Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 08636 Pap |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-41: Contains Letter of Jesus to Abgar, promises protection/healing for Khristōdōra, the daughter of Gabrilil |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Fayumic |
Language/dialect notes: | Stegemann (1934: p. 21); See related texts for further notes. |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 401 – 500 |
Date notes: | Stegemann (1934: p. 21); TM (17/10/2018) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10209925 |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 19 | Width: 5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Stegemann (1934: p. 21); Collection Website (17/10/2018) |
Folding pattern: | 4 vertical and 4 horizontal creases. |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary, significant damage along creases, top left-hand section of the parchment is lost. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 41 lines. |
Hand: | Bookhand’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 21) |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 357 |
Collection website: | http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00004842 |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Krall, Jakob. “Koptische Amulette.” 5 (1892): 117-118.t |
Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 77-79, no. 25. |
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. 191-193. |
Trismegistos ID: | 91418 |
PAThs: | 1704 |
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” | 142 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | 2.25 |
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 17/10/2018; 12/12/2018; EL (4/1/2019); KD (19/11/2019); EL (19/8/2020); MPS (10/11/2021); KD (27/1/2022) |