Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Montserrat Magical Book II |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Pages from a codex containing the Coptic text of 2 Samuel Ro re-use (palimpsest): 2. 604 + 1235 Ro: Love spell Vo re-use: 4. 604 + 1235 Vo: Binding silencing curse |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
601 – 1000 |
| Date notes: | Dating provisional; 451-500 (TM 25/2/2019), but this is for the original use, not the re-use as a magical text. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A29 |
| Archive name: | Montserrat Magical Archive |
| State of edition: | Magical texts unpublished. Edition in progress by Korshi Dosoo |
| Image: |
| Form: | Rotulus |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 126 | Width: 16 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Calculated from size of individual fragments. 16 (W) x at least 126 cm (H) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary – 22 fragments. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso. |
| Hand: | Montserrat Magical Book II Hand |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Montserrat, Abadia |
| Collection History: | Manuscript divided between Montserrat Abadia collection, McGill University, and the Barcelona Palau Ribes collection. McGill section was purchased from Erik von Scherling, Swedish rare book dealer in 1956; it was assigned the item number Rotulus 4 (1937) (Jones 2013; p. 126). The Montserrat section would have been acquired by Ramón Roca-Puig in Egypt in the 1950s. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
232 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Jones, Brice C. “A New Coptic Fragment of 2 Samuel 10:13-14, 17-18: McGill MS NO Coptic 2.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 184 (2013): 126-130. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 126174 |
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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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
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: | KD (11/12/2018); MPS (25/2/2019); EL (26/3/2019); team (6/7/2020); KD (12/10/2023) |