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KYPRIANOS M123

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

British Library MS Or 1013 A
British Library MS Or 1013A
British Museum Oriental 113a
P. Lond. Copt. 369

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. 1-19: Curse for binding/silencing a dog attributed to Isis.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Cipher (Coptic)
Dialect:

Sahidic with Akhmimic features
Language/dialect notes:

Se KYP T31 for further notes.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 701 – 850
Date notes:

Erman (1895: p. 132): 701-800 (TM 19/9/2018); 8th century (Hyvernat 1888: p. 14, no. 14).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No image. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 35.5 Width: 23 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

14 x 8.5 inches (Erman 1895: p. 132) (Meyer & Smith 1999: p. 248)
Folding pattern:
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, 19 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Upper Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2766)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Upper Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2766)
Present Location:

London, British Library
Collection History:

From collection of Robert Hay (Crum 1905: p. 174)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

The use of the generic name marker seems to indicate that this is a formulary.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Erman, Adolf. “Zauberspruch für einen Hund.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 33 (1895): 132-135.

Hyvernat, Henry. Album de Paléographie Copte pour servir à l’introduction paléographie des Actes des Martyrs de l’Égypte par Henri Hyvernat. Paris, Rome: Leroux, 1888, p. 14, no. 14, pl. 14.
Translations:

Lexa, František. La magie dans l’Égypte antique de l’ancien empire jusqu’à l’époque copte. Vol. 2 Les textes magiques. Paris: Librairie orientaliste P. Geuthner, 1925, p. 167-168, no. XIII.

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 14-16, no. 5.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 248-250, no. 123.
General:

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1905, p. 174, no. 369.

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 Belohoubková, Jirí Honzl and Vera Nováková. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019, p. 42-54.

Hyvernat, Henry. Album de Paléographie Copte pour servir à l’introduction paléographie des Actes des Martyrs de l’Égypte par Henri Hyvernat. Paris, Rome: Leroux, 1888, pl. 14.

Trismegistos ID:

100012

 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

123
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

198

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.5

 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:

EL (19/9/2018); MPS (8/7/2019); KD (11/9/2019); EL (2/9/2020); MPS (28/10/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M123," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m123. Accessed on 08/12/2025

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