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KYPRIANOS M111

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

Berlin P. 8324
BKU 1 18
BKU I 18

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-11: Instructions for healing several maladies: fever, pain in the belly, womb and a pained molar.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic with Hermopolitan features

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes. Fayumic (?) (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 385).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 651 – 800
Date notes:

Almost certainly 651-800, since part of Berlin Library, all of which have similar hands (KD); 801-900 (Beltz 1983: p. 78)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A14
Archive name: Berlin Library
State of edition:

Published. No published image. New edition desirable.

Image:

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 15.3 Width: 9.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

EL from autopsy (20/11/2019); 16 x 9 cm (Beltz 1983: p. 74) (Meyer & Smith 1999: p. 91)

Folding pattern:

4 (?) horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Complete, some damage along folds.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto (→), 11 lines.

Hand:

Hand E (Dosoo forthcoming)

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 332)
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Collection History:

Purchased by Dr. Reinhardt in the Fayum (Erman 1895: p. 44); Beltz, probably mistakenly, claims that it was acquired from the antiquities market in Cairo in the same year (1983: p. 74)

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: http://berlpap.smb.museum/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapyri der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 29 (1983): p. 74, no. l 546.

Erman, Adolf. Aegyptische Urkunden aus dem Koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin: Koptische Urkunden. Vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1904, p. 18, no. 18.


Translations:

Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Sabaoth, Satanas: La « Bibliothèque de Berlin » et autres fonds d’archives magiques de l’Égypte romaine et les premières siècles de la période islamique”, in La magie et les sciences occultes dans le monde islamique edited by Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming).

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 215-216, no. 58.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 91, no. 45.


General:

Erman, Adolf. “Ein koptischer Zauberer.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 33 (1895): 43–46.

Erman, Adolf. “Heidnisches bei den Kopten.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 33 (1895): 48–50.


Trismegistos ID:

92891

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

45

Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

72

AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.58

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 14/9/2018; 17/9/2018; 4/7/2019; EL (23/10/2018; 20/11/2019); KD (8/5/2019); KD (1/6/2020); EL (19/8/2020); KD (21/11/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M111," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m111. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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