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KYPRIANOS M451

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

Berlin P. 6096
BKT 6.7.1

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. 1-23: Amulet to protect body, including Psalm 90:1; John 1:1-2; Matthew 1:1; Mark 1:1; Luke 1:1; Psalm 117:6-7; Psalm 17:3; Matthew 4:23

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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 – 700
Date notes:

TM (1/10/2018)

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

Published

Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_06096_S1_001.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 13.6 Width: 8.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Jones 2015: p. 73.

Folding pattern:

10 (?) horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete. Parchment somewhat damaged and faded.

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):

23 lines recto.

Hand:

Swift hangwriting, inclined to the right (Jones 2015, p. 74).

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase:

Kom Fâris

(TM places ID: 327)
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Collection History:

Purchased through Stadler in Kom Fâris 1887.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/01656/

Notes/Discussion:

Every citation preceded by a cross.

ACM gives this the inventory number Berlin 9096 by mistake

Bibiliography
Editions:

Jones, Brice C. “New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism.” PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2015, p. 73-78, no. 2

Krebs, Fritz. “Altchristliche Texte im Berliner Museum.” Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaftenund der Georg-Augusts-Universität zu Göttingen (1892): 114-120, p. 118-120, no. 4.

Schmidt, Carl, and Wilhelm Schubart. Altchristliche Text. BKT 6. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1910, p. 129-130 no. VII 1.

Wessely, Carl. Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme 2. Patrologia orientalis 18.3. Paris: Firmin-Didot. 1924, p. 412-413.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 34-35, no. 9.


General:

Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen aufgestellt. Die Überlieferung biz zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Vol. 1.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 21, no. 2131.


Trismegistos ID:

64853

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

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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

731

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

4

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

MPS (5/4/2019); KD (16/10/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M451," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m451. Accessed on 22/08/2024

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