Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Monts. Roca. Inv. 980 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied ?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-5: Voces magicae, kharaktēres, and a drawing of an orant figure. |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 4.6 | Width: 15.3 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Martín-Hernández/Torallas-Tovar 2022: p. 244. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Complete (?). Damage to upper, right, and lower right margins. |
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 (↓). |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | Egypt (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Montserrat, Abadia |
Collection History: | Acquired by Dr. Ramón Roca-Puig in Egypt in the 1950s. Bequeathed to the Abbey of Monserrat by him in 2001 (Martín-Hernández, Torallas-Tovar 2014: p. 175). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 232 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | The preserved text has no clear semantic content, and so cannot be straightforwardly read as either Greek or Coptic (KD 26/9/2023). Martín-Hernández & Torallas-Tovar (2022: p. 245) that the image may suggest it was a love spell (“attraction procedure”). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Martín Hernández, Raquel and Sofía Torallas Tovar. “Magical Texts from Barcelona (Montserrat Abbey and Palau Ribes Collections)”, Symbolae Osloenses 96:1 (2022): 243-246 no. 1. |
Translations: | |
General: | Martín-Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas-Tovar. “A Magical Spell on an Ostracon at The Abbey of Montserrat.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014): 175-184. |
Trismegistos ID: | 983692 |
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” | 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: | KD (30/4/2021); KD (20/4/2022); KD (26/9/2023) |