KYPRIANOS DATABASE OF ANCIENT RITUAL TEXTS search icon
MANUSCRIPTS
TEXTS
ARCHIVES
HELP


KYPRIANOS M1077

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

Paris, Louvre M.N.D. 552 b

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. 1-2: Matthew 6.9, includes Lord’s Prayer, applied amulet for protection (?)
2. Vo l. 1: Unclear inscription

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. 601 – 700
Date notes:

Passoni dell’Acqua (1980: p. 107).

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

Published.

Image: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010253858

Form:

Tablet

Material:

Wood

Dimensions (cm): Height: 1.8 Width: 15.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Passoni dell’Acqua (1980: p. 107).

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. 2 lines recto, 1 line verso.

Hand:

2 different hands; Recto: Inexperienced
Verso: Coherent

Findspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2774)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt

(TM places ID: 2774)
Present Location:

Paris, Louvre

Collection History:

Found in the excavations of Albert J. Gayet, gifted to the Louvre in 1902 (col. website 28/5/2021).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 274
Collection website: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010253858

Notes/Discussion:

Passoni dell’Acqua (1980: p. 107) states that the hole in the wood made before writing might suggest that it was used as an amulet.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Passoni dell’Acqua, Anna. “Frammenti inediti del Vangelo secondo Matteo.” Aegyptus: Rivistia Italiana di Egittologia e di Papirologia 60 (1980): 107-109.


Translations:
General:

Cauderlier, Patrice. “Les tablettes grecques d’Égypte: inventaire.” Bibliologia 12 (1992): p. 86 no. 218. [non vidi]

Chaniotis, Angelos, Thomas Corsten, N. Papazarkadas, A. R. Tybout. “SEG 64-1913. Antinoopolis. Christian dipinto on wooden tablet, 7th cent. A.D.” In: Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 64 (SEG 64), edited by Angelos Chaniotis et al., 2012, no. 1913 (SEG 64 1913).

Cribiore, Raffaella. Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996, p. 252-253, no. 322.

de Ricci, Seymour. “Bulletin papyrologique.” Revue des Études Grecques 15 (1902): 453.

Kraus, Thomas J., and Tobias Nicklas. Early Christian Manuscripts. Examples of Applied Method and Approach. Leiden: Brill, 2010, p. 181.

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, p. 130, no. 56.


Trismegistos ID:

65348

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

349

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

134

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

ST (17/4/2021); KD (15/6/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1077," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1077. Accessed on 19/05/2024

Found a mistake? Let us know!