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KYPRIANOS M1117

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

P. PisaLit. 18
P. Vindob. G. 25683
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 25683

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

Liturgical (private prayer) (?)
Magical (applied) (?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Private prayer (?) for forgiveness with allusion to Luke 15:17-18; perhaps applied amulet for healing/protection (?)
2. Vo: 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. 501 – 600
Date notes:

Cingottini (1973: p. 27); de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 214).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DOD_%2BZ125191401&order=1&view=SINGLE

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 11 Width: 9.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Cingottini (1973: p. 27).
9,7 x 10,4: de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 215).
Folding pattern:

9 (?) horizontal creases.
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.

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto (↓), 8 surviving lines. Faded text on verso.
Hand:

Informal sloping majuscule (Ágnes T. Mihálykó).

Findspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2800)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2800)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
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_alma21232081620003338&context=L&vid=ONB&lang=de_DE

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Carlini, Antonio. Papiri Letterari Greci. Pisa: Giardini, 1978, p. 141-143, no. 18..

Cingottini, Rosangela. “Frammenti Greci, Letterari e Subletterari, su Papiro e Pergamena.” Studi Classici e Orientali 22 (1973): 27-29.

Treu, Kurt. “Christliche Papyri VI,” Archiv fur Papyrusforschung 26 (1978): 156.

Horsley, G.H.R. New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, vol. 3. Sydney: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, 1983, p. 99-100, no. 85.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

65129

 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

1019

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

180

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

KD (25/10/2019); ST (13/7/2021); merged with data from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (1/10/2021); KD (27/1/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1117," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1117. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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