Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Collège de France 2 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original Use: 1. Coptic literary text. Re-use (palimpsest): 1. p. 1-21: Praise of Michael |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
1025 – 1045 |
| Date notes: | Manuscript 3 (M597) of the same archive dated by colophon to 27th of Mesore 427 (=20 August 1035). Pezin (1988) suggests 12th-14th century date. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A27 |
| Archive name: | Collège de France Coptic Magical Archive |
| State of edition: | Partially published; being edited by Korshi Dosoo. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Parchment |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 17 | Width: 14 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Pezin (1983). |
| Folding pattern: | Codex |
| State of preservation: | Complete (?) |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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28 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 28 pages. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Collège de France, Paris |
| Collection History: | Donated to former Bibliothèque des histoire des religions (now Institut d’histoire des christianismes orientaux) by Mme. de la Rochefoucauld in 1978, had inherited them from her Egyptian family members; thence given by Prof. Antoine Guillaumont (at the time chair of “Christianisme et gnose”), and in charge of the library, gave them to Michel Pezin (d. 27 may 2005) (Boud’hors and Tardieu 2006: p. 16). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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| Notes/Discussion: | The literary texts resemble those from the White Monastery (Boud’hors and Tardieu 2006: p. 16). Prayer of Shenoute is almost identical to Ethiopic Prayer of Pachomius; near parallel in BKU III.2 386 (Pezin, 1988). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Pezin, Michel. “Un texte copte de la prière attribuée à Chenouti.” In Mélanges Antoine Guillaumont: Contributions à l’étude des christianismes orientaux. Geneva: Patrick Cramer, 1988, p. 63-68. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Boud’hors, Anne and Tardieu, Michel. “Retour des parchemins coptes au Collège de France”. La Lettre du Collège de France 18 (December 2006): p. 16. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874118 |
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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| 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 |
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| 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 (24/10.2018); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (30/9/2019); MPS (26/8/2020); KD (8/9/2020) |