Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 564a |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-11: Applied amulet to heal and protect Patrikou invoking the Three Hebrew Youths. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Fayumic |
Language/dialect notes: | See related text for further notes; Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 17). |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 601 – 800 |
Date notes: | 7th or 8th century date suggested by Bélanger Sarrazin (2024: p. 81). 641-1200 according to TM (19/9/2018) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Papyri/K0564_Quecke/ |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Parchment |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 6.4 | Width: 10.3 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Quecke (1963); Mößner & Nauerth (2015: p. 308); 10.2 x 6.3c m (Meyer & Smith 1999: p. 100) |
Folding pattern: | 4 even horizontal creases, might have been rolled. |
State of preservation: | Incomplete, parts of the middle of the parchment are missing. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 11 lines. |
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: | Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie |
Collection History: | Acquired in 1896 by K. Reinhardt as part of a large number of papyri, parchments and wooden tablets, and sold 1897 to the University of Heidelberg (Seider 1964: p. 143-4. 168). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 156 |
Collection website: | http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/%7Egv0/Papyri/K0564_Quecke/K0564_Quecke.html |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Quecke, Hans. “Zwei koptische Amulette der Papyrussammlung der Universität Heidelberg.” Le Muséon 76 (1963): 255–265. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 100, no. 53. |
General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): 58-86, esp. p. 62, 81. |
Trismegistos ID: | 98047 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 53 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 151 |
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 (19/9/2018); EL (21/6/2019); KD (22/1/2020); KD (15/2/2021); EL (24/2/2021); KD (3/10/2021); SVS (08/09/2022); KD (2/2/2024) |