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KYPRIANOS M372

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

P. CtYBR inv. 1781

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Leaf from codex containing Daniel 8.11-9.13.

Re-use (palimpsest):

2. Ro col. ll. 1-7 and 1-4: Unclear magical text.
3. Ro col. 2 ll. 1-10: Unclear magical text.
4. Vo col. 1. 1-11: Unclear magical text.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 1200
Date notes:

TM (28/1/2019); Emmel 1990: p. 17.

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

Unpublished. Currently being edited by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

Image: http://findit.library.yale.edu/iiif/universal_viewer?oid=15518045&page=1&stream_id=jp2&page=1#page/1/mode/1up

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 29.8 Width: 17.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Emmel 1990: p. 17.

Folding pattern:

6 horizontal lines and 3 vertical lines (?).

State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Consists of 5 fragments.

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

3

Pages/Columns (notes):

2 columns recto (second at 90 degrees to first), 1 column verso. Recto ca. 11 lines written horizontally and under those 10 lines of text written vertically on bottom of parchment. Verso ca. 11 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library

Collection History:

Purchased from H. P. Kraus in New York in May 1964 (Emmel 1990: p. 17).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759446

Notes/Discussion:

Formerly page from a codex.

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Emmel, Stephen. “Coptic Biblical Texts in the Beinecke Library.” Journal of Coptic Studies 1 (1990): p. 17.


Trismegistos ID:

111293
108029

PAThs: 6340
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 (28/1/2019); EL (2/1/2019); KD (13/12/2019); MPS (2/9/2020); KD (12/12/2023)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M372," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m372. Accessed on 11/09/2024

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