KYPRIANOS DATABASE OF ANCIENT RITUAL TEXTS search icon
MANUSCRIPTS
TEXTS
ARCHIVES
HELP


KYPRIANOS M134

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

P. Jand. Inv. Nr. 9 A.B
P. Iand. inv. 9
Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek P. Iand. 9 A-B

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. p. 1.1-p. 8.13: Exorcistic text calling for divine aid with similarities to the Prayer of Mary in Bartos; initial section missing.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 395).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 600
Date notes:

Ágnes T. Mihálykó proposes late VIII to early IX, comparing the writing to that of P. Pierpont Morgan inv. M 636 (dating to 795-797 CE) (personal communication with KD 11/11/2019). Kropp (1965: p. 5); TM (25/3/19).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published; English translation desirable.

Image: https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/GiePapyri_schrift_00006200

Form:

Codex

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 13 Width: 11.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

A 13,0 (H) x 23,0 (W) cm; B (H) 13,0 x B 23,2 (W) cm. (Kropp 1965, p. 5; col. website (19/10/2020))

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete – represents middle 8 pages of larger codex.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

8

Pages/Columns (notes):

8 pages surviving pages. Page 1: 17 lines, page 2: 14, page 3: 16, page 4: 17 lines, page 5: 17 lines, page 6: 15 lines, page 7: 15 lines, page 8: 13 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Giessen, Universitätsbibliothek

Collection History:

Purchased in 1905 or 1906 in Ashmunein (collection website, 4/3/2019; Kropp 1965: p. 5).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 140
Collection website: https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/GiePapyri_schrift_00006200

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Kropp, Angelicus. Oratio Mariae ad Bartos. Ein koptischer Gebetstext aus den Gießener Papyrussammlungen. Giessen: Universitätsbibliothek, 1965.


Translations:
General:

Gundel, Hans Georg. Vorbemerkungen zum Inventar der P. Jand., Kurzbericht aus den Papyrussammlungen Giesen, 5, 1957, p. 1. [http://bibd.uni-giessen.de/pub/papyruspublikationen.html]

Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Sethians and Their Texts in Christian Egypt in the 4th and 5th Centuries.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 86 (2020): 110-112.


Trismegistos ID:

102075

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

160

AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (5/3/2019); KD (6/3/2019); EL (25/3/2019); MPS (9/7/2019); KD (4/10/2019); KD (11/11/2019); MPS (8/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M134," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m134. Accessed on 08/09/2024

Found a mistake? Let us know!