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Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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British Library MS Or 5525 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (applied) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro & Vo ll. 1-135: Invocation for protection and healing of a pregnant woman and her children, modified to be an applied text for Soura daughter of Pelca. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Middle Egyptian |
| Language/dialect notes: | Middle Egyptian (Private Communication Sebastian Richter 16/3/2019); Fayumic (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 398). See related texts for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
870 – 1100 |
| Date notes: | TM lists as 301-900 (19/9/18), but must be much later since it is apparently from the Cairo Genizah (KD 4/4/2019) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A21 |
| Archive name: | Cairo Genizah |
| State of edition: | Published. New edition desirable. |
| Image: | http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=or_5525_f001r |
| Form: | Rotulus |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 39 | Width: 22.7 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | KD (from autopsy on 4/4/2019); 14 3/4 x 9 inches (Crum 1905: p. 253) |
| Folding pattern: | 4 vertical and 21 horizontal creases (KD from autopsy 4/4/2019). Folded size c. 10cm in width and 2cm in height. |
| State of preservation: | Complete, upper left part lost, some damage along creases. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each, recto and verso. 108 lines recto. 27 lines verso. Divided into text formations in several places. |
| Hand: | 2 hands; hand 1 write recto, hand 2 seems to have added the name Soura to the recto and written the verso. |
| Findspot: | Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 389) |
| Place of purchase: | Babylon (Cairo), Egypt (TM places ID: 389) |
| Writingspot: | Babylon (Cairo), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 389) |
| Present Location: | London, British Library |
| Collection History: | From the Cairo Genizah (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/19). Acquired by the British Library in 1899. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
192 |
| Collection website: | http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=OR_5525 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Represents an interesting example of a formulary converted into an applied text by the addition of the name. Description on the British Library’s Collection Website is incorrect as of 3/4/2019. Perhaps some effaced text on upper left part, left of image. Catalogued together with Or 5517-5566 all from the Cairo Genizah (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/19) |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1905, p. 253-254, no. 524. |
| Translations: | Lexa, František. La magie dans l’Égypte antique de l’ancien empire jusqu’à l’époque copte 2 Les textes magiques. Paris: Librairie orientaliste P. Geuthner, 1925, p. 168-169. |
| General: | 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. 83. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 98056 |
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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64 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
201 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
1.C, 2.48 |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
98056 |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | EL (19/9/2018); KD (4/4/2019); MPS (11/9/2019); EL (2/9/2020); KD (2/2/2024) |