Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PCM 1 37 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | Original use: Literary text. Re-use (palimpsest): 1. Ro ll. 1-35: Love spell |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic with slight Middle Egyptian influence |
Language/dialect notes: | See Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 461. |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 1001 – 1100 |
Date notes: | Green (1987: p. 30); Dosoo/Preininger (2023): p. 461; collection website (26/10/2018). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://www.rmo.nl/imageproxy/jpg/247886 |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 23.5 | Width: 19.1 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (26/10/2018); (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 459). |
Folding pattern: | 17 horizontal, 1 vertical crease. |
State of preservation: | Complete, some damage |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso (magical re-use). Recto 35 lines, verso 33 lines. Text on verso at 180 degrees to recto. |
Hand: | Unimodular, Bilinear, sloping, serifs. |
Findspot: | Middle Egypt (?), Egypt (TM places ID: 2800) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Middle Egypt (?), Egypt (TM places ID: 2800) |
Present Location: | Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities |
Collection History: | Acquired in April 1964 from Mr. J. Möger of Soestdijk, the Netherlands as part of a lot of sixteen Coptic and Arabic manuscripts, several of them part of the Teshlot archive (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 459-460). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 178 |
Collection website: | https://hdl.handle.net/21.12126/18615 |
Notes/Discussion: | Ink appears to be plant based (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 459). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 459-467, no. 37. |
Translations: | |
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Trismegistos ID: | 874124 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 159 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | |||
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 (26/10/2018); EL (30/10/2018); KD (10/12/2018); MPS (23/3/2020); team (4/5/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (3/4/2022); SVS (08/09/2022); KD (20/11/2023); KD (8/1/2024) |