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KYPRIANOS M107

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

T. Varie 13
T. Vat. Copt. 7
Vat. Copt. 114

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. 1-39 – Vo ll. 1-4: Text on a wooden tablet of unclear purpose, perhaps an amulet for protection. Contains Prayer of Judas Cyriacus.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 402).
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 700
Date notes:

TM (5/11/2018); Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 402).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Tablet
Material:

Wood
Dimensions (cm): Height: 48.5 Width: 20.7 Depth: 1
Dimensions (notes):

Pernigotti 1983: p. 75.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete; damaged.
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. Recto 39 lines, verso 4 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca del Vaticano
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 348
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Handwriting similar to: Pintaudi, Una tavoletta lignea della Biblioteca
Vaticana: Vat. Gr. 2657 (LXX Ps 28; 29, 1-7), ZPE, 48 (1982), pp. 97-104 e Tav. III., p. 101.

Hole drilled on top, perhaps suspended (?).

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Pernigotti, Sergio. “13. Testo magico. P. Vat. Copt. 7 (già Vat. copt. 114).” In Tavolette lignee e cerate da varie collezioni, Papyrologica Florentina a cura di Rosario Pintaudi 18 (T. Varie), edited by Rosario Pintaudi and Pieter J. Sijpesteijn. Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli, 1989, p. 59-69, no. 13.

Pernigotti, Sergio. “Una tavoletta lignea con un testo magico in copto.” Egitto E Vicino Oriente 6 (1983): 75-92.
Translations:

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18.5. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3701-3702, no. 6.
General:

Trismegistos ID:

99591

 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:

MPS (5/11/2018); EL (1/8/2019); MPS (8/6/2020); MPS (8/9/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (8/3/2023)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M107," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m107. Accessed on 08/12/2025

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