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KYPRIANOS M279

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Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 08303 Pap
formerly AN 197

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Adjuration for the protection of the house from reptiles
2. Ro ll. 9-11: Healing of the spleen
3. Vo ll. 1-5: For the healing of fever/ague
4. Vo ll. 6-10: Healing of pain (?)

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.
Sahidic (Stegemann 1934: p. 28)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1001 – 1200
Date notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 26); Collection Website (28/1/2019); TM (14/9/2018)

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No published image. New edition desirable.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/102176B1

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 9 Width: 9.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann (1934: p. 28)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, only bottom left-hand corner lost.

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 each, recto and verso. 11 lines recto, 10 lines verso.

Hand:

Bookhand (Stegemann 1934: p. 26)

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/RZ00004827

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. 28; 79-82, no. 51.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 219, no. 51.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 90-91, no. 44.


General:

Krall, J and Carl Wessely. Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer, Führer durch die Ausstellung. Vienna: Selbstverlag der Sammlung, 1894, p. 58, no. 197.


Trismegistos ID:

91443

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

44

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

118

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 (14/9/2018); (27/9/2018); EL (28/1/2019); KD (22/11/2019); EL (29/7/2020); MPS (28/9/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M279," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m279. Accessed on 11/09/2024

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