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KYPRIANOS M121

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

PCM 1 7
PCM I 7
Hs. Schmidt 2

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. 1-38: Love spell containing Horus-Isis historiola-based charm.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes; cf. Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 81.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 81, 87; 4th to 7th century according to TM (7/11/2018); 501-700 (Pernigotti 2000: p. 53) (Richter 2005: 171); 7th century at latest (Crum in Kropp 1931: p. x-xi), pace Frankfurter (2009: p. 230-231)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A4
Archive name: Schmidt Coptic Magical Dossier
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 26 Width: 10.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Kropp (1931: p. 13); Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 152); Dosoo/Preininger (2023: p. 87).
Folding pattern:

Folded (?) (difficult to discern from the published photograph).
State of preservation:

Complete.
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, 38 lines.
Hand:

Schmidt scribe

Findspot:

Cairo, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2740)
Place of purchase:

Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:

Cairo, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2740)
Present Location:

Berlin, Private collection C. Schmidt
Collection History:

Acquired in Cairo by Carl Schmidt before 1931 along with Hs. Schmidt 1 (KYP M120) (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 87; AKZ I: p. 11).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 37
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Generic name marker implies that this is a formulary, although folding makes this less certain.

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 87-91, no. 7.

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1, Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 13-14, no. B.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 6-8, no. 2.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 152-153, no. 72.

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 18.5, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3698-3699, no. 2.

Pernigotti, Sergio. Testi della Magia Copta. Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2000, p. 53-54, no. 18.

Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Texte und Riten in koptischer Schrift”. In Altägyptische Zaubersprüche, edited by Hans.-W, Fischer-Elfert. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam, 2005, p. 123-124, 171-172, no. 98.
General:

Blumell, Lincoln and Dosoo, Korshi. “Horus, Isis, and the Dark-Eyed Beauty: A Series of Magical Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 64 (2018): 199-259.

Frankfurter, David. “The Laments of Horus in Coptic. Myth, Folklore, and Syncretism in Late Antique Egypt.” In Antike Mythen: Medien, Transformationen und Konstruktionen, edited by Ueli Dill, Christine Walde. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 229-251.

Martín Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas Tovar. “‘You Who Impose Sleep Upon Abimelech For Seventy Two Years’: An Egyptian Spell Against Insomnia.” In Contesti magici = Contextos mágicos Convegno internazionale Contesti magici, contextos magicos edited by Marina Piranomonte and Francisco Marco Simón. Rome, 2012, p. 309-312.

Hevesi, Krisztina. “A Few Remarks on the Persistence of Native Egyptian Historiolae in Coptic Magical Texts.” In Current Research in Egyptology 2018: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25-28 June 2018, edited by Marie Peterková Hlouchová, Dana Bělohoubková, Jiří Honzl and Věra Nováková. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019, p. 42-54.

Trismegistos ID:

98063

 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

72
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

44

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

1.B, 2.2

 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 (7/11/2018); EL (14/6/2019); KD (2019); Team (15/6/2020); EL (8/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (20/11/2023); KD (8/1/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M121," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m121. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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