Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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BM EA 75437 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-12, col. 2 ll. 1-13: Formulary containing an invocation to cause sleep, perhaps love spell. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
501 – 800 |
| Date notes: | Dating uncertain, but this range seems probable; see Zellmann-Rohrer 2025, p. 812. |
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Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=1613299327&objectid=1555290 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 1.25 | Width: 3.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Collection website (21/3/2019). |
| Folding pattern: | 14 (?) vertical folds, 7 (?) horizontal folds. |
| State of preservation: | Complete but damaged. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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3 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 columns recto (↓), 12 and 13 lines, at 90 degrees to one another. 1 line of recto and drawing of human figure verso. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | London, British Museum |
| Collection History: | Original acquisition unknown; originally offered for sale by Christies in London in 1978, then sold by Christie’s in an auction to the British Museum in 1996 (Zellmann-Rohrer 2025, p. 812). |
| 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_EA75437 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: |
Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Enoch the Cosmic Scribe and Other Problems in British Museum Coptic Texts: Reflections on Magic and Astrology in Late Antiquity.” In Actes du XXXe Congrès international de Papyrologie, edited by Jean-Luc Fournet. Studia Papyrologica et Aegyptiaca Parisina 7. Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance: Paris, 2025, 814-816. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: |
874196 |
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” |
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 (21/3/2019); MPS (12/9/2019); KD (17/12/2019); MPS (2/X/2020); KD (21/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M387," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m387. Accessed on 26/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.