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KYPRIANOS M302

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

BM EA 10391
London Hay 10391
BM Registration number 1868,1102.464
London Hay “Cookbook”
Hay 1

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-12: Invocation for healing of every sickness
2. Ro ll. 12-27: Invocation for favour
3. Ro ll. 28-37: Invocation for favour
4. Ro ll. 38-49: Bowl divination procedure
5. Ro ll. 50-58: Thumbnail (?) divination procedure
6. Ro l. 58: For a sore head
7. Ro ll. 59-60: For a sore head
8. Ro l. 60: An eye that has darkened
9. Vo, ll. 61-65: For a flow of blood
10. Vo, ll. 66-67: Concerning sleep
11. Vo, ll. 67-69: Protection
12. Vo, ll. 69-73: For healing/protection from every spirit of sickness
13. Vo, ll. 74-76: Invocation of Marmariooth
14. Vo, ll. 76-78: To make person leave their house
15. Vo, ll. 78-79: For favour
16. Vo, ll. 79-80: To destroy a place
17. Vo, ll. 80-82: To cause derangement
18. Vo, ll. 82-84: To separate friends (separation)
19. Vo, ll. 85-86: To cause prostration
20. Vo, ll. 86-87: To “cool” a workshop
21. Vo, ll. 87-89: To make a workshop work
22. Vo, ll. 89-90: To cause a quarrel and argument
23. Vo, ll. 90-91: Love spell (?)
24. Vo, ll. 93-94: For one who thinks evil
25. Vo, ll. 94-95: To destroy someone
26. Vo, ll. 95-96: Separation/love spell
27. Vo, ll. 96-98: Separation/love spell
28. Vo, ll. 99-104: Invocation for unclear purposes
29. Vo, ll. 105-144: Invocation for unclear purposes
30. Vo, ll. 145-150: Curse against a man’s virility
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (with non-standard orthography)
Language/dialect notes:

Zellmann-Rohrer (2022), cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 383), who lists as Sahidic. Dosoo (2024) notes particularly Theban traits in the Sahidic.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 701 – 900
Date notes:

Dated to the eight to ninth century by radio-carbon dating (Zellman-Rohrer 2022: p. 1051). 501-700 (Crum 1934: p. 51) followed by TM (7/1/2019)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A19
Archive name: London Hay Collection
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10391

Form:

Rotulus
Material:

Leather
Dimensions (cm): Height: 65 Width: 19 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Zellmann-Rohrer (fc.); Collection Website (19/10/2018); 64.5 x 19 (Meyer & Smith 1999: p. 263).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, large pieces missing on both sides of the text; bands of dark staining and horizontal cracks indicate rolling along the horizontal, from top to bottom with the grain side inwards, leaving a blank portion of the flesh side facing out, cf. Zellmann-Rohrer 2022: p. 81.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column on the recto (grain side); the text on the verso (flesh side) begins as one column until a more complex arrangement is introduced to fit the text around some ritual drawings, cf.Zellmann-Rohrer 2022: p. 81. 60 lines recto, 90 lines verso cf. Zellmann-Rohrer 2022: p. 86-93 .
Hand:

London Hay Scribe Copyist 1a. Similar to that of Hay 2 but not enough to be assigned with certainty to the same copyist; practiced Coptic majuscule, unimodular in the typology of Orsini cf, Zellmann-Rohrer 2022: p. 81.

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase:

Luxor, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 576)
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

London, British Museum
Collection History:

Purchased from Robert James Hay in 1868 (Collection Website 4/9/2020), who perhaps acquired them in Thebes (Crum 1934: p. 51).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10391

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, no. M, p. 55–62.

★ Zellman-Rohrer, Michael. “Hay 1.” In The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather. A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of the Magical Practice, edited by Elisabeth R. O`Connell. British Museum Research Publications 233. London: British Museum Press, 2022, 79–110.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, no. 14, p. 40–53.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 263–269, no. 127.
General:

Boud’hors, “Bulletin Critique: Anne. Elisabeth R. O’Connell (éd.), The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice, Londres, The British Museum”, Antiquité Tardive 31 (2023) 419-421.

Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic I.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 1/2 (1934): 51–53.

Crum, Walter E. “Magical Texts in Coptic II.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 20 3/4 (1934): 195–200.

Dosoo, Korshi. “A New Publication of the London Hay Archive”, Journal of Coptic Studies 26 (2024), 287-298.

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “An Assemblage of Coptic Magical Texts on Leather and Their Traditional Context (P.Brit.Mus. inv. no. EA 10122, 10376, 10391, 10434, 10414).” In Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of Papyrology. Lecce, 28 July-3 August 2019, ed. Edited by Mario Capasso, Paola Davoli, Natascia Pellé. Lecce: Centro di Studi Papirologici dell’Università del Salento, 2022, 1049-1064.

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “The Text and Traditional Context of the ‘Hay Cookbook’ and Associated Magical Texts on Leather”. In BEC 4: Proceedings of the 4th British Egyptology Congress, 7-9 September 2018, University of Manchester (2018), ed. Carl Graves. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2020, 169-179.

Zellman-Rohrer, Michael. “Catalogue.” In The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather. A Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Materiality of the Magical Practice, edited by Elisabeth R. O`Connell. British Museum Research Publications 233. London: British Museum Press, 2022, p. 79–180.

Trismegistos ID:

100015

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

127
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

50

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

1.M, 2.14

 CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (19/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (28/10/2019); KD (2/12/2019); KD (2/3/2020); EL (7/9/2020); KD (26/4/2022); JS (23/12/2022); MPS (1/3/2023); KD (17/4/2023); KD (16/1/2023); KD (23/1/2025)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M302," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m302. Accessed on 24/10/2025

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