Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PCM 1 15 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-8 – Vo ll. 1-5: Historiola-based healing charm for eye problem in which Jesus encounters a pupil (?). |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes; Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 394). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
601 – 800 |
| Date notes: | 7th to 8th century (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 228). 7th century according to the collection website (3/3/2020): 601-800 (TM 19/10/2018). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA29528 |
| Form: | Tablet |
| Material: | Wood |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 8.6 | Width: 25.2 | Depth: 0.9 |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection Website (19/10/2018) |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Complete, cracked. Palimpsest (?). |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso. Recto 8 lines, verso 5 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Deir el Bakhit, Thebes (?) (TM places ID: 61492) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Deir el Bakhit, Thebes (?) (TM places ID: 61492) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Acquired from Jean d’Anastasy in 1839 (Collection Website 3/3/2020). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
193 |
| Collection website: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA29528 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 228-231, no. 15. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 66-67, no. 18. |
| General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième 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. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 82864 |
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” |
153 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.18 |
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: | MPS (19/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (9/12/2019); KD (3/3/2020); MPS (3/9/2020); EL (8/9/2020); KD (24/1/2021); KD (25/10/2022); MPS (17/1/2023); KD (20/11/2023) |