Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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British Library MS Or 4721 (2) |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll.1-7: Applied magical text of unclear purposes, containing the names of Jesus, angels and vowel sequences. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) (?) |
| Script(s): | Coptic (?) |
| Dialect: | [non-linguistic] |
| Language/dialect notes: | Sahidic (?) (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 398) |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 800 |
| Date notes: | TM (19/9/2018) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A59 |
| Archive name: | British Library Graf Archive |
| State of edition: | Published. No image. New edition desirable. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 10.4 | Width: 23.8 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions EL (from autopsy on 17/11/2019); 4 x 9.25 inches (Crum 1905: p. 174) |
| Folding pattern: | 4 (?) vertical and 5/6 horizontal creases (EL from autopsy on 17/12/2019) “formerly folded several times” (Crum 1905: p. 174) |
| State of preservation: | Complete. Holes in vertical bands across the entire width of the sheet (EL from autopsy on 17/12/2019) “much dilapidated” (Crum 1905: p. 174) |
| 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, 7 lines. |
| Hand: | Uncial (Crum 1905: p. 174) |
| Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum) (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
| Present Location: | London, British Library |
| Collection History: | Purchased from [Theodor?] Graf, perhaps in 1893 (Crum 1905: p. 174) |
| 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. 174, no. 371. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 100199 |
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” |
199 |
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: | EL (19/9/2018; 17/12/2019); MPS 14/1/2019; KD (10/12/2019); EL (2/9/2020); MPS (12/1/2022) |