Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | Naqlun N. 41/97 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. To return unfaithful wife to husband (reconciliation). |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
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Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 451 – 500 |
Date notes: | Hermitage was inhabited during the second half of the 5th century CE (van der Vliet 2000: p. 319) |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A5 |
Archive name: | Naqlun Hermitage Magical Archive |
State of edition: | Unpublished. |
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Form: | Codex (?) |
Material: | Parchment |
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Dimensions (notes): | No dimensions given in van der Vliet (2000). |
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State of preservation: | Fragmentary, fragments perhaps from a codex. |
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Findspot: | Hermitage 4, Naqlun, Egypt (TM places ID: 1418) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Hermitage 4, Naqlun, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1418) |
Present Location: | Naqlun, Monastery of the Archangel Gabriel |
Collection History: | Found in situ. |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 1333 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | Fragments; may have belonged to codex. Text 1 written in brown ink, rest in black. Vliet compares it to Michigan no. 136, also probably coming from this area. |
Bibiliography |
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General: | van der Vliet, Jacques. “Les Anges du Soleil”. Études Coptes 7 (2000): 320-321. |
Trismegistos ID: | 874181 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | ||||
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 | ||||
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 (21/3/2019); MPS (25/6/2019); EL (1/8/2019) |