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KYPRIANOS M1025

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

P. Gen. 1².6
Geneva, Bibliothèque Ms. Gr. 50

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

Magical (applied ?)
Documentary (accounts)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. 1-14: Account of wheat
2. Vo ll. 1-5: Account

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 6-18: Psalm LXX 90.1-7, 10-12 (applied amulet for healing/protection ?).

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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 – 600
Date notes:

Nicole (1909: p. 44).

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

Re-use published. Original use unpublished.

Image: https://archives.bge-geneve.ch/ark:/17786/vta1f00062021db019f/dao/0/1

Form:

Tablet

Material:

Wood (beech, waxed)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 24 Width: 17 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Nicole (1909: p. 43).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete with some damage.

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 each, recto and verso. 14 lines recto, 5 lines verso (original use), 13 lines verso (re-use).

Hand:

2 different hands, original and re-use.

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Geneva, Bibliothèque

Collection History:

Purchased between 1882 and 1897 (coll. website 8/3/2021).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 136
Collection website: https://archives.bge-geneve.ch/ark:/17786/vta1f00062021db019f

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Nicole, Jules. Textes Grecs Inédits de la Collection Papyrologique de Genvève. Genève: Georg & Cie, 1909, p. 43-46, no. 6.

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” Patrologia orientalis 18.3 (1924): p. 410-411.


Translations:
General:

Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 126-127, no 2048.


Trismegistos ID:

62158

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” 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

198

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

9

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

ST (13/2/2021); KD (8/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1025," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1025. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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