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KYPRIANOS M259

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 08679 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. x+1-3: Magical text of uncertain purpose, contains kharaktēres and table.

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Language(s):

Arabic

Script(s):

Arabic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Almost certainly two lines of Arabic (see Till 1935: p. 211).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 642 – 1000
Date notes:

TM (12/12/2018). ‘undatable’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 22).

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

Unpublished

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10207F77

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7.3 Width: 7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann 1934: p. 22; Col. webiste 12/12/2018

Folding pattern:

3 vertical, 3 (?) horizontal folds.

State of preservation:

Damaged, may be 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, 2 lines of text, 1 table and 2 lines of charakteres.

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:

Box 7 (collection website).

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/RZ00004829

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens no. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 252, ViP 272.

Stegemann, Viktor. Die koptischen Zaubertexte der Sammlung Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer in Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 1933-34 n°1. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1934, p. 22, no. XXIX.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 211, no. 29.


Trismegistos ID:

91421

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” 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 (28/1/2019); KD (20/11/2019); KD (3/2/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M259," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m259. Accessed on 11/10/2024

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