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KYPRIANOS M286

Sigla:

BM EA 10376
London Hay 10376
British Museum, Dept. of Oriental Antiq. 1037
Hay 2

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Magical (formulary)
Contents:	1. Ro ll. 1-28: Love spell.
	See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):	Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):	Coptic
Dialect:	Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:	Zellmann-Rohrer (2022), cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 391), who lists as Sahidic; See related texts for further notes. Dosoo (2024) notes particularly Theban traits in the Sahidic.
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	701 – 900
Date notes:	Dated to the eight to ninth century by radio-carbon dating (Zellman-Rohrer 2022: p. 1051). 501-700 (Crum 1934: p. 51) followed by TM (7/1/2019)
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.	KYP A19
Archive name:	London Hay Collection
State of edition:	Published.
Image:	https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=1613270773&objectId=110129&partId=1#more-views

Form:	Rotulus
Material:	Leather

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 39

Width: 24

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Zellamnn-Rohrer (fc.); (Collection Website 16/4/2019) 16 x 9 1/2 inches (Crum 1934: p. 51) (Meyer & Smith 1999: p. 164).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Incomplete. Pieces from the sides missing.
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, 28 lines.
Hand:	London Hay Scribe Copyist 1b

Findspot:	Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase:	Luxor, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 576)
Writingspot:	Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:	London, British Museum
Collection History:	Acquired by Robert James Hay between 1824 and 1835; purchased from his son, Robert James Alexander Hay by the BM in 1868 cf. O’Connel 2022: p. 3; 24-25
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	193
Collection website:	https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10376

Notes/Discussion:

Same scribe as BM EA 10414. See AKZ (1931), I, 55 ff., II, 40 ff.

“According to Crum EA 10376, 10122, 10414, 10434, 10391 were written by the same hand and were probably acquired by Hay at Thebes (1934, p. 51 and 195).” (Col. website 14/6/2019)

The skins were poorly prepared and, in at least two cases offcuts. This suggest an opportunistic acquisition of materials which supports the characterisation of the writers as occasional rather than professional copyists, cf. O’Connel 2022: p. 1

Bibiliography

Editions:	Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic I.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 1/2 (1934): 51–53. ★ Zellman-Rohrer, Michael. “Hay 2.” In The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather. A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of the Magical Practice, edited by Elisabeth R. O`Connell. British Museum Research Publications 233. London: British Museum Press, 2022, 111–123.
Translations:	Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 164-166, no. 78.
General:	Boud’hors, “Bulletin Critique: Anne. Elisabeth R. O’Connell (éd.), The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice, Londres, The British Museum”, Antiquité Tardive 31 (2023) 419-421. Dosoo, Korshi. “A New Publication of the London Hay Archive”, Journal of Coptic Studies 26 (2024), 287-298. Grumach, Irene. “On the History of a Coptic Figura Magica”. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Papyrology: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 13-17 August 1968, edited by Deborah H. Samuel. Toronto: Hakkert, 1970, p. 172–173. Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “An Assemblage of Coptic Magical Texts on Leather and Their Traditional Context (P.Brit.Mus. inv. no. EA 10122, 10376, 10391, 10434, 10414).” In Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Papyrology. Lecce, 28 July-3 August 2019, ed. Edited by Mario Capasso, Paola Davoli, Natascia Pellé. Lecce: Centro di Studi Papirologici dell’Università del Salento, 2022, 1049-1064. Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “The Text and Traditional Context of the ‘Hay Cookbook’ and Associated Magical Texts on Leather”. In BEC 4: Proceedings of the 4th British Egyptology Congress, 7-9 September 2018, University of Manchester (2018), ed. Carl Graves. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2020, 169-179.

Trismegistos ID:

99554

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae		SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic	78
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”	128	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 (4/1/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (31/7/2019); KD (16/9/2019); KD (27/11/2019); MPS (4/9/2020); EL (8/9/2020); KD (26/4/2022); JS (23/12/2022); MPS (1/3/2023); KD (23/1/2025)

How to cite:

Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M286," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m286. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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