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KYPRIANOS M1108

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

P. Laur. IV 141
P. Laur. 4 141
SB XVI 12586
SB 16 12586
SB XVI 12587
SB 16 12587
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana PL III 501

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

Magical (applied) (?)
School exercise (?)
Biblical (Psalm)
Documentary (contract)
Contents:

Original use (?):

1. Ro ll. 1-11: Psalm LXX 90.1-6; perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection.

Re-use 1 (?):

2. Ro ll. 1-8: Contract between Aurelios Iohannes and Aurelios Philoxenos; final line written at 180 degrees to the rest; perhaps separate text (writing exercise)

Re-use 2 (?):

3. Vo l. 1: Documentary text, preserving consular date
4. Vo ll. 2-4: Unclear text
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. 484 – 486
Date notes:

Pintaudi, based on consular date of text 3 (1979: p. 51); Rupprecht & Hengstl (1985: p. 239). 5th century CE: Pintaudi (1979: p. 51); Rupprecht & Hengstl (1985: p. 239); de Bruyn & Dijsktra (2011: p. 210).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: http://www.psi-online.it/images/orig/P.%20Laur.%20IV%20141%20r.jpg?1401531065

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 26.7 Width: 14.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Pintaudi (1979: p. 50); Cavallo & Maehler (1987: p. 46); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p 211); Chapa (2011: p. 88).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete.
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):

2 columns recto (↓), 11 and 8 lines, and 1 column verso (→), 4 lines. Recto column 2 is written at 90 degrees to recto; last line of recto column 2 is written at 180 degrees to the rest of the text.
Hand:

Small, upright, angular, laboured

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 128
Collection website: http://www.psi-online.it/documents/plaur;4;141

Notes/Discussion:

Cavallo & Maehler (1987: p. 46) state that all of the three texts were from the same scribe.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Pintaudi, Rosario. Dai Papiri della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Vol. 4. Florence: Libreria Gonnelli, 1983, p. 33-34, no. 141.

Pintaudi, Rosario. “PL III/501: LXX PS 90, 1-6.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 35 (1979): 50-54.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert, and Joachim Hengstl. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Vol. 16,2. (SB XVI). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1985, p. 239-240, nos. 12586+12587.
Translations:
General:

Cavallo, G., and H. Maehler. Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period A.D. 300-800. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1987, p. 46-47, no. 19b.

Chapa, Juan. “Su demoni e angeli: il Salmo 90 nel suo contesto.” In: I papiri letterari cristiani: atti del convegno internazionale di studi in memoria di Mario Naldini, Firenze, 10-11 Giugno 2010, edited by Guido Bastianini and Angelo Casanova. Florence: Instituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli,” 2011, p. 88, no. 31.

Harlfinger, Dieter, Giancarlo Prato, Marco D’Agostino, and Alberto Doda. Paleografia E Codicologia Greca: Atti Del Ii Colloquio Internazionale (berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 Ottobre 1983). Alessandria: Edizioni dell’orso, 1991, p. 36.

Rahlfs, Alfred, et al. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 114-115, no. 2166.

Treu, Kurt. “Christliche Papyri VIII:” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 28 (1982): 92, no. 197a.

Trismegistos ID:

62075
16269
34885

 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)"

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Edit History:

KD (25/10/2019); ST (28/6/2021); KD (3/8/2021); KD (29/9/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M1108," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1108. Accessed on 21/12/2025

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