Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Moen [inventory number unknown] |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-18, Vo ll. 1-12: Iatromagical amulet to heal and protect against fever and chill, for Phoibammon, son of Maria. |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 17.3 | Width: 10.2 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Sijpesteijn (1982: p. 377) |
Folding pattern: | Several horizontal creases. Rolled up from bottom to top. |
State of preservation: | Complete. Well preserved. High quality parchment. Triangular piece missing in upper right corner. |
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 (flesh side) and verso (hair side). Recto, 18 lines; verso, 12 lines. Verso at 180 degrees to recto. |
Hand: | Unimodular, bilinear. |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Baarn, Private collection Moen |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 456 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Text repeated on front and back, the text on the hair side is written up-side-down in relation to that on the flesh-side and was left unfinished. Rolled up and probably worn as an amulet (Sijpesteijn 1982: p. 377). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Sijpesteijn, Pieter J. “Amulet against Fever.” Chronique d’Égypte 57 (1982): 377–381. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 99-100, no. 52. |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 98046 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 52 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 86 |
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 (19/9/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (17/6/2019); team (3/7/2020); MPS (12/1/2022) |