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KYPRIANOS M1081

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

SB I 4959
SB 1 4959
CPR 19 44
P.Vindob G. 20541 Rekto
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 20541 Ro
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 20541 Vo

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Documentary (contract)
Contents:

Original use (?):

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Contract of donation

Re-use (?):

2. Vo: Psalm LXX 9,38-39; 10,1-3; Applied amulet for healing/protection (?)
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Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Geek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 600
Date notes:

Hagedorn (2004: p. 157); Förster (2004: p. 90).501-700 CE: de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 204).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 11.1 Width: 30.1 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 205); Förster (2004: p. 90).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete. Broken away at top and bottom. Due to folding broken at the centre with missing piece of ca 7.5 x 10.7 cm.
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 (→). 8 lines recto.
Hand:

Exercised

Findspot:

Alexandria, Egypt (?)

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 100)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek
Collection History:

Previously part of the collection of Theodor Graf (1940-1903) (TM 15/6/2021).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: https://search.onb.ac.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ONB_alma21306197650003338&context=L&vid=ONB&lang=de_DE

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Förster, Hans. Griechische Texte 18. Corpus Papyrorum Raineri Archeducis Austriae. Wien: Hollinek, 2004, p. 90-92, no. 44.

Förster, Hans. “Das Verlangen der Elenden hörst du, Herr. Ein neues Wiener Septuagintafragment auf Papyrus: Psalm 9,39f.” Biblos 43 (1994): 141-145.

Hartel, Wilhelm A. von. “Ein griechischer Papyrus aus dem Jahre 487 n. Chr.” Wiener Studien 5 (1883): 30.

Preisigke, Friedrich. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 1 (SB I). Straßburg : Karl J. Trübner, 1915, p. 461-462, no. 4959.
Translations:
General:

Gastgeber, Christian. Kopie und Fälschung. Wien: Graz, 2001, p. 65.

Hagedorn, Dieter. “Bemerkungen zu Urkunden.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 150 (2004): 157, no. 44.

Henner, Jutta, Hans Förster, and Ulrike Horak. Christliches mit Feder und Faden: Christliches in Texten, Textilien und Alltagsgegenständen aus Ägypten; Katalog zur Sonderausstellung im Papyrusmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek aus Anlass des 14. Internationalen Kongresses für Christliche Archäologie. Nilus. Vol. 3. Wien: ÖVG, 1999, p. 3, no. 3.

Mitthof, Fritz. “Urkundenreferat 2004.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 51 (2005): 294.

Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 402-403, no. 2214.

Trismegistos ID:

35726
62187

 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)"

139

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

KD (9/2/2021); ST (24/4/2021); ST (28/4/2021); KD (15/6/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1081," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1081. Accessed on 02/05/2025

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