Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Hermitage Copt. 55 + 71 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary ?) |
Contents: | Original use: 1. Lectionary (survives on first page = no. 55) Re-use: 2. pp. 2-6: Love spell (= no. 71) |
Form: | Codex |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 19 | Width: 10 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Jernstedt (1959: p. 135, 157) |
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State of preservation: | Fragmentary; only first two pages survive in full. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 6 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 5 pages survive of what was originally presumably a six-page codex: page 2, 13 lines; page 3, 20 lines; page 4, 19 lines; page 5, 5 surviving lines; page 6, 2 surviving lines. |
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Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum |
Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 316 |
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Bibiliography |
Editions: | Jernstedt, Peter Viktorovich. Коптские тексты государственного Эрмитажа (P.Hermitage). Moskow-Leningrad: Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1959, p. 135–136, 157–163, nos. 56, 71. |
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Trismegistos ID: | 109333 |
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” | 188 |
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 (13/12/2018); EL (25/3/2019); EL (13/8/2020); MPS (12/1/2022) |