Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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British Library MS Or 4919 (3) |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) (?) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-17: 1st Letter of Jesus to Abgar, applied amulet for healing and protection |
| Form: | Sheet |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 9.1 | Width: 9.4 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Maximum dimensions (EL from autopsy on 19/12/2019); 3 5/8 inches x 3 3/4 inches (Crum 1905: p. 140) |
| Folding pattern: | 8 horizontal creases, very wrinkled so no discernible vertical creases (EL from autopsy on 19/12/2019); Several horizontal creases (Grenfell in Crum 1905: p. 140) |
| State of preservation: | Complete, bottom line damaged and damage across some horizontal creases, to the top margin and centre and bottom of left-hand portion (eaten) (EL from autopsy on 19/12/2019) |
| 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, 17 lines. |
| Hand: | Small, sloping hand (Crum 1905, p. 140) |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | London, British Library |
| Collection History: | Acquired by the British Library in 1895 (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/2019) |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
192 |
| Collection website: |
| Notes/Discussion: | On p. 140 of Crum (1905) the siglum Or. 5439 (1) is given, but this is corrected on p. 520. Crum (1905: p. 141) does not provide a full edition, but notes that it is similar to the version in AMS 9. Catalogued together with Or 4916-4928 (4924 and 4925 being Arabic) (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/2019) Framed with 4918 (according to British Library Reference Enquiries), manuscript = Or.4919(3) and should be ordered as Or.4918, but not in frame (Or.4918 = “GSA1”) that arrives when ordering Or.4919(3), but frame “GSA1” arrived which houses 4916(2); (3); (9); (8); (4); 4918 (2); (6); 4918c; 4917 (4); 4916 (7); 4917 (1); 4916 (5); 4917 (6); 4919 (4); 4920 (10) (EL from autopsy on 17/12/2019) Frame “GSA1” |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1905, p. 140-141 and p. 520, no. 316. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 111688 |
PAThs: | 1701 |
| 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” |
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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 (21/2/2019); EL (26/3/2019); EL (4/12/2019); EL (19/12/2019); MPS (3/4/2019); MPS (17/8/2020); EL (2/9/2020) |