Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Cambridge Michaelides 918 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied ?) |
| Contents: | Original use: 1. Ro ll. 1-26 – Vo ll. 1-26: Literary text (Coptic) Re-use (palimpsest): 2. Ro ll. 1-8: Drawings, kharaktēres and a list of names |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
801 – 1200 |
| Date notes: | Collection website (24/7/2026) |
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Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Unpublished. |
| Image: | https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MICH-PAP-00918/1 |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 19.9 | Width: 15.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Measurements from image (KD 24/7/2026). |
| Folding pattern: | 3 vertical folds and 3 horizontal folds. |
| State of preservation: | Complete. Fragmentary, parts of parchment missing where the manuscript was folded. |
| 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 of 8 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Cambridge, University Library |
| Collection History: | The Cambridge University Library purchased the Michaelides Collection in 1977 from the family of the antiquities collector Georges Anastase Michaelides (1900–1973) (Collection website, 24/7/2026). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
79 |
| Collection website: | https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-MICH-PAP-00918/1 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
Clackson, Sarah J. The Michaelides Coptic manuscript collection in the Cambridge University Library and British Library. Acts of the Fifth International Congress of Coptic Studies, v. 2. Rome, 1993, p. 132. |
| Trismegistos ID: |
874216 |
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: | EL (15/11/2018); KD (16/5/2019); MPS (24/9/2019); MPS (26/8/2020); MPS (24/7/2026); KD (24/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M564," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m564. Accessed on 27/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.