Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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British Library MS Or 7029 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Literary (encomium) |
| Contents: | 1. Life of Apa Aaron. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | See related texts for further notes. |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
992 – 992 |
| Date notes: | Dated by scribal colophon. Written on the 20-something day of Epeiph 708, Era of Martyrs. He also gives year 372 of the Hijra, but this would be 982. |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A31 |
| Archive name: | Esna-Edfu Hoard |
| State of edition: | Published; new edition in progress by Matthias Müller (Basel). Part of PhD project of Lloyd Abercrombie (Oslo) on Edfu codices. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Paper |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 30 | Width: 17.6 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Height: 11 1/2 inches, Width 7 inches (Budge (1915: p. lxvi-lxviii). 30.7 x 18.5 (Collection Website 29/3/2019) |
| Folding pattern: | Binding c. 1907 (Collection Website 29/3/2019) |
| State of preservation: | Complete (almost), 4 pages missing, slightly burned. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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160 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 10 quires of eight leaves each (= 160 pages), of which 78 leaves (= 156 pages) survive. Pagination ran from 1-153 (Budge (1915: p. lxvi-lxviii) |
| Hand: | Zokrator son of Ioseph |
| Findspot: | Shrine of Apa Aaron, Apollonopolis (Edfu), Egypt (TM places ID: 269) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Apollonopolis (Edfu), Egypt (TM places ID: 269) |
| Present Location: | London, British Library |
| Collection History: | Sold by Rustafjaell, Nahman and Abd en-Nur. on June 12 1909 (from binding). |
| 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_7029 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Copied by the deacon Zôkrator, son of the Archdeacon Joseph; paid for by a deacon. Leather cover with tooling intact. Lantschoot number CXIII, catalogue number L74, 163; MERC.AM (CMCL ID) (personal communication with Lloyd Abercrombie). Often said to be from the Monastery of Mercurius, but disputed (personal communication with Lloyd Abercrombie). The bound manuscript has annotations by Walter E. Crum (KD 4/4/2019). |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Budge, E. A. Wallis. Miscellaneous Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915, p. lxvi-lxvix, p. 512-525. |
| Translations: | Budge, E. A. Wallis. Miscellaneous Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915, p. 1021-1033. |
| General: | Uljas, Sami. “Lost Coptic Texts from Herbert Thompson Papers I: The ‘Acts of Stephen’.” Journal of Coptic Studies 17 (2015): 165-213. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 874246 |
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 (9/10/2018); EL (29/3/2019); KD (4/4/2019); MPS (1/10/2019); MPS (20/8/2020); EL (2/9/2020); KD (29/9/2021) |