Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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British Library MS Or 5986 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-30: Applied curse against Biktōr-Hatre, his son Daueid, and Papnoute. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Akhmimic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | Akhmimic (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 399), but lacks the characteristic barred hori (ⳉ). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
401 – 500 |
| Date notes: | 5th century date likely based on dialect and hand, cf. Vienna K 10157 (PAThs Manuscript 1028; KD + EL 22/9/2021); 9th-11th according to TM (17/9/18); 601-700 (EL from British Library Catalogue on 19/12/19) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A79 |
| Archive name: | Russian-British Akhmimic Curse Group |
| State of edition: | Published. No image. New edition desirable. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 32.5 | Width: 20 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions (EL from autopsy on 19/12/19); 13 x 7.875 inches (Crum 1905: p. 506). |
| Folding pattern: | 4/6 (?) vertical and 4/10 (?) horizontal creases (EL from autopsy on 19/12/19). |
| State of preservation: | Complete, damage along rightmost vertical creases and in the centre middle of the right-hand portion (intersection of central vertical and horizontal creases) (EL from autopsy on 19/12/19) |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto (→), 30 lines. |
| Hand: | Russian-British Akhmimic Curse Group Hand |
| Findspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 576) |
| Place of purchase: | Luxor, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2985) |
| Writingspot: | Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 576) |
| Present Location: | London, British Library |
| Collection History: | Acquired from Rev. Chauncey Murch (1856-1907) in 1901 (EL from British Library Catalogue on 19/12/19) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
192 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | Framed alone, also labelled “GSA3” (EL from autopsy on 19/12/19) |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter E.. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London, British Museum, 1905, p. 506-507, no. 1224. |
| Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 225-228, no. 66. |
| General: | Department of Oriental P.B. and Mss. (British Library), List of Oriental Manuscripts 1890-1908, Or. 4047-6947, p. 226. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99578 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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88 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
209 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.66 |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| 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: | EL (17/9/18); KD (15/5/2019); MPS (20/9/2019); KD (27/1/2020); MPS (28/8/2020); EL (2/9/2020); KD (6/10/2021) |