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KYPRIANOS M289

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

BM EA 10122
London Hay 10122
BM Registration number 1868,1102.462
68.11.2.458+459
Hay 4

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-4: One or more recipes (image of boat).
2. Ro ll. 5-13: Gathering spell for dovecote (?)
3. Ro ll. 13-46: Gathering/business spell
4. Vo: Images of 9 Guardians (amulet for protection?).
5. Vo ll. x+1-x+17: Healing spell for gynaecological problem.

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. Dosoo (2024) notes particularly Theban traits in the Sahidic.

Date: question mark icon 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: question mark icon 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=1613270769&objectId=114059&partId=1#more-views

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Leather

Dimensions (cm): Height: 36 Width: 8.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Zellmann-Roher (fc.); 39 x 24 cm (Collection website 14/6/2019); 14 x 3 1/4 inches (Crum 1934: p. 197) (Meyer & Smith 1999: p. 171).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, two fragments.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon 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. Recto 40 lines, Verso at least 17 lines.

Hand:

London Hay Scribe Copyist 2

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:

Purchased from Robert James Hay in 1868 (Collection Website 14/6/2019), who perhaps acquired them in Thebes (Crum 1934: p. 51).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon 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:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic II.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 3/4 (1934): 197–200.

★ Zellman-Rohrer, Michael. “Hay 4.” 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, 141–156.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 171-174, no. 81.


General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): 58-86, esp. p. 82.

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.

Leach, Bridget. “Tanning Tests for Two Documents Written on Animal Skin.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 81 (1995): 241–243.

Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic II.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 3/4 (1934): 197–200.

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:

99566

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

81

Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

130

AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (18/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (27/11/2019); MPS (4/9/2020); EL (8/9/2020); KD (26/4/2022); JS (28/02/2023); MPS (1/3/2023); KD (2/2/2024); KD (23/1/2025)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M289," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m289. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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