?) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro ll. 1-8: Prescription for healing head ache. Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-9: Prayer for Papa Papnoute |
| 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. |
601 – 800 |
| Date notes: | Original use dates to 601-800, re-use to 701-800 CE (Kahle 1954: p. 483, 485) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A64 |
| Archive name: | Monastery of Apa Apollo, Balaizah |
| State of edition: | Published. No published image. New edition desirable. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 11.34 | Width: 9.45 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | 4 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches (Kahe 1954: p. 483). Original size was larger; was subsequently cut down for liturgical text (private communication, Ágnes Mihálykó 1/4/2020). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Recto text fragmentary, broken at the top and right margin. Verso text complete. |
| 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): | Original use: 1 column recto, 8 lines; Re-use: 1 column verso, 9 lines. |
| Hand: | Uncials, two different hands, verso rather clumsy, unpracticed, recto more practiced, but informal uncial (private communication, Ágnes Mihálykó 1/4/2020) |
| Findspot: | Deir el-Bala’izah, Egypt (TM places ID: 3025) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Deir el-Bala’izah, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 3025) |
| Present Location: | Oxford, Bodleian Library |
| Collection History: | |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
265 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Kahle, Paul E. Bala’izah. Coptic Texts from Deir el-Bala’izah in Upper Egypt, vol. 2. London: Oxford University Press, 1954, pp. 483-486, nos. 58 + 61. |
| Translations: | Crum, Walter E. in Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Gizeh and Rifeh. London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt; Bernard Quaritch, 1907, p. 40. |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874155 |
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: | KD (1/4/2020); KD (1/4/2020); EL (20/4/2020); EL (10/8/2020); KD (23/4/2021) |