Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Cairo JdE 42573 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. p. l ll. 1-3: To banish a man from his village (?) (curse) |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Paper |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 14.8 | Width: 10.6 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Chassinat 1955: p. 7. |
Folding pattern: | Bifolio shows one horizontal and vertical crease on each page, showing that the manuscript as a whole was folded once in each direction. |
State of preservation: | Complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 4 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 4-page codex. Fol. 1 Ro: (=p. 1) 23 lines, Vo (=p. 2): 23 lines; fol. 2. Ro (=p. 3) 24 lines; Vo (=p. 3): 25 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Cairo, Coptic Museum |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 72 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Chassinat, Émile. Le manuscrit magique copte no. 42573 du Musée égyptien du Caire. Bibliothèque d’études coptes. Vol. 4. Cairo: L’Institut français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1955. |
Translations: | Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Texte und Riten in koptischer Schrift”. In Altägyptische Zaubersprüche, edited by Hans.-W, Fischer-Elfert. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 2005, p. 126-129, 175-176. |
General: | Drescher, James. “Review of Le Manuscrit magique copte No. 42573 du Musée Égyptien du Caire by É. Chassinat”. In The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 43 (1957): 118-121. |
Trismegistos ID: | 102268 |
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” | 134 |
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: | MPS (24/9/2018); MPS (15/2/2019); KD (23/5/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (17/2/2020); Team (13/7/2020); MPS (22/3/2021) |