Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.662B.25c & MS M.662B.25d |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | Sheet 1 (c) 1. Ro ll. 1-21 (?): Curse |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | “debased” (Depuydt 1993: 538) Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
401 – 900 |
| Date notes: | Placeholder date as manuscript is unpublished and so undated. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Unpublished; Edition in preparation by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer. |
| Image: | http://corsair.themorgan.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=352482 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 411 | Width: 300 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Incomplete, 2 fragments, missing top and segment middle; slightly soiled. |
| 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, ca. 23 lines of text. |
| Hand: | Informal; Cursive elements. |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | New York, Pierpont Morgan Library |
| Collection History: | Purchased by J. P. Morgan in 1920. Part of a lot purchased ca. 1920 from the Cairo dealer Maurice Nahman by Francis Willey Kelsey. Later brought to Rome by Kelsey in the beginning of 1920 and purchased by Henri Hyvernat on behalf of J. P. Morgan (Col. website) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
250 |
| Collection website: | https://www.themorgan.org/ |
| Notes/Discussion: | Perhaps intended to curse someone; parts of the text are magical incantations; “incense” is mentioned a few times; |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Depuydt, Leo. Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Leuven, 1993, vol. I, no. 304. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874209 |
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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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
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: | MPS (25/4/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (4/2/2020); MPS (27/8/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (24/9/2021); JS (24/6/2021) |