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Magic library

TM Arch id: 421

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Coptic (Fayumic)
archive of magical texts
Found in: 00 - Arsinoites (Fayum)
AD10 AD11

Description: Only one document, P. Baden 5 137 is precisely dated to AD 967 Oct 19. All other six texts belong for palaeographical reasons to the 10th and 11nd centuries AD according to the editors (check-up with Stegemann, Koptische Paläographie). This is no surprise for these magic texts, especially from such a late period, bearing only few common features like documents, let alone a fixed date. The dialects proves to be similar and might point to the Arsinoites. The manuscripts were bought together as a magic library (’Zauberbibliothek’); other texts might follow to be included in this archive. The name of the owner of this library remains unknown.

Publication: P. Baden 5 122; 137-142

Studies: I. Gardner - J. Johnston, Journal of Coptic Studies 21 (2019), p. 29-61

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Stable URI (with TM Arch ID): www.trismegistos.org/archive/421
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7 texts (of which 7 certain)

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TM number Publication Status Material Language Date
TM 102078 Papyri Copticae magicae (PCM) 1 21 certain parchment Coptic (Fayumic dialect) AD 900 - 999
TM 99576 Papyri Copticae magicae (PCM) 1 23 certain parchment Coptic (Fayumic dialect) AD 967 Oct 19 (year 684 AM, Phaophi 21; AM = in the year of the martyrs)
TM 99609 Papyri Copticae magicae (PCM) 1 22 certain parchment Coptic (Fayumic dialect) AD 975 - 999
TM 98064 Papyri Copticae magicae (PCM) 1 28 certain paper Coptic (Fayumic dialect) AD 1000 - 1099
TM 100000 Papyri Copticae magicae (PCM) 1 24 certain parchment Coptic (Fayumic dialect) AD 1000 - 1099
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