Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Crum MSS 23.2.1 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro cols. 1-2: Figural amulet depicting anthropomorphic Apa Baula, mammalian The Destructor Saratalē, and host of other angels, voces magicae, and kharaktēres. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
801 – 1000 |
| Date notes: | Dating based on morphology of figures and Arabic-influenced orthographies (Love 2022). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A26 |
| Archive name: | Oxford Magical Artist Dossier |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 22.5 | Width: 17.3 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Width: 16.2-17.3 (Love fc.) |
| Folding pattern: | 3 horizontal and 3 vertical creases. Top and bottom edges were folded into the centre, then folded backwards from the outermost edges to the vertical centre fold. Perhaps then folded in half vertically along its centre fold. When fully folded, it would have measured 5.5-5.7 cm in width and 5.4-6.1 cm in height. (Love 2022) |
| State of preservation: | Complete, slight damage along top and bottom edges and to the centre, with some wear and some holes suggesting surface was eaten away (Love 2022) |
| 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 tableau recto, divisible into 2 columns: col. 1, 15 lines; col. 2, 7 lines. |
| Hand: | Oxford Magical Artist |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Oxford, Griffith Institute |
| Collection History: | One of two parchment sheets bought in Cairo in 1905 by Flinders Petrie and sent directly to Crum (Crum MSS xxiii_2_3a) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
659 |
| Collection website: | http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/varia-parchment-and-papyri |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Love, Edward. “Apa Baula and The Destroyer: The Embedding of Efficacy in Figural Amulets/Deposits from Roman and Early Islamic Egypt”, in Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (eds.), Magikon Zōon: Animal et magie dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge | Animal and Magic from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Paris-Orléans: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, 2022, 621-659. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874219 |
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 (17/9/2018); MPS (24/9/2019); KD (2/4/2020); EL (31/8/2020); KD (25/10/2022) |