Till, Walter. Die Koptischen Ostraka der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Texte, Übersetzungen, Indices. (O. Vind. Copt.) Wien: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., 1960, p. 6, no. 20.Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): 58-86, esp. p. 81.Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): 58-86, esp. p. 81.Magical (applied) (?)No acquisition information.https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_2169196&order=1&view=SINGLEhttp://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00002778Black1. Ro ll. 1-5, Vo ll. 1-6: List of names of the 3 Hebrew Youths and Saints; applied amulet for healing/protection, perhaps…

Magical (applied) (?) Literary (?)Purchased in Egypt by B.P. Grenfell and F.W. Kelsey in March-April 1920 (collection website 13/10/2023).https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-4452%5D528R.TIFhttps://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-4452%5D528R.TIFDark brown.1. Ro ll. 1-7: Short narrative in which God looks over the world (amulet for healing/protection?).Estimate of likely date range based on hand and use of paper (KD 13/10/2023).9011200Fayumic (?)Collection website (13/10/2023).KD (9/10/2023); KD (13/10/2023)Egypt2 horizontal creases.Sheet395319Egyptian (Coptic)Fayumic according to collection website (13/10/2023).Paper17 lines recto.Ann Arbor, Michigan University, LibraryProvenance unknown.CopticP. Mich. inv. 528Unpublished.Complete.1249499.5Egypt

Bell, H.I. “Report on Papyri: 1925 Consignment” (1925) p. 29, online at https://apps.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/papyrology/acq-reports/Report%20on%20Papyri%2C%20etc.%2C%20of%201925%20consignment.pdfBell, H.I. “Report on Papyri: 1925 Consignment” (1925) p. 29, online at https://apps.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/papyrology/acq-reports/Report%20on%20Papyri%2C%20etc.%2C%20of%201925%20consignment.pdfMagical (?)Acquired in July 1925 by Dr. Askren and Prof. Boak along with inventory numbers 4171-4192 (collection website 13/10/2023; Bell 1925: 27-29).https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-10655%5D4090R.TIFhttps://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-10655%5D4090R.TIFDark brown1. Ro ll. 1-8: Unclear text; contains angel name “Souriel”.5th to 5th century according to collection website (16/10/2023).Dimensions from collection website (16/10/2023); note that these are dimensions before restoration, full size after unfolding may be larger.KD (9/10/2023)Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)1 horizontal, 7 or more horizontal creases.Sheet39527Egyptian (Coptic)Parchment11 column recto, 8 (?) preserved lines..Ann Arbor, Michigan University, LibraryProvenance unknown (16/10/2023). Other documents from the sale…

Pernigotti, Sergio. “Un nuovo testo magico in copto della Papyrussammlung di Vienna”, in Ricerche di Egittologia e di Antichità Copta, edited by Sergio Pernigotti and Paola Davoli. Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2002, p. 131-138.Magical (applied)No acquisition information.BlackOriginal use: 1. Ro: Protocol. Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-20: Applied amulet for healing/protection containing incipits of Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and Mark followed by invocation of the Virgin, Apostles, and God; the scribe begins copying the Gospel of John, but does not complete the title.Pernigotti dates to the seventh or eighth century (Pernigotti 2002: 132).601800Sahidic with Fayumic influencePernigotti 2002: 131.KD (4/10/2023); KD (9/11/2023)Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)Perhaps 4 vertical and 5 horizontal creases.Sheet39517Egyptian (Coptic)Displays…

Entry for “Cambridge UL TS 12.740”, Friedberg Cairo Genizah Project (https://fgp.genizah.org; 3/10/2023)Entry for “Cambridge UL TS 12.740”, Friedberg Cairo Genizah Project (https://fgp.genizah.org; 3/10/2023)Magical (formulary) (?)Donated by Dr Solomon Schechter and Dr Charles Taylor in 1898 as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection (online catalogue, accessed 5/4/2019).Brown1. Ro ll. 1-28: Spell for protection against evil 2. Vo ll. 1-7: Coptic alphabet, Hebrew annotations.Date range is that of typical Genizah texts of this type.9011200BohairicDimensions from Friedberg Cairo Genizah Project.KD (29/9/2023); KD (28/2/2024)Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, EgyptCodex395010Egyptian (Coptic)KD (29/9/2023)Paper44 surviving pages, 2 almost fully preserved, 2 very partially preserved. 21 and 20 lines survive on the preserved pages.Cambridge, University LibraryThe…

