Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PCM 1 23 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro l. 1: Testimonies of witnesses to a legal transaction (Arabic, unpublished) Re-use: 2. Ro ll. 1-19: Separation spell (curse) to undo couple. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Fayumic features |
| Language/dialect notes: | Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 261-262. Cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 396), who lists as Fayumic. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
967 – 967 |
| Date notes: | Year 684 AM Phaophi 11=9th October 967 CE (colophon). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A8 |
| Archive name: | Heidelberg Library |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_682/0001/image,info,thumbs |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 30.5 | Width: 9.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Bilabel and Grohmann 1934: p. 393; 31 x 9.8 cm (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 310) |
| 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 verso, 51 lines. (magical re-use) Original use has a 1 Arabic text on recto. |
| Hand: | Deacon Iohannes |
| Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Place of purchase: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Present Location: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
| Collection History: | Inherited from Carl Schmidt’s collection, purchased by him in May 1930, perhaps in the Fayum, perhaps via Maurice Nahman (Gardner and Johnston 2019: p. 32). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
156 |
| Collection website: | https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_682 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Following Bilabel/Grohmann (1934) and Meyer/Smith (1999) Ro ll. 1-47 have usually been understood as a single spell, but the two sets of ritual instructions, kharaktēres and different conceptions of the curse (undo vs. bind) suggests they are separate (KD 12/2/2020). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Bilabel, Friedrich, and Adolf Grohmann. Griechische, koptische und arabische Texte zur Religion und religiösen Literatur in Ägyptens Spätzeit, Heidelberg: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, 1934, p. 393-396, no. 137. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 179-180, no. 86. |
| General: | Love, Edward O. D. ““Crum’s Chicken”: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts”, in Magikon Zōon: Animal and Magic, edited by Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming). |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99576 |
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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86 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
176 |
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: | EL (25/9/18); MPS (30/8/2019); KD (13/9/2019); KD (30/9/2019); MPS (4/9/2020); SVS (08/09/2022); MPS (20/10/2022); KD (1/2/2023); KD (20/11/2023) |