Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Montserrat Magical Book I |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original Use: 1. Coptic text of Ephesians and Philippians Re-use (palimpsest): 2. 607b + 326 (hair side, top): Curse of sickness |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
701 – 1000 |
| Date notes: | Dating provisional. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A29 |
| Archive name: | Montserrat Magical Archive |
| State of edition: | Unpublished; edition in progress by Korshi Dosoo. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Codex (?) |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 27.5 | Width: 21 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Measurements by KD. |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary; 3 fragments. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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4 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 4 pages survive, one column on each. |
| Hand: | Unimodular, bilinear, slanting. |
| 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: | 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: | Unclear if codex or loose leaves. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Torallas Tovar, Sofía. Biblica Coptica Montserratensia (P. Monts. Roca II). Barcelona: Publ. de l’Abadía de Montserrat, 2007, p. 103-111, pl. 26-28. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 130515 |
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 (20/2/2019); EL (1/8/2019); MPS (22/3/2021); MPS (12/1/2022) |