Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. Inv. 593 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. p. 1 l. 1 – p. 5 l. 19: Invocation of God by Seth and instructions for its use |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| 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. |
401 – 700 |
| Date notes: | 301-600 CE (TM 25/9/2018); 4th-7th century CE (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 379); 301-600 CE (Michigan APIS website 25/9/2018). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A10 |
| Archive name: | Coptic Wizard’s Hoard |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-2601%5D593_1R.TIF |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15.8 | Width: 17.1 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Page size varies. From Michigan APIS website (5/6/2020): |
| Folding pattern: | Rolled up in antiquity, various vertical and horizontal lines. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, some damage. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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20 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | First quire of 16 pages (8 leaves, 4 folded sheets) and second quire of 4 pages (2 leaves, 1 folded sheet). |
| Hand: | Hands 1-3. |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
| Collection History: | Brought from Egypt to the British Museum in Feburary 1921 by Wallis Budge and soon after acquired by the University of Michigan. (Worrell 1930: p. 239). Numbers 593-603 were part of a single find, and 594-603 seem to have been rolled together (Acquisition reports online 26/1/2021). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
12 |
| Collection website: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-3648%5D1 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Text edited in Worrell alongside other copy of this text (P. Mich. Inv. 599 + 594 + 603 + 596 = KYP M15). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Worrell, W. H. “A Coptic Wizard’s Hoard.” The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 46 no. 4 (1930): 239–262. |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 304–310, no. 133. |
| General: | “A Wizard’s Hoard” online description at Michigan APIS (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-3648/1) |
| Trismegistos ID: | 100021 |
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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133 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
4 |
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: | MPS (25/9/2018); EL (19/11/2018); KD (6/12/2018); KD (30/9/2019); team (5/6/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); JS (26/02/22); SVS (07/09/2022); KD (17/1/2024) |