| Manuscript: | M574 |
| Sigla: | PCM 1 19 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 1 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 751 – 950 |
| Text position: | Ro ll. 1-5 |
| Type of text: | Virginity (magical, formulary?) |
| Original title: | |
| Original title (translated): | |
| Conventional title: | Invocation to protect virginity in marriage |
| Language: | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Dialect: | Sahidic (non-standard) |
| Script: | Coptic |
| Image: | https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_698/001/rc2643-2.jpg |
| Text: | Translation: |
| → 1. ⲧⲓⲱⲣⲉⲕ ⲉⲣⲱⲧⲉⲛ ⲛⲡⲱⲟⲩ ϫⲉ ⲛⲑⲉ ⲛⲧⲁⲣϩⲁⲣⲉϩ |
[1] I adjure you (pl.) today, that, just as you (f.s.) guarded [2] your virginity and your purity and your marriage, [3] NN, child of NN, will guard her virginity and her marriage and her purity! |
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| Apparatus: | 1. ⲧⲓⲱⲣⲉⲕ i.e. Sahidic ϯ-ⲱⲣⲕ̅ | ⲛⲡⲱⲟⲩ i.e. Sahidic ⲙ̅-ⲡⲟⲟⲩ |
| Notes: |
| Bibliography: | Blumell, Lincoln H., and Korshi Dosoo. “A Coptic Magical Text for Virginity in Marriage: A Witness to the Practice of Celibate Marriage from Christian Egypt?” Harvard Theological Review 114.1 (2021): 118-142. |
| Editor: | Text from Blumell and Dosoo (24/10/2018); team from photograph (24/2/2021) |