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KYPRIANOS M272

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Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 00070 Pap
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K70 Pap
formerly Vienna, Nationalbibliothek AN 189

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

Liturgical (occasional prayer)

Contents:

Ro ll. 1-30: Prayer for the churching of the newborn (prayer for protection)

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Fayumic

Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 801 – 900
Date notes:

ÁM: IX (compare MLM M588 (842), M593 (892/893), P.Lond.Copt. I 514 (880-907)).Stegemann 1934: p. 26; TM (17/12/2018); Online Catalogue (23/1/2019).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published

Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/rep/access/iiif/image/v2/5af078d39f168378212c8308b7be9a535e55132ac20801792e7165e724f48d117c928ff2b3ed51db8ba6a5f349ea6746db

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 44.5 Width: 10 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann 1934: p. 26. See col. website (17/12/2018)

Folding pattern:

Folded in antiquity, horizontally.

State of preservation:

Incomplete – top missing, end of the text preserved. Small pieces of parchment missing in the middle. Bottom margin of 11cm is uninscribed.

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, 30 surviving lines.

Hand:

Documentary hand (Stegemann 1934: p. 26). Comparable to the subscription to Vatican 69 v. J. 933 and Document Or 5420 v. J. 1048

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 201

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/RZ00004854

Notes/Discussion:

Parallels in the Aksumite collection (prayer for an infant) and in Byzantine rite (rites of ekklesiasmos / churching) (AM 31/3/2020).

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. 26; 63-67, no. 43, pl. 3.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 214-215, no. 43.


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. 276, no. 293.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 127-128, no. 67.


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. 190.

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, 27–60, p. 56, no. 189.

Lange, Armin (ed.). Kinder Abrahams. Die Bibel in Judentum, Christentum und Islam. Nilus 21. Wien: Phoibos-Verl., 2014, p. 113, no. 47.


Trismegistos ID:

91435

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

67

Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

115

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 (17/12/2018); EL (23/1/2019); KD (26/9/2019), ÁM (31/03/2020, 06/8/2020); MPS (12/1/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M272," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m272. Accessed on 11/09/2024

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