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KYPRIANOS M548

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

P. Duke inv. 811
formerly Durham (NC), P. Duk. inv. C 4 R
SB Kopt. 4 1794

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

Magical (applied ?)
Documentary (loan contract)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. 1-5: Loan contract mentioning monastery of of Apa Apollo (P.Duk.inv. 811 V)

Re-use:

2. Ro ll. x+1-4: Incipit of Matthew.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

Delattre (2004: p. 387); APIS (22/1/2019): 501-700; TM (22/1/2019): 601-800.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A44
Archive name: Monastery of Apa Apollo
State of edition:

Published [no image].

Image: https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/images/150dpi/811r-at150.gif

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 13 Width: 2.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

APIS (22/1/2019)

Folding pattern:
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 column verso (↓) (re-use), 4 surviving lines. 1 column recto (→), 5 lines of original text.

Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Apa Apollo, Bawit, Egypt

(TM places ID: 10454)
Place of purchase:

Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:

Monastery of Apa Apollo, Bawit, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 10454)
Present Location:

Durham (NC), Duke University

Collection History:

Purchased in Cairo in 1968 from M. R. el-Chaer (MacCoull 1983: p. 137).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 121
Collection website: http://papyri.info/apis/duke.apis.32077949

Notes/Discussion:

Apparently wrongly listed as parchment in Sarrazin

Bibiliography
Editions:

Delattre, Alain. “Un contrat de prêt copte du monastère de Baouît.” Chronique d‘Égypte 97 (2004): p. 386-387.

Hasitzka, Monika R. M. Koptisches Sammelbuch IV. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012, no. 1794 (SB Kopt. 4 1794). [non vidi]

MacCoull, Leslie. “Three Coptic Papyri in the Duke University Collection.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 20 (1983): p. 137-138, no. 1 Ro.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

88228
113545

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

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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 (22/1/2019); MPS (24/9/2019); KD (31/1/2020); MPS (22/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M548," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m548. Accessed on 27/06/2024

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