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British Library MS Or 5987 |
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Magical (formulary) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-158: Invocation of Baktiotha for exorcism (?). |
Form: | Rotulus |
Material: | Papyrus |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 195.8 | Width: 13.6 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | 77.75 x 5.375 inches (Crum 1905: p. 418) |
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State of preservation: | Complete, cut to be housed in three glass frames. |
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Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 158 lines. Text written transversa charta. |
Hand: | 134-144 in a different hand |
Findspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 816) |
Present Location: | London, British Library |
Collection History: | Acquired in 1901 with group of papyri, largely from from Ashmunein (Choat and Gardner 2013: p.107) |
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Bibiliography |
Editions: | ★ Choat, Malcolm, and Iain Gardner. A Coptic handbook of ritual power (p. Macq. I 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, p. 107-114. |
Translations: | Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 149-160, no. 43. |
General: | Burns, Dylan M. “Magical, Coptic, Christian: The Great Angel Eleleth and the ‘Four Luminaries’ in Egyptian Literature of the First Millenium CE”. In The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt, edited by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, p. 153. |
Trismegistos ID: | 98061 |
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Edit History: | EL (20/9/2018); MPS (2/7/2019); KD (27/11/2019); EL (2/9/2020); KD (16/3/2021); MPS (12/1/2022) |