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KYPRIANOS M258

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 08637 Pap
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 8637 Pap
formerly AN 97

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. 1-10: Applied amulet for taking fever away from Thōtothe, the son of Giōrgia (healing).

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Fayumic

Language/dialect notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 21); Bélanger Sarrazin (2024: p. 70-71).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1100
Date notes:

10th-11th century dating in Bélanger Sarrazin (2024); Stegemann (1934: p. 21); TM (17/10/2018).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A18
Archive name: Vienna Coptic Magical Dossier
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_1128805&order=1&view=SINGLE

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Width: 8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann (1934: p. 21); Collection Website (17/10/2018)

Folding pattern:

7 or 8 horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete.

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, 10 lines, 8 lines of text, 2 lines of characters, divided by a register lines.

Hand:

Documentary hand (Stegemann 1934: p. 21)

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
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/RZ00002669

Notes/Discussion:

Identical to, Nationalbibliothek K 7044 (M242) except for the name of the patient (see Bélanger Sarrazin 2017).

Collection website mistakenly lists as ACM 46.

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ 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): p. 70-74.

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; 50-52, no. 27.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 211, no. 27.


Translations:

Buschhausen, Helmut, Ulrike Horak and Hermann Harrauer. Der Lebenskreis der Kopten: Dokumente, Textilien, Funde, Ausgrabungen. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Prunksaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, MPER 25. Wien: Hollinek, 1995, p. 58-59, no. 73.


General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Papyrologica. V : 38. P. Vindob. Inv. K 7044 et K 8637: deux amulettes au formulaire proche”, Chronique d’Égypte 92 (2017) 219–221.

Froschauer, Harald and Cornelia E. Römer. “Kat.-Nr. 54: Amulett zum Heilung eines Jungen.” In Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft. Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten, edited by Harald Froschauer and Cornelia E. Römer, 119. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2009, p. 119.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens no. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, ViP 271.


Trismegistos ID:

91419

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 17/10/2018; EL (28/1/2019; 16/12/2019); KD (19/11/2019); EL (19/8/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (2/2/2024)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M258," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m258. Accessed on 11/09/2024

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