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KYPRIANOS M734

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Manchester, John Rylands Library Suppl. 50
P. Ryl. Copt. Suppl. No. 50

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. 1-11: Letter of Jesus to Abgar (applied amulet for healing and protection?) (Coptic)
2. Vo l. 1: Name of scribe (Greek)
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 800
Date notes:

TM (13/2/2019).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Tablet
Material:

Wood
Dimensions (cm): Height: 11 Width: 44 Depth: 1
Dimensions (notes):

Giversen (1959: p. 78); PAThs (18/8/2020).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete, fragment.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto with 11 lines, 1 column verso with 1 line.
Hand:

Findspot:

Oxyrynchites, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2722)
Place of purchase:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Writingspot:

Oxyrynchites, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2722)
Present Location:

Manchester, John Rylands Library
Collection History:

Acquired in Egypt in 1917 by J. Rendel Harris, together with other Coptic, Demotic and Arabic manuscripts for the Manchester library (Giversen 1959: p. 71).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 218
Collection website: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/ManchesterDev~93~3

Notes/Discussion:

Pierced by two holes on the bottom of the long side, Giversen suggests it was not portable but fixed, as well as the content of the text (Giversen 1959: p. 78) – see KYP T1230, l. 9.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Giversen, Søren. “Ad Abgarem: The Sahidic Version of the Letter of Abgar on a Wooden Tablet.” Acta Orientalia 24 (1959): 71-82.
Translations:
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième journée dàétudes (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193.

Geerard, Maurice. Clavis apocryphorum Novi Testamenti. Turnhout: Brepold, 1992, p. 68, no. 88.15 (non vidi).

Hunt, Arthur S., et al. Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library. Manchester, University Press, 1911-1952.

https://atlas.paths-erc.eu/manuscripts/4564 (PAThs)

Trismegistos ID:

111687

 PAThs: 4564
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:

KD (13/2/2019); MPS (15/5/2019); EL (1/8/2019); MPS (18/8/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M734," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m734. Accessed on 10/09/2024

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