Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PCM 1 22 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-41: Prayer for favour. |
| 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) and TM (25/9/2018), who lists as Fayumic. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
951 – 1000 |
| Date notes: | Written in same hand as P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 (M291), dated by its colophon to 967 CE. 976-1000 (TM 25/9/2018); 901-1000 due to similarities with P. Baden 5 137 (=P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 (M291)) (Mößner & Nauerth 2015: p. 310). |
| 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_681/0001/image |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 29.5 | Width: 10.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website 20/10/2022; 29.5 x 10.9 Bilabel & Grohmann (1934: p. 400); 29.5 x 10cm (Mößner & Nauerth 2015: p. 310). |
| Folding pattern: | No discernible creases (EL from image 8/9/2020). |
| 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, 63 lines divided by lines into 4 sections. |
| 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 & Johnston 2019: p. 32; Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 259, 269). |
| 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_681 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| 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. 400-404, no. 139. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 212-215, no. 105. |
| General: | Gardner, Iain and Jay Johnston. “‘I, Deacon Iohannes, Servant Of Michael’: A New Look at P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 and a Possible Context for the Heidelberg Magical Archive.” Journal of Coptic Studies 21 (2019): 31-32. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99609 |
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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105 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
178 |
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); KD (21/4/2019); MPS (30/8/2019); KD (13/9/2019); EL (8/9/2020); KD (17/11/2020); MPS (22/2/2021); KD (22/2/2021); KD (1/2/2023); KD (20/11/2023) |