Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | British Library MS Or 4926 (3) |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro: Arabic text Re-use: Healing formulae |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Paper |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 17.8 | Width: 13.9 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions (EL from autopsy on 20/12/2019); 7 x 5.5 inches (Crum 1905: p. 255) |
Folding pattern: | Very hard to discern any (very wrinkled), perhaps page of a loose leaf folio and therefore not folded? (EL from autopsy on 20/12/2019) |
State of preservation: | Fragment, complete in width (Crum 1905: p. 255), broken at the top and bottom, holes of damage throughout from being eaten (EL from autopsy on 20/12/2019). Recto text makes is clear that the sheet originally inscribed in Arabic was cut to size (left-hand margin of Arabic text not preserved) for its magical reuse (EL from autopsy on 20/12/2019) |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 25 surviving lines divided into 6 sections with 5 register lines. |
Hand: | Sloping, ligatureless hand of Zoega’s 9th class (Crum 1905: p.421) |
Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
Place of purchase: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Present Location: | London, British Library |
Collection History: | Acquired by the British Library in 1895 (British Library Catalogue; EL 17/12/2019) |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 192 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Recipes separated by dividing lines. 4920 (3) and 4926 (3) are catalogued together with Or 4916-4928 (4924 and 4925 being Arabic) (EL from British Library catalogue on 17/12/2019) The British Library order system includes this under item Or. 4920(9) |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1905, p. 255-256, no. 527. |
Translations: | |
General: |
Trismegistos ID: | 86154 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 203 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | |||
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); EL (4/12/2019); EL (20/12/2019); MPS (25/2/2019); KD (15/5/2019); Team (6/7/2020); EL (2/9/2020); MPS (12/1/2022) |