Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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British Library MS Or 6795 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-58: Spell for good fishing (skill). |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes; cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 382) |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
551 – 650 |
| Date notes: | c. 600 CE (Crum in Kropp 1931: p. xi); 476-525 (TM 21/3/2019) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A15 |
| Archive name: | British Museum Portfolio |
| State of edition: | Published. New edition desirable. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Rotulus |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 66 | Width: 17 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Kropp (1931: p. 32) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete. Damage to the right-hand margin. |
| 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, 58 lines. |
| Hand: | British Museum Scribe |
| Findspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355) |
| Present Location: | London, British Library |
| Collection History: | Acquired in 1907 with Or 6794, 6796 (1-4) (List of Oriental Manuscripts: p. 301) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
192 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 32-35, no. F. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 97-101, no. 30. |
| General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 197-198. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 100018 |
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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130 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
46 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
1.F, 2.30 |
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 (21/3/2019); KD (5/4/2019); MPS (2/9/2019); KD (2/12/2019); EL (2/9/2020) |