Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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British Library MS Or 4721 (5) |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-21: Formula for healing of battle wounds. |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 21.5 | Width: 22.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions (EL from autopsy on 17/12/2019); 9.75 x 9 inches (Crum 1905: p. 255) |
| Folding pattern: | 6 horizontal and 1 vertical creases, where break at the top is almost certainly a horizontal crease, and missing right-hand side of the top broke along vertical crease (EL from autopsy on 17/12/2019) |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary, top and right-hand side of the top half missing, with some damage along folds. One smaller fragment joins with ll. 5-7 (EL from autopsy on 17/12/2019) |
| 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, 21 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | London, British Library |
| Collection History: | Acquired by the British Library in 1893 (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/2019) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
192 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | Framed as: MS Or 4720 (10); 4721 (1); 4721 (2); 4721 (3); 4721 (4); 4721 (5); 4721 (6) (EL from autopsy on 17/12/2019) |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1905, p. 255, no. 525. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 69-70, no. 20. |
| General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième journée dàétudes (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. 189-190. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 98060 |
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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69 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
199 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.2 |
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 (19/9/2018; 4/12/2019; 17/12/2019); MPS (20/2/2019); KD (15/5/2019); Team (6/7/2020); EL (2/9/2020) |