Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PCM 1 18 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-20: Curse to cause sickness. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic |
Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 380. |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 701 – 800 |
Date notes: | 8th century according to Dosoo/Preininger (2023: 247). 501-700 (TM 4/2/2019). |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://findit.library.yale.edu/bookreader/BookReaderDemo/index.html?oid=15518107#page/1/mode/1up |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 32.4 | Width: 24.1 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Online Catalogue (4/2/2019) |
Folding pattern: | 8 horizontal creases, 3 (?) vertical creases. |
State of preservation: | Complete with bottom right-hand corner missing and damage along folds. |
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, 20 lines. |
Hand: | ⲏ in miniscule; ⲉϩ ligatured (l. 14) |
Findspot: | Middle Egypt, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2800) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Middle Egypt, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2800) |
Present Location: | New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library |
Collection History: | Acquired on 1 May 1964 from the dealer Hans P. Kraus in New York (Collection Website 4/2/2019). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 242 |
Collection website: | https://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759462 |
Notes/Discussion: |
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. 247-249, no. 18. |
Translations: | |
General: | Friedman, Florence D. Beyond the Pharaohs : Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th centuries A.D., Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1989, p. 198. |
Trismegistos ID: | 99993 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 106 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 9 |
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: | EL (4/2/2019); MPS (30/8/2019); KD (28/11/2019); MPS (8/9/2020); KD (9/7/2022); KD (20/11/2023) |