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Montserrat Magical Book II |
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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 |
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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. |
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KYP A29 |
Archive name: | Montserrat Magical Archive |
State of edition: | Magical texts unpublished. Edition in progress by Korshi Dosoo |
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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) |
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State of preservation: | Fragmentary – 22 fragments. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Edit History: | KD (11/12/2018); MPS (25/2/2019); EL (26/3/2019); team (6/7/2020); KD (12/10/2023) |