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KYPRIANOS M256

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 08635 Pap

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-39: Applied amulet for the healing of Mina, the son of Euprepi and Soē.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes, cf. Bélanger Sarrazin, who lists the text as Sahidic (2017: p. 389)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 500
Date notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 21); TM (15/10/2018)

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

Published. No published image. New edition desirable.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10204DD3

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 30.5 Width: 4.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (15/10/2018); 29.7 x 4.5 (Stegemann 1934: p. 21)

Folding pattern:

No clear creases, perhaps rolled from top to bottom or vice versa.

State of preservation:

Complete, slight damage to the bottom.

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. 39 lines, 32 lines of text preceded by 7 lines of characters.

Hand:

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/RZ00004828

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. 21; 43-44, no. 25.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 210, no. 25.


Translations:
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième journée dàétudes (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 188-190.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens no. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 252.


Trismegistos ID:

91417

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); KD (28/5/2020); EL (19/8/2020); KD (11/6/2023)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M256," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m256. Accessed on 23/08/2024

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