Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Sorb. Copt. 2 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. p. 1 l. 1-p. 5 l. 6: Adjuration or series of adjurations to angelic beings; later sections may include literary texts of a “Gnostic” character. |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 11.5 | Width: 14.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Fragment a: 13.5 (W) x 9.5 (H); Fragment b: 13 (H) x 9,5 (H); Fragment c: 14.5 (W) x 11.5 (H) (Dosoo 2022: 30-32). |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary. Considerable damage to individual pages, unclear how many may be missing. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 6 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 6 pages surviving, of which 5 have text. |
Hand: | Bilinear |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Paris, Sorbonne, Institut de Papyrologie |
Collection History: | Part of ‘fonds Weill’, a collection of three lots of papyri acquired by Raymond Weill in Egypt between 1909 and 1912 before being donated to the Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne in 1922. This particular manuscript (Weill III.5+7) seems to belong to the third lot, acquired in Mallawi in Middle Egypt in 1912 (Dosoo 2022: 27). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 275 |
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Bibiliography |
Editions: | Dosoo, Korshi. “2. ‘Magical’ Adjuration'”, in Coptica Sorbonensia. Textes de la 6e école d’été de papyrologie copte, Paris, 2-11 juillet 2018 (P. Sorb. Copt.). Paris: Association des Amis du Centre de l’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2022, p. 27-39. |
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Trismegistos ID: | 874179 |
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; MPS (18/6/2019); EL (1/8/2019); team (10/7/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (8/4/2022); KD (2/11/2022) |