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KYPRIANOS M538

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 08304 Pap
formerly AN 201

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. 1-10: Curse against thief to find lost/stolen property (a bronze vessel).

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic with Akhmimic features

Language/dialect notes:

Sahidic (Stegemann 1934: p. 28). 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. 901 – 1100
Date notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 29); Collection Website (27/7/2020); TM (27/7/2020)

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/v2/5af078d39f1683785728810ab5be9a5351567c68ad210716286f3fc827838d5277858ddab0f055dbe9e7baef40eed0993bc3bb94cf4329

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7 Width: 7.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann 1934: p. 28; Collection Website (28/1/2019)

Folding pattern:

1 vertical crease, 1 horizontal crease.

State of preservation:

Complete.

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 continual spiral ring (7 levels) and 4 words in each corner of the square paper.

Hand:

Documentary hand (Stegemann 1934: p. 28)

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Collection History:

Box 201

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/RZ00003329

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Stegemann, Viktor. Die koptischen Zaubertexte der Sammlung Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer in Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 1933-34 no. 1. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1934, p. 28-29; 82-84, no. 52, pl. 2.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 219-220, no. 52.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 225, no. 112.


General:

Krall, Jakob. “Koptische Amulette.” Mitteilungen aus der Sammlung der Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer 5 (1892): 118.


Trismegistos ID:

91444

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

112

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

119

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:

EL (28/1/2019; 3/9/2019); MPS (24/9/2019); KD (27/1/2020); EL (27/7/2020); KD (19/4/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M538," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m538. Accessed on 23/08/2024

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