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KYPRIANOS M253

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Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 07687 Pap

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. x+1-6: Unclear; instructions for creation of amulet for healing/protection (?)

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 20); See related texts for further notes.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 801 – 900
Date notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 20); TM (12/12/2018)

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No published image.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/102008E4

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 8.5 Width: 21.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (12/12/2018). 7.2 x 17.5 cm (Stegemann 1934: p. 20)

Folding pattern:

1 vertical and 1 horizontal crease clear from pattern of damage.

State of preservation:

Fragmentary, broken at the top, left, and right. Parts of the right and lower margin preserved. Damaged along creases.

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

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, 6 surviving lines of text interspersed with 4 lines of characters.

Hand:

Book hand’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 20)

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00004825

Notes/Discussion:

Stegemann (1934: p. 20) understands it as a binding curse or love spell, perhaps due to the phrase “bind it to you”, but, as Till (1935: p. 209) recognises, this is the standard way to instruct someone to wear an amulet, so that this is more likely to be a set of instructions for the creation of an amulet for healing or protection. (KD 19/11/2019)

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Stegemann, Viktor. Die koptischen Zaubertexte der Sammlung Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer in Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 1933-34 no. 1. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1934, p. 20, no. 23.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 209, no. 23.


Translations:
General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 252.


Trismegistos ID:

91415

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”

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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:

MPS (12/12/2018); EL (4/1/2019); KD (19/11/2019); EL (19/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M253," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m253. Accessed on 23/08/2024

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