Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Cambridge UL TS 12.740 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) (?) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-28: Spell for protection against evil |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Bohairic |
Language/dialect notes: | KD (29/9/2023) |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 901 – 1200 |
Date notes: | Date range is that of typical Genizah texts of this type. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A21 |
Archive name: | Cairo Genizah |
State of edition: | Unpublished. |
Image: |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Paper |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 9.1 | Width: 12.7 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Dimensions from Friedberg Cairo Genizah Project. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary. Remains of one bifolio, one nearly complete folio (with some damage to upper part of outer edge) and one nearly lost folio. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 4 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 4 surviving pages, 2 almost fully preserved, 2 very partially preserved. 21 and 20 lines survive on the preserved pages. |
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Findspot: | Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 389) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Babylon (Cairo), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 389) |
Present Location: | Cambridge, University Library |
Collection History: | Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection (online catalogue, accessed 5/4/2019). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 79 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
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General: | Entry for “Cambridge UL TS 12.740”, Friedberg Cairo Genizah Project (https://fgp.genizah.org; 3/10/2023) |
Trismegistos ID: | 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 (29/9/2023); KD (28/2/2024) |