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KYPRIANOS M493

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 08031
PGM XLVIII
formerly AN 529

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. 1-21: Applied amulet for healing/protection (?)

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek

Script(s):

Coptic
Greek

Dialect:

Fayumic

Language/dialect notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 29). See related texts for further notes.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Buchhausen et al. (1995: p. 55); Collection Website (16/6/2019); 901-1100 CE (Stegemann 1934: p. 29).

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

Published. New edition desirable. Re-edition in progress by K. Dzwiza (Collection Website 29/1/2019)

Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/rep/access/iiif/image/v2/5af078d39f16837a5129f17bc0bec13c59557c6cc26619236e3808fe2e928319329f9ab8be9a5ac9e0a4110ffd5b

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.5 Width: 7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (29/1/2019).

Folding pattern:

4 (?) vertical and 6 (?) horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Fragmentary, bottom left-hand corner lost, some significant holes.

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, 21 surviving lines.

Hand:

Unimodular, biliinear, slanted.
Script compared by Stegemann (1934: p. 29) to Berlin 8503.

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
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/RZ00001823

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl (ed.). Papyri Graecae magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, no. 48.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 220-221, no. 53.

Wessely, Carl. Studien Zur Palaeographie Und Papyruskunde 20 (1921), p. 141, no. 295.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 282, no. 48.

Stegemann, Viktor. Die koptischen Zaubertexte der Sammlung Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer in Wien, Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Jahrgang 1933/34. Heidelberg 1934, p. 29, no. 53.


General:

Buschhausen, H., Horak, U., Harrauer, H. Der Lebenskreis der Kopten. Dokumente, Textilien, Funde, Ausgrabungen. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Prunksaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. MPER N.S. Vienna, Hollinek in Kommission: 1995, p. 54-55, no. 66.

Zdiarsky, A. (ed.). Orakelsprüche, Magie und Horoskope. Wie Ägypten in die Zukunft sah. Nilus 22. Vienna, 2015, p. 104, no. 27.


Trismegistos ID:

89309

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

48

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”

182

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:

KD (29/1/2019); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); EL (28/7/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M493," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m493. Accessed on 23/08/2024

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