Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PCM 1 10 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro ll. 1-22: Prayer for pregnancy (healing). Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-20: Account of Wine |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 386. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
601 – 700 |
| Date notes: | Dosoo/Preininger (2023: 104) date to the seventh century. 7th to 8th century according to TM (26/9/2022). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A44 |
| Archive name: | Monastery of Apa Apollo |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/collimages/3/351423v_0001.jpg |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 28.6 | Width: 21.7 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection Website (14/6/2019); 21.8 x 28 cm (Meyer & Smith 1999: p. 176). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (original use) (→), 1 column verso (re-use) (↓). Recto 22 lines, verso 20 lines. Verso at 180 degrees to recto. Kollesis in visible in centre of sheet. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Monastery of Apa Apollo, Bawit, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 10454) |
| Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740) |
| Writingspot: | Monastery of Apa Apollo, Bawit, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 10454) |
| Present Location: | New York, Pierpont Morgan Library |
| Collection History: | Acquired by Francis Willey Kelsey in 1920 from the Cairo-based dealer Maurice Nahman (MacCoull 1979–1982: p. 1) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
250 |
| Collection website: | http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=351423 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Re-use is apparently from a monastic milieu (mention of “brothers”). |
| 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. 103-107, no. 10. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 176, no. 83. |
| General: | Friedman, Florence D. (ed.). Beyond the Pharaohs. Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A.D. Providence: Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art, 1989, p. 196, no. 108. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99570 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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83 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
83 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| 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 (18/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (28/11/2019); KD (19/6/2020); MPS (4/9/2020); KD (10/3/2021); MPS (26/9/2022); KD (20/11/2023) |