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KYPRIANOS M1055

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

P. Col. 11 293
New York, Columbia University P. 571

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. 1-14 + vo ll. 1-13: Matthew 6. 4-6 + 8-12 (includes part of the Lord’s Pryaer); applied amulet with protection (?)
See all texts in this manuscript.

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. 401 – 500
Date notes:

Teeter (1998: p. 3).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.2 Width: 7.1 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Teeter (1998: p. 3).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Badly damaged. Text missing at top and bottom, left edge of recto ragged.
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 (hair) and verso (flesh). 27 lines, 14 recto and 13 verso.
Hand:

Biblicall

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

New York, Columbia University
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 245
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Teeter (1998: p. 3) suggests that the page has been torn out from a codex.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Jones, Brice C. New Testament Texts on Greek amulets from Late Antiquity. London: T&T Clark, 2016, p. 100-103, no. 8.

Teeter, Timothy M. Columbia Papyri. Vol. 11. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1998, p. 3-7, no 293.

Teeter, Timothy M. Ten Christian Papyri in the Columbia Collection. Colombia: Colombia University, 1989.
Translations:
General:

Calhoun, Robert M. “The Lord’s Prayer in Christian Amulets.” Early Christianity 11 (2020): 421, no. 3.

Mirecki, Paul. “[Book Review] Teeter, Timothy M. Columbia Papyri XI […].” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 38 (2001): 135-145.

Orsini, Pasquale. Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Cassino: Università degli Studio di Cassino, 2005, p. 64-65.

Trismegistos ID:

65860

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

105

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

ST (26/3/2021); KD (17/5/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1055," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1055. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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