KYPRIANOS DATABASE OF ANCIENT RITUAL TEXTS search icon
MANUSCRIPTS
TEXTS
ARCHIVES
HELP


KYPRIANOS M431

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

PGM Christian 10
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 00337
P. Rainer 1

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-47: Healing amulet against unclean spirits causing fever.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Greek

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 600
Date notes:

Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 44) (Preisendanz 1931: p. 198); 301-400 (TM 12/2/2019) (Collection Website 12/2/2019).

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

Published.

Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/rep/access/iiif/image/v2/5af078d39f16837a5158f57ac2bec13c59557c6cc26619236e3808fe2e928319329f9ab8be9a5ac9e0a47a7b9b33

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

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

Four fragments; no dimension in any source.

Folding pattern:

At least 3 horizontal creases (?)

State of preservation:

Fragmentary; in 4 fragments.

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(↓), 47 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 237)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 237)
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/RZ00010485

Notes/Discussion:

Amulet constraints demons who were forced to work for Solomon.

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1931, p. 198-199, no. 10.

Wessely, Carl. Neue griechische Zauberpapyri. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Classe 42.2. Wien: Denkschr. Wien. Akad., 1893, p. 65-67.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 44-45, no. 20.


General:

Maltomini, Franco. “Note al testo di alcuni papiri magici viennesi.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 207 (2018): p. 121.


Trismegistos ID:

64526

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 10

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

20

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

1002

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

27

TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (12/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M431," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m431. Accessed on 22/08/2024

Found a mistake? Let us know!