Entry for “New York, JTS: ENA NS 65.23”, Friedberg Cairo Genizah Project (https://fgp.genizah.org; 29/9/2023)Entry for “New York, JTS: ENA NS 65.23”, Friedberg Cairo Genizah Project (https://fgp.genizah.org; 29/9/2023)Magical (formulary) (?) Literary (?)No acquisition information.Brown1. pp. 1-4: Literary text or magical recipes mentioning the appearance of the angel to Zacharias, father of John the Baptist, to announce his birth.Date range is that of typical Genizah texts of this type.9011200BohairicDimensions from Friedberg Cairo Genizah Project.KD (29/9/2023); KD (28/2/2024)Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, EgyptCodex394910Egyptian (Coptic)KD (29/9/2023)Paper44 surviving pages, 2 almost fully preserved, 2 very partially preserved. 21 and 20 lines survive on the preserved pages.New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of AmericaThe manuscript…

Karev, Ella. “Slave Sale from Hermopolis (P.Vindob. G 13290 r°; Sixth/Seventh Century)”, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 60 (2023): 115-123. Karev, Ella. “Reply of Christ To Abgar in Sahidic Coptic (P. Vindob. 13290 recto)”, forthcoming.Magical (applied) Documentary (sale document)No acquisition information.BlackOriginal use: 1. Ro ll. 1-8: Document concerning the sale of a slave. (Greek) Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-16: Letter of Jesus to Abgar. (Coptic)Date is of magical re-use; original documentary use dates to the sixth or seventh century (Karev 2023: 115).601700Karev 2023: 117. Dimensions are for the magical re-use; height and width need to be reversed for the original documentary use, since the re-use is written at…

Martín Hernández, Raquel and Sofía Torallas Tovar. “Magical Texts from Barcelona (Montserrat Abbey and Palau Ribes Collections)”, Symbolae Osloenses 96:1 (2022): 249-255 no. 3.Martín-Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas-Tovar. “A Magical Spell on an Ostracon at The Abbey of Montserrat.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014): 175-184.Martín-Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas-Tovar. “A Magical Spell on an Ostracon at The Abbey of Montserrat.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 189 (2014): 175-184.Magical (?) Literary (?) School exercise (?)Acquired by Dr. Ramón Roca-Puig in Egypt in the 1950s. Bequeathed to the Abbey of Monserrat by him in 2001 (Martín-Hernández, Torallas-Tovar 2014: p. 175).Black1. Ro col. 1 ll. 1-12, col. 2 ll. 1-7: List…

Bell, H.I. “Report on Papyri: 1925 Consignment” (1925) p. 21 (no. 277), online at https://apps.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/papyrology/acq-reports/Report%20on%20Papyri%2C%20etc.%2C%20of%201925%20consignment.pdfBell, H.I. “Report on Papyri: 1925 Consignment” (1925) p. 21 (no. 277), online at https://apps.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/papyrology/acq-reports/Report%20on%20Papyri%2C%20etc.%2C%20of%201925%20consignment.pdfMagical (applied ?)The papyrus was purchased from Maurice Nahman in 1925 and came to University in October 1926 as a gift of Oscar Weber and Richard H. Webber (of Detroit) (Collection website 5/9/2023).https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-9873/3527.tifhttps://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-9873/3527.tif1. Sheets 1-3, recto: Uncertain text; applied amulet for healing/protection (?).Since text is not visible, the date is very uncertain.1900MPS (5/9/2023); KD (16/10/2023)EgyptAll three papyrus sheets are well folded.sheet394319Greek (?) Egyptian (Coptic) (?)Language is unknown, since sheets have never been unfolded.PapyrusThree strips of papyrus folded into packets and attached to…

Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “More on the Tradition of Amulet Pattern-Books in Post-Ancient Copies?” Kernos 33 (2020): 187–201.Hickey, Todd and Katelijn Vandorpe. “A New Fragment from P.Batav. 5 (Pathyris, May 118 BC).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 202 (2017): 214–218. MacCoull, Leslie S. B. “Coptic Documentary Papyri from Aphrodito in the Chester Beatty Library.” The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985): 197–203.Hickey, Todd and Katelijn Vandorpe. “A New Fragment from P.Batav. 5 (Pathyris, May 118 BC).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 202 (2017): 214–218. MacCoull, Leslie S. B. “Coptic Documentary Papyri from Aphrodito in the Chester Beatty Library.” The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 22 (1985): 197–203.Magical…