Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | IFAO Papyrus Médical Copte |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Medical (recipes) |
Contents: | 1. Frg. 1 ll. 1-5: Eye remedy |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
Language/dialect notes: | |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 801 – 1000 |
Date notes: | Richter 2014: p. 190; Chassinat 1921: p. 4-7. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | KYP A33 |
Archive name: | Bodleian Alchemico-Medical Group |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: |
Form: | Rotulus |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 248 | Width: 27 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Chassinat 1921: p. 2. |
Folding pattern: | |
State of preservation: | Fragmentary, but probably largely complete. 4 fragments of the beginning section, rest is almost complete. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 1 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 4 fragments of the beginning and incomplete rest of the rotulus, total of 420 lines. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Lepidoton Polis (Nag’ el-Mashayikh), Egypt (TM places ID: 2719) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Panopolites, Egypt (TM places ID: 3095) |
Present Location: | Cairo, IFAO |
Collection History: | Bought by Urbain Bouriant at Nag’ el-Mashayikh for the Bibliothèque de l’lnstitut |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 74 |
Collection website: |
Notes/Discussion: | With this manuscript, Bourinat acquired a papyrus sheet containing alchemical texts on both sides. It is unclear which manuscript this is (Chassinat 1921: p. 2; Richter 2015L p. 161, note 11). |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Chassinat, Émile. Un papyrus médical copte (MIFAO 32). Cairo: IFAO, 1921. |
Translations: | Till, Walter C. Die Arzneikunde der Kopten. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1951, p. 113-129, text Ch. |
General: | Bourriant, Pierre. “Notice sur Urbain Bouriant”. Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 26 (1904): 29-31. |
Trismegistos ID: | 108434 |
PAThs: | 1156 |
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 (19/3/2019); MPS (14/10/2019); MPS (18/2/2020); MPS (20/2/2020); MPS (24/2/2020); MPS (25/2/2020); MPS (9/3/2020); MPS (10/3/2020); MPS (21/9/2022); MPS (22/9/2022) |