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KYPRIANOS M306

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

BL Or 6794
London, British Library Oriental Manuscripy copt. 6794

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-61: Spell to obtain a good singing voice for Severos, the son of Iouanna.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes; cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 382)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 551 – 650
Date notes:

c. 600 CE (Crum in Kropp 1931: p. xi); 501-700 (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 382); 476-525 (TM 23/1/2019)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A15
Archive name: British Museum Portfolio
State of edition:

Published. New edition desirable.

Image:

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 59 Width: 16.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kropp (1931: p. 29)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, damaged along folds (squashed roll).

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, 61 lines.

Hand:

British Museum Scribe

Findspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:

London, British Library

Collection History:

Acquired in 1907 with Or 6795, 6796 (1-4) (List of Oriental Manuscripts: p. 301)

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Mounted in such a way that the verso is not visible.

Contains generic name marker several times, but also contains a personal name at the end.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 29-34, no. E.


Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 104-109, no. 32.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 279-280, no. 129.


General:

Department of Oriental P.B. and Mss. (British Library), List of Oriental Manuscripts 1890-1908, Or. 4047-6947, p. 301.

Burns, Dylan M. “Magical, Coptic, Christian: The Great Angel Eleleth and the ‘Four Luminaries’ in Egyptian Literature of the First Millenium CE”. In The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt, edited by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, p. 152-153.


Trismegistos ID:

100017

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

129

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

45

AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

1.E, 2.32

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:

EL (21/3/2019); KD (4/4/2019); KD (5/4/2019); MPS (30/8/2019); EL (2/9/2020); KD (27/1/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M306," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m306. Accessed on 11/09/2024

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