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KYPRIANOS M255

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 08364 Pap
Erroneously known as Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 8664

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

Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. 1; 3; 9; 11: Lord’s Prayer in Greek.

Re-use (interlinear):

1. Ro ll. 2-8; 10; 12; 14: Applied amulet for healing/protection (?) in Coptic.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek

Script(s):

Coptic
Greek

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

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. 901 – 1000
Date notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 20); TM (15/10/2018)

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

Published. New edition desirable, only black and white image published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/117C7968

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7 Width: 7.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (15/10/2018)

Folding pattern:

Folded in antiquity (TM 15/10/2018)

State of preservation:

Complete, some letters faded. Re-use written interlinear to original use.

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, 14 lines. 4 lines original use, 10 lines re-use (interlinear).

Hand:

Documentary 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/RZ00004841

Notes/Discussion:

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; 42, no. 24, pl. 2.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 210, no. 24.


Translations:
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): 58-86, esp. p. 83.


Trismegistos ID:

91416

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 (15/10/2018); MPS (12/12/2018); EL (4/1/2019); KD (19/11/2019); EL (19/8/2020); MPS (10/2/2021); KD (2/2/2024)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M255," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m255. Accessed on 23/08/2024

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