Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PCM 1 19 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary ?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-5: Invocation to protect marriage and virginity. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Language/dialect notes: | The dialectal features suggest it may have been written by a copyist from Upper Egypt (Blumell and Dosoo 2021: p. 120). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
751 – 950 |
| Date notes: | Late eighth to early ninth century (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 252; Blumell/Dosoo 2021: 122). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_698/001/rc2643-2.jpg |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 8 | Width: 24 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Blumell and Dosoo 2021: p. 121. |
| Folding pattern: | Several vertical creases. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage to right-hand fibres. |
| 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 (→), 5 lines. |
| Hand: | P. Rosicrucian Mag. Copt. Hand |
| Findspot: | Upper Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2766) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Upper Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2766) |
| Present Location: | San José, Rosicrucian Museum |
| Collection History: | Purchased as part of a lot of 6 Coptic manuscripts (nos. RC-2642-2647) for $150 on 13th October 1952 from Ulrich Steindorff Carrington, the son of the Egyptologist Georg Steindorff, who had died in August of the previous year. The papyrus had been part of his father’s collection (Master Artifact Record Database of Rosicrucian Museum; Blumell/Dosoo 2021: p. 120, n. 7). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
609 |
| Collection website: | https://egyptianmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/F2F217A3-A722-409C-860E-515323524928 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 252-252, no. 19. |
| Translations: | |
| General: |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874221 |
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 (24/10/2018); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (30/9/2019); MPS (26/8/2020); KD (7/9/2020); KD (17/2/2021); KD (20/11/2023) |