Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Rainer Inv. K 5859 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-28: Mention of 3 Hebrew Youths, perhaps healing amulet. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | See Bélanger Sarrazin (2024: p. 67); some features suggest a Middle Egyptian (perhaps Fayumic) dialectal influence. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
701 – 900 |
| Date notes: | Palaeographic dating by Bélanger Sarrazin (2024: p. 66-67). Mihálykó (2018: p. 54) suggests an eleventh century date, although she had received the mistaken information that it was a paper manuscript. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_8153365&order=1&view=SINGLE |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 10.8 | Width: 6.2 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Bélanger Sarrazin (2024): p. 66. |
| Folding pattern: | 5 vertical creases (?). |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage; 2 holes in the middle. |
| 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 (→), 28 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Vienna, Nationalbibliothek |
| Collection History: | No acquisition information. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
357 |
| Collection website: | http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00020736 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Two holes on the left hand side of the papyrus, presumably where a thread was put through it for wearing (Bélanger Sarrazin 2024:p. 66). The generic name marker is used in the text in l. 19, despite this likely being an applied text (Bélanger Sarrazin 2024: 67). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | 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): p. 66-70, 82. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Mihálykó, Ágnes. “5. Amulet Against Fever.” In Coptica Palatina. Koptische Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung (P.Heid.Kopt.), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Alain Delattre, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Gesa Schenke, and Georg Schmelz, Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2018, p. 54, n. 4. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874215 |
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: | KD (16/5/2019); EL (21/6/2019); MPS (24/9/2019); MPS (26/8/2020); KD (2/2/2024) |