Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | PGM Christian 21 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary ?) |
Contents: | 1. p. 1 ll. 1-25, p. 2 ll. 1-28: Prayer for favour and success in Greek, ends with plea in Coptic. |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 28.3 | Width: 24 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Hopfner (1935: p. 355); Preisendanz (1974, p. 229) |
Folding pattern: | |
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): | Bifolio; inner two pages written. Page 2: 25 lines, page 3: 28 lines column 2. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (TM places ID: 332) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332) |
Present Location: | Prague, National Library |
Collection History: | Owned by Wessely. Donated in 1934 to the National Library in Prague by Theodor Hopfner. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 286 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Contains “NN”, thus perhaps formulary ? Contains name of scribe – Besadoros – in postscript. Valentinian echoes (see De Bruyn 2013). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Hopfner, Theodor. “Ein neuer Griechischer Zauberpapyrus (Pap. Wessely Pragens Grae. 1). Mit Tafeln.” Archiv Orientální 7 (1935): 355-366 (first complete edition of the text). |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 55-56, no. 36. |
General: | de Bruyn, Theodore. “An Anatomy of Tradition: The Case of the Charitēsion,” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 16.1 (2015): 31–50, p. 41–42 and 45. |
Trismegistos ID: | 64512 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | Christian 21 |
SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 36 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 180 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | |||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | 1035 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | 39 |
TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | MPS (4/3/2019); EL (21/6/2019); MPS (27/5/2020); EL (31/8/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); MPS (26/10/2021) |