Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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British Library MS Or 6172 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-14-Vo ll. 1-4: Applied curse or prayer for justice against Tnoute. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Akhmimic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | Cf, Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 399. |
| 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 initial writing on vertical fibres (KD + EL 22/9/2021; KD 30/10/2022); 7th-11th cent. according to TM (17/9/2018) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A91 |
| Archive name: | London-Montserrat Scribe Curse Dossier |
| State of edition: | Published. New edition desirable. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15.4 | Width: 20.9 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions (width = 15.3+5.6) (EL from autopsy on 18/12/2019); 10 x 6 inches “complete in height” (Crum 1905: p. 505). |
| Folding pattern: | 5 vertical (not including 2 breaks, but in total then 7) and 7 horizontal creases (EL from autopsy on 18/12/2019); Appear to be 8 vertical and 8 horizontal creases (KD from image 5/4/2019) |
| State of preservation: | Complete, but broken into two fragments, with part of the middle section lost (between two vertical creases) (EL from autopsy on 18/12/2019) |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each recto and verso. Recto (↓) 14 lines and verso (→) 4 lines. Recto written transversa charta. Verso written at 180 degrees to recto. |
| Hand: | British Library MS Or 6172 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). Catalogued with Or, 5987-6176. (Crum 1905: p. 505; List of Oriental Manuscripts: p. 226) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
192 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | Framed together with Or 6023 (Cat. 1047), Or 6034 (cat. 1060), Or 6039 (cat. 1065), Or 6044 (Cat. 1070), Or 6151 (Cat. 1189) (EL from autopsy on 18/12/2019) Listed with 5987-6176 as “miscellaneous fragments” in Coptic and Greek, acquired by the British Library in 1901 (EL from British Library Catalogue on 18/12/2019) |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum,Walter Ewing. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (P. Lond. Copt.). London: Gilbert and Rivington, 1905, p. 505-506, no. 1223. |
| Translations: | Lexa, František. La magie dans l’Égypte antique de l’ancien empire jusqu’à l’époque copte. Les textes magiques. Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie orientaliste P. Geuthner, 1925, p. 169-170, no. XV. |
| General: | Department of Oriental P.B. and Mss. (British Library), List of Oriental Manuscripts, 1890-1908, Or. 4047-6947, p. 226. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 99583 |
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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93 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
208 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
2.73 |
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; 18/12/2019); KD (5/4/2019); MPS (20/9/2019); KD (8/5/2020); MPS (27/8/2020); EL (2/9/2020); KD (22/9/2021); KD (24/9/2021); KD (29/10/2022); KD (30/10/2022) |