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KYPRIANOS M269

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Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 02568 Pap
formerly AN 179

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Magical (unclear)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. x+1-4: Traces of an Arabic text

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-8: Magical names and kharaktēres

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Arabic

Script(s):

Coptic
Arabic

Dialect:

Sahidic (?)

Language/dialect notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 25)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1000
Date notes:

11th century according to Stegemann (1934: p. 25) and TM (14/12/2018), but date after 10th century unlikely with papyrus as the support; 701-800 (Krall 1894: p. 55).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10207BC7

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7 Width: 9.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (14/12/2018); 9.5 x 6.5 cm Stegemann (1934: p. 25)

Folding pattern:

1 (?) vertical and 3 (?) horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete, some holes, text faded. Stegemann (1934: p. 25) described the manuscript as a fragment from the bottom-right of a larger sheet.

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

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, 4 surviving lines (Arabic) (original use). 1 column verso, 8 lines (Coptic) (re-use)

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/RZ00004816

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. 25; 59-60, no. 40.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 214, no. 40.


Translations:
General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens no. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 252, ViP 264.

Krall, Jakob. “Ägyptische Abtheilung.” In Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer. Führer durch die Ausstellung. Mit 20 Tafeln und 90 Textbildern, edited by Josef Ritter von Karabacek. Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1894, p. 55, no. 179.


Trismegistos ID:

91432

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 (14/12/2018); EL (22/1/2019); KD (21/11/2019); EL (4/6/2020); EL (19/8/2020); KD (24/9/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M269," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m269. Accessed on 23/08/2024

